Recalls Farooq Maududi, son of Abul A’la Maududi Tamanna Khan and Jamil Mahmud the daily star: Brought up under the shadows of Syed Abul A’la Maududi, preacher of Sharia-based state in the subcontinent against secular democracy, Syed Haider Farooq Maududi managed to rise above his father’s fundamental ideology. A strong critic of his father’s Jamaat-e-Islami, the Islamic revivalist […]
Alislam-egazette: HEAD OF AHMADIYYA MUSLIM JAMAAT Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad conducts media interviews in Sydney During the first week of his second tour of Australia, the World Head of […]
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By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and MIKE McINTIRE THE NEW YORK TIMES October 5, 2013 WASHINGTON — Shortly after President Obama started his second term, a loose-knit coalition of conservative activists […]
A review of the first episode of BBC Two’s The Ottomans: Europe’s Muslim Emperors, which traces the 600-year-old story of the Ottoman Empire The Ottomans: Europe’s Muslim Emperors (BBC Two) […]
A review of the first episode of BBC Two’s The Ottomans: Europe’s Muslim Emperors, which traces the 600-year-old story of the Ottoman Empire The Ottomans: Europe’s Muslim Emperors (BBC Two) […]
Annie Robbins on October 6, 2013 MONDOWEISS.NET This post is about 2 children, each violently attacked recently and each victims of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. Below is a photo of 6-year-old […]
A good place for the non-Muslims to start learning about the Holy Prophet Muhammad is a movie named, the Message: Mohammed: Messenger of God, (1976) Rated PG, starring Anthony Quinn. […]
Typhoon Fitow – named after a flower – made landfall at 01:15 local time on Monday BBC: Powerful Typhoon Fitow has made landfall in eastern China after triggering the evacuation […]
By Mehmud Ahmad, Brampton, Ontario Dr Daud Rehbar, an academic, thinker, writer, poet,musician and author of renown in the 64th year of his exile from Pakistan in a Nursing Home in Deerfield Beach, Florida. He was 86 and is survived by a long-ailing widow and two daughters. He was the […]
Epigraph: Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be […]
Dunya TV: Critics criticize Extremism in Pakistan in On the Front with Kamran Shahid:
The Nation: LOS ANGELES – US pop icon Madonna is studying the Holy Quran these days, she revealed in an article published Friday. “I am building schools for girls in […]
The Huffington Post: Many of these incredible houses of worship defy typical expectations about what a mosque looks like. Nontraditional minarets and experimental domes add variety, and showcase the massive […]
Source: The Local Munich hospitals treat a drinker every 10 minutes during Oktoberfest. This time of year the city’s accident and emergency departments become, for some, just another tent at […]
Source: The Local A rush of publishing start-ups and ever new ways to lure readers in an industry with Amazon breathing down its neck will be a central theme at […]
Samia Abdennour reviews some Egyptian manners that may present pitfalls to unwary visitors from abroad A Western acquaintance of mine once had the misfortune of committing a serious faux-pas according […]
As Israel continues its encroachments on Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem, Palestine watchers are beginning to predict a Third Intifada, Until only a few years ago, anti-Israeli demonstrations rocked student […]
We examine the shifting alliances within the opposition and the likely impact on achieving stability in Syria. Inside Syria Aljazeera On September 24, thirteen of the most powerful rebel groups withdrew their recognition of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) – and proposed the formation of a new opposition coalition bound […]
Forty years on, Al Jazeera examines three weeks of war from which both Arabs and Israelis claimed to emerge victorious. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat once called it the last war. But 40 years after Sadat uttered those words, the Arab-Israeli conflict has no end in sight. The story of the […]