Huff Post: by Erik De Castro – LOON, Philippines, Oct 16 (Reuters) – The death toll from an earthquake in the Philippines rose to 144 on Wednesday as rescuers dug through the rubble of collapsed buildings including an old church and a hospital. Nearly 3 million people were affected by […]
The Times of Israel: by Haviv Rettig Gur – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered a thinly veiled defense of a possible Israeli preemptive strike on Iran during a Knesset commemoration Tuesday of the 40th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War. In a speech to MKs about the war, in which Israel […]
Time: At one of the darkest moments of the government shutdown, with markets dipping and both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue hurling icy recriminations,Maine Republican Susan Collins went to the Senate floor to do two things that none of her colleagues had yet attempted. She refrained from partisan blame and proposed a […]
Editor’s note: Today’s report in the Guardian and the release of first global index on slavery is an eye opener for those who have criticized the Quran on the basis […]
Source: BBC Divers working at a Russian lake have recovered a half-tonne chunk of the space rock that exploded over Chelyabinsk earlier this year. The object plunged into Lake Chebarkul […]
Source: Dawn.COM. Over 16 million or half the world’s population of modern day slaves live in India and Pakistan, according to the inaugural Global Slavery Indexpublished Thursday. An estimated 30 million people worldwide are living in modern-day slavery, of which 2.1 million are in Pakistan and a staggering 14 million are […]
Source:The Irish Time via Wasim Sr. I don’t know why the Nobel prize committee decided against giving an award to Malala Yousafzai, who until last week had been favourite to win. It presented the gong instead to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, a recipient only slightly more […]
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Association Sheffield held a celebration to mark the community’s 100 years in the United Kingdom. The first Ahmadiyya missionary arrived in London in 1913 and its Sheffield chapter was established in the 1980s, later setting up a mosque in Attercliffe. attended the event.
Tea Party favorites Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and Larry Klayman spent most of last week bashing Muslims and introducing the “Quran” and “Allah” to the shutdown and debt ceiling debate that they are losing in Congress. Unfortunately for them, Muslims are in fact more popular and viewed more […]
Participants at UCI event seek greater understanding of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. By Hannah Fry October 16, 2013 | 5:49 p.m. Experts in Judaism, Christianity and Islam recently discussed the similarities and differences among their religions during an interfaith panel at UC Irvine. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Student Assn. hosted Love […]
Damage caused to Israel described as ‘significant’ and move said to be ‘an effort to slap the Israelis,’ Washington Post reports. By Barak Ravid The Turkish government of Prime Minister […]
Source: phillyburbs.com Hundreds of Muslims gathered in Bensalem on Wednesday for services marking the festival of Eid-ul-Adha where the faithful remind themselves of the necessity of self-denial and submission to […]
Epigraph: O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female; and We have made you into tribes and sub-tribes that you may recognize one another. Verily, the most honorable among you, in the sight of Allah, is he who is the most righteous among you. Surely, Allah is […]
Source: Asia Times: Every sentient being with a functional brain perceives the possibility of ending the 34-year Wall of Mistrust between Washington and Tehran as a win-win situation. Here are some of the benefits: The price of oil and gas from the Persian Gulf would go down; Washington and Tehran […]
Source: Asia Times: Pakistan’s impoverished and peaceful Christian community has endured mob rampages, blasphemy charges, and was largely spared the ravages of suicide bombings, till last month. Suicide bombings on September 22 at Peshawar’s All-Saints Church, which is designed like a mosque to reflect inter-faith harmony, killed 83 worshippers and […]
Source: CNN Washington (CNN) — Senate leaders on Wednesday worked out a deal to reopen the government and avoid a potential U.S. default as soon as midnight, sources told CNN’s Dana Bash and Ted Barrett. Formal announcement of the agreement will come at 12 noon ET on the Senate floor, a […]
Source: TOI: CAIRO: Egypt’s foreign minister said on Wednesday that relations between his country andthe United States are in “turmoil” followingWashington’s decision to suspend delivery of tanks, helicopters and fighter jets to Egypt. The suspension, announced last week, came in response to the unrest in the wake of the July 3 military coup that […]
Source: TOI: CAIRO: Egypt’s foreign minister said on Wednesday that relations between his country andthe United States are in “turmoil” followingWashington’s decision to suspend delivery of tanks, helicopters and fighter jets to Egypt. The suspension, announced last week, came in response to the unrest in the wake of the July 3 military coup that […]
Source: Dawn.Com: It was, perhaps, inevitable given the work ethic that prevails in Pakistan. After initially declaring a three-day holiday period for Eidul Azha, the federal government followed Sindh’s lead and, on Monday, announced that on Friday, too, the country would be taking time out from business as usual, thus […]
Source: ET A suicide bomb targeted Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Law and Parliamentary Affairs MinisterIsrarullah Gandapur, who was killed along with nine other people while 30 others were injured, Express News reported. The attack reportedly took place when the minister was meeting visitors at his traditional village in Kulachi, which is located 45 kilometers from […]