By Rami G. Khouri (The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb) Several months ago when I wrote about the looming danger of the growing strength of Salafist-takfiri groups in Iraq and Syria, I focused on the threats that thousands of their fighters, bombers and terrorists posed to those countries and also to […]
Source: gbcghana.com The spiritual head of the Ahmadiya Muslim Community Worldwide, Hadzrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad has called on world leaders to act with justice based on divine instructions. This he said would […]
Epigraph: Those who believe and do good deeds — the Gracious God will create love in their hearts. So We have made it (the Qur’an) easy in thy tongue that thou mayest give thereby good tidings to the righteous, and warn thereby a people given to contention. (Al Quran 19:97-98) […]
Halima: The foster mother of Prophet Muhammad The place where once Halima Saadia’s house existed. Abu Tariq Hijazi Islam develops cohesion in society for the general benefit of the mankind. It promotes strong bonds between parents and the children. It expands relationship to even the wet nurses, serving the […]
Source: BBC By Jason Margolis The Redeemed Christian Church of God was founded in Nigeria in 1952, and is now spreading across North America Continue reading the main story Related Stories African church spreading Gospel in US Watch For centuries, European and American missionaries have gone to Africa to spread […]
Source: CNN There is method to the meteorological madness. And it has served to spread the weirdness around the world, from the American West all the way to Russia, a climate expert from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. The drought parching California; those two snowpocalypses in the South; […]
Source: Guardianlv.com via Wasim Sr. It is very unfortunate but very much true that Pakistan is a lost cause. On 14, August 1947 at the stroke of mid-night , a new independent state appeared on the map of the world. Pakistan with meager resources and defunct treasury did not have […]
By Imam Shamshad A. Nasir The purpose of my Dec. column was to show from the clear statements by God and Jesus how it goes against the majesty and omnipotence of God that He could be or ever was a weak human being who was humiliated, disgraced and spat on […]
Huff Post: This article first appeared in Sacred Matters housed at Emory University. Many Western Europeans think of Americans as hopelessly, bafflingly, and dangerously, religious. Many Americans think of Western Europeans as distressingly, inexplicably, and unrelentingly, secular. In 2009, the German sociologist Hans Joas observed that “it is widely accepted that the […]
ABNA.ir — (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) – Members of the Italian Muslim community have come together to discuss problems facing the religious minority, highlighting Muslim contributions to the Italian economy and complaining about […]
Express Tribune: by Faiza Iqbal — Most people are very quick to point out the flaws and imperfections of Western lifestyle, citing promiscuity, free flowing alcohol, homosexuality, gay marriage and a free mixing of sexes as the main ingredients in its destruction and thus its aberration from Islam. However, I personally […]
Guardian: A Muslim convert who targeted members of the public as part of a campaign for a sharia state in Britain has been given a groundbreaking asbo, police have said. […]
ET: Another book has been bullied into suppression in India, this time, Wendy Doniger’s The Hindus: An alternative history. Though it is a collection of 25 essays, Doniger’s is not a casual work. It comes from decades of immersion in the subject. She is a scholar of high calibre focused on […]
Credit: TheExpressTribune THATTA: Patron in chief of Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Saturday accused the Taliban of trying to drag the Pakistan back to the “stone-age.” Addressing a gathering in Makli Stadium during […]
Beware of Umme Rubab – Sarwar Zaidi Toronto, Urdu Post Canada February 13, 2014 and Urdu Times February 12, 2014 Urdu Post Canada reports that Umme Rubab 46 has defrauded hundreds of people in Toronto & GTA of large sums of money. Umme Rubab real name is Nuzhat Mahmood. So […]
Syria: The Chaos of War Damascus Will the walls fall? By Anne Barnard Photograph by Andrea Bruce In the rectangular courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque, the heart of Old Damascus, women swathed in black sit and chat on the cream-colored stone floor, polished smooth by the comings and goings of […]
Source: The International News By Hamid Mir Saturday, February 15, 2014 ISLAMABAD: It was for the first time that a Taliban leader participated in the government-TTP negotiations on Friday through a phone call and promised that the Taliban will seriously consider a ceasefire. But sources in the government committee fear that […]
Epigraph: And if you are in doubt as to what We (Allah) have sent down to Our servant (Muhammad), then produce a Chapter like it, and call upon your helpers beside Allah, if you are truthful. (Al Quran 2:24) Lead post collected by Abdul Alim, Philippines Publisher blames Indian law for Hindu […]
[108:3] So pray to thy Lord, and offer sacrifice. [46:16] And We have enjoined on man to be good to his parents. His mother bears him with pain, and brings him forth with pain. And the bearing of him and his weaning takes thirty months, till, when he attains his full maturity […]
Special report: An immigration crisis on Britain’s doorstep in Calais Armed with nothing more than the hope of building a life in the UK, hundreds of refugees from Syria, Egypt, and other war-torn countries have risked their lives to reach the other side of the Channel CAHAL MILMO CALAIS Saturday 15 […]