Radio free Europe: One of the many religious minorities whose plight is documented in the latest U.S. State Department report on religious freedom is the Ahmadiyya community, or the Ahmadis. The Ahmadis consider themselves Muslim, but that is a view rejected by mainstream Islamic sects. And in Pakistan, as RFE/RL correspondents Daud […]
ET: ANKARA: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s crackdown on mixed-sex student dorms has been condemned by critics as a fresh attempt to force strict religious and conservative values on the […]
ET: The writer is the recipient of the James A Wechsler Award for International Reporting and a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism Pakistan, the enigmatic, brash, much misunderstood country with a heart of gold, lost its protracted battle with the cancerous spread of a particularly crippling strain of […]
FP: by David Kenner — The Kingdom is turning to Pakistan to train Syria’s rebels. It’s a partnership that once went very wrong in Afghanistan. Will history repeat itself? BEIRUT — Saudi Arabia, having largely abandoned hope that the United States will spearhead international efforts to topple the Assad regime, […]
Source: Jihad Watch: What’s the big deal? The British government recently admitted Saudi Sheikh Mohammed al-Arefe into the country. Al-Arefe has said: “Devotion to jihad for the sake of Allah, and the desire to shed blood, to smash skulls, and to sever limbs for the sake of Allah and in defense of His […]
Dawn: NEW YORK: Iranian Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi strongly criticised the human rights record of President Hassan Rouhani, citing a dramatic increase in executions since he took office this year and accusing the government of lying about the release of political prisoners. She also pointed to spreading support for […]
guardian: The first forensic tests on samples taken from Yasser Arafat‘s corpse have shown unexpectedly high levels of radioactive polonium-210, suggesting the Palestinian leader could have been poisoned with the rare […]
BBC: Saudi Arabia has invested in Pakistani nuclear weapons projects, and believes it could obtain atomic bombs at will, a variety of sources have told BBC Newsnight. While the kingdom’s quest has often been set in the context of countering Iran’s atomic programme, it is now possible that the Saudis […]
Parents slam pro-Islam slant in Florida school textbook By Cheryl K. Chumley – The Washington Times Tuesday, November 5, 2013 Hundreds of parents, angry at what they say is a biased student textbook with a decided pro-Islam slant, have launched a campaign demanding equal religious representation and planned […]
The Board of Executive Directors of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), has approved $ 5,061 million for the bank’s operations plan for the year 1435H (November 2013 –November 2014), the bank’s largest annual budget ever and a 10 per cent increase on the previous year. This new operations plan coming […]
EDDAH: KHALIL HANWARE Published — Thursday 7 November 2013 Top businessmen and economists in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are unanimous in their opinion that the crackdown against illegal workers following the end of the amnesty period would only benefit the Saudi economy in the long run though short-term obstacles […]
JEDDAH: NADIM AL-HAMID & HABIB SHAIKH Published — Thursday 7 November 2013 The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will ask member states to sever diplomatic relations with states that recognize Israel’s annexation of Jerusalem or move their embassies to the historic city during the upcoming Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) […]
by Diarmaid MacCulloch Oct 27, 2013 5:45 AM EDT Why has the suffering of the Middle Eastern Christian communities not ignited outrage and support from Western Christians? The answer has […]
Marvel Comics is bringing back Ms. Marvel as Kamala Khan, the 16-year-old daughter of Pakistani immigrants living in Jersey City, and the first-ever Muslim title character from Marvel Comics. Khan, […]
PRNewswire — LONDON, November 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — More than ten thousand Ahmadi Muslims will this week stand united with the country in remembering the brave members of the Armed Forces who sacrificed their lives for Great Britain. Thousands of worshippers will congregate at Mosques across the country, including the UK’s largest Mosque […]
Source: China Daily By SHEN JINGTING (China Daily) Chinese telecom equipment vendor Huawei Technologies Co Ltd announced on Wednesday that it will invest at least $600 million in research and development of fifth-generation mobile technology by 2018. Huawei’s move is part of a global trend that involves major telecom companies […]
Source: BBC The late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat may have been poisoned with radioactive polonium, says a Swiss forensic report obtained by al-Jazeera. Arafat’s official medical records say he died in 2004 from a stroke resulting from a blood disorder. But his body was exhumed last year amid continuing claims […]
Source: press@amjinternational.org. The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, arrived safely in Japan on 5 November 2013. His Holiness flew into Tokyo Narita International Airport from Auckland, New Zealand and arrived at 5pm local time. Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad spent his first […]
Paris, France – Swiss scientists who conducted tests on samples taken from Yasser Arafat’s body have found at least 18 times the normal levels of radioactive polonium in his remains. The scientists said that they were confident up to an 83 percent level that the late Palestinian leader was poisoned […]
Create Your Own Visualization on the site, linked here Sources: The World’s Muslims: Unity and Diversity, Tolerance and Tension: Islam and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa Question Wording: And do you favor or oppose the following? [ASK IF CHRISTIAN:] Making the Bible the official law of the land in our country? […]