Source: pakobserver.net Tuesday, April 01, 2014 – Recent attacks on Hindu temples and killings of Ahmadis in interior Sindh must ring bells for Sindhi nationalists. The Province which has so far been a peaceful part of Pakistan for minorities, is now slowly falling into the hands exclusivists. Sindh has been known for its […]
Source: The Independent The number of Muslims in the prison population has more than doubled to nearly 12,000 in a decade, figures from the Ministry of Justice show. The dramatic […]
Source: guardian-series.co.uk An international Muslim group, which runs the largest mosque in London, has celebrated its centenary year in the UK at an event in Theydon Bois. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Association, […]
AFP | Mar 31, 2014 | 22:56 Updated: Mar 31, 2014 | inrOCCUPIED JERUSALEM — US Secretary of State John Kerry flew in Monday to Tel Aviv on his latest mission to salvage peace talks after the Palestinians rejected an Israeli proposal for extending negotiations US peace efforts are teetering […]
Source: Dawn.com By ADAM PLOWRIGHT and ANNIE BANERJI AYODHYA: Some recoil at his name, while others still refuse to acknowledge his popularity. India’s Muslims have watched the rise of election front-runner Narendra Modi […]
Focus on religion, family made Charnjit Singh Bassi a “changed man,” high school friend says. View 2 photos zoom / SUPPLIED PHOTO Charnjit “Sonny” Bassi, 45, died Friday in a shooting at the Brampton courthouse. By: Zoe McKnight Staff Reporter, Jennifer Pagliaro News reporter, Published on Mon Mar 31 2014 […]
St.LouisPublicRadio: by Camille Philips — In Western media, we hear reports that Muslim women are relegated to a second class, largely powerless status and are denied education, independence and employment. We hear stories of women brutalized and abused. But says, Professor Mehnza Afridi, that picture is painted with too wide a […]
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly Monday demanded the disbandment of the Council of Islamic Ideology while passing a resolution to stop implementation on the CII’s earlier decisions, DawnNews reported. The resolution was moved by Pakistan Muslim League-Functional’s (PML-F) leader Mehtab Akhtar Rashidi. The Assembly expressed serious reservations over the recent decisions […]
Dawn.com: by Gohar Ali Khan — HYDERABAD: A number of residents of various localities of Tando Allahyar city and activists of religious parties took to the streets against alleged desecration of the Holy Quran and attacked the home-cum-worship place of a man belonging to the Ahmedi community for his involvement […]
By Emily Jane Fox @emilyjanefox March 31, 2014: 7:06 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) If you thought paying tens of thousands of dollars for a college education guaranteed a high-paying job, think again. About 260,000 people who had a college or professional degree made at or below the federal minimum […]
Author: Zaib Shaikh Source: Toronto Star http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/03/02/muslims_are_proud_canadians_too.html Last Sunday, about 15 million Canadians tuned into the CBC to watch the Canadian men’s hockey team win the gold medal in Sochi. That’s almost half the country. During the game, CBC broadcast live shots of towns and meeting places where Canadians had congregated […]
Guardian: by David Eggboro — An international Muslim group, which runs the largest mosque in London, has celebrated its centenary year in the UK at an event in Theydon Bois. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Association, which aims to promote a positive image of Islam, held the event at Theydon Bois Village […]
OnIslam & Newspapers Thursday, 27 March 2014 00:00 Initial reports assumed that the plane has crashed into the southern Indian Ocean. CAIRO – As search for flight MH370 debris continues, religious leaders have rejected to hold funerals for the victims unless bodies are found or confirmed dead to perform the […]
OnIslam & News Agencies Sunday, 30 March 2014 00:00 The latest move by Crimean Muslim Tatar was expected to face Russian pressures, amid moves by Moscow to convince the minority to drop their opposition BAKHCHISARAY – Crimea’s indigenous Muslim Tatars have taken the first steps towards seeking autonomy for the […]
PARIS—To stop the stream of French youths pursuing jihad in Syria, France is preparing to try to tackle terrorism before it starts, by involving schools, parents and local Muslim leaders, The Associated Press has learned. This is part of a still-confidential plan prompted by fears that young radicals who travel […]
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Brampton Courhouse shooting Photo by Pam Douglas Mississauganews.com 30/3/2014 Police had this house on Flower Trail in Brampton under guard since soon after the Brampton courthouse shooting Friday morning until approximately 4:30 p.m. Saturday. By Torstar Network With files from Pam Douglas BRAMPTON— As the family and neighbours of a […]
Credit: Dawn.com ISLAMABAD: The special court constituted to try former military ruler Pervez Musharraf for high treason indicted him on Monday and put the ball in the government’s court in […]
Lead post collected by Dr. Abdul Alim, the Muslim Times’ Editor for Islam Another victory for Erdogan Global Post: ISTANBUL, Turkey — By the early hours of Monday morning, it appeared clear that […]