Epigraph He (Allah) it is Who has sent His Messenger, with guidance and the Religion of truth, that He may make it prevail over all other religions. And sufficient is Allah as […]
Pentagon OKs religious beards, attire. Aljazeera- USA: The U.S. military approved a new policy that loosens regulations on religious symbols worn by service members, the Pentagon announced Wednesday — a […]
Source: ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.in Ahmadiyyat has taught me, to believe in a living God. A God that does not break the very rules he makes for this world whenever he wants to. A […]
Source: mena-post.com On a day when we are celebrating Martin Luther King day, I would like to ask the same question he once did « what are we doing for others […]
Source: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that were aid […]
http://embed.ted.com/talks/dan_dennett_s_response_to_rick_warren.html Philosopher Dan Dennett calls for religion — all religion — to be taught in schools, so we can understand its nature as a natural phenomenon. Then he takes on […]
Whenever I eat a banana I remember the story told to me by one of Iraq’s few ACA Chartered Accountants. When I met him he was Finance Director in an […]
By ABDUL SATTAR and RIAZ KHAN, Associated Press | January 21, 2014 QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen opened fire on Pakistani police escorting a Spanish cyclist through a volatile province […]
Time: by Alice Park — What makes cells age? Wear and tear, yes. But biologically, says, Dr. David Sinclair, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, it’s lack of oxygen that signals cells that it’s their time to go. Without oxygen, the energy engines known as the mitochondria become less […]
STORY SUMMARY The Industry Ministry in cooperation with U.N. agencies will advise Lebanese businesses on the procedures to participate in U.N. tenders to purchase goods for refugees, Sabounjian told The Daily Star. Pasini, who participated in the meeting with Sabounjian and Watkins, said the workshop aimed at bridging the gap […]
This is such stuff as dreams are made on, enough to banish any nightmares troubling the sleep of Egypt’s army commander, General Abdul Fattah al-Sisi So Egypt is back to the age of the dictators – or, as I always call it, the Age of Magic Statistics. The Egyptian people, […]
Matthew Lee and Zeina Karam, Montreux MACAU DAILY TIMES Syrian peace talks began yesterday in Switzerland with a bitter clash over President Bashar Assad’s future. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Assad’s decision to meet peaceful dissent with brutal force had robbed him of all legitimacy while Assad’s foreign […]
Everyone knows that the Assad regime – from father Hafez onwards – has employed torture and executions to preserve the doubtful purity of the Baath party by Robert Fisk, The Independent The pictures are horrific, the torture details revolting, the numbers terrifying. And the integrity of the three former prosecutors […]
Source: Huffington Post By Craig Considine, Ph.D. candidate at Trinity College Dublin, interfaith activist Muslims worldwide have recently joined together to celebrate Mawlid al-Nabi, the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad. This day is an opportunity for Muslims and non-Muslims, such as myself – a Catholic – to reflect upon the life and […]
Source Mr Kaleem Ahmad, Bad Vilbel Germany By Zubair Khan Exploring all the possibilities to showing the world beautiful teaching of Islam is really a unique quality of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. The Community that believes in the promised Messiah and Mahdi, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian (peace be with him), whose advent was prophesied […]
http://i.cdn.turner.com/money/.element/script/6.0/players/embed.js?videoid=video/news/2014/01/21/n-davos-cardinal-peter-turkson.cnnmoney Additional Reading What if the top one percent in USA were true Muslims?
By Christoph Reuter SPIEGEL.DE Violence in Syria has been appalling in the run up to this week’s peace talks in Switzerland, where rebel and government representatives are to sit down together. Secret meetings in recent months give cause for hope. A bag filled with pieces of bread is dangling from […]
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Worldwide economic inequality is looking rather bleak these days, according to a new report by relief organization Oxfam. Oxfam’s “Working For The Few” report looked at Credit Suisse’s “Global Wealth Report 2013” and Forbes’ list of the world’s billionaires from 2013 to conclude that 1 percent of the global population […]
BY CRISPIAN BALMER JERUSALEM Wed Jan 22, 2014 (Reuters) – Both sides of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks risk paying a high price in losing European Union trade and aid if negotiations […]