Health is replacing wealth as measure of success
By Don Ingwerson A rising tide of public opinion shows health, more than almost any other aspect of life, to be significant to a successful life. More than 2,000 Americans […]
eDigest: Book Review: ‘Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here’ by Karime Bennoune
Karima Bennoune is a professor of international law at the University of California–Davis School of Law Book Review: ‘Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here’ by Karime Bennoune Source: Wall Street Journal Book review by By SOHRAB AHMARI Amnesty Internationalfaced a pivotal choice in early 2010. For half a decade, the […]
AHMADIYYA MUSLIM NEWS: COMPILED H. KOYA (PHD)
Muslim supreme head arrives in New Zealand October 30, 20130 comments Press Release – Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at NZ Inc The international spiritual leader of more than 100 million Ahmadi Muslims has arrived in New Zealand. The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor […]
Poland asks European court to hide CIA secret torture prison case from public
Poland has asked the European Court of Human Rights to bar media and public presence during an upcoming hearing on Poland’s complicity with the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program that delivered […]
Pentagon to build underwater drones for spying purposes
The Pentagon is working on a developmental program to plant unmanned vehicles on the ocean floor ready to speed to the surface and fly into the air for surveillance and […]
Additional NSA employees said to be following Snowden’s lead
The “courage” of Edward Snowden is “contagious,” according to lawyer and transparency advocate Jesselyn Radack, who says that additional employees at the National Security Agency are now coming forward with […]
Chinese investor converts to Shia Islam in Iran’s Qom
A Chinese investor has converted to Shia Islam in Iran’s holy city of Qom and has been renamed after the first Shia Imam Ali (PBUH). Hong Jun Shen, known as […]
Role of Jews in Karachi’s uplift highlighted
Dawn.com: Peerzada Salman – KARACHI: The Jewish community was once an integral component of Karachi and played an important role in the city’s development. If its synagogue had not been destroyed, our younger generation could have learnt a lot from their history and the region’s multicultural past. This was said […]
A RISING WAVE OF ATTENTION
GirlRising – Flash mobs were last year’s trend, but this year it’s all about the lightning strength of the Girl Risingmovement– hundreds of people inspiring others to take action in their own communities by spreading a simple message: Educate girls, change the world. These new advocates for girls gather less surprisingly and […]
World Muslim Leader Visits visits geothermal geysers and Lake Rotorua
On 29 October 2013, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa, visited the scenic city of Rotorua in New Zealand. Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad visited the […]
The Purpose of Creation by Promised Messiah and Mahdi
Review of Religions: Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad – The Promised Messiah and Mahdi (as) The founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community. In 1891, he claimed on the basis of Divine revelation, […]
Bye bye privacy:
Source: ET Markets flush with surveillance equipment; police complain ordinary citizens have greater access to spy gadgets. ILLUSTRATION: TALHA AHMED KHAN. Silicon chips used in computers and various electronic devices have shrunk with astonishing speed over the past couple of decades. From slower devices spread over an area equivalent to […]
Hundreds of bodies found in Bosnia mass grave
Source: CNN via Wasim Sr. (CNN) — Investigators in Bosnia have uncovered a mass grave thought to contain several hundred bodies of victims of the conflict that followed the breakup of the former Yugoslavia two decades ago. The remains are believed to be those of victims of Bosniak and Croat ethnicity […]
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad inaugurates the Baitul Muqeet Mosque in New Zealand
Source: Press@amjinternational.org. The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, inaugurated Baitul Muqeet Mosque in Auckland on 1 November 2013 as he delivered […]
Cut Off: Starving Syrians Hope to Live Through Winter
By Christoph Reuter SpiegelOnline As the world focuses on Syria’s chemical disarmament, thousands of people in the country face a more pressing concern: starvation. Cut off by ongoing violence, they […]
Islam’s holy book, the Koran, translated into Maori by an 81-year-old Ahmadi Pakistani physicist
Source: Elder learns Te Reo to translate Koran Islam’s holy book, the Koran, has been translated into Maori by an 81-year-old Pakistani physicist. “It took six or seven years to learn […]
Press Release: Muslim (Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad) Leader Visits Tropical Fruit World
Source: alislam.org Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad given Aboriginal Welcome During the final days of his recent tour of Australia, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat […]
Shooting Malala – again
Source: blogs.tribune.com.pk Though Malala survived the Taliban’s bullets last year, she is now again under attack in Pakistan by the very same ideology. They attacked her physically then, and now they […]
The Growing Influence of FPI and Its Impact on Indonesia
By Maulana Bachti The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) was formed in 1998 by Muhammad Rizieq Shihab. This hard-line Muslim organization comprising of about 3,000 people now, was formed with the […]