MADINAH: ARAB NEWS Published — Sunday 10 November 2013 More than 1.44 million Haj pilgrims visited Madinah this year, recent statistics have revealed. Hani Jamaan Al-Husseini, head of the statistical reports unit at the Guides Organization in Madinah, said 755,920 pilgrims visited the city before the Haj and 482,124 after […]
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Islam Answers: Reconciling Human Suffering and Existence of God This is modified form of a speech given at an interfaith symposium in Buffalo, NY, on June 10, 2013 to some 50-70 non-Muslim guests. By Ataul Wahid Lahaye, Canada As a Muslim, we recite… The Ever Present Question of Suffering Epigraph: And when My servants […]
From embracing Islam to attending Catholic masses and plans for a “multi-faith” coronation, Prince Charles’s religious beliefs are wide-ranging When he ascends the throne, the Prince of Wales insists he should be cast not as Defender of the Faith, the title held by each monarch since 1521, but as “Defender […]
This is modified form of a speech given at an interfaith symposium in Buffalo, NY, on June 10, 2013 to some 50-70 non-Muslim guests. By Ataul Wahid Lahaye, Canada As a Muslim, we recite […]
The NewYork Times: by Dennis M . Sabangan MANILA — The powerful typhoon that swept across the Philippines on Friday, one of the strongest storms ever to make landfall, cut a path of destruction through several central islands, leaving the seaside city of Tacloban in ruins and leading to early, […]
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_embed_2x_container.swf?site=cnn&profile=desktop&context=embedwww&videoId=world/2013/11/10/pkg-stevens-philippines-typhoon-tacloban-city.cnn&contentId=world/2013/11/10/pkg-stevens-philippines-typhoon-tacloban-city.cnn By Andrew Stevens and Paula Hancocks, CNN updated 12:16 AM EST, Sun November 10, 2013 Tacloban, Philippines (CNN) — No building in this coastal city of 200,000 residents appears to have escaped damage […]
The IMEU, Nov 6, 2013 On November 6, several news outlets reported that the widow of former Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat announced that the results of a Swiss investigation into her late husband’s death concluded he was poisoned with polonium, a radioactive substance. In November 2012, Arafat’s […]
By Irina Missiuro Thursday, 07 November 2013 15:25 Saliha Malik dispels myths and stereotypes The Jewish Voice sat down for a conversation with Saliha (Carol) Malik, a British convert from Christianity to Islam. Malik will appear at Temple Emanu-El’s Fishbein Chapel on Sunday, Nov. 17, at 2:00 p.m. to discuss […]
By Berni Moestafa on 1:29 pm November 10, 2013. JAKARTA GLOBE Illegal logging and mismanagement of Indonesia’s forestry industry may have prevented more than $7 billion flowing to state coffers […]
By Leicester Mercury | Posted: November 09, 2013 Comments (0) A Muslim cleric has cancelled a visit to Leicester after concerns about his views were raised. Zimbabwe-born Mufti Ismail Menk was due to appear at the University of Leicester on Wednesday to give a talk to students entitled Young and […]
ISTANBUL, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) — Turkish university students staged protests against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recently- revealed intention to eliminate mixed-sex accommodation in state- run dormitories. “This is a violation of privacy. As a student I definitely do not assent what he said,” a first-year student at Bahcesehir University […]
The Express Tribune: by Fahd Husain — A cruel ambience floats within this delusional world. This ambience encourages us to embrace those who kill us and kill those who embrace us; it prods us to love those who hate us, and hate those who love us. Like zombies, we shuffle […]
The Express Tribune — Preliminary evidence indicates that the poliovirus that has reportedly affected ten children in Syria is of Pakistani origin, a joint press statement issued by Unicef and World Health Organisation (WHO) claims. The statement says this is the first polio outbreak in the restive country since 1999, […]
HOUSTON — Gasoline prices are tumbling just in time for the holiday shopping season to begin. Consumers can thank the tentative reduction in tensions in the Middle East and swelling supplies of domestic oil for their good fortune, and energy experts say prices could fall further if negotiations between the […]
The World Head and Fifth Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad delivered an historic address at New Zealand’s National Parliament in Wellington on 4 November 2013 Muslim Leader makes Historic Address at New Zealand’s Parliament Source: press@amjinternational.org Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad appeals for world peace The World […]
Source: mississauga.com MISSISSAUGA — The sometimes fraught relationship between the media and religion was put under the spotlight recently at the Bait-ul-Hamd Islamic centre in Mississauga. Representatives from five of the […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comments: In this article agnostic or atheist writer Victor Stenger, has suggested nine possible observations, which if true will destroy his case. I would like theists to […]
Building Better Bridges in Barrie ON -3 Love for All Hatred for None is slogan of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, what if it becomes the slogan of our world! Crossing […]
The NewYork Times: by Jennifer Schuessler — The Syllable Everyone Recognizes Are there words that are universally understood, across all countries and cultures? A team of linguists has proposed one: “huh.” Huh? In a paper published on Friday in the journal PLOS One, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for […]