Monuments Men: The Quest to Save Syria’s History
By Katrin Elger spiegel.de Cheikhmous Ali pushes a box of ballpoint pens across the table towards his friend and countryman Ahmad. The stout Syrian laughs aloud as he tucks one […]
Dress the Gaza situation up all you like, but the truth hurts – The world is starting to turn against Israel
There was a time when our politicians and media had one principal fear when covering Middle East wars: that no one should ever call them anti-Semitic. So corrosive, so vicious […]
[Urdu Artcile] Naseehato’n ka Guldasta (20) by Imam Shamshad A. Nasir
Kindly click on the images to zoom them. Imam Shamshad A. Nasir Shamshad A. Nasir is imam & missionary-in-charge of the Baitul ul Jaam’e Mosque, Glen Ellyn Cell Phone: 909-636-8332 | Email: Shamshadanasir@gmail.com
My father threw away his poppy in disgust. My family was haunted by my father’s experience on the Somme and the loss of his friends. Why do we pay homage to the dead but ignore the lessons of their war?
by Robert Fisk, The Independent Let them die now. Let the memorials gather grass and the commemorations be over. I wish all those dead men could lose their eternal youth […]
Isis brings its war to Lebanon – and it could be key to a masterplan
After all the warnings and all the clichés about a war that would “spill” over Syria’s border, the savage fighters of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s Sunni Muslim “caliphate” have at last […]
Lady Warsi resigns over government’s ‘morally reprehensible’ stance on Gaza – Foreign Office minister announces on Twitter that she is standing down because she can no longer support UK foreign policy
Patrick Wintour, political editor The Guardian, Tuesday 5 August 2014 10.04 BST Lady Warsi, the senior Foreign Office minister, has resigned from the government in protest at its policy on Gaza, describing it as “morally indefensible”.. Warsi announced her departure on Twitter on Tuesday, saying: “With deep regret I have […]
India Shaken by Case of Muslim Men Missing in Iraq
Kalyan, India: For more than a decade, as alienated young Muslim men from all over the world left home to fight on the side of Islamists in distant conflicts, it has been a truism that they were not coming from India, a country whose participatory politics and preoccupation with nearby […]
Israeli troops ‘withdraw from Gaza’
Israel has announced the withdrawal of all of its troops to “defensive positions” outside the Gaza Strip. The move came moments before the latest truce – brokered by Egyptian mediators late on Monday – came into force at 08:00 local time (05:00 GMT). READ MORE…
Tenu Kaafir Kaafir Aakhday
The Nation: Let me start with a profound apology for covering, what many might deem an “unimportant” issue this week. With all my sympathies with the innocent children and civilians being killed on the pretext of targeting terrorists, I for one, could not help thinking about a ‘minor’ incident that […]
White flags for them, green for us
ET: Even after deliberating for 60 years, the jury’s still out on Muhammad Munir. Pakistan’s second chief justice was a symptom of the times he lived in: brilliant but tragic, visionary but weak. He cared nothing for the rule of law; he cared for nothing but the rule of law. […]
Heaven is for neuroscience: How the brain creates visions of God
Salon.com: Excerpted from “The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery.” For most of recorded history, human beings situated the mind — and by extension the soul — not within the brain but within the heart. When […]
CONFERENCE CALL WITH NCIC-RESHMA INAMDAR
This is a quick report: Dear Sister Reshma: Assalamo Allaikum Wa Rahmatullah! May Allah bless you for hosting the conference call on a very, very important issue. I am glad you had GAZA in your mind when you sent the invitation. I was in my car and cell phone died […]
Qur’an lesson for today: 194. O men, a similitude is set forth, so listen to it. Surely, those on whom you call instead of Allah cannot create even a fly
194. O men, a similitude is set forth, so listen to it. Surely, those on whom you call instead of Allah cannot create even a fly [22:74] O men, a similitude is set forth, so listen to it. Surely, those on whom you call instead of Allah cannot create even […]
Qur’an lesson for today: 193. So coin not similitudes for Allah. Surely, Allah knows and you know not.
193. So coin not similitudes for Allah. Surely, Allah knows and you know not. [16:75] So coin not similitudes for Allah. Surely, Allah knows and you know not. Note: It is highly presumptuous on the part of man to devise a law regarding God while he is quite ignorant of […]
Qur’an lesson for today: 195. The case of those who take helpers beside Allah is like unto the case of the spider
195. The case of those who take helpers beside Allah is like unto the case of the spider [29:42] The case of those who take helpers beside Allah is like unto the case of the spider, who makes for herself a house; and surely the frailest of all houses is […]
Albert Einstein’s search for God, a detailed study from the Islamic perspective
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Was Einstein a monotheist, deist, pantheist, or an atheist? How did his religion affect his science? Agnostics, […]
Albert Einstein’s search for God — An Islamic Perspective
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Was Einstein a monotheist, deist, pantheist, or an atheist? How did his religion affect his science Agnostics, […]
Milwaukee: 2nd anniversary of Sikh Temple shooting
http://www.jsonline.com 2 years after temple shooting, victim’s family relies on Sikh teachings Michael Sears Memorial services are being held through Tuesday at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek. On Aug. 5, 2012, six worshippers were killed and four other people were injured in a shooting. By Dinesh Ramde, […]
eDigest: What about a Palestinian’s right to freedom?
Epigraph: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” US Declaration of Independence Faheem Younus is the Baltimore president of the Ahmadiyya […]
Muslim marksman triggers Integration debate
How completely can people with a migrant background integrate into German society? A recent case shows that not every door is open – even to someone who is embracing local customs. Mithat Gedik (pictured) is facing pressure to give up his title Normally, when someone succeeds in shooting down the […]