Enough Hate for Everyone: Muslims and Jews Are Targets of Bigotry in Europe
LONDON — A few years ago, I was a guest on “Start the Week,” a BBC radio discussion show. Among the other guests was the novelist Eva Figes, a Jewish refugee […]
Thousands of Muslims to gather in the English countryside and pledge allegiance to the Caliph
Press Ahmadiyya: The UK’s longest standing and largest Muslim convention, Jalsa Salana, returns to Hampshire for its 48th edition from Friday the 29th to Sunday the 31st of August 2014. […]
Indian state of Kerala announces alcohol ban
Epigraph: O ye who believe! wine and the game of hazard and idols and divining arrows are only an abomination of Satan’s handiwork. So shun each one of them that you […]
In The U.K., Muslim Women Don The Veil To Declare Faith Amidst Intolerance
Reuters | By Belinda Goldsmith & Olivia Harris Posted: 08/22/2014 10:13 am EDT (Reuters) – When youth worker Sumreen Farooq was abused in a London street, the 18-year-old decided it was […]
“Best” according to Holy Prophet (saw) – 64 Hadith
Compiled by Anees Ahmad “The best of gatherings are those that are most open.” Abu Daud “The best of all charity is that you give it while you are healthy and desirous (of that money), hoping to become wealthy but fearing poverty. Don’t delay until you are about to […]
UK’s ‘most generous town’ revealed by JustGiving
Telegraph: Bedford has been named the most generous town in the UK based on donations given through charity site JustGiving. Big-hearted residents in the Bedfordshire county town have been recognised with […]
Saudi Arabia declares atheists terrorists under new laws targeting citizens who ‘call for secular thought in any form’
Daily Mail: Saudi Arabia has officially identified atheists as terrorists in sweeping new laws that threaten up to 20 years in prison for almost any criticism of the government or Islam. The regulations place secular citizens who commit thought crimes in the same category as violent terrorist groups such as […]
Pakistan Exploits ‘Failed State’ Image, Says U.S. Scholar
Christine Fair, a security affairs professor at Washington’s Georgetown University, has written extensively on Pakistan’s powerful army. Her new book, “Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War,” analyzes the ideological culture of the country’s security establishment. In an interview with RFE/RL correspondent Malali Bashir, Fair said Pakistan’s […]
469 Gaza children killed, over 370,000 need ‘psychosocial aid’ – UNICEF
Epigraph: At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” He called a little child to him, and placed […]
More Muslim women in U.K. wearing veil
Source: Daily Star ………………. despite a common view that young Muslim women are forced to wear veils by men or their families, studies and interviews point to the opposite in […]
Dutch send helmets and bullet-proof vests to Iraqi Kurds
The Netherlands is sending 1,000 helmets and 1,000 bullet-proof vests to help the Kurds in Iraq who are fighting against Islamic State militants in the north. The donation is aimed at helping the Kurds better defend themselves, foreign affairs minister Frans Timmermans and defence minister Jeanine Hennis said in a […]
Their 35-year-old mutual enmity notwithstanding
Source: Stratfor: Their 35-year-old mutual enmity notwithstanding, the United States and Iran have cooperated against a common jihadist enemy in the past, such as when they worked together to topple the Taliban regime following the 9/11 attacks. Relations quickly soured again when U.S. President George W. Bush’s administration declared the […]
We know all too much about the cruelty of Isis – but all too little about who they are
BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT Now President Obama has seen the next US reporter to be threatened with beheading, will he blink? For centuries, governments told their soldiers and their […]
Hairdresser from Croydon fighting ‘inhuman’ Isis militants on frontline in Iraq
IAN JOHNSTON Friday 22 August 2014 Kurdish-born Mama Kurda is fighting with the Peshmerga forces who have been pushing back Isis, also known as Islamic State, in northern Iraq with […]
Egypt tour bus collision kills 33 near Sharm El-Sheikh
BBC News: Two tour buses have collided near Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, leaving 33 people dead and 41 injured, officials say. One of the vehicles overturned in the crash which happened early in the morning about 50km (31 miles) from the popular holiday destination. READ MORE…
Boko Haram ‘control police academy’
BBC News: Northern Nigeria’s riot police training academy has been overrun by Boko Haram Islamist militants, a witness in Borno state has told the BBC. Shots were heard after the militants arrived in three armoured vehicles and on dozens of motorcycles, he said. A police spokesman confirmed the attack while […]
Islamic State Threat ‘Completely Unprecedented’
Sky News: The threat posed by Islamic State militants, who have seized control of large parts of Syria and Iraq, is “beyond anything we’ve seen”, according to US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. READ MORE…
Life Discovered In Antarctic Lake That Hasn’t Seen Sunlight For Millions Of Years
Epigraph: Do not the disbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were a closed-up mass, then We opened them out? And We made from water every living thing. Will they not then […]
Micronesia: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Grows in Marshall Islands – A Discussion
Source: micronesiaforum.org The growing presence of the Ahmadiyya, their active use of government radio like other religious groups, and anti-Islam views of Christian churches and leaders has sparked repeated criticism of […]
Qur’an lesson for today: 212. Keep away from the more grievous of the things which are forbidden you
212. Keep away from the more grievous of the things which are forbidden you [4:32] If you keep away from the more grievous of the things which are forbidden you, We will remove from you your minor evils and admit you to a place of great honour. [42:38] And who […]