by Mohammad Ghazal | Mar 25, 2014 | Jordan Times 5 inShare His Majesty King Abdullah holds talks with the emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah, in Kuwait on Tuesday on the sidelines of the 25th Arab Summit (Photo courtesy of Royal Court) KUWAIT — His Majesty King […]
PhilNews.com — An online article a week ago concluded that the reason that Deniece Cornejo the vixen in the Vhong Navarro mauling incident was being mercilessly vilified was because Philippine society tends to treat women that way (LINK). The writer a certain Tricia Aquino in collaboration with Judy Taguiwalo a University […]
Huff Post: by William Stillman — In my work as a spiritual counselor and adviser, I encounter all too often people who do not pray, pray inconsistently, or who don’t know how to pray. A common excuse is that they “forget,” like forgetting to floss or balance the checkbook. Some […]
Huff Post: — Former President Jimmy Carter is issuing a call to action for religions to stop using scripture to trample on women’s rights. He spoke about his new book out today, “A Call To Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power,” with HuffPost Live host Alyona Minkovski and responded to […]
Epigraph: So go on reminding; surely, reminding is profitable. (Al Quran 87:10) By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times As of 7th of June, 2013, the […]
Source/Credit: Examiner.com By Shahina Bashir It all started with a simple letter to the editor of the Washington Post, which among many was read by Tazeen Ahmad, of Potomac, Maryland. The letter was written by Bob Hirshon, a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Silver Spring. Hirshon, through his letter, delivered […]
74. Believe in the revealed Books [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 for love of […]
Millennials in Adulthood Detached from Institutions, Networked with Friends Overview The Millennial generation is forging a distinctive path into adulthood. Now ranging in age from 18 to 331, they are relatively unattached to organized politics and religion, linked by social media, burdened by debt, distrustful of people, in no rush to […]
Geopolitical Weekly Tuesday, March 25, 2014 – 03:08 Print Text Size Stratfor By George Friedman As I discussed last week, the fundamental problem that Ukraine poses for Russia, beyond a long-term geographical threat, is a crisis in internal legitimacy. Russian President Vladimir Putin has spent his time in power […]
Robert Fisk joins General Yussef Swaidan on the streets of Daraya as the officer tells a crowd there is no army brutality – while his soldiers hand out Syrian flags to children The three-star general’s sunglasses reflected the midday heat, the crowd appropriately – or obediently […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent We were driving down the main road from Homs – fast, of course, as the Syrian war now requires – when, just outside the Damascus suburb of Harasta, a government soldier asked for a ride into town. I have always stopped for hitch-hiking soldiers, especially […]
Brahimi: New Geneva talks unlikely for now United Nations Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi talks to the media after briefing a Security Council meeting on Syria, in this March 13, 2014 photo, at UN headquarters in New York. (AFP) Reuters Published — Tuesday 25 March 2014 Last […]
Over 1.5m single women, and counting JEDDAH: Afshan Aziz Published — Tuesday 25 March 2014 Last update 25 March 2014 1:36 am | | A A LATEST STORIES IN FEATURED Crown Prince says world betrayed Syrian opposition Jakarta seeks clemency for maid on death row KSA women seek parity […]
News from: Toby, Regional Outreach Co-ordinator Ahmadiyya Muslim Association Midlands Region West Birmingham Ansarullah organised litter pick with local communities as part of integration within the community. The programme started at 1pm […]
Source: independent.com In the Spirit of Freedom of Religion, Reps Form New Group The impetus of the United States was but a handful of pilgrims fleeing from religious persecution. Since the founding of this great nation in 1776, freedom of religion has been etched into the fabric of our Constitution and impressed […]
Source: yourlocalguardian.co.uk Thousands of Muslims gathered at the UK’s largest mosque to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Ahmadiyya community over the weekend. At a service in the Baitul Futuh Mosque […]
Source: BBC Health Sleep loss may be more serious than previously thought, causing a permanent loss of brain cells, research suggests. In mice, prolonged lack of sleep led to 25% of certain brain cells dying, according to a study in The Journal of Neuroscience. If the same is true in humans, […]
Source: CBC Munir Ahmad moved from Pakistan to Canada in 1999, died of a heart attack last week Saskatoon’s Muslim community and people in Pelican Narrows, Sask. came together in […]
Source: Asia Times: The Hague Declaration comes complete with the kiss of death, as in, “The International Monetary Fund has a central role leading the international effort to support Ukrainian reform, lessening Ukraine’s economic vulnerabilities, and better integrating the country as a market economy in the multilateral system.” That’s code […]
Epigraph He (Allah) it is Who has raised among the Unlettered people a Messenger (Muhammad) from among themselves, who recites unto them His Signs, and purifies them, and teaches them the Book and wisdom, although they had been, before, in manifest misguidance; and among others from among them who have not yet joined them. He is […]