timesofmalta.com: Laiq Ahmed Atif, President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Malta, together with the Minister for the Family and Social Solidarity, Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, presented several boxes of […]
Source: NY Times: Syrian rebels, frustrated by the West’s reluctance to provide arms, have found a supplier in an unlikely source: Sudan, a country that has been under international arms embargoes and maintains close ties with a stalwart backer of the Syrian government, Iran.In deals that have not been publicly […]
Source: Asia Times: The four-hour meeting between Bandar Bush and Vlad the Hammer by now has acquired mythic status. Essentially, according to diplomatic leaks, Bandar asked Vlad to drop Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and forget about blocking a possible UN Security Council resolution on a no-fly zone (as if Moscow would […]
Source: Dawn.Com PESHAWAR: The outlawed Punjabi Taliban, an offshoot terrorist organisation of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), on Monday warned the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government of dire consequences if it carries on with its plan of executing some convicts on death row. In a pamphlet, distributed in southern Punjab and […]
Source: ET “The word ‘messiah’ is a title, and it’s a title that has only been earned by one person, and that one person is Jesus Christ,” Ballew told WBIR. Ballew, who could not be reached for comment on Sunday, said the child would likely struggle with his given first […]
Source: MSN Tesla co-founder Elon Musk shared his design Monday for a solar-powered “Hyperloop” train that could travel at 800 mph. SAN JOSE, Calif. — Imagine strapping into a car-sized […]
The head of Egypt’s leading Islamic authority Al-Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, has begun calling on political powers and public figures to attend a national reconciliation meeting later this week. The […]
Secretary of State John Kerry’s said the military coup in Egypt was ‘restoring democracy.’ This view confirms Muslim Brotherhood claims that the US would rather prop up a military dictatorship than accept an elected Islamic government. Leaders must choose their words accurately. By Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Op-ed contributor, Bernard-Henri Levy, […]
Source: huffingtonpost.co.uk A judge in Tennessee has changed a seven-month-old baby boy’s name from Messiah to Martin, claiming the name befits only one person, and “that person is Jesus Christ”. Child […]
Source: express.co.uk Ranked second in England and Wales once different spellings included Amelia tops the list of favourite girls’ names Other popular boys’ names included Riley, Jacob and Jack Traditional names […]
Source: swlondoner.co.uk Thousands of Muslims gathered in Morden this weekend to take part in Eid al-Fitr celebrations. The end of Ramadan was marked by worshippers at the Baitul Faith Mosque, which […]
Source: sanasaleem.com Dear Parliamentarians, I write to you in the hope of assisting you in a rather arduous task being assigned to you by the PTA. If recent reports are to be believed, […]
Chino (California, USA): Over 1,000 Ahmadi Muslims gathered at the Baitul Hameed Mosque on Ramona Ave. in Chino on Friday to observe Eid-ul-Fitr, or the commemoration of the end of […]
(Reuters) – U.S. wholesale inventories unexpectedly fell for a second straight month in June, prompting economists to trim their second-quarter economic growth estimates. The Commerce Department said on Friday wholesale inventories fell 0.2 percent after declining 0.6 percent in May. This was weaker than the government had assumed in its […]
By Sadaf Farooqi Freelance Writer- Pakistan Monday, 12 August 2013 onislam.net Born Muslims did not strive hard and swim against a social tide to become Muslim against all glaring odds. […]
Epigraph: And thou shalt assuredly find those who say, ‘We are Christians,’ to be the nearest of them in love to the believers. That is because amongst them are savants and […]
Before Amy Pickering, PhD, left Bangladesh, she stuffed a bright green, 70-pound iron water pump into her suitcase, carefully bolstering a key piece of her research project, which aims to improve the health and save the lives of children in the Dhaka slums. Pickering and her colleagues at Stanford, including an […]
Dawn: PARIS: French police have arrested a young soldier on suspicion of planning to fire shots at a mosque near the eastern city of Lyon, the interior ministry said Sunday. […]
Huff Post: by Ron Kronish. As we Jews begin the month of Elul, the month before our “High Holidays” of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Muslims in Israel and around the world celebrate the holiday of Eid Al-Fitr. Our calendars, which are both lunar, often run in a parallel way, so […]
Forbes India: In 1999, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance honoured the scholar, economist, and philosopher Amartya Sen with India’s highest honour, the Bharat Ratna, a year after his Nobel Prize. One of Sen’s more interesting books is The Argumentative Indian (2006), celebrating our propensity to challenge views we disagree with. […]