Court confirms Egypt Muslim Brotherhood death sentences
Source: BBC An Egyptian court has confirmed death sentences for 183 Muslim Brotherhood supporters accused of a 2013 attack on a police station, lawyers say. A judge had recommended the […]
NATURALISATION DEBATE: Parliament passes new Swiss citizenship law
by Jo Fahy with input from Armando Mombelli, swissinfo.ch June 20, 2014 – 09:35 Under new naturalisation law rubber stamped by parliament on Friday, foreigners will have to wait ten […]
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 […]
Middle East bleeds from a million wounds
AIJAZ ZAKA SYED ARABNEWS.COM Published — Friday 20 June 2014 What is the world coming to? It is as if the red tide of blood has engulfed the whole world. It is killings, bloodshed and chaos everywhere. And Muslims appear to be in the thick of action with what passes […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Association launches bus advertising campaign in Devon to tackle Islamophobia
Source: Express & Echo Buses displaying messages of peace will be rolled out across Devon in the next week as part of a campaign aimed at preventing the spread of […]
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 […]
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 […]
PAKISTAN: An Editor’s life under serious threat following the publication of an autobiography of an Ahmadi Judge
Asian Human Rights Commission — Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that an editor and publisher is facing serious threats to his life from Muslim militants for publishing an autobiography of a retired judge of the Lahore High Court who hails from the Ahmadi sect. According to […]
PAKISTAN: An Editor's life under serious threat following the publication of an autobiography of an Ahmadi Judge
Asian Human Rights Commission — Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that an editor and publisher is facing serious threats to his life from Muslim militants for publishing an autobiography of a retired judge of the Lahore High Court who hails from the Ahmadi sect. According to […]
Century-old boundaries in the Mideast are dissolving
Source: CNN Century-old boundaries in the Mideast are dissolving, believes one expert who says the only comfort is that we’re “starting to run out of places the European imperialists screwed up. More:
Pope Francis says he opposes making recreational drugs legal
By Michael Pearson, Fri June 20, 2014 (CNN) — Are you stoned? That’s the message Pope Francis seemed to be sending lawmakers Friday, saying the growing worldwide trend toward legalizing recreational […]
Being Cahtolic Christian How I felt participating in Jalsa Salana Germany
By Staska Baric Impression of Ms. Staska Baric who participated in 39th annual gathering (Jalsa Salana) of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community held from 13-15 June 2014 in Karlsruhe Germany My name is Staška. I am Catholic and a practical believer. I received an exceptional and unique opportunity to attend the annual […]
Muslim Prof: West Leads the World in ‘Islamic Values’
Source: FrontPage Mag: Are non-Muslim countries more Islamic than Muslim countries? That is what Hossein Askari, an Iranian-born professor of International Business and International Affairs at George Washington University, believes. […]
Persecuted Ahmadis seek shelter in China
Dawn.com —- Beijing: Fleeing discrimination and violence, members of the Ahmadiyya community have abandoned their homes in Pakistan to find an unlikely refuge in China. “Every day I heard the sound of guns,” said a 37-year-old surnamed Saeed of his former home Lahore. “We prayed every day, because we felt […]
Three Braves: Pakistan’s empowering first animated feature film
theguardian: by Alia Waheed — Two years ago, the director Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy became the first Pakistani to win an Oscar. She was 33 at the time, and the film was Saving Face, a documentary short about acid attacks on women in Pakistan. The film followed plastic surgeon Mohammad Jawad, […]
Three Braves: Pakistan's empowering first animated feature film
theguardian: by Alia Waheed — Two years ago, the director Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy became the first Pakistani to win an Oscar. She was 33 at the time, and the film was Saving Face, a documentary short about acid attacks on women in Pakistan. The film followed plastic surgeon Mohammad Jawad, […]
Global refugee figures highest since WW2, UN says
Epigraph: And what is the matter with you that you struggle not in the cause of Allah and of the weak — men, women and children — who say, ‘Our Lord, take […]