By Zubair Khan While providing the relief items to the flood affected people of village Racinovci in Eastern Croatia, the residents expressed the dire need for generators and driers. Reacting to this urgent demand, the Humanity First Germany provided the financial support to buy 14 sets (generator and drier). With kind […]
National Post: by Jonathan Kay — Tomorrow, Dr. Mehdi Ali Qamar — the Canadian/American doctor who was assassinated last month in front of his wife and child, while he was performing a humanitarian mission in Pakistan — will be buried at Maple Cemetary in Vaughan, Ont. His funeral has become […]
War on the Rocks: by Myra McDonalds — The past few months have seen a particularly high-profile series of murders in Pakistan. An American cardiologist volunteering at a hospital in Pakistan was shot dead because he belonged to the minority Ahmadi community. A lawyer and human rights activist was killed after he took up […]
The Verge: by Carrie Arnold — Her parents were running out of hope. Their teenage daughter, Mary, had been diagnosed with a severe case of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), as well as ADHD. They had dragged her to clinics around the country in an effort to thwart the scary, intrusive thoughts […]
The Washington Post: by Terrence Mccoy — In a town in western Ireland, where castle ruins pepper green landscapes, there’s a six-foot stone wall that once surrounded a place called the Home. Between 1925 and 1961, thousands of “fallen women” and their “illegitimate” children passed through the Home, run by the Bon […]
Source: BBC By Samanthi Dissanayake An Indian man who made his name exposing the “miraculous” feats of holy men as tricks has fled the country after being accused of blasphemy. […]
The past few months have seen a particularly high-profile series of murders in Pakistan. An American cardiologist volunteering at a hospital in Pakistan was shot dead because he belonged to the minority Ahmadi community. A lawyer and human rights activist was killed after he took up the case of a lecturer accused of blasphemy. […]
First Minister Peter Robinson has publically apologised for his comments about Muslims. Mr Robinson visited the Islamic Centre in Belfast on Tuesday evening and met with representatives of the Muslim community in Northern Ireland. Speaking to the media afterwards he said: “I apologise if anything I said has caused them […]
An announcement by the US that it will continue working with a new interim Palestinian unity government backed by Hamas, which was sworn in on Monday, has been condemned by Israel. Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, had asked Washington not to rush into recognising the technocratic government, which is backed by two key […]
Murder in Rabwah By Muhammad Hassan Miraj Published May 27, 2014 07:18pm Rabwah is an Arabic word meaning “an elevated place”. This is what Wikipedia says about Rabwah (also known […]
Lina Sinjab in Damascus, Ian Black and agencies The Guardian, Tuesday 3 June 2014 Syrians began voting on Tuesday in the shadow of a bloody war, but no surprises are expected in an election in which Bashar al-Assad is running for the presidency on his ability to restore security and […]
Lina Sinjab in Damascus, Ian Black and agencies The Guardian, Tuesday 3 June 2014 Syrians began voting on Tuesday in the shadow of a bloody war, but no surprises are expected in an election in which Bashar al-Assad is running for the presidency on his ability to restore security and […]
Epigraph: O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female; and We have made you into tribes and sub-tribes that you may recognize one another. Indeed, the […]
Epigraph: It is not righteousness that you turn your faces to the East or the West, but truly righteous is he who believes in Allah and the Last Day and the angels and the Book and the Prophets, and spends his money for love of Him, on the kindred and […]
Source: Patheos: Hosting the Conversation on Faith By James F. McGrath: An Associate Professor in the Religion and Philosophy department and has taught at Butler University since the fall of […]
Additional Reading: Challenging Ben Carson to a Written Debate About Facts of Evolution from Molecular Biology Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I […]
Globe and Mail, Toronto 2014/06/03 MICHELLE FAUL, KADUNA, NIGERIA — The Associated Press,Published Tuesday, Jun. 03 2014, 6:43 AM EDT Last updated Tuesday, Jun. 03 2014, 6:46 AM EDT Ten generals and five other senior military officers were found guilty in courts-martial of providing arms and information to Boko Haram extremists, a […]
Dawn.com — The London Metropolitan police confirmed that a 60-year-old man had been arrested from a North-West London property on charges of money-laundering, but they declined to disclose the exact identity for “legal reasons”. The police said a Specialist Operations unit was currently carrying out a search operation at the […]
Story Summary Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned neighbors Monday of the “high price” they would pay for continuing to support Sunni extremists in Syria. The threat posed by […]
MADINAH: YUSUF MUHAMMAD Published — Tuesday 3 June 2014 Thousands of Umrah pilgrims are flocking to Madinah these days to visit the Prophet’s Mosque, other houses of worship, and the […]