BBC Video about Arson, Hate Crime and Murder in Gujranwala, in Pakistan
http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/worldwide/player.swf The video is in Urdu but the language of suffering and persecution is universal.
Gaming Israel and Palestine
Source: The Stratfor. We have long argued that the Arab-Israeli conflict is inherently insoluble. Now, for the third time in recent years, a war is being fought in Gaza. The Palestinians are firing rockets into Israel with minimal effect. The Israelis are carrying out a broader operation to seal tunnels […]
Fading of the light for Ahmadis living in Pakistan.
Source: ET But the even bigger tragedy is the fading of the light for Ahmadis living in Pakistan. It is hard to know if we can restore some sense of equilibrium where so much hatred flows and from time to time ignites even over what appear to be the most […]
Gaza: The Auschwitz of our Time: Largest detention camp in the World
Global Research: In 1940, several months after invading Poland in September 1939, the Nazis forced about 500,000 Jews into the Warsaw Ghetto, surrounding it with a high wall. Tens of thousands died from hunger and disease. Eventually, 300,000 were sent to death camps, mainly Treblinka in eastern Poland. Similarly, Israel […]
Pakistan restricts religious freedom, practice: US
Dawn: WASHINGTON: A day after a mob killed three Ahmadis in Gujranwala, the US State Department pointed out that Pakistan’s constitution and laws restrict religious freedom and prohibited Ahmadis from practising their faith. “Although the constitution declares that adequate provisions shall be made for all citizens to profess and practise […]
Gujranwala blasphemy case: Ahmadis point fingers at ‘silent spectators’
ET: LAHORE: An elderly woman, two minors and an unborn child all perished late on Sunday when houses belonging to Ahmadis were set ablaze in Gujranwala by a charged mob after an Ahmadi boy was accused of blasphemy. It was all too familiar for a community that saw back-to-back attacks on its […]
Gujranwala blasphemy case: Ahmadis point fingers at 'silent spectators'
ET: LAHORE: An elderly woman, two minors and an unborn child all perished late on Sunday when houses belonging to Ahmadis were set ablaze in Gujranwala by a charged mob after an Ahmadi boy was accused of blasphemy. It was all too familiar for a community that saw back-to-back attacks on its […]
Celebrities & Nobel laureates stand up for #Gaza in new video: Freedom for Palestine
Published on Jul 28, 2014 Jewish Voices for Peace: Prominent Jews and Palestinians and others stand for Palestine in this heartbreaking video with Jonathan Demme, Gloria Steinem, Tony Kushner, Diana […]
Professor Ilan Pappé: Israel Has Chosen to be a “Racist Apartheid State” with U.S. Support
democracynow.org: As the Palestinian death toll tops 1,000 in Gaza, we are joined from Haifa by Israeli professor and historian Ilan Pappé. “I think Israel in 2014 made a decision that it prefers to be a racist apartheid state and not a democracy,” Pappé says. “It still hopes that the […]
Professor Ilan Pappé: Israel Has Chosen to be a "Racist Apartheid State" with U.S. Support
democracynow.org: As the Palestinian death toll tops 1,000 in Gaza, we are joined from Haifa by Israeli professor and historian Ilan Pappé. “I think Israel in 2014 made a decision that it prefers to be a racist apartheid state and not a democracy,” Pappé says. “It still hopes that the […]
‘Reject extremism, defeat terrorism’ – Eid message of H.M. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah congratulated Muslims on the successful completion of Ramadan on Sunday. On the occasion of Eid Al-Fitr, the king said: “Eid brings joy […]
'Reject extremism, defeat terrorism’ – Eid message of H.M. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah congratulated Muslims on the successful completion of Ramadan on Sunday. On the occasion of Eid Al-Fitr, the king said: “Eid brings joy […]
“Only Islam bothers me more and more,”
Source: The Local “I don’t believe in God, but at the same time Christianity, Judaism or Buddhism don’t bother me. Only Islam bothers me more and more,” wrote Nicolaus Fest, vice editor-in-chief of the Bild am Sonntag newspaper in the editorial published on Sunday. Fest then laid out why Islam’s […]
"Only Islam bothers me more and more,"
Source: The Local “I don’t believe in God, but at the same time Christianity, Judaism or Buddhism don’t bother me. Only Islam bothers me more and more,” wrote Nicolaus Fest, vice editor-in-chief of the Bild am Sonntag newspaper in the editorial published on Sunday. Fest then laid out why Islam’s […]
Is It Just Me or Is the World Exploding?
Source: The Daily Best. We are always cautioned not to overdramatize, because if the worst doesn’t happen, we can look silly. Maybe so. But I look around the world right now and think: Let’s not under-dramatize, either. We see a set of crises coming to a head all at once […]
What Would Jesus Do in Gaza?
Source: The Daily Beast PARIS — As the slaughter continues in Gaza, as bodies rain from the sky over Ukraine, as barbaric jihadists conquer swathes of Syria and Iraq, butchering their enemies and erasing the history of the Bible and of humankind, it seems empathy, sympathy, diplomacy and prayer are […]
Statement of Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V following Gujranwala Attack
On 27 July 2014, Ahmadi Muslims in Kachi-Pump in Gujranwala were attacked by local extremists in a sectarian attack. During the attack, 3 Ahmadi Muslims, including a 7 year old […]
JORDAN: THE GEOPOLITICAL SERVICE PROVIDER by Emmanuel Comolet
An interesting study on Jordan, by the Brookings Institute: (February 2014) Click to access arab%20econpaper4comolet%20v2.pdf Editor’s note: What the researchers did not realize: Why is Jordan ‘a island of peace’ among ‘troubled nations’? The main reason, as understood ‘in the streets of Amman’, is the fact that the neighbours (Israel) […]
Makkah hotel room rates break records
. RIYADH: ARAB NEWS Published — Monday 28 July 2014 Several tourism and commercial firms are taking advantage of high demand by leasing hotel rooms with views overlooking the Grand […]