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) By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times As of 7th of June, 2013, the […]
Muslim women build bridges through an interfaith book club
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 […]
Once a day Quranic lesson: Believe in the revealed Books
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 – less attached to organized politics and religion
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 […]
From Estonia to Azerbaijan: American Strategy After Ukraine
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 […]
‘There is no sectarianism in the army’: Syria’s war – the general’s view
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 […]
Assad is already counting on soldiers still at school to fill the gaps left by 30,000 casualties There are intriguing hints that the conflict is changing. There are mini-ceasefires now
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
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 […]
Saudi Arabia: Over 1.5 m single women, and counting …
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 […]
Ansarullah West Birmingham Organize Waqar-e-Amal – A Report
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 […]
The Ahmadiyya Congressional Caucus
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 […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim community celebrates 125th anniversary of their foundation
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 […]
Lack of Sleep leads to Brain Damage
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, […]
People in Pelican Narrows, Saskatoon mourn loss of an Ahmadi teacher
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 […]
Oh US! Asia will not ‘isolate’ Russia
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 […]
eDigest: Historic Address in Arabic by Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V
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 […]
5 scary things that happened in Europe while you were watching Ukraine
Global Post: 1. France turned to the right The National Front, an anti-immigrant, ultra-nationalist, euro-skeptic hard-line conservative party (they don’t like to be called extreme right any more) scored its best-ever result […]
Turkish Twitter ban
Source: ET Until a day ago, the ban was widely circumvented by Turkish Twitterers, but on March 22, the government blocked Twitter access at the IP level. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE The battle for free speech in the age of the internet is going on across the world. Freedom of speech, these […]
Saudi Top clerics ruled the series “The 99″ blasphemous!
Source: ET RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s top clerics have declared an Islam-inspired cartoon series, which earned praise from US President Barack Obama, a “work of the devil” that Muslims should not watch. The television version of superhero comic book “The 99″ is being aired by Saudi-owned satellite channel MBC3, based in Dubai […]
Why getting older is the best thing that will ever happen to us
Daily Times: While sitting around lamenting our millennial lives, a friend of mine shared this morsel of wisdom she’d gotten from an older acquaintance. It was something like, when you’re young you have time and energy, but no money. When you’re middle-aged, you have energy and money, but no time. […]