Islamic Solidarity Games Kick Off in Indonesia
Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country, is hosting the Islamic Solidarity Games participated by a large number of athletes from Islamic states. The Islamic Solidarity Games kicked off […]
Picture of the Day: The church that looked like a mosque
The Express Tribune: So mindful were the Christians of Muslim sentiments that when they built Peshawar’s All Saints Church in 1882, they made it look like a mosque. Local artists […]
eDigest: Don’t follow France’s burqa ban. It has curbed liberty and justice
Epigraph: And say to the believing women that they restrain their eyes and guard their private parts, and that they disclose not their natural and artificial beauty except that which is apparent thereof, and that they draw their head-coverings over their bosoms. (Al Quran 24:32) First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in […]
The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Arrives in Singapore
Greeted by delegates of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at from Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, arrived safely […]
Egypt bans all Muslim Brotherhood activities
(Reuters) – An Egyptian court on Monday banned the Muslim Brotherhood from carrying out any activities in the country, widening a campaign to debilitate the Islamist movement of deposed President Mohamed Mursi. “The court bans the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood organization and its non-governmental organization and all the activities […]
Dear Mighty…
Dawn.com: by Nadeem F. Paracha – Are we an occupying force? Is our military an occupying force in the north-west of Pakistan? Should we negotiate its safe exit first from KP so the extremists are free to do whatever they like, first in the KP, then in the rest of […]
Mataf capacity now 70,000 per hour
The Presidency of the Two Holy Mosques Affairs plans to open the newly constructed levels of the “mataf” (area for circumambulating the House of God) on the ground and first […]
Arafat to have permanent tents
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Studies are under way to establish permanent fireproof tents in Arafat, said Saud bin Hamdan Al-Dikri, director of projects at the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs. […]
National Maududian Hypocrisy and the Peshawar Blast
Pakteahouse: By Yasser Latif Hamdani As the nation comes to grip with the horrible massacre of Christians in Peshawar, Haider Maududi on Duniya TV (which shamelessly said “jo kachra saaf kartay thay un ka safaya ho giya) decided to muddy the waters by claiming that this was bound to happen […]
Gas missiles ‘were not sold to Syria’
Export papers seem to back Assad’s denial over sarin attack – but Russians won’t go into detail by Robert Fisk, The Independent While the Assad regime in Damascus has denied responsibility for the sarin gas missiles that killed around 1,400 Syrians in the suburb of Ghouta on 21 August, information […]
Mandatory military: Swiss voters endorse army conscription
by Urs Geiser, swissinfo.ch September 22, 2013 – 20:13 Switzerland will remain one of the last countries in western Europe with mandatory military service after voters overwhelmingly rejected a pacifist […]
‘Two Americas’ — now more than ever – 46.5 Million Poor in US
Chicago Tribune: There were two great speeches at the 2004 Democratic Convention — and, in a way, they complemented each other. The first, by a young state senator from Illinois, rejected the notion that America is hopelessly divided politically into blue states and red states: “There is not a liberal […]
Merkel Re-elected in Show of Strong Support for Party
NY Times: BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel scored a stunning personal triumph Sunday in the national elections in Germany, becoming the only major leader to be re-elected twice since the […]
Ahmadi persecution: Police bow to clerics to tear down minarets- More Mosques feared to Come under attack
ET: LAHORE: Police demolished minarets at an Ahmadi place of worship in Sialkot on Saturday, after a group of protesters threatened to do so themselves, The Express Tribune has learnt. The police approached the community on Friday after a local cleric complained that three worship places for Ahmadis had features that resembled […]
Many say UN needs to modernise
World leaders are booking their flights to New York for the annual UN General Assembly which begins this week. But does the UN, founded after the World War II, reflect […]
Don’t follow France’s burqa ban. It has curbed liberty and justice
Epigraph: And say to the believing women that they restrain their eyes and guard their private parts, and that they disclose not their natural and artificial beauty except that which […]
Prabhjot Singh, Sikh Columbia Professor, Attacked In Possible Hate Crime
Source: The Huffington Post A Columbia University professor was assaulted on Saturday night in what police say is being investigated as a hate crime. According to a New York Police Department source, Dr. Prabhjot Singh, who is Sikh and wears a turban and a beard, was attacked at 8:15 p.m. […]
Veiled vote : Burka ban approved in Italian-speaking Switzerland
by Gerhard Lob with agencies, swissinfo.ch September 22, 2013 – 18:08 Ticino has become the first Swiss canton to approve a ban on face-covering headgear in public places, following a […]
Top 10 Religious Monuments of Israel
Wikimedia Contest: Mahmood Mosque, Kababir, Haifa, among top ten centres of religious monuments of 2012 …….. Israel is of course known primarily for its many ancient and religious monuments. It […]
TV One Debate: Controversy over fate of the Ahmadiyya
TV One Debate: Controversy over fate of the Ahmadiyya English Summary by : By: Aftab Lubis Normal 0 false false false EN-CA X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable […]