Nigerian wins Muslim beauty pageant rival to Miss World
JAKARTA: A Nigerian woman tearfully prayed and recited Qur’anic verses as she won a beauty pageant exclusively for Muslim women in the Indonesian capital Wednesday, a riposte to the Miss […]
Robert Fisk in Damascus: In Syria’s capital, Assad’s troops may be winning this war – untouched by Obama’s threats
Dispatch from Damascus: The killing fields remain, and truth is as rare as hope by Robert Fisk, The Independent And so the war goes on. Missile alerts may be over […]
Syria crisis: Rebels turn on each other in border city of Azaz
RICHARD HALL Author Biography WEDNESDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2013 THE INDEPENDENT Syrian rebels have turned their guns on each other in the border city of Azaz, where fault lines between moderate Western-backed rebels and extremist groups descended into open conflict today. Heavy clashes were reported in and around the city between […]
TW0-STATE ILLUSION
By IAN S. LUSTICK OPINION THE NEW YORK TIMES September 14, 2013 THE last three decades are littered with the carcasses of failed negotiating projects billed as the last chance […]
Pakistan: Clerics suggest amendment to blasphemy laws – Another Smoke Screen?
Daily Times: Clerics suggest amendment to blasphemy laws ISLAMABAD: Top religious clerics Wednesday suggested amendments to the country’s blasphemy laws, proposing the death penalty for people convicted of making false accusations. The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) suggested the government should bring in the death penalty for people convicted of […]
Taliban Have Already Won: The Pakistani state on its knees
daily times: COMMENT : The Pakistani state on its knees — Dr Mohammad Taqi Without setting the parameters for what exactly is the state willing to concede to the TTP in exchange for peace, the prime minister and his APC have left the door wide open for the terrorists to keep […]
In public shift, Israel calls for Assad’s fall
yahoonews: JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel wants to see Syrian President Bashar al-Assad toppled, its ambassador to the United States said on Tuesday, in a shift from its non-committal public stance on its neighbor’s civil war. Even Assad’s defeat by al Qaeda-aligned rebels would be preferable to Damascus’s current alliance with […]
Atheists and humanists launch Freethought Equality Fund PAC
Washington Post: WASHINGTON — Atheists and humanists hope to increase their influence in politics with the launch of the Freethought Equality Fund, a new political action committee for nonbelievers. “When people see respected ethical humanists and atheists serve in public office, this will begin to dispel many myths about nonbelievers,” said […]
Wayne Stilwell jailed for ten months for mosque bacon attack
BBC: A man who threw bacon into an Edinburgh mosque has been jailed for 10 months. Wayne Stilwell, 25, was caught on security cameras attaching the bacon to the handles […]
The Face of Buddhist Terror
Source: Time magazine By Hannah Beech / Meikhtila, Burma, And Pattani, Thailand Monday, July 01, 2013 It’s a faith famous for its pacifism and tolerance. But in several of Asia’s Buddhist-majority […]
The Ahmadiyya Movement: Its Reintroduction of the Prophet’s Path in Today’s Age
By Muzaffar K. Awan, MD; Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA Just half a century ago, my parents gave me permission to transfer from a close-by government college (near my native Pakistani village) near the city of Chakwal to enroll at a Talim-ul-Islam (Ahmadiyya) College in Rabwah (several hundred miles) away from […]
Parents Outraged at a Field Trip to Mosque
Source: Fox Nation Author: Todd Starnes A Tennessee high school has decided to revise its field trip policy after a group of freshmen were taken to an Islamic mosque where they were given copies of the Koran and while a student who opted out of the trip was given a […]
Wretched Practice of Halalaa
http://www.jang.com.pk Jang London September 15, 2013 Asif Dar reporter Following report was published in Jang London on the wretched practice of Halalaa. A women whose husband had uttered divorce 3 times contacted a local Maulvi sahib who had her Halalaa done with several persons. Finally she got fed up and […]
Nigerian Obabiyi Aishah Ajibola wins Muslim beauty pageant rival to Miss World
The Times of India: JAKARTA: A Nigerian woman tearfully prayed and recited Koranic verses as she won a beauty pageant exclusively for Muslim women in the Indonesian capital on Wednesday, […]
Indonesia affirms freedom of religion
The government refuses to kowtow to hardliners who have been calling for a ban on the Ahmadiyah sect. By Yenny Herawati for Khabar Southeast Asia in Jakarta: Vowing to uphold […]
Poll finds 50% of separatists believe Jews and Muslims have too much influence in Quebec
The National Post: About half of Bloc Quebecois and Parti Quebecois supporters think that Muslims and Jews have too much influence in their province, while nearly a third of British […]
10 things you probably don’t know about Sukkot- the Jewish Holiday
Source: Haaretz: The Jewish holiday of Sukkot arose from a Canaanite agricultural festival, developing over the years into the holiday we know today, tabernacles and all. Some of the traditions […]
France to ban beauty pageants for under-16s
By RFI France’s Senate has backed a proposal to ban on beauty pageants for girls under 16 years old. Organisers of the contests would face up to two years in prison and fines of up to 30,000 euros in a bid to stop the “hypersexualisation” of young girls. “Don’t let’s allow […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim leader warns on Syrian Crisis
Source: examiner.com The current global situation is fast moving towards devastation. In particular the Syrian crisis could plunge the Arab world in great devastation and if foreign powers join in, the […]
Sierra Leone: Ahmadiyya Teacher concerned over Black Flies that pose threat of blindness in 4 Chiefdoms in Kenema District
Source: awoko.org A local teacher of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Secondary School in Boajibu town in the Simbaru Chiefdom in Kenema District has raised serious concern over huge amount of black flies in four of chiefdoms in the district that he said are potential threats for mass blindness in those chiefdoms if […]