ET: LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court judge has fixed August 20 for arguments on an application seeking alteration of the charges against an Ahmadi man accused of defiling the Holy Quran by distributing allegedly blasphemous literature. The applicant, Azhar Zareef, is one of six men alleged to have blasphemed by printing […]
Source: CNN By Global Public Square staff I was struck by a piece of news recently that is good for America, shows that our politicians are learning from their mistakes, and are actually cooperating with each other – on both sides of the aisle. Sounds too good to be true? For […]
There can be no excuse for the police whose duty is to protect all Egyptians. Robert Fisk, The Independent Friday 16 August 2013 It was a disgrace, a most shameful chapter in Egyptian history. The police – some wearing black hoods – shot down into the crowds of Muslim Brotherhood […]
Story Summary The scholarship and serious popular literature on the Arab region in much of the Western world has improved vastly in the past few years, for the simple reason that authors have been forced to write about the realities of what ordinary Arab men and women have put on […]
Neil Berry ARABNEWS Published — Sunday 18 August 2013 GO Home or Face Arrest” — this is the thuggish message emblazoned on the side of vans that have been touring racially mixed areas of London this summer. The vans are part of a crackdown by the UK Home Office on […]
A number of Arab countries have backed Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah’s call on Friday, urging them to support Egypt in its fight against terrorism and those […]
British police probe new Diana murder claim http://news.ninemsn.com.au: British police are examining new information about the 1997 death of Diana, princess of Wales, reportedly including an allegation that she was murdered […]
Editor’s note: This fatwa was issued one year back. No news on whether this was taken back. indiaexpress.com: Leading Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband today termed as “anti-Islamic” the wedlock between film actors Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan, saying the bride did not convert to Islam before the marriage. […]
AHMAD WAHAJ SIDDIQUI ARABNEWS Published — Friday 16 August 2013 The earth today stands in imminent danger and nothing will save it from environmental catastrophe. Six scientists from some of the leading institutions in the United States have issued an unambiguous warning to the world: Civilization itself is threatened by […]
Reuters | Aug 15, 2013 | 22:55 AMMAN — The top US military officer told American troops in Jordan on Thursday that their mission to help the Kingdom contain the […]
By Associated Press, Updated: Saturday, August 17, 5:06 PM KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian authorities on Saturday revoked the immigration privileges held by a Singaporean man who offended some Muslims by allegedly letting Buddhists use an Islamic prayer room. The case has provoked debate about whether the government in Muslim-majority […]
By Press Release, Coptic Solidarity, Crossmap On August 17, 2013 Coptic Solidarity is gravely concerned that continued Western support for the Muslim Brotherhood is directly responsible for the violent tactics […]
Source: oxfordtimes.co.uk ISLAMIC group Ahmadiyya Muslim Association has taken to city buses to spread its message of peace and to mark its 100th anniversary. Adverts on the side of 25 buses […]
Source: live.huffingtonpost.com http://embed.live.huffingtonpost.com/HPLEmbedPlayer/?segmentId=51ffda2578c90a12d0000888 Executive Director of the Sikh Coalition Sapreet Kaur joins Dena to discuss some things most people don’t know about the Sikh religion, which happens to be the fifth largest in the world.
To purchase the video or view a trailer, click here | Release date is August 20, 2013 Source: The Huffington Post Religion News Service | By Menachem Wecker Posted: 08/17/2013 7:45 am EDT […]
Source: articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com The heretical triple talaq is sanctioned neither by the Quran nor by the Prophet’s precepts Talaq, talaq, talaq – the three dreaded words, if uttered by a husband in quick succession […]
Prof. Laura Veccia Vaglieri contributed several articles to the Encyclopedia of Islam. She was a pioneer of Arabic and Islamic studies in Italy, Veccia Vaglieri served as professor at the […]
A SELFLESS young woman will be jetting off to Bangladesh to help farmers create a more sustainable lifestyle and learn their agricultural rights. Jessica Davies, of Kidderminster, is giving up her spare time to spend three months in the south Asian country in a bid to make a difference to […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian-born leader of al Qaeda, has seen this movie before: An Islamist party does well at the polling booth only to be overthrown by a military coup that then plunges the country into chaos. This is what happened in Algeria in 1991. Tens of […]
Source: CNN A Romanian princess and her husband are scheduled to appear in court Friday after they were arrested in an alleged cockfighting ring in Oregon. John Wesley Walker and his wife, Princess Irina Walker, the third daughter of Romania’s exiled King Michael I, are among six people charged with […]