ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News Turkey’s ‘Muslim-friendly’ or ‘halal’ hotels that offer visitors an alcohol-free environment along with separate swimming pools for women and men are drawing Turkish tourists, not […]
Source: Asia Times: By Spengler Americans see individual pieces of geopolitical real estate in isolation, like hotels on the Monopoly board, while the Russians look at the interaction of all their spheres of interest around the globe. Syria is of no real strategic interest to Russia, nor to anyone else […]
Epigraph He is Allah, the Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner. His are the most beautiful names. All that is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Him, and He is […]
Source: Asia Times: By M K Bhadrakumar It was vintage Barack Obama, hitting back when he is supposed to be at his weakest. The US president said it in a flat tone – almost casually – towards the end of his interview focused on Syria with George Stephanopoulos of ABC […]
Moscow, September 16, Interfax – All countries of the “Muslim Quartet” must be involved in the search for a settlement of the Syrian conflict, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Russia welcomed the proposals for setting up the so-called “Muslim quartet” of negotiators, which is comprised of Egypt, Turkey, Iran […]
World Muslim Leader Warns of Grave Threat of Third World War His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad: the Worldwide Leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community World Muslim Leader Warns of Grave Threat of Third World War Source: Abid Khan Incharge Press Desk AMJ The World Head of the Ahmadiyya […]
Guardian: Individuals and institutions should be able to make their own decisions [on the veil] ad hoc.’ Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Do we really want a “national debate” about veiling? […]
Huff Post: by Vishal Arora. RNS) Quick: Where was the Buddha born? To hear many Indians talk, you’d think it was India, where he attained enlightenment and gave his first sermon. But the people of Nepal know better — and they are eager to correct misconceptions about the Awakened One, […]
Huff Post: by Jamal Halaby. AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan’s king warned Tuesday that ethnic and sectarian violence sweeping across several Arab countries could lead to the “destruction” of the Muslim world. Abdullah II’s remarks came at a conference in the Jordanian capital of 100 religious scholars, both Sunni and Shiite, […]
BBC: Pakistan battles growing alcohol addiction Alcoholism is a growing problem in Pakistan despite it being illegal for the Muslim majority to drink. The BBC’s Charles Haviland finds lives ruined and clinics and therapy groups trying to overcome a taboo subject. Late one night, the beat of dance music drifts down […]
Russia Today: The NSA has been widely monitoring international banking and credit card transactions, a new report says referencing Edward Snowden’s leak. The agency targeted Visa customers and global financial service SWIFT and created its own money flows database. Referring to information leaked by Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee […]
Source: Frankfurt Rundshau via Zafarullah Khan, local secretary external Affairs, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Frankfurt 16. September 2013 Landtagswahlen WahlkampfDebatte im Gebetsraum Von Jakob Blume Note by the Editor: 22.09.2013 is the day for general elections in whole of Germany. This year enthusiasm for general election is at its lowest. Majority […]
Can the language barrier be breached? Google certainly thinks so: Under the leadership of a computer scientist from Germany, the company is making progress toward a universal translation tool. But […]
Story Summary By Fareed Zakaria The Daily Star Whatever the twisted path, whether by design or accident, the Obama administration has ended up in a better place on Syria than looked possible even days ago. The president was wise to take up and begin to test the Russian offer to […]
Saudi Arabia tops the list of Middle East’s billionaires, with 64 highly wealthy individuals possessing $204 billion in 2013, the Wealth-X and UBS World Ultra Wealth Report said. “There are 1,360 rich people in the Kingdom with a total wealth of $285 billion,” the report pointed out. The UAE came […]
Source: Wasim Sr via Mobile Reuters Com: By Maria Golovnina and Sheree Sardar AKORA KHATTAK, Pakistan (Reuters) – He is known as the Father of the Taliban, a radical Pakistani cleric who calls the Taliban’s one-eyed leader an “angel” and runs a seminary described as the University of Jihad. Bespectacled […]
In the meantime it is safe to say that Britain is not France. Ours is not a constitutionally secular country; nor one that in colonial times assigned itself a “mission civilatrice” and explicitly sought full assimilation as an alternative to grappling with the complexities of clashing cultures. Ahmadiyya Times | […]
Posted on 09/16/2013 by Juan Cole The hawks who are deeply disappointed that diplomacy has likely forestalled a US military intervention in Syria in the foreseeable future often attempt to tug at our heart strings by pointing to the over 100,000 dead and the millions of displaced, implying that the […]
Source: Abid Khan Incharge Press Desk AMJ On Friday, September 13, 2013, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and the Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad spoke with […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD The third verse of the Holy Quran is, ‘the Gracious, the Merciful.’ The equivalent in the New Testament of this verse could […]