An intensive two-day Leadership Training Conference, sponsored by the Universal Peace Federation of North America, was held Friday and Saturday, Nov. 15-16, at the Embassy Suites Hotel in El Segundo, CA. The UPF is an interfaith-based outreach organization dedicated to bringing together people from various religious, social service and educational […]
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By Craig Considine The Huffington Post: Today’s far-right parties in Europe, such as the National Front in France and the Party for Freedom in Holland, are surging in popularity and […]
Source: Abdul Ghany Jahangeer Khan: Central French Desk, United Kingdom On 17 November 2013, the President of the French Republic François Hollande met Muhammad Sharif Odeh, the leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community […]
More than two years after the failure of MF Global, customers are finally on the verge of getting all of their money back. The defunct brokerage, which had been run by former New Jersey governor and senator Jon Corzine, was ordered by a federal court to pay back more than […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent I never much cared for Yasser Arafat. It wasn’t the scrubby beard or the protruding eyes or the fact that he’d done away with a few of his chums or even the way he once forbad a photographer friend from taking a picture of his […]
An expat living in the canton of Zurich was fined 1,350 francs ($1,480) for circumcising her son without getting approval from the child’s father, 20 Minuten newspaper reported online on […]
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Source: kunc.org Each week, Weekend Edition Sunday host Rachel Martin brings listeners an unexpected side of the news by talking with someone personally affected by the stories making headlines. In 1968, Thomas Groome […]
Source: yourlocalguardian.co.uk Hundreds of women gathered for a peace conference this weekend. Over 170 guests joined members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Womens’ Association at Western Europe’s largest mosque – Baitul Futuh […]
Al Jazeera: The “langar” or free kitchen at Golden Temple in the Indian city of Amritsar is perhaps the world’s largest free eatery. The Langar or free kitchen was started […]
Sigmar Gabriel: Leader of SPD The lead post was collected by Rafiq A. Tschannen, a Swiss convert to Islam and now a global citizen Germany – SPD declares themselves to be in solidarity with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community During the federal conference of the German Party SPD on 16. November […]
Source: LUBP By AJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTA The growing influence of Wahhabism, a radical stream of Islam, on Indian Muslims and on the political scene, especially south Indian politics, can cause further communal polarisation if the state fails to uphold the secular ethos. More:
Daily Times — Zafrullah Khan’s contributions to Pakistan — especially as its advocate before the Boundary Commission — were praised by Jinnah himself Before I come to the main gist of what I have to say this week, let me bring to the attention of the reader my articles “Safdar […]
Source: BBC Australia have suspended six players for one match for drinking in midweek before Saturday’s win over Ireland and warned nine more. Wallabies coach Ewan McKenzie acted after “a group of players made the decision to stay out late and consume inappropriate levels of alcohol”. He said Australia’s “ethical […]
Source: Yahoo By GILLIAN MOHNEY and ANTHONY CASTELLANO | Good Morning America – 57 minutes ago Search and recovery operations are underway after severe storms and tornadoes wreaked havoc on the Midwest, killing at least six people and injuring dozens more after powerful winds flattened homes and decimated much of the town […]
by Hamid Dabashi Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. On the evening of November 13, I flew back from Gwangju, South Korea – where I was invited to participate in Gwangju Biennale – to JFK airport in New York. Upon exiting […]
JEDDAH: NADIM AL-HAMID The Kingdom has plans in place to receive 6 million Umrah pilgrims this year, up from the over five million who came last season, according to Bandar […]
MUHARRAM is the month with which the Muslims begin their lunar Hijrah Calendar. It is one of the four sanctified months about which the Holy Qur’an says, “The number of […]