Over the next four weeks, 32 nations will battle it out on football fields across Brazil during the FIFA 2014 World Cup football tournament – but only two teams will represent the Middle East. Proud props to Algeria and Iran – (and mabruk for a winning outcome!) – but while MENA […]
“Why are there no Muslim philosophers?” Sudipta Kaviraj posed this question to me while I was studying some critical Western texts of philosophy in the fall of 2009 with him. Although this is a complicated question – which I do not take at face value, given that Kaviraj is himself […]
Source: alislam.org 13th June 2014 PRESS RELEASE On the evening of 12 June 2014, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad […]
STORY SUMMARY The Shiite-led government of Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki remained in paralysis Friday, unable to form a coherent response after al-Qaida-inspired militants blitzed and captured entire chunks of the nation’s Sunni heartland this week, including major cities, towns, military and police bases as Iraqi forces melted away or […]
STORY SUMMARY The Shiite-led government of Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki remained in paralysis Friday, unable to form a coherent response after al-Qaida-inspired militants blitzed and captured entire chunks of the nation’s Sunni heartland this week, including major cities, towns, military and police bases as Iraqi forces melted away or […]
By Jonathan Webb: Science reporter, BBC News Related Stories Dinosaurs’ cold blood in doubt ‘Biggest dinosaur ever’ discovered New Tyrannosaur named ‘Pinocchio’ Dinosaurs fit in an intermediate class between warm and […]
By Jonathan Webb: Science reporter, BBC News Related Stories Dinosaurs’ cold blood in doubt ‘Biggest dinosaur ever’ discovered New Tyrannosaur named ‘Pinocchio’ Dinosaurs fit in an intermediate class between warm and […]
Source: pressahmadiyya.com This month’s report leads with the murder of Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan. Mr Khalil Ahmad, 65, was killed while in police custody after having been falsely accused of […]
Epigraph: O ye people! be mindful of your duty to your Lord, Who created you from a single soul and created therefrom its mate, and from them twain spread many men and women; and fear Allah, in Whose name you appeal to one another, and fear Him particularly respecting ties of relationship. Indeed, Allah […]
Source: fredericksburg.com I wonder whose faith they are following, those who commit hate crimes in the name of religion? Allah says in the Holy Quran: The reward of goodness is nothing but goodness” (55:61). Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said: He who does not thank people does not […]
Source: croydonguardian.co.uk If England’s footballers come up short in Brazil, they can rest assured there is a national team already celebrating some silverware this summer. An England team triumphed recently at […]
Epigraph: And We are gradually revealing of the Qur’an that which is a healing and a mercy to the believers; but it only adds to the loss of the wrongdoers. […]
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Published — Friday 13 June 2014 Last update 12 June 2014 11:53 pm MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday that the spectacular seizure of Iraqi […]
BAGHDAD — A major offensive by jihadists is allowing Iraqi Kurds to take control of disputed territory that Baghdad has long opposed them adding to their autonomous northern region. With […]
‘We were fighting, but our leaders betrayed us,’ said Iraqi soldier who fled from Islamic Front fighters The Associated Press Posted: Jun 13, 2014 2:12 AM ET Last Updated: Jun […]
Jaskaran Dhillon, Sim Bhullar hoping to make it to the CFL, NBA and be role models in the community. Bernard Weil / Toronto Star Order this photo Sim Bhullar, 7-foot-5 centre from Toronto, worked out for his hometown Raptors on Wednesday. By: Curtis Rush Sports reporter, Published on Thu Jun […]
Source: The Guardian By Andrew Brown Richard Dawkins’ implication that babies have a default theological position of atheism is as silly as assuming a default language or nationality Richard Dawkins’s […]
Source: The Guardian By Andrew Brown Richard Dawkins’ implication that babies have a default theological position of atheism is as silly as assuming a default language or nationality Richard Dawkins’s […]
theguardian: by Ami Sedghi — Britain’s ethnic minorities still face significant barriers to social mobility despite many having better qualifications than their white counterparts, according to researchers at the University of Manchester. Chinese, Indian, Irish, Bangladeshi and black African students are now outperforming their white British peers in obtaining five […]
The National Post: TORONTO — Two men say a parking restriction in the City of Mississauga that’s in effect during Friday prayer services discriminates against Muslims and they’re asking the […]