Ahmadiyah Mosque sealed off in Bekasi
The Jakarta Post: The Bekasi city government locked down the Al-Misbah mosque, a place of worship for Ahmadiyah Muslims, on Friday in Bekasi, West Java. According to Sudiana, the head […]
Boko Haram and the crippling of Islam in Africa – Radical movements in Africa are hurting the future of Islam on the continent.
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 […]
Crimea’s Muslim Minority: ‘It’s Either War Or Compromise’
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 […]
The current power struggle between Imran Khan and Nawaz Sharif or between ISI and Geo
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 […]
FOOTBALL: Blatter admits Qatar World Cup was a ‘mistake’
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 […]
The Radicalisation of Swiss Muslims
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 […]
The flame still burns
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 […]
Wilders considered leading EU parliamentary candidate list: AD
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 […]
In USA schools remain deeply segregated along lines of race as well as class—
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 […]
Fierce winds spawn flaming funnels
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, […]
Muslim women have the right to seek education
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 […]
[Urdu Video] Prophets after Mohammed (pbuh) proved by Quran ?!
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
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community: Persecution Newsletter May 2014
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 […]
Nigeria: Majlis Khuddam-ul-Ahmadiyya urges govt to find lasting solution to insecurity
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 […]
Lord Ahmed of Wimbledon and MP Chris White visited the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosque
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 […]
HRW urges Saudi to free two Ahmadi Muslims held for apostasy
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 […]
5 Reasons Boko Haram is Un-Islamic
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 […]
Indian Elections 2014 results: Narendra Modi heaps humiliating defeat on Congress
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 […]
Turkey mine disaster death toll disputed by furious locals
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 […]
Britain’s richest 1% own as much as poorest 55% of population
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 […]