eDigest: Why Blasphemy Laws Are Actually Anti-Islamic
Epigraph: And if you are in doubt as to what We have sent down to Our servant (Muhammad), then produce a Chapter like it, and call upon your helpers beside […]
From ‘goof’ to maths genius thanks to a blow to the head
Source: The Telegraph By Rosa Prince, New York Jason Padgett is one of the world’s few ‘sudden savants’ – able to draw elaborate geometric fractals following a brain injury which changed his […]
David Cameron accused of fostering division in ‘Christian’ UK
Guardian: More than 50 prominent public figures including novelist, diplomats, Nobel prize winners and playwrights have accused David Cameron of fostering divisions in the UK by repeatedly referring to Britain […]
Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community addresses Ahmadi Muslim Youths about Importance of Religious and Secular Education
Alislam.org: More than 180 British Muslim children attend week-long camp in which they pledged loyalty to the UK On 14 April 2014, the Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hazrat […]
Islam fastest growing religion in UK as churches decline
Russia Today: Published on Apr 19, 2014 While Christian Churches in the UK are struggling to draw people to worship, the Islamic community there is burgeoning. Some Muslim groups are doing […]
Muslim Zion?
Daily Times: As in the case of the Irish Catholics and Protestants, the South Asian Two Nation Theory made an exclusively territorial claim, i.e. Indian Muslims are a nation and never that Muslims everywhere were a nation. My article (‘Pakistan and Israel: Study in contrasts’, Daily Times, April 14, 2014) […]
David Cameron risks ‘alienation’, public figures claim
The prime minister has said Britain needs to be “more confident” about its Christian faith Continue reading the main story in BBC Related Stories PM: Be confident about Christianity Cameron […]
Human smuggler or modern-day Robin Hood? For right price, Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans can buy a new identity
Human smuggler or modern-day Robin Hood? For right price, Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans in Istanbul can meet with Abo Khalil and buy a new identity, becoming Spanish, Greek or even […]
Qur’an lesson for the day: ‘Keep the Mosque clean’
102. Keep the Mosque clean [2:126] And remember the time when We made the House a resort for mankind and a place of security; and take ye the station of Abraham as a place of Prayer. And We commanded Abraham and Ishmael, saying, ‘Purify My House for those who perform […]
Photos bring back memories of Hajj from a bygone era
French President Francois Hollande and Deputy Foreign Minister Prince Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah will open a Haj exhibition in Paris on Tuesday Source: The Arab News, April 21, 2014 King […]
Explore stunning Islamic architecture in historic Bidar, Karnataka
The historic Bidar in the federal state of Karnataka in India now finds itself on the world map of heritage tourism as it figures in the 2014 World Monuments Watch […]
The Middle East we must confront in the future will be a Mafiastan ruled by money In Iraq, mafiosi already run almost the entire oil output of the south of the country
by Robert Fisk, The Independent Saudi Arabia is giving $3bn – yes, £2bn, and now let’s have done with exchange rates – to the Pakistani government of Nawaz Sharif. But what is it for? Pakistani journalists have been told not to ask this question. Then, when they persisted, they were […]
Quran lesson for the day: ‘Make your houses towards Qibla and observe prayer
101. Make your houses towards Qibla and observe prayer [10:88] And We spoke to Moses and his brother, saying, ‘Take, ye twain, some houses for your people in the town, and make your houses so as to face one another, and observe Prayer. And give glad tidings to the believers.’
Son of distributor of anti-Islam film Fitna accepts Islam
Khaleej Times: by Muaz Shabandri — The son of Arnoud van Doorn, the famous Dutch policy maker and distributor of an anti-Islam film Fitna that caused unrest in 2008, surprised the audiences at the three-day Dubai International Peace Convention by embracing Islam. Arnoud’s son, Iskander Amien De Vrie, was one of the […]
Food bank users in Britain triple to 900,000
London (AFP) – The number of people in Britain using food banks has nearly tripled to more than 900,000 over the past 12 months, according to a shock report on Wednesday from food bank operator Trussell Trust. Some 40 bishops and over 600 other church leaders from around Britain have […]
Suffer the children
by SYED FAKHAR KAKAKHEL DAWN “Amrikay jasees day,” (It’s an American spy) they shouted in the typical Waziri dialect as they gathered to witness the execution of a US spy said to be responsible for finding targets for drone attacks. Five children, their faces covered, sticks in their hands, drag […]
Malala: A Role Model for Young Girls
By Haadia from Lahore Tuesday 9th of October 2012, an ordinary day, at least for me. But the life of a girl from Swat was dangling in the midway of […]
How the West Gassed Thousands to Death in Damascus
By Tony Cartalucci Global Research, April 19, 2014 New Eastern Outlook The bombshell report by Pulitzer Prize-winning veteran journalist Seymour Hersh titled, “The Red Line and the Rat Line,” contains many shocking revelations for those following the West’s version of reality regarding the Syrian conflict. It particularly sheds new light […]
eDigest: Did Jesus rise in a physical body or a spiritual one?
Epigraph: And their saying, ‘We did kill the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah;’ whereas they slew him not, nor crucified him, but he was made to appear to them like one crucified; and those who differ therein are certainly in a state of doubt about it; […]