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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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- […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
The Diplomat: by Bobby Woods — As Iran’s newly elected president, Hassan Rouhani, undertakes a major charm offensive that seeks to woo U.S. President Barack Obama, many Americans are left to wonder whether Iranian promises of greater cooperation are valid or simply a stall and ruse. Obama has repeatedly said […]
Courtesy: Ansar Raza, Missionary Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Canada The founder of Pakistan, the father of the nation, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is quoted, in the following Urdu book, as saying that Honorable Sir Muhammad Zafrulah Khan is a “Muslim” and that he is praising him like his own son. Amazingly, the constitution of the same […]
From India, Proof That a Trip to Mars Doesn’t Have to Break the Bank By SARITHA RAI FEB. 17, 2014 NYTimes Launch media viewer India’s Mars satellite will measure methane gas, a marker of life on the planet. Indian Space Research Organization/European Pressphoto Agency BANGALORE, India — While India’s recent […]
By Fars News Agency Global Research, February 17, 2014 Fars News Agency After its failure in coaxing the US into war on Syria, Saudi Arabia is now attempting to persuade the Arab League (AL) to issue permission for military attack against the crisis-hit country, Arab media reports said. “The Saudi regime […]
By Richard Silberstein Canadian media offers a shocking new development in the intelligence wars. This involves a honeypot security officer working for Canadian immigration. Her assignment was to romance an alleged Iranian spy. Sometime during their year-long romance, one night after having a few drinks too many, she told him […]
The Swiss aren’t the only ones in Europe deeply concerned about immigration. Many across the Continent would also like to see limits placed on newcomers from elsewhere in the EU. […]
[14:8] And remember also the time when your Lord declared, ‘If you are grateful, I will, surely, bestow more favours on you; but if you are ungrateful, then know that My punishment is severe indeed.’ [2:153] Therefore remember Me, and I will remember you; and be thankful to Me and do not be ungrateful to Me. [16:115] So eat […]