OIC flays carnage of Indian Muslims
JEDDAH: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has condemned the attacks on Muslims in which 32 were killed, including women and children, in the Indian state of Assam. OIC Secretary-General […]
Monica Lewinsky Speaks out – was made a scapegoat
Published May 06, 2014, FoxNews.com Facebook 370 Twitter 347 Gplus 26 Monica Lewinsky, now 40 and 17 years removed from her affair with then-President Bill Clinton, is speaking out — offering what could be uncomfortable details as Hillary Clinton is thought to be preparing a White House run. Lewinsky has penned an account […]
Rahul Gandhi wants to see US President wearing a wrist watch with “made in Mirzapur” tag
Source: MIRZAPUR (UP): Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi wants to see the US President wearing a wrist watch with “made in Mirzapur” tag.The Gandhi scion said he wants to develop manufacturing hubs on national highways so that when the US President looks at his watch, the tag on it should be […]
Dr. Khalid Minhas of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Hallandale invited to address members of Congregation L’Dor Va-Dor in Lantana
Source: sun-sentinel.com | Shani McManus, Staff Writer While he was there to speak about his experience as a Muslim physician treating Holocaust survivors, the two-hour discussion covered a variety of religious and political […]
Burton, UK: Ahmadiyya Muslim Association celebrated Holy Founders Day at the Caribbean Centre
Source: burtonmail.co.uk East Staffordshire mayor Michael Rodgers attended with Mayoress Julie Killoran as the chief guests. FAITH leaders and 100 guests packed out a Burton function centre to hear about Muslim […]
Muslim World Leader Calls for Religious Freedom in Pakistan
Source: prnewswire.co.uk LONDON, May 6, 2014 An online petition to Rt Hon David Cameron MP, The Prime Minister, has been set up to urge him as a friend of Pakistan to raise these issues […]
Borderlands: The New Strategic Landscape
Geopolitical Weekly TUESDAY, MAY 6, 2014 – 03:03 Stratfor By George Friedman I will be leaving this week to visit a string of countries that are now on the front line between Russia and the European Peninsula: Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Azerbaijan. A tour like that allows you […]
Pakistan’s Hindus, other minorities face surge of violence
Source: firstpost.com RAHIM YAR KHAN Pakistan (Reuters) – The mob arrived at around midnight, brandishing clubs. They smashed statues, looted gold artifacts and then set the Hindu temple in Pakistan ablaze. […]
Qur’an lesson for the day: To observe Prayer is a great Virtue
113. To Observe Prayer is a great Virtue [2:178] 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 […]
eDigest: US Supreme Court Allows Prayers at Town Meetings
Epigraph: There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by those who transgress, and believes in Allah, has surely grasped a strong handle which knows no breaking. And Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (Al Quran 2:257) US Supreme Court […]
Education for the Voiceless: India’s Muslim Students Still Ignored and Underserved
Huff Post: by Brianna Sacks — MUMBAI, INDIA– The bell rings, and nearly 700 Muslim students pour fromAnjuman-I-Islam school’s worn, stone buildings onto a dusty quad. Their plain, blue-and-white, government-sponsored uniforms mask the reality that 97 percent of these secondary school students come from ghettos, slums and illiterate families. Despite the […]
Wisdom Isn’t What You Think It Is, And It Doesn’t Always Come With Age
Huff Post: by Gregory Beyer — Sorry, the wise are an exclusive group. That’s not just because wisdom is so difficult to attain, but because a given society can tolerate only a small percentage of wise people, Staudinger said. A society in which every citizen walked around radiating wisdom couldn’t […]
“I know that your community has suffered terrible persecution” Rt Hon David Cameron MP, The Prime Minister
stopthepersecution.org: Stop the Persecution of Ahmadis TO: Rt Hon David Cameron MP, The Prime Minister Dear Prime Minister 30 YEARS OF STATE SPONSORED PERSECUTION IN PAKISTAN 30 years ago under […]
Julie Phillips And Gemma Parkin Found Guilty Of Ripping Up Quran At Football Game
Huff Post: Julie Phillips, age 50, and Gemma Parkin, age 18, have been found guilty of a “religiously-aggravated public order offence” after they ripped up pages from the Quran at […]
Supreme Court to Atheists: If you don’t like it, leave the room
After Supreme Court ruling, do religious minorities have a prayer? http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/crime/2014/05/05/nr-supreme-court-rules-on-public-prayer.cnn By Daniel Burke, CNN Belief Blog Co-editor (CNN) – If you don’t like it, leave the room. That’s the essence of […]
Supreme Court to Atheists: If you don’t like it, leave the room
After Supreme Court ruling, do religious minorities have a prayer? By Daniel Burke, CNN Belief Blog Co-editor (CNN) – If you don’t like it, leave the room. That’s the essence of Supreme […]
Pakistan, Cameroon and Syria pose the greatest risk of exporting wild poliovirus
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan to set up polio vaccination points at airports Pakistan will set up mandatory polio immunisation points at its international airports in response to recommendations by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the health ministry said Tuesday. The WHO had warned on May 5 that the crippling disease has re-emerged as […]
Is there any hope for Nigeria?
Source: CNN Protesters in a “million-woman march” on Wednesday, April 30, in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, highlight the government’s failure to rescue scores of girls who were kidnapped from their school in Chibok in mid-April. Militants seized about 230 girls in the dead of night at a high school in […]
Ahmedis are also Pakistani citizens
Source The daily Times via Nasim Malik Death brings no respite either. In 2012, the tombstones of more than 100 graves were razed by 12 to 15 armed men. The graveyard belonged to the Ahmedi community and the verdict given by the terrorists was that the use of verses of […]