Dawn: How badly will the murder of Rashid Rehman — the latest in a series of attacks on human rights activists and especially those involved in defending blasphemy accused — have a chilling effect on activism as a whole? The murder of Rashid is a message for lawyers to be […]
Guardian: I am fourteen years old. It is southern Iran in the summer of 1977. Most people have not yet heard of Ayatollah Khomeini or an Islamic revolution. The high school building sits on an acre of dry land. We play soccer every day behind the school. The heat is oppressive, and, […]
ET: ‘Every action,’ Narendra Modi once quoted Newton’s third law of motion, ‘has a reaction.’ Modi was referring to the murder of parliamentarian Ehsan Jafri. As blood flowed in the streets of Gujarat in 2002, a Hindutva mob had surrounded Mr Jafri’s home in Gulbarg Society. They were armed with kerosene […]
New bus ads in DC say the Qu’ran promotes Jew-hatred. It’s a meritless, dangerous accusation. Now, certainly some Muslims are anti-Jewish, as are some Christians, agnostics, atheists—you get the idea. However, nothing in the Qur’an or in Prophet Muhammad’s example supports the myth of “Islamic Jew hatred.” As I detail in my […]
Source: Balkan Insight: The only signs of hope have been seen in the responses of ordinary people, who have banded together in an attempt to ensure each other’s survival. Their parents may have been on different sides in wartime, but young people from Tuzla went out to the villages to […]
Huff Post: by Antonia Blumberg — Johanna Neumann was nine years old when her family escaped from Nazi Germany to seek refuge in Albania. They spent six years there and survived the war thanks to a number of Muslim families who sheltered them along the way. Neumann’s is one of many […]
Courtesy: Shahid Pervaiz, Canada The following are excerpts from pages 352 to 354 of “Tajrebaat jo hein Amanat Hayat ki; the auto-biography of (late) Saqib Zeervi Sahib; a famous Pakistani, Ahmadi, Poet, an elite journalist and Editor of “The Weekly Lahore”.
Press Release from Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Canada Another member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at Murdered in Pakistan- This time while in Police Custody Mr Khalil Ahmad (65), an Ahmadi Muslim, […]
(CNN) – A small-town police commissioner in New Hampshire, who originally said he wouldn’t apologize for calling President Barack Obama the n-word, resigned on Monday. Joseph Balboni, Police Commission chairman […]
Dear Editor, Ever since the May 2010 attacks on two Ahmadiyya Muslim mosques in Lahore, death without dignity has become a bitter reality for Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan. Along with […]
Sources: examiner.co.uk Young Muslims from Huddersfield joined thousands from across the country at London’s Battersea Park to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for several UK charities. Volunteers from the Ahmadiyya […]
Source: croydonadvertiser.co.uk NEW ADDINGTON could be on course to get its first mosque, with local leaders of a minority Muslim sect considering the area for a new base. The Shirley branch […]
Source: Time By Qasim Rashid: He is an attorney, author, and national spokesperson for Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA. His upcoming book,EXTREMIST: A Response to Geert Wilders & Terrorists Everywhere, is due […]
Attorney General Eric Holder: “This case should serve as a wake-up call to the seriousness of the ongoing cyber threat” Continue reading the main story Related Stories Arrests in computer […]
Dawn: IF you were to read only the tabloid press in the UK, you could be excused for thinking that an Islamic takeover was imminent. From Sharia courts to the […]
Epigraph: And revile not those whom they call upon beside Allah, lest they, out of spite, revile Allah in their ignorance. Thus unto every people have We caused their doing […]
Daily Times: Only a court can decide on the basis of evidence, not emotion, as to whether a certain act amounts to blasphemy or not. Is the concept of reward […]
BBC Urdu: تھانے میں داخل ہو کر ایک زیر حراست احمدی کب قتل کرنے والے ملزم نے خود کو پولیس کے حوالے کر دیا ہے اور ج کہا ہے کہ […]
Toronto Star, 2014/05/18 A growing number of Iranian women have habit so taboo in this traditional Islamic society that some believe they deserve death. View 2 photos zoom MARYAM RAHMANIAN / The Washington Post At a female-only rehab centre on the outskirts of Tehran, a small band of women are […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Vamsee Juluri: USF professor; author, ‘Bollywood Nation: India through its Cinema’ Narendra Modi’s victory needs to be understood beyond the two commonly heard positions we have heard […]