Source: NY Times KABUL, Afghanistan — Local Afghan officials say more than 200 police officers and soldiers have been killed during a fierce Taliban offensive in Helmand Province that has lasted all summer and now threatens to overwhelm a key district. Officials at the national level have downplayed the violence […]
JAMAL DOUMANI ARABNEWS.COM Published — Saturday 6 September 2014 George W. Bush, former president of the United States, gave a speech six days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks where he spoke against harassment of Arabs and Muslims in the US, and about the need for his fellow-Americans […]
Source: TOI CAIRO: Islamic State, fighting to redraw the map of the Middle East, has been coaching Egypt’s most dangerous militant group, complicating efforts to stabilize the biggest Arab nation. Confirmation that Islamic Sate, currently the most successful of the region’s jihadi groups, is extending its influence to Egypt will […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — Last night, a video emerged of the execution of American journalist Steven Sotloff, at the hands of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s ISIS, the extreme jihadist group that has illegitimately declared the establishment of a militant “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq. This latest execution video follows that of […]
Source: CNN By Rafael Romo, CNN Senior Latin American Affairs Editor (CNN) – It was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of opportunity: teenagers from five continents speaking directly with Pope Francis through a Google video chat. The students from schools in Australia, Israel, Turkey, South Africa and El Salvador heard advice from […]
Epigraph: Say, ‘O People of the Book! come to a word equal between us and you — that we worship none but Allah, and that we associate no partner with […]
Aga Khan Museum to open Sept. 18 A new and proud chapter in Canadian Ismaili Muslim history is set to unfold in September with the opening of the spectacular Aga […]
UNITED AGAINST TERROR: NATO leaders watch a flypast of military aircraft on the second day of the NATO 2014 Summit at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, South Wales, on Friday. (AFP) AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE ARABNEWS.COM LATEST STORIES IN FEATUR NEWPORT: The US on Friday called for the creation […]
JEDDAH: FOUZIA KHAN Published — Saturday 6 September 2014 A technical committee tasked with ensuring safety inside the Grand Mosque held a meeting with the Ministry of Higher Education to […]
Somalia is on alert for retaliatory attacks by the Islamist group al-Shabab, officials say, after the group’s leader Ahmed Abdi Godane, 37, was killed in a US air strike. National Security Minister Kalif Ahmed Ereg said the country faced “desperate attacks” on government facilities. READ MORE…
The Hindu: The Pakistani military does not realise that its meddling makes Pakistan more unstable, not less, as does its insistence on a narrow definition of the national interest, which civilians are not allowed to alter Pakistan’s current political turmoil should be seen as the symptom of a deeper malaise. […]
Source: The Huffington Post By James D. Tabor, Author, ‘Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity’ Imagine discovering a lost and forgotten ancient Jewish/Christian writing, one not included in the New […]
Source: The Huffington Post By James D. Tabor, Author, ‘Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity’ Imagine discovering a lost and forgotten ancient Jewish/Christian writing, one not included in the New […]
Telegraph: The Islamic State is challenging the Taliban and al-Qaeda in its Afghanistan and Pakistan heartlands and claiming both countries as part of its ‘caliphate’. Islamic Slate leaflets proclaiming the group’s intention to bring its barbaric form of Islam to Pakistan and Afghanistan were posted throughout Peshawar, the capital of […]
Telegraph: The Islamic State is challenging the Taliban and al-Qaeda in its Afghanistan and Pakistan heartlands and claiming both countries as part of its ‘caliphate’. Islamic Slate leaflets proclaiming the group’s intention to bring its barbaric form of Islam to Pakistan and Afghanistan were posted throughout Peshawar, the capital of […]
Philly.com: by Stu Bykofsky — 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 the Nazis did it, Pakistan disenfranchised its Ahmadi Muslim Community. This Sunday is the 40th anniversary […]
Philly.com: by Stu Bykofsky — 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 the Nazis did it, Pakistan disenfranchised its Ahmadi Muslim Community. This Sunday is the 40th anniversary […]
Huff Post: by Qasim Rashid — Earlier this month Islamic scholar Dr. Tariq Ramadan publicized his impassioned decision to boycott the ISNA conference. As an Ahmadi Muslim, I disagreed with his decision. In fact, even if I agreed with every complaint he made, I still would not boycott ISNA for […]
Source: rabwah.net I always wanted to see a mosque from the inside but was afraid of entering. I’m so happy that I saw inside and now I know what Muslims do […]
Courtesy: Shahid Pervaiz, India Source: Times of India September 3, 2014, 5:28 PM IST Mrutyuanjai Mishra in Mind The Gap | World | TOI “I do not regard the Ahmediyyas as Muslims”, says a female medical student emphatically to […]