RAMZY BAROUD ARABNEWS.COM Published — Tuesday 31 December 2013 During 2013 the so-called peace process charade was allowed to continue, leading Palestinians on yet another futile journey of broken promises. Meanwhile, the Israeli colonial project in the West Bank and East Jerusalem carried on unabated. But it was not entirely […]
The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, concluded the 122nd Annual Convention (Jalsa Salana) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in India on […]
The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, concluded the 122nd Annual Convention (Jalsa Salana) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in India on […]
New Straits Time: GERBERT d’Aurillac, the first French and 139th pope of the Catholic Church, was anointed Pope Sylvester II in 999 and remained so until his death in 1003. […]
New Straits Time: GERBERT d’Aurillac, the first French and 139th pope of the Catholic Church, was anointed Pope Sylvester II in 999 and remained so until his death in 1003. […]
Pakistan Today: It appears that Bishen Singh, a Sikh character from Saadat Hassan Manto’s Toba Tek Singh who was displaced after the partition of India and sent to a mental […]
Epigraph “If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of the greatest geniuses the world has known.” Karen Armstrong Mosque of Medina, first built in 1 AH Lead post contributed by Dr. Abdul Alim, Philippines Rare portrayal of Muhammad’s […]
BY SPIEGEL STAFF The NSA’s TAO hacking unit is considered to be the intelligence agency’s top secret weapon. It maintains its own covert network, infiltrates computers around the world and even intercepts shipping deliveries to plant back doors in electronics ordered by those it is targeting. In January 2010, numerous […]
By Aishah Schwartz American Writer, Activist & Photojournalist Monday, 30 December 2013 Introduction As we continue exploring polygyny in this series for OnIslam, I decided to freely share with readers that I am not embarking upon a discussion of the subject off the top of my head, or as the […]
Muzaffarnagar, December 29 Torched houses and barren streets stare at you as you enter Fugana – one of the nine villages worst hit by the September 8 communal clashes that shook Western Uttar Pradesh and displaced more than 50,000 Muslims. Step a little deeper into the village, you will spot […]
A man from the minority Ahmadi community has been barred from burying his wife in a graveyard in Pakistan’s Punjab province by a group of Muslims. The wife of Iqbal Ranhja, a resident of Faisalabad district, died yesterday. When Ranhja and members of the Ahmadi community took the body for […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Recruiter Muslim Nazari thought the 28-year-old applying for the sales manager position seemed too good to be true with his impressive resume and impeccable interview scores. Just to be certain, Muslim scanned his Facebook profile and found incriminating pictures of the once-promising job candidate using recreational drugs at […]
Press Trust of India / Business Standard The annual convention of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, which saw representatives from various religions take part, concluded at Qadian here today. Bringing forth the commonalities among religions, the representatives of Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, and Christianity spoke on the need for peace in the society […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent I don’t want to sound alarmist, but are Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and his fellow generals in Egypt planning to hang ex-President Mohamed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood colleagues? Impossible you might say. Nasser turned on the “Ikhwan” with Saddam-like ferocity only when a Brother – […]
December 30, 2013 – 08:27 By Maha El Dahan ABU DHABI (Reuters) – The desert states of the Gulf are changing tack in their multi-billion dollar search for food security. With their farming projects in some of the poorest African nations sometimes arousing local hostility, wealthy Arab investors are turning […]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — A panel of Israeli Cabinet ministers endorsed proposed legislation on Sunday to annex an area of the occupied West Bank likely to be the eastern border of a future Palestinian state. The move, pushed by far-right members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party, could weigh on […]
MAKKAH: AHMAD WAHAJ AL-SIDDIQUI Published — Monday 30 December 2013 The Makkah Municipality has deployed all its resources to welcome Umrah visitors to the Grand Mosque and offer them the […]
(Reuters) – At least 10 people were killed when an explosion ripped through a trolleybus in the second deadly blast in the Russian city of Volgograd in two days, the […]
Daily Times: Hindus and Muslims had maintained largely separate existences despite living side by side. That they did not inter-dine or intermarry was not Jinnah’s doing nor was the Hindu pani and Muslim pani, and the Hindu and Muslim gymkhanas Jinnah’s idea In his article ‘Jinnah, Bhutto and the […]
Russia Today; Israeli ministers have approved a bill to annex Jordan Valley settlements to the Jewish state, threatening US-brokered peace talks with Palestine. Ministers opposing the proposed legislation plan to appeal the decision and demand a revote. Eight ministers on the Committee for Legislation voted in favor of the bill, […]