Learning from the 'Wrong Kind of Muslim'
Source: philly.com IMAGINE IT IS Sunday, the day a law takes effect stripping American Catholics of their rights. Such a law disenfranchised German Jews in 1935. Fewer than 40 years after […]
Iran: Rise of Islamist extremism fails to stir progressives
Rise of Islamist extremism fails to stir progressives Canada is brimming with liberal voices that have a long record of activism but seem to have a blind spot when it comes to Mideast extremists. This file image posted on a militant website on June 14, 2014, appears to show militants […]
Nigeria: Ahmadiyya condemns war in Muslim nations
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Fiji: Muslims pray for peacekeepers of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces
Source: By Avinesh Gopal And Nasik Swami @ fijitimes.com Aleem Shah, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Fiji’s national secretary said: All the members of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Fiji are reminded to pray for the safety of our countrymen in their daily prayers” THE Fiji Muslim League has requested all its mosques and centres to […]
USA: North East Muslim group condemns beheading
Source: itv.com A group representing Muslims in the North East has condemned the killing of an American journalist. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community North East has spoken out after Islamic State released video footage claiming to show the murder of American journalist Steven Sotloff. “The AMC completely denounces the shocking, barbaric and […]
Al Akhbar USA Publishes Ahmadiyya Jalsa Salana News
Source: alakhbar-usa.com | Email: AlakhbarUSA@yahoo.com News report by Imam Shamshad Nasir Saheb, Missionary-in-charge Baitul ul Jaam’e Mosque, Glen Ellyn Cell Phone: 909-636-8332 | Email: Shamshadanasir@gmail.com Read the paper online @ http://www.alakhbar-usa.com/Issue254.html
Ireland: Galway’s first Ahmadiyya mosque to officially open this month
advertiser.ie: The leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, His Holiness Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmed, will open Galway city’s first mosque at a special ceremony this month. The Masjid Maryam (Mosque […]
Is Human Life Sacred: The Body and the Spirit?
Epigraph: On account of this, We prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in […]
What atheists like Bill Maher have in common with medieval Christian crusaders
Salon.com: If you want to understand the roots of ISIS, Middle Eastern conflict and Islamic terrorism, stay away from anything that atheist bigshots Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher write on these topics. For them, Islam is the root of all Muslim rage against the West, the root of all […]
Ahmadiyya world leader gives panacea for global peace
vanguardngr.com: The World leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Hazrat Masroor Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih V, has advocated for universal human rights and justice as a panacea for global peace. Speaking […]
National Muslim youth group to gather in Chester County: Inquirer
National Muslim youth group to gather in Chester County Share Tweet Reddit Email 21 COMMENTS The Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association at its retreat last year in Edison, N.J. This weekend, the members will come together in Oxford, Chester County. (Handout photo) The Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association at its retreat last […]
Do White Christians Care Enough About Racial Justice to Make it an American Reality?
Epigraph: “The extinction of race consciousness is one of the most outstanding moral achievements of Islam.” Arnold Toynbee Source: On Faith By Elizabeth Evans Successful movements for women’s ordination and […]
One in 10 girls sexually abused, says UN report
About 120 million girls around the world – slightly more than one in 10 – have been raped or sexually assaulted by the age of 20, a UN report says. The children’s agency Unicef also says 95,000 children and teenagers – most of them in Latin America and the Caribbean […]
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM : Headscarves should remain allowed in passport photos, cabinet says
The Swiss cabinet has advised parliament not to adopt a motion from a rightwing parliamentarian to ban women from wearing headscarves in their passport photos. Oskar Freysinger of the Swiss […]
Jihadists beheadings sow fear, prompt Muslim revulsion
AFP | Sep 04, 2014 | JORDAN TIMES Ragheda, the wife of Lebanese soldier Sgt. Ali Sayid who was beheaded by Islamic militants, mourns as she carries their 10- month-old daughter, Rahaf, during his funeral at his hometown in Fnaydek, Akkar north Lebanon, Wednesday. Sayid went missing around the […]
After ceasefire, Gazans dream of reopened airport
Re-opening this airport, closed since 2001, and ending Gaza’s isolation is a key demand of the Islamist Hamas movement and was at the heart of the 50-day Gaza-Israel conflict […]
Pilgrim program reflects Saudi hospitality
The Haj Ministry has embarked on a unique program to welcome pilgrims once they are through passports and customs procedures and leave the airport’s lounges at Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz […]
Prophet dome removal reports rubbished
The Presidency of the Two Holy Mosques has strongly denied reports that surfaced in Western media outlets claiming that the tomb of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) […]
Isis Insurgence: Should Every Muslim Publicly Condemn Islamic Extremists?
By Ludovica Iaccino The insurgence of the Islamic State, previously known as Isis, is causing hundreds of deaths in Iraq and Syria. The killings perpetrated by the militants, who recently posted online videos in which they beheaded two American journalists, have prompted many people worldwide – including several Muslim institutions – to publicly condemn […]
Are Muslims Violent?
Huff Post: by Gary M. Burge — Are Muslims violent? Yes. Are Jews and Christians violent? Yes. The problem is not one’s religious affiliation. The problem is spiritual: There is something bent inside each of us that inspires us to distort the higher values of the faith we profess. I […]