It’s Time for Muslim Outrage Against the Boko Haram
Huff Post: I remember the first time I met a young Muslim woman who had been beaten by her father for refusing to marry a man from their country of […]
Scientists Create First Living Organism With ‘Artificial’ DNA
Huff Post: For billions of years, the history of life has been written with just four letters — A, T, C and G, the labels given to the DNA subunits contained in all organisms. That alphabet has just grown longer, researchers announce, with the creation of a living cell that […]
Fasaad Fi sabilillah?
Dawn: It could have been just another ordinary patient arriving at an eye clinic for treatment. Abdul Rauf, a 20-something resident of Badami Bagh Lahore, took his father to Dr. Ali Haider’s clinic. A delay at the clinic ticked him off to such an extent that he planned to kill Dr Ali […]
Investigators fail to decode arrested FBI agent’s devices
Source: ET FBI agent Joel Cox. KARACHI: Even after hours of arrest, investigators failed to decode information from the devices belonging to a Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) agent arrested at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Express News reported on Thursday. FBI agent Joel Cox was travelling from Karachi to Islamabad […]
French Soccer Club Hires Woman to Coach Its Men
Source: NY Times: Helena Costa, whose father did not like soccer and who often had to go to neighbors’ homes to watch games, will become the first woman to coach a men’s professional soccer team in France. Clermont Foot 63, a second-division club in Clermont-Ferrand, announced on Wednesday that Costa […]
Keep Indonesia Secular, President Yudhoyono Urges
Source: The Jakarta Globe Jakarta. Indonesia is not a Muslim country and any efforts to turn it into one must be resisted, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Wednesday as […]
Boko Haram does not represent Islam
Epigraph: Indeed, Allah enjoins justice, and the doing of good to others; and giving like kindred; and forbids indecency, and manifest evil, and wrongful transgression. He admonished you that you […]
Dear Boko Haram: You’re Spitting in the Face of Muhammad
Epigraph: Indeed, Allah enjoins justice, and the doing of good to others; and giving like kindred; and forbids indecency, and manifest evil, and wrongful transgression. He admonished you that you […]
New definition of a ‘Pakistani’
Source: pakteahouse.net | Obaidullah Khan If you are living in a wooden cottage and see someone setting the very next wooden cottage on fire, what would you do? If you sit quietly and […]
Afghan immigrant attempts to cross the Channel on a raft with bedsheets for sails
Telegraph: Asif Hussainkhil was saved after being picked up less than two nautical miles off Sangatte near Calais. A young Afghan man has been rescued by the French coastguard after risking his life trying to reach Britain on a makeshift raft fashioned from three planks and propelled by a bed […]
Ahmadiyya Muslims Plan To Extend Humanity First To Belize
Source: amandala.com.bz Belize is a country on the northeastern coast of Central America. Naveed Mangla, a missionary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, told Amandala that his group, established in Belize 6 […]
Geert Wilders on ‘slippery slope’, Jewish group states
Telegraph: A Dutch Jewish group has attacked Geert Wilders for building alliances with far-Right-wing parties such as Marine Le Pen’s Front National. Geert Wilders on is on a “slippery slope” by forming a European election alliance with Marine Le Pen and an Austrian far-Right party with a “Brownshirt past”, a […]
For Muslims, Boko Haram is disgrace
Source: CNN (CNN) – Hey Boko Haram, have you read the Quran lately? Most of the 1.6 billion Muslims in the world have, and we’re utterly certain that it condemns kidnapping young girls and selling them into slavery – no matter what you say “Allah” tells you. According to Amnesty International, […]
NEW NIGERIA OUTRAGE
Source: CNN Boko Haram militants reportedly kill at least 150 people as authorities offer a $310,000 reward to help find abducted girls. More:
Thai Court Ousts Premier
Source: NY Times: BANGKOK — A Thai court on Wednesday ordered Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra removed from office, a highly divisive move and a victory for the powerful antigovernment movement that has sought to overthrow the government in Bangkok for the last six months. The Constitutional Court ruled that Ms. […]
eDigest: Muslim World Leader Calls for Religious Freedom in Pakistan
Epigraph: And what is the matter with you that you struggle not in the cause of Allah and of the weak — men, women and children — who say, ‘Our Lord, take us out of this town, whose people are oppressors, and make for us some friend from Thyself, and […]
In Islam, there’s more than one way to be an ‘atheist’
theguardian: by Nesrine Malik — Just as Muslims need to expand tolerance for non-belief into the public sphere by challenging the structures that define this space, westerners energised by the ex-Muslim’s fate need to see that there is more than one model of not believing in God. Saudi Arabia recently declared […]
Indian Women Use Sharia Law To Fight For Gender Equality In Court System
Huff Post: by Heather Mcllvaine— “Clergy are not open to reform experiences which are pro-women,” wrote Solanki. “Muslim women in Pakistan enjoy more legal protection than Indian Muslim women.” MUMBAI, India (RNS) Khatoon Shaikh had no formal education, never worked outside the home and lived in the kind of neighborhood […]
Muhammad: The Story of A Prophet and Reformer
By: Sarah Conover Published 2013 by Skinner House Books Reviewed by: Naseer A. Tahir, MD I enjoyed reading this book. It presents positive aspects about the Greatest of all Prophets, […]
Muslim Television Ahmadiyya: Community Broadcasting to a Global Audience
From the very start MTA was founded to be a different kind of channel, one that would establish a uniquely independent voice and provide “a positive alternative in the broadcasting […]