How Catholic Bishops Led Me to Islam
By Michael Byrne I was born to devout Catholic parents and attended a Catholic school taught by devout priests and nuns. We learned thoroughly our religious knowledge by means of […]
Islamic scholars in Pakistan push for hate speech ban
The Christian Science Monitor (06.01.2014) By Umar Farooq, Correspondent Leaders of major Islamic sects in Pakistan have agreed to curb provocations, but enforcing a voluntary code will be a challenge. Pakistan’s top body of Islamic scholars is pushing for a crackdown on hate speech in an effort to curb intra-faith violence in […]
The Plight of the Roma: Europe’s Unwanted People
More than 10 million Roma live in Europe. Tens of thousands of them are fleeing westwards from poverty and discrimination in the countries of southeastern Europe. But EU member states are failing to help them. The cupboard door sails out of an upper floor window and lands on a heap […]
Germany Adds Lessons in Islam to Better Blend its Melting Pot
By ALISON SMALEJAN. 6, 2014 THE NEW YORK TIMES FRANKFURT — For the first time, German public schools are offering classes in Islam to primary school students using state-trained teachers […]
French court convicts Islamic veil-wearing woman
Rfi: A court in Versailles, near Paris, on Wednesday condemned 20-year-old Cassandra Belin a one-month suspended jail term for insulting and threatening police officers and a 150-euro fine for “wearing clothing that hides the face“. It also threw out a challenge to the law on the grounds that it breaches the constitutional […]
Musharraf may leave Pakistan this month: US media
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s former military ruler, General (retired) Pervez Musharraf who is facing treason charges is expected to leave the country this month, according to US media reports. A report in ‘The Los Angeles Times’ states that officials close to Pakistan’s security services said Musharraf could depart within days. “It is […]
eDigest: Shariah and Constitution: A Personal Journey
Epigraph: There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by those who transgress, and believes in Allah, has surely grasped a strong handle which knows no breaking. And Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (Al Quran 2:257) Constitution of USA Lead article […]
‘We just want to know that she is safe’: Missing girl’s family makes emotional plea after she vanished following ‘row with her parents over her wish to go to university’
Nida Ul-Naseer, 18, ‘disturbed’ when she fled South Wales home last week Pakistan-born Nida also missing her medication for anaemia Forced to give up university studies because of money problems […]
English is a crazy language
Homographs are words of like spelling but with more than one meaning. A homograph that is also pronounced differently is a heteronym. You think English is easy? I think a retired English teacher was bored. 1) The bandage was wound around the wound. 2) The farm was used to produce […]
New Zealand: Ahmadiyya Muslim Youths’ New Year Clean-up Initiative
Source: ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.in “This is just a small step towards ensuring that we all take responsibility of keeping our surroundings and country clean and beautiful.” The residents of Auckland were shown the way by a group of Ahmadiyya Muslim Youths for the first day of 2014 by keeping Auckland parks clean and […]
[Urdu Poem] Musleh Maood: A Full Moon by Arshi Malik
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‘Winter’ World Cup for Qatar, says Jerome Valcke
(CNN) — The 2022 World Cup in Qatar will be played in the European winter, FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke has told a French radio station. “It will be played […]
1,000 Ahmadi Muslims attend 28th annual West Coast Convention at Chino Mosque Dec. 27-29
It’s expected that Christians celebrate and remember Jesus at Christmas time, but who would expect Muslims to celebrate and remember the Second Coming of Jesus in the same month? But, for the past 27 years during the last weekend in December, that has been the agenda for many hundreds of […]
Gulf News readers go out of their way to reunite family
They came to the rescue of Afzal who was spotted outside the Baniyas Square Metro station sitting drenched in the rain By Rabab Khan, Evangeline Elsa and Anupa KurianPublished: 18:00 […]
Guava a day keeps the doctor at bay
Why Guavas Should Be Considered A Super food A series of tests published in the Food Research International Journal found that among fruits found in India, including Himalayan apples and pomegranates, bananas and grapes, that the guava, the poor man’s fruit in India, has the highest concentration of antioxidants […]
Islam in Brazil
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mosque in Foz do Iguaçu. Islam by country Africa[show] Asia[show] Europe[show] The Americas[show] Oceania[show] Islam portal v t e Islam in Brazil was first practiced by African slaves. The early Brazilian Muslims led the largest slave revolt in Brazil and Latin America, which then had the largest slave population of the world.[citation […]
The case of Masood Ahmad reveals how blasphemy laws in Pakistan are used to persecute minorities
rationalist.org: Masood Ahmad is 72. A British-Pakistani dual national, he returned to his native Pakistan in 1982 after working in London for some years to pay his children’s school fees. On his return, he opened a pharmacy and homeopathic clinic in the large eastern city of Lahore. Last month, two […]
US academic body to debate boycott of Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Until recently, the rule of thumb in the pro-Israel community was that the bigger the academic group, the less likely it was to consider a boycott of Israeli colleagues. But with the 30,000-member Modern Language Association set to host a panel on BDS at its convention this […]