Syria: Supporters of both sides angry after latest truce
STORY SUMMARY by Erika Solomon Daily Star Lebanon Pictures of rebels and forces loyal to President Bashar Assad laughing and shaking hands after a local cease-fire have sparked outrage on […]
আহমদীদের রাষ্ট্রীয় ভাবে অমুসলিম ঘোষণা ও এর পরিণাম-বাস্তবতার নিরীখে : Declaring Ahmadis Non-Muslim by State and Its Consequences – A Reality Study (in Bengali)
Source: Ahoban.org Speech by Ahmad Tabshir Chowdhury during Jalsa Salana Bangladesh, Feb 9, 2014 আহমদীদের রাষ্ট্রীয় ভাবে অমুসলিম ঘোষণা ও এর পরিণামঃ বাস্তবতার নিরীখে আমার বক্তব্য বিষয় “আহমদীদের রাষ্ট্রীয় ভাবে অমুসলিম ঘোষণা ও এর পরিণামঃ বাস্তবতার নিরীখে”। যদিও কোন সরকার বা সংসদ কোন মানুষের ধর্ম নির্ধারণ করার এখতিয়ার রাখেনা, বিশেষতঃ […]
Israel blocks hospital transfers over use of ‘State of Palestine’
By Maher Abukhater February 12, 2014, 3:15 p.m. RAMALLAH, West Bank – The presence of three words on a letterhead – “State of Palestine” – is keeping Palestinian patients from […]
Journalists who broke NSA story in Guardian receive George Polk Awards
Source: The Guardian, UK • Ewen MacAskill, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras honoured • Polk curator: repercussions of NSA ‘will be with us for years’ The three journalists who broke the National Security Agency revelations from Edward Snowden in the Guardian are among the recipients of the prestigious 2013 George […]
مصلح موعود۔۔۔ایک ماہِ تمام
ارشاد عرشیؔ ملک arshimalik50@hotmail.com تھی خبر جس کی صحائف میں تو وہ محمود تھا تو وہی مصلح مقدس تھا وہی موعود تھا جس قدر خبریں مسیحؑ کی آمدِ ثانی کی تھیں ان سبھی خبروں میں تیرا تذکرہ موجود تھا سب حدیثوں کی کُتب میں ذکرہے تیرا لکھا اس سے ثابت […]
UK: Bradford Ahmadi Muslims help in flooded community
Source: thetelegraphandargus.co.uk A Keighley doctor has led a rescue mission by young Yorkshire Muslims to a flood-hit village in Somerset. Dr Aziz Hafiz and fellow volunteers from the Ahmadiyya Muslim community travelled to […]
Ghana: Dr. Wahab Adam, Ameer & Missionary in charge Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission Ghana, returns home
Source: ghanaweb.com | vibeghana.com The Ameer and Missionary in charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in Ghana, Maulvi Dr Wahab A. Adam, returned home last Thursday night from London after undertaking special duties […]
eDigest: Muslims sue satirical paper for blasphemy, MP for hate speech
Epigraph: Allah likes not the uttering of unseemly speech in public, except on the part of one who is being wronged. Indeed, Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (Al Quran 4:149) The Eiffel Tower, erected in 1889 as the entrance arch to the 1889 World’s Fair, it has become both […]
Hollande pays tribute to Muslim soldiers at Paris mosque
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At Newark Airport, the Lights Are On, and They’re Watching You
Visitors to Terminal B at Newark Liberty International Airport may notice the bright, clean lighting that now blankets the cavernous interior, courtesy of 171 recently installed LED fixtures. But they probably will not realize that the light fixtures are the backbone of a system that is watching them. Using an […]
Christian threats force Muslim convoy to turn back in CAR exodus Peacekeepers prevent crammed cars from leaving Bangui for fear of attack, and evidence emerges of village massacre
David Smith, Africa correspondent theguardian.com, Friday 14 February 2014 18.03 GMT A convoy of more than 100 vehicles carrying Muslims trying to flee Bangui. Photograph: Jerome Delay/AP Thousands of Muslims tried to flee the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR) on Friday, only for their mass convoy of cars […]
Twenty-First Century Islam: A Lived, Dynamic, and Nurturing Religion
patheos.com: By Asma Afsaruddin The future of Islam lies in the resolution of its fractious present. There are multiple conversations underway among Muslims today, both in the heartlands (Middle East, South- […]
US under fire in global press freedom report
Daily Times: PARIS: Conflicts continued to weigh heavily on the media last year but press freedom was also under increasing threat from abuses by democracies like the United States, Reporters Without Borders said on Wednesday. In its annual World Press Freedom Index, the Paris-based media rights watchdog warned of the […]
Israeli government: International Criminal Court threat ‘potentially very significant’
Middle East Monitor: A senior legal official at Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has warned that “the challenge of the International Criminal Court”, should the Palestinians join, “is potentially a very significant one”. Speaking yesterday at the annual meeting of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, MFA deputy legal […]
Bradford Muslims help in flooded community
thetelegraphandargus.co.uk: A Keighley doctor has led a rescue mission by young Yorkshire Muslims to a flood-hit village in Somerset. Dr Aziz Hafiz and fellow volunteers from the Ahmadiyya Muslim community travelled to Burrowbridge. […]
A close call in space tonight: Asteroid zips by Earth
By Dana Ford (CNN) — Only in space would 2 million miles be considered a close call. An asteroid with an estimated diameter of three football fields zoomed by Earth late […]
Jihadism rears its head in the West Bank
Story Summary Security sources say the three were part of a local Salafist-jihadist group that planned to carry out attacks against Israeli targets in the West Bank. In the past two years, Israel had reported targeting militant cells bearing some connection to Al-Qaeda in the north of the West […]
Sharif condemns ‘heinous’ execution of 23 soldiers; peace talks stalled
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday condemned the “heinous” execution of kidnapped soldiers by a Taleban faction, warning that the deaths could affect ongoing peace talks. “Such incidents […]
FSA sacks chief over battleground failings
DAMASCUS: The Free Syrian Army has sacked its military chief after the Western-backed rebels suffered battlefield setbacks, amid signs the warring parties are escalating the fighting that has already killed […]
Homeless Hungarian man hits lottery jackpot with his last few coins
theguardian: by Dan Nolan — Unemployed, in debt and facing another year living on the streets in Hungary, László Andraschek spent his last remaining coins on a lottery ticket. Now the formerly homeless man has a choice of accommodation around the world after becoming one of Hungary’s biggest lottery winners, […]