Spare us a ‘national debate’ on veils
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? […]
Do You Really Know Where The Buddha Was Born?
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, […]
Sectarian Violence Could Destroy Muslim World
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, […]
Islamic Republic of — Pakistan battles growing alcohol addiction- What?
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 […]
NSA spied on Visa customers, SWIFT transactions – report
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 […]
Breaking News: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Germany becomes very active for coming Elections:
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 […]
Translate This: Google’s Quest to End the Language Barrier
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 […]
Obama has ended up in a better place on Syria
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 […]
64 Saudis = $204 billion
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 […]
Pakistani ‘Father of Taliban’ keeps watch over loyal disciples
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 […]
Veiled Insult ; The right response to the niqab is not to ban it, it is allow liberal values to triumph
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 | […]
The Hubris of the Syria Interventionists
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 […]
World Muslim Leader Warns of Grave Threat of Third World War
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 […]
The Gracious, the Merciful – God is Love!
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 […]
Hate speech: Conference calls for boycott of Ahmadis
ET: LAHORE: Speakers at an anti-Ahmadi conference on Saturday vowed to expel all members of the Ahmadi community from the city. The Radd-i-Qadianiyat Conference was held at Jamia Naeemia. The participants were told they had a duty to wage a holy war against Ahmadis. The audience which included a large number of […]
For Pakistan’s Ahmadis, a depressing tale of two gatherings
The Independent: By Omar Waraich A fortnight ago, tens of thousands of members of the Ahmadi Muslim community gathered in the historic English market town of Alton. They were there for an annual conference. This year, the community was also marking the centenary of its presence in Britain. As far […]
Extremism has no place in Islam
By Laiq Ahmed Atif is president of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Malta. A subject that becomes the talk of the town in the month of September is the peril of extremism and terrorism in the world. Sometimes, this debate goes one step further and people start talking about extremism and radicalisation in […]
What makes Jerusalem so sacred?
Opinion by Richard Hect, special to CNN JERUSALEM (CNN) – Perhaps the most repeated observation about Jerusalem is that it’s a sacred city for the three monotheistic faiths of the west, […]
Scenic “Mount Vernon” is in Texas
By Saeed Qureshi While searching through Texas Tourism Department’s website for finding the sight-seeing places around Dallas/Fort Worth, we came across a curious name: “Mount Vernon”. Although there were quite a few other scenic locations, yet we decided to visit this place. It is one of those unique towns that […]
Letter to a Syrian Friend Who Said: ‘Your Opposition to the US Attack on Syria Means You Support the Asad Regime’
Vijay Prashad / Jadaliyya Dear Friend: You are in Syria, somewhere in Damascus. You have been involved in various protests to fight for more democratic space in Syria, and then, after the early months of 2011, to overthrow the regime of Bashar al-Asad. I have learned a great deal from […]