Mic.com: by Marcie Bianco — For the bacha posh of Afghanistan, life is an open secret. From the Dari language, bacha posh translates as a female cross-dresser, a girl “dressed like a boy.” It also represents a small community of girls who pass as boys in Afghanistan, a country “that the U.N. says is theworst in the world to […]
theguardian: by Simon Jenkins — This is the moment in any war when peace goes dumb. The cause is just. The enemy is in our sights, and the provocation is extreme. Blood races through tabloid veins. It is white feathers for dissenters. The British government’s evident eagerness to bomb Iraq […]
247. Commandment regarding suppressing anger and pardon men [3:135] Those who spend in prosperity and adversity, and those who suppress anger and pardon men; and Allah loves those who do good; [3:160] And it is by the great mercy of Allah that thou art kind towards them, and if thou […]
247. Commandment regarding suppressing anger and pardon men [3:135] Those who spend in prosperity and adversity, and those who suppress anger and pardon men; and Allah loves those who do good; [3:160] And it is by the great mercy of Allah that thou art kind towards them, and if thou […]
Rami G. Khouri| The Daily Star The upheaval of ideological forces and reconfiguration of geostrategic conditions across the Middle East took a dramatic turn on Sunday and Monday, with in three principal developments in and around the Arab world: the combined American-Arab Gulf states airstrikes in Syria; the control of […]
O’Connor, the $5.6 billion hedge fund owned by UBS, has been expanding its presence in Asia. It has hired traders from UBS’s proprietary trading desk to work in its Hong Kong and Singapore offices. In August, it hired John Yu, a former analyst at SAC Capital Advisors It is not […]
Epigraph: Surely, the Believers, and the Jews, and the Christians and the Sabians — whichever party from among these truly believes in Allah and the Last Day and does good deeds — […]
Epigraph: Surely, the Believers, and the Jews, and the Christians and the Sabians — whichever party from among these truly believes in Allah and the Last Day and does good deeds — […]
Epigraph: And We have sent thee (Muhammad) not but as a mercy for all peoples. (Al Quran 21:108) Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Historical […]
Washington Post: One passenger described the trip as “an 11-hour long nightmare.” El Al passengers heading to Israel to celebrate the Jewish new year were delayed leaving New York on the eve of Rosh Hashanah when ultra-Orthodox passengers refused to sit near women. Because their beliefs require men and women […]
Dw.De: Pakistani activist Asma Jahangir is one of the five winners of this year’s “alternative Nobel prize.” Jahangir talks to DW about the threats she faces for defending and promoting human rights in the Islamic Republic. Pakistani human rights activist and lawyer Asma Jahangir is to receive this year’s Right […]
Dw.De: Pakistani activist Asma Jahangir is one of the five winners of this year’s “alternative Nobel prize.” Jahangir talks to DW about the threats she faces for defending and promoting human rights in the Islamic Republic. Pakistani human rights activist and lawyer Asma Jahangir is to receive this year’s Right […]
Russia Today: Financially stable British-born Muslims who take their security for granted are most at risk of radicalization by terror groups, according to new research. Socially isolated and depressed Muslims […]
Apartheid of Ahmadis in Pakistan: A Talk by Pakistani Jurist Mujeeb-ur-Rahman Event Type: Meeting Location: Wasserstein 2019 West A Tuesday, September 30, 2014 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Calendar: HLS […]
Apartheid of Ahmadis in Pakistan: A Talk by Pakistani Jurist Mujeeb-ur-Rahman Event Type: Meeting Location: Wasserstein 2019 West A Tuesday, September 30, 2014 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Calendar: HLS […]
Source: leaderpost.com Ground will be broken next week for what is intended to be Regina’s first purpose-built mosque. At a ceremony on Oct. 1, members of the local Ahmadiyya Muslim Community will lay the foundational stone at 3810 Eastgate Dr., some 20 years after the idea was first conceptualized. When Habib […]
Source: veooz.com Summary | Just a day before the U.S. launched airstrikes against ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), the women’s auxiliary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community concluded their annual three-day […]
Source: rabwah.net In the latest instance of anti-ahmadiyya mob violence sweeping Pakistan a mob of men and school children attacked an Ahmadiyya mosque in Okara, Pakistan, on Wednesday. Police officers present […]
Source: huffingtonpost.com My name is Kashif Chaudhry. I am a Pakistani immigrant to the United States. Currently, I am completing a Cardiology fellowship in Boston. While speaking at Yale a […]
The number of Europeans joining Islamist fighters in Syria and Iraq has risen to more than 3,000, the EU’s anti-terrorism chief has told the BBC. Gilles de Kerchove also warned that Western air strikes would increase the risk of retaliatory attacks in Europe. US-led forces have launched nearly 200 air […]