5,000 British Muslims wage jihad for Britain

Alt altanglenews — AROUND 5,000 Muslim men have gathered at Britain’s largest Muslim youth rally pledging allegiance to Queen, Country, Qur’an and Gary Cahill. Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) will spend three days in the Surrey countryside studying holy texts, discussing their faith and praying communally. But […]

Lahore Publisher Shoaib Adil needs police protection

Source/Credit: AHRC / Ahmadiyya Times Pakistan: Publisher’s life threatened for publishing autobiography of a retired Ahmadi judge The leader of the group, infamous extremist, Muawiyya,  is the brother of mullah Tahir Ashrafi, chairman, Pakistan Clerics’ Council and operates in the city of Lahore. “The leaders of the Khatm-e-Nabuwatt extremist groups […]

How can we stop honour killings?

Aljazeera: Disturbing cases of extreme violence against women from around the world have come to the fore in the past few weeks. Farzana Parveen’s murder in Pakistan highlighted the country’s dismal record of women killed in so-called honour killings. According to the Pakistani Human Rights Commission, 869 women were murdered in 2013 in […]

America does not learn

June 20, 2014 Opinion & Analysis Yuram Abdullah Weiler With militants controlling Mosul, Tikrit and Fallujah, and lobbing mortar rounds into Baghdad International Airport, the US is preparing its Baghdad embassy personnel for rapid evacuation in a manner reminiscent of the hasty departure from Saigon in 1975. Meanwhile, Iran has […]

Diabetes gene ‘raises risk tenfold’

Source: BBC News A genetic susceptibility that gives a tenfold increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes has been discovered. The gene mutation, found in the population of Greenland, will give clues to the different causes of the condition, say Danish scientists. The research, published in Nature, adds to evidence genetics […]

Diabetes gene 'raises risk tenfold'

Source: BBC News A genetic susceptibility that gives a tenfold increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes has been discovered. The gene mutation, found in the population of Greenland, will give clues to the different causes of the condition, say Danish scientists. The research, published in Nature, adds to evidence genetics […]

Confucius and the Age of Anxiety

Source: The Huffington Post By Rodney L. Taylor, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder Confucius points to the Noble Person, chün tzu, as the epitome of human development, a person of moral goodness who is described as having fulfilled a variety of the salient Confucian virtues including goodness, jen, righteousness, i, […]

I Won’t Apologize for Being Muslim

Huff Post: by Sarah Harvard — The Benghazi quasi-controversy took an ugly turn at a recent panel on the issue conducted by the Heritage Foundation, when prominent anti-Islam activist Brigitte Gabriel decried “180 million to 300 million Muslims’ quest for the destruction and dominance of Western civilization” — comments that […]