Ahmadiyya Muslims preach peace despite persecution
huntersvilleherald.com: CHARLOTTE – Ahmadiyya Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, Baptist, Unitarian and Jewish leaders spoke at the fourth annual interfaith Path to Peace conference and banquet March 22 near Northlake Mall. The point […]
Minority Reports: The Unheard Voices of Minorities in Pakistan at SOAS-UK
Persecution of Ahmadis will be highlighted on Friday in SOAS. All are welcome.
Rediscovering the real ‘ideology’ of Pakistan: Why Secularism Failed?
Daily Times: The fact that politically motivated interpretations had divided the human race and had caused immense misery to countless people throughout the centuries was foolishly overlooked. More than six decades since its creation, Pakistan is still searching for its lost soul, the soul that went missing when Jinnah passed […]
Boys to have haircut as of Kim and females as of first lady. Funny country!
Source: Asia Times: Colleges in North Korea have ordered male students to sport the same hairstyle as the country’s young leader Kim Jong-eun while female students are being advised to keep their hair as short as that of first lady Ri Sol Ju, according to sources inside the hermit kingdom. […]
What to Expect When President Obama and Pope Francis Meet Today
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s Comment: I hope President Obama openly acknowledges his middle name ‘Husain’ and some of his Islamic background, to the Pope and presents him a new book […]
A worthy proposal
Source: ET The premise of Ms Memon’s stance is that the girls married off at an early age are left to grapple with a whole lot of complications. PHOTO: EXPRESS/ FILE PML-N MNA Marvi Memon, an inveterate child and women’s rights campaigner, has taken up cudgels on behalf of civil […]
Dwarf planet discovered at solar system’s edge
By Elizabeth Landau (CNN) — For anyone holding out hope of Pluto being reinstated as a major planet, you should probably do as they say in the movie “Frozen” and “let it […]
“80% of the Muslim world do not practice FGM”
Your MiddleEast: by Farppq Aftab — WOMEN’S RIGHTS: Earlier this week thousands of British Muslim men that make up the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association, the UK’s largest and oldest Muslim youth association, issued a single statement denouncing female genital mutilation (FGM). The statement, published on the website ‘Muslims for Humanity‘, […]
US to send more planes, special forces to hunt down warlord Kony
Washington confirmed on Monday that it’s deploying four tilt-rotor Osprey aircraft and 150 Air Force special forces personnel to Uganda, in order to help the African Union hunt down Lord’s […]
HRCP chairperson slams Geo TV program ‘Aalim Online’
KARACHI: Chairperson Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Zohra Yousuf has said the Geo Tv program ‘Aalim Online’, hosted by Amir Liaqat Hussain, was spreading religious disharmony in the country, ARY News reported Tuesday. Addressing a symposium at a local hotel in Karachi, Ms Yousuf said minorities were demeaned and murdered […]
eDigest: A Compliment in Disguise: The Muslim Times Continues to be Banned in Pakistan
Epigraph So go on reminding; surely, reminding is profitable. (Al Quran 87:10) The white stripe in Pakistan flag is supposed to represent minorities, who have very little stake, now, in the present day Pakistan A Compliment in Disguise: The Muslim Times Continues to be Banned in Pakistan Epigraph: […]
Pakistani Secularisms by Nadeem F Paracha
By Nadeem F Paracha Dawn: Many people get sick at the mere mention of secularism because they don’t really understand what it means. Like any other ideology, secularism too has […]
Noor Inayat Khan- Decendant of Tipu Sultan- commemorated in British postage stamp
ET: The Royal Mail, Britain’s postal service company, has issued a postage stamp commemorating Noorunissa Inayat Khan, a World War II heroine of Indian origin, according to an official press release. […]
Saudi Arabia: Obama, on Visit, Should Raise Rights
HRW: (Beirut) – President Barack Obama should raise human rights issues during his visit to Saudi Arabiaon March 28-30, 2014. His visit comes as Saudi authorities are clamping down on civil society activists and peaceful dissidents, and have arrested and deported at least 250,000 foreign workers since November, according to the […]
Votes Count: Monitoring the UN HRC
HRW: When the UN Human Rights Council was created in 2006, Human Rights Watch was among the many organizations pressing for – and hoping – the body would become an effective way […]
Internship has co-ed eying a career helping people in need
Provided Student Needa Malik makes friends with Blue III, the Butler University Bulldog mascot. 6 hours ago • Kimberly Cheek-Stanley Times Correspondent Needa Malik, 22, is halfway through an internship at the U.S. headquarters of Islamic Relief near Washington, D.C. The Butler University international studies major […]
Today’s Qur’an lesson: Remember your return will be to thy Lord
77. Remember return to thy Lord [10:24] But when He has delivered them, lo! they begin to commit excesses in the earth wrongfully. O ye men, your excesses are only against your own selves. Have the enjoyment of the present life. Then to Us shall be your return; and We will inform […]
Qatar pays Syrian rebels £40m ransom to free nuns – or did it? It depends what rumours you believe
by Robert Fisk, The Independent Oh, to be a Syrian conspiracy theorist in these days of civil war Robert Fisk Damascus Tuesday 18 March 2014 They must be the most expensive nuns in the world – if, that is, a poisonous press and the ferocious […]
Let us count the ways Arabs are dying
STORY SUMMARY by Rami G. Khouri How many ways are there to die in the Arab world today, other than through an act of nature or a natural death? In just two days this week, the Italian Navy rescued 2,400 Arabs trying to reach its shores. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of […]