Abdelwahab El-Affendi Dr Abdelwahab El-Affendi is Reader in Politics and the Centre for the Study, University of Westminster and Co-ordinator of the Centre’s Democracy and Islam Programme since 1998. n the 1980s, there was much talk in Nigeria about the “Kaduna Mafia”, a mythical and not-so-secretive organisation said to be […]
ALEXANDER WINNING BAKHCHISARAY, Crimea (Reuters) – Seventy years after their families’ mass deportation under Soviet leader Josef Stalin, the Crimean Tatars are in a quandary: should they cooperate with their homeland’s new Russian authorities or resist them? Some Tatars – Sunni Muslims of Turkic origin – fear a return to […]
Source: LUBP For details click HERE The farce of calling Nawaz Sharif anti-establishment posted by Taj | May 11, 2014 | In Headlines, Original Articles Is the Saudi-backed Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif, who owns 95% of Pakistani judges along with a powerful section of media, is an ally of TTP […]
May 16, 2014 – 10:55 FIFA President Sepp Blatter says awarding the 2022 World Cup to Qatar was a “mistake”. But in an interview with Swiss public television on Thursday […]
May 15, 2014 Swissinfo.ch How do young men who grew up in Switzerland become extremists? Following this Swiss TV report on three cases, the Federal Intelligence Service confirmed that of 15 Swiss citizens who have travelled to Syria, five became Jihadists. (SRF Rundschau, swissinfo.ch) A team from the Swiss TV […]
STORY SUMMARY On the 66th commemoration of the Nakba, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were violently forced out of their homes and off their land, it is more vital than ever that the world remembers what created such a tragedy, and how the issue is not going to disappear […]
Geert Wilders planned to lead the anti-immigration PVV’s list of candidates for the European parliament, the AD says on Friday. Wilders was worried that without his name at the top of the list, PVV supporters would not turn out to vote in the European elections on May 22, the paper […]
Source: The Daily Beast: Sixty years ago tomorrow in Brown v. Board of Education, the United States Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public education is unconstitutional, writing that “in the field of public education, the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place.” More: Yet all these years […]
San Marcos, California (CNN) — The good news: Temperatures and winds across scorched parts of southern California are starting to subside. The bad news: Unruly wildfires keep barreling across the region, […]
Source: letterstotheeditorblog.dallasnews.com | Saima Sheikh, Allen As an American Ahmadi Muslim woman who believes in the Messiah, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, India, I condemn this act by the Boko Haram group. This […]
Source: youtube.com A clip from Rah-e-Huda program (MTA) Visit the official websites of Muslim Jamaat Ahmadiyya http://www.alislam.org http://www.mta.tv Also the forum is located at www.mta.tv/rah-e-huda
Source: pressahmadiyya.com Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan continue to be murdered, imprisoned and denied the right to worship. Worryingly, a trend of persecuting Ahmadis is now spreading to other Muslim countries and below […]
Source: mydailynewswatchng.com The Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Organisation, the Majlis Khuddam-ul-Ahmadiyya Nigeria (MKAN) has called for concerted actions among various relevant stakeholders in ensuring that Nigerians are protected from the activities of […]
Source: leamingtoncourier.co.uk Leamington and Warwick MP joins Lord Ahmed in talk covering EU politics and discrimination Lord Ahmed of Wimbledon and Chris White, MP for Leamington and Warwick, visited the Ahmadiyya […]
Source: dailystar.com.lb DUBAI: Human Rights Watch on Thursday urged Saudi Arabia to free two citizens held without trial for two years after converting to an offshoot of Islam banned in the conservative Sunni kingdom. Sultan al-Anzi, aged 33, and […]
The militant Nigerian group’s actions repeatedly go against the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad by Taboola The official name of Boko Haram, the Nigerian group apparently responsible for the kidnapping […]
Narendra Modi tweeted after his victory looked certain. India has won! भारत की विजय। अच्छे दिन आने वाले हैं। — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 16, 2014 Underlining the humiliation of India’s […]
Officials say death toll from explosion at mine in western Turkey likely to be around 300, but some say more are trapped. The final death toll from Turkey‘s mine disaster will likely be around 300, government officials have said, though furious locals say the authorities are covering up far greater loss […]
Guardian: ONS figures reveal growing wealth disparity and north-south divide, with nation’s top 10% owning 44% of household wealth. Britain’s richest 1% have accumulated as much wealth as the poorest 55% of the population put together, according to the latest official analysis of who owns the nation’s £9.5tn of property, pensions and […]
sanders.senate.gov: Oxfam International, a poverty fighting organization, made news at the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this year with its report that the world’s 85 richest people own assets with […]