‘Am I guilty?’ AK-47 maker’s near-death torment
RT: In the last years of his life, Mikhail Kalashnikov, the famous Russian weapon designer, anguished over his responsibility for the millions of deaths his inventions caused, his published letter […]
eDigest: 5 Muslim Inventions That Changed The World
Epigraph: You are the best people raised for the good of mankind; you enjoin what is good and forbid evil and believe in Allah. And if the People of the Book had believed, it would have surely been better for them. Some of them are believers, but most of them […]
Getting Older
Subject: GETTING OLDER A distraught senior citizen phoned her doctor’s office. “Is it true,” she wanted to know, “that the medication you prescribed has to be taken for the rest of my life?” “‘Yes, I’m afraid so,”‘ the doctor told her. There was a moment of silence before the senior […]
Orya Maqbool Jan’s attack on Jinnah
Daily Times: Jinnah’s idea of Islam was of social justice and equality and never of narrow-minded interpretations by the orthodoxy Yasser Latif Hamdani January 13, 2014 Comment Famous civil-servant columnist Orya Maqbool Jan continues to claim — like a broken record — in column after column that Jinnah’s August 11 […]
Caffeine pill ‘could boost memory’
Source: BBC A US study has raised the possibility that we may one day rely on caffeine to boost memory as well as to wake up. The research, published in Nature Neuroscience, tested the memories of 160 people over 24 hours. It found those who took caffeine tablets, rather than dummy pills, […]
Up to 24 injured in school blast
Inquirer.net: by Edwin Fernandez, Williamor Magbanua — KIDAPAWAN CITY, North Cotabato – Twenty-four persons were wounded, 17 of them in critical condition, when an improvised explosive device went off inside a state-run college in Arakan, North Cotabato on Sunday night. Senior Inspector Rolly Oranza, police chief of Arakan, said the […]
French first lady in hospital after reports of Hollande affair
Source: Reuters: * Media say Trierweiler shaken by news of Hollande affair * Elysee source says “the president is at work” * Poll shows French public care little about the […]
Everything was political
Source: The Economist: ALWAYS keep an eye on the quiet ones. Robert Gates, a Washington veteran who served as George W. Bush’s final defence secretary and stayed on as Barack Obama’s first, has written an incendiary memoir that belies his reputation as an inscrutable, unflappable team player (Team Obama […]
Religion on campus
Source: The Economist: Theology is losing ground in higher education across western Europe. But in certain specific ways, religion and religious culture have become a very hot campus topic, at British universities in particular. We’re not talking here about religion as a subject for academic study, but about faith as […]
Switzerland: University courses : English a fact of life for many Swiss students
by Geraldine Wong Sak Hoi, swissinfo.ch January 12, 2014 – 11:00 More than ever before, students attending universities in Switzerland are able to do some or all of their degree […]
President acknowledges contribution of Muslim community
The President of Fiji Ratu Epeli Nailatikau has acknowledged the contribution of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Association to the country. During his keynote address of the Prophet Muhammad’s Celebration in Samabula, Ratu Epeli said the hard work of the members has seen them over the years establish several primary and […]
Putin’s preening aside, it’s not clear what Russia hopes to become
January 13, 2014 12:48 AM By Nina L. Khrushcheva The Daily Star Story Summary For more than two decades, August has been the cruelest month for Russian leaders. The August 1998 debt default and ruble collapse laid waste to President Boris Yeltsin’s free market reforms and resulted in the sacking […]
Only Obama can fix a broken U.S. foreign policy process
Story Summary January 13, 2014 12:48 AM By David Ignatius The Daily Star Reading the devastating memoir by former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, people are likely to ask the same troubling questions that emerge from the morning newspapers these days: How did the Obama administration’s foreign-policy process get so broken, […]
20% cut in quota for foreign Hajis stays
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR ARABNEWS Saudi Arabia announced on Sunday that it would continue to impose a 20-percent cut in Foreign pilgrims and a 50-percent reduction in domestic pilgrims during […]
JORDAN: Gov’t to grant foreign spouses, children of Jordanian women full civil rights — lawmaker
Decision made as part of deal with House-based group by Khaled Neimat | Jan 12, 2014 | 20:12 AMMAN — Husbands and children of Jordanian women married to non-Jordanians will […]
Syrian teacher turns tent into improvised school for refugee children
by Muath Freij | Jan 12, 2014 | 22:43 JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — When 10-year-old Omran Taqi arrived in Amman with his family, the activity he missed the most was […]
30 Awe-Inspiring Hindu Temples
Huff Post These elaborately decorated Hindu temples sing praise to the glory of God with their breathtaking architecture. Hinduism is sometimes called the world’s oldest religion, and many of these sacred structures are full of history. Though these beautiful places of worship celebrate spirituality, noted Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda was careful to […]
Innocent Muslims subject to outrageous persecution at Gitmo: Analyst
CTV: Inmates in the US-held notorious Guantanamo Prison are facing one of the most outrageous persecutions in history, an analyst tells Press TV in an interview. “It is one of […]
1 in 10 Babies in England and Wales Are Muslim
Arutz Sheva: New census figures released Friday by the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveal that one out of every 10 babies and toddlers in England and Wales are […]
Majlis Ansarullah of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Germany in Fore Front.
By Zubair Khan 11.01.2014 will be remembered as special day for the Majlis Ansarullah,an auxiliary organization of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Germany. During 2013 the Ansarullah Germany organized 7 charity walks at different places. Unique feature of these charity walks was simultaneous conduct on one week end. Thousands took part in these walks. Approximately an amount of Euro […]