BERLIN (AP) – A Senegal-born chemist has become Germany’s first black federal lawmaker, and a woman of Turkish origin has become the first Muslim elected to Parliament from Chancellor Angela […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
(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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]