Kripkean Dogmatism: The Best Metaphor to Understand Religious and Political Debates
By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times By the Grace of Allah, I joined Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, from a Sunni family, in 1984, while I was […]
Breaking News: Jesus Always Prayed to God the Father, Never to Himself or the Holy Ghost
Epigraph: And when Allah will say, “O Jesus, son of Mary, didst thou say to men, ‘Take me and my mother for two gods beside Allah?’”, he will answer, “Holy […]
The ties that bind Christians, Muslims and Jews
Source/Credit: Houston Chronicle By Bill King When the Sept. 11 attacks occurred, I knew exactly two Muslims. Both worked for me, and both were two of the most dedicated, kind […]
Outbreak of Ebola in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone
August 3, 2014 Outbreak Update The World Health Organization, in partnership with the Ministries of Health in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria announced a cumulative total of 1440 suspect and confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) and 826 deaths, as of July 30, 2014. Of the 1440 clinical […]
Israel has broken my heart: I’m a rabbi in mourning for a Judaism being murdered by Israel
Source: Salon.com By Rabbi Michael Lerner: He is an American political activist, the editor of Tikkun, a progressive Jewish interfaith magazine based in Berkeley, California, and the rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue, […]
My daughter and Kainat
Dawn: It was one of those hazel sort of days that you sometimes get in Pakistan, in which a pleasant chill permeates the shining bright rays of the sun. The sky was as azure as the sea and the trees never looked so verdant. Summer was just around the corner, […]
Silence of ‘good men’: A week on, Gujranwala mob attack victims await justice
ET: LAHORE: Last week an elderly woman and her two minor grand daughters were burnt alive in Gujranwala by a charged mob. A week of silence has passed since then. No suo motu notice of the mob attack was taken, no joint investigation team was formed to investigate the incident, no […]
France 24 Video Report: Pakistan’s Ahmadis living in fear of extremist attacks
France24: As Muslims across the world celebrate the end of Ramadan, we look at the persecution suffered by Pakistan’s Ahmadis. They consider themselves Muslim, but many Pakistanis see them as […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Humanitarian Relief Effort on Bosnian Television
Youtube: HUMANITARNI PAKETI OD RELIGIOZNOTO ZDRUZENIE AHMEDI DZAMAT Watch:
The stigma of being an atheist in the US
Source: BBC By Aleem Maqbool, BBC News, Columbus, Ohio Atheists in the US are rallying together, launching a new TV programme and providing support for those who go public with their […]
Eurasia needs a Sino-German axis
Source: Asia Times: By Francesco Sisci BEIJING – The shooting down of Malaysian airline flight MH17 and the loss of all 298 people on board have cast a dark shadow on the Ukraine conflict raging for months between pro-Russian and pro-Western forces. The tragedy has made the international position of […]
Religious doublespeak- by Yasser Latif Hamdani
Daily Times: by Yasser Latif Hamdani — Given that religious scholars are nothing but shopkeepers of religiosity whose livelihood depends on such hatemongering, it is hardly surprising that Ashrafi resorts to such incitement to violence. The deadly attack on Ahmedis, killing one unborn child, two little girls and one old grandmother, […]
USA: Chicago Imam says: Violent Jihad Must be Waged Against Israel
The Clarion Project A Chicago Imam preached that Muslims should wage war against Israel and that paradise awaits those who die fighting jihad. By Ryan Mauro Sun, August 3, 2014 Imam Mohamed Elimam of the Islamic Center of Chicago. A video has emerged of an imam in Chicago preaching that […]
The case for a Kemalist intervention in Pakistan
Source: The International News Islamabad diary By Ayaz AmirPakistani democracy has done things to itself which it now finds impossible to get rid of. We can take it as an axiom […]
Urdu Video: Dr. Tahir ul Qadri Interpreting Hadiths about the Latter Days
Between 35-38 minute Dr. Tahir ul Qadri describes the vehicle of Dajjal as an aeroplane. He seems to be accepting the Ahmadiyya perspective on prophecies about the Latter Days, at […]
eDigest: ‘Islam is reviving British values’, says former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams
Epigraph: Indeed, Allah enjoins justice, and the doing of good to others; and giving like kindred; and forbids indecency, and manifest evil, and wrongful transgression. He admonished you that you […]
Europe’s leaders need to open their eyes.
Source: Japan Times: The recent election was a wake-up call; Europe’s leaders need to open their eyes. More:
Australian preacher and Islamic State supporter Musa Cerantonio arrives in Australia ABC July 23, 2014, 12:07 pm
High-profile Australian Islamist preacher Musa Cerantonio has been warned the Australian Federal Police will continue to keep him under surveillance after he was deported from the Philippines. READ MORE…
Imam’s killing in China may be aimed at making Muslim Uighurs choose sides
BEIJING – The murder of a state-backed imam in China’s Xinjiang region underscores an escalation in 18 months of violence and could be part of a bid by extremists to persuade moderate Muslim Uighurs to turn against Beijing’s controlled current of Islam. The targeting of Uighur officials or religious leaders has […]
‘Muslim Glastonbury’ challenges perceptions of Islam in Britain
Ranging from sectarianism to sex, a four-day event nicknamed the “Muslim Glastonbury” is setting out to challenge perceptions of Islam in Britain. Living Islam, which began on Thursday at Lincolnshire Showground and continues over the weekend, is a celebration of Eid al-Fitr, which was marked by Muslims around the world this week at […]