Bride calls off marriage after dowry demand in Sikar
JAIPUR: A 20-year-old girl taught a lesson to her fiancee for demanding dowry and insulting her parents in Sikar. Taking a bold step, she called him up a few hours […]
Ukraine Crisis will not Stop Oil Flow
Source: CNN Money Oil prices spiked nearly $2 a barrel Monday on escalating tensions in Ukraine, but experts say the world’s need for Russian oil and natural gas — and Russia’s need […]
The parrot and the turkey …
A young man named Allan received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird’s mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity. Alan tried and tried to change the bird’s attitude by consistently saying only polite […]
The female poets who have earned their laurels
theguardian — All five poet laureates of the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland this year are women. On the eve of International Women’s Day this Saturday, they will perform together for the first time at the Women of the World festival at London’s South Bank Centre. Here we […]
The Baha’i Fast … Slowly
by Rainn Wilson, HUFFINGTON POST It’s 5 a.m. and my alarm goes off. There’s not a hint of daylight in the sky. I blearily plod downstairs to the kitchen and fumble around for a carton of eggs, some frozen veggie sausages, spinach and corn tortillas. As I prepare […]
New mosque opens in Richmond Road, Gillingham, with hundreds gathering to see Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad
by Thom Morris tmorris@thekmgroup.co.uk The Muslim community across Medway came together on Saturday for the opening of the first purpose-built mosque in Kent. It has been fully funded by donations from members of the community, including one little boy who was given mention for donating £500 after saving […]
Jerusalem Program Limits Muslim Prayer Call
Jerusalem Program Limits Muslim Prayer Call New pilot program initiated by nationalist councilman King measures nighttime muezzin call, brings technological solutions. By Ari Yashar First Publish: 3/3/2014, 5:18 PM Israeli flag in front of minaret Flash 90 Jerusalem residents may finally have their night’s sleep returned to them, as […]
Canada: A former public school now an Ahmadiyya mosque opened in Cumberland, Ontario
Source: ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.in | ottawacitizen.com Imtiaz Ahmed is the Imam at the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosque, which recently opened in a former public school to serve the growing Muslim population in Cumberland, Ont. The mosque […]
Muslim Tatars Of Crimea Lie Low Following Russia’s Seizure Of Ukrainian Peninsula
Huff Post: by Alissa De Carbonel — (Reuters) – Only five days ago, Tatars of Ukraine’s Crimea came out in their thousands, chanting Allahu Akbar in a show of loyalty to the new authorities in Kiev and opposition to separatist demands by the region’s Russian ethnic majority. But now, with […]
Saudi female activists demand expanded women’s rights in new petition
Fox News.com — A group of female activists has sent a petition to the Saudi Arabian Shura Council, demanding the end of male guardianship and the expansion of women’s rights. The advocates want the Council to take the necessary steps to improve women’s rights and stop domestic violence against […]
Ukraine crisis: UN Security Council meets
(CNN) — [Breaking news update at 4:18 p.m. ET, 11:18 p.m. in Kiev] By Marie-Louise Gumuchian and Susanna Capelouto The United Nations Security Council held a meeting Monday to discuss the crisis in […]
If judged by the numbers, Ukraine’s military loses war with Russia
Source: CNN (CNN) — If a full-fledged war erupts, Ukraine’s military would be dwarfed by its neighbor to the north. In 2012, Russian active armed forces numbered 845,000 versus 130,000 for Ukraine, according to Europa World, an online reference source. And Russia’s defense budget — $78 billion in 2012 — […]
British PM David Cameron to Speak at Knesset
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Approaching conflict the Ahmadiyya way
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China Kunming knife attack: Three suspects captured
As shocked relatives come to terms with the killings, Beijing is certain to argue that the scale and shocking brutality of this attack shows that the threat is real and serious Continue reading the main story in BBC Related Stories China media: Kunming attack Security tight after China attack Shock […]
How spies stole your Yahoo webcam stills
Latest Edward Snowden revelation is that Yahoo webcam videos have been scooped up. program codenamed Optic Nerve gathered millions of stills Dreamstime image By: Heather Mallick Columnist, Published on Mon Toronto star, Mar 03 2014 Whenever British journalist Luke Harding, working on his new book about spying whistle-blower Edward Snowden, […]
Rule by oligarchs: Kiev appoints billionaires to govern east
Peter Oliver, Politics, Protest, Rory Suchet, Ukraine Source: RT.com http://rt.com/news/ukraine-oligarch-rule-governors-512/ The self-proclaimed government in Kiev has appointed two of Ukraine’s richest men to govern large industrial regions in the defiant east. One of the reasons for the Maidan protest was the influence the rich have on politics in the […]
Judge, 10 others killed in Islamabad blasts, firing
Credit: Dawn.com AFP ISLAMABAD: At least 11 people, including additional sessions judge Rafaqat Awan, were killed and 29 others wounded on Monday during a gun and bomb attack in a […]
eDigest: His Highness Aga Khan, P.M. Harper announce $100M joint aid venture
Epigraph: They ask thee (Muhammad) what they shall spend. Say: ‘Whatever of good and abundant wealth you spend should be for parents and near relatives and orphans and the needy […]
Sharia versus secularism?
Daily Times: Sharia to these two extremes is what the Taliban propose: beheadings, harsh punishments, closing up of women behind closed doors and a rebellion against reason and rationality. Secularism to both these groups is a complete and total negation of religion. Maulana Abdul Aziz represents that very vocal section […]