The Jakarta Globe: Indonesia’s Religious Affairs Minister, in an apparent attempt to downplay the nation’s rising tide of religious intolerance, suggested that inter-faith strife is “human nature” before calling the […]
A one-day programme organised by ‘Islamic Courses’ held on 29th September 2012 at Birkbeck College, UK. Delivered by: Professor Jonathan A.C. Brown [University of Washington, USA] And Shaykh Dr M […]
Source: ET KARACHI: Unidentified persons gunned down the imam of a Jamia Masjid in the area of Gul Bahar, just after he had stepped out of the mosque after offering his afternoon prayers, reported Express News on Thursday. According to initial details a 9mm pistol was used and the victim, Maulana […]
The Washington Post: By David Ignatius, Hisham Melhem, a prominent Lebanese journalist, recalls an emotional visit to the Great Mosque of Cordoba in southern Spain last May. With tears in his […]
Source: Dawn.Com By Arieb Azhar: The depth of one’s spirituality is directly proportionate to one’s level of tolerance for other people’s beliefs. This means the more convinced a person is in his/her own beliefs and convictions; the less that person should be bothered by the beliefs of others. This is […]
Source: Dawn.Com Unlike most political ideologies whose adherents by and large agree with the definitional tags attributed to their respective ideologies and ideologues, Political Islam is more of an academic concoction. It works as an analytical umbrella under which political analysts lump various forces that claim to be using historical […]
Source: Conservative Papers: (CNSNews.com) – Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is planning to hold talks with jihadists, including the umbrella group known as the Pakistani Taliban, despite the failure of numerous similar initiatives over the past seven years. Campaigning ahead of the general election last May, Sharif pledged to […]
Source: Conservative Papers: I wrote an article 3½ years ago, at a low moment in Obama’s first term, when his ratings tanked and his party just lost Edward Kennedy’s senate seat to a Republican, that usefully suggested that Obama could “salvage his tottering administration” by taking “dramatic gesture to change […]
Source: TOI NEW YORK: Oops! PayPal, the online money-transfer company, has accidentally credited a man in Delaware a whopping $92,233,720,368,547,800, making him by far the richest man in the world. Chris Reynolds, 56, said he was shocked when he received his monthly statement via e-mail from PayPal last week, with […]
Source: Anees Ahmad Nadeem, President & Missionary In Charge, Ahmadiyya Muslim Association, Japan The Peace Conference 2013 will be held on 17th of August. This is being arranged by Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Representatives of major religions in Japan are participating in this event The conference will have the overarching theme of [人間性が一番」. Please invite […]
By MIHIR ZAVERI and LISA LEFF Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO—The University of California’s governing board confirmed its first Muslim student member Wednesday, despite some Jewish groups’ claims that she marginalized […]
July 16, 2013 – 22:08 Asylum requests in Switzerland fell by almost by a third during the first six months of the year when compared with figures for the same period of 2012. Officials are at a loss to explain why, but do not expect the trend to continue. Between […]
STORY SUMMARY Kurdish fighters expelled jihadists from the Syrian flashpoint frontier town of Ras al-Ain and the nearby border crossing with Turkey, activists said Wednesday, in escalating fighting that could signal another front in Syria’s fractious civil war.Kurdish fighters took total control of Ras al-Ain “after 24 hours of fighting. […]
STORY SUMMARY One of the worst recurring features of U.S. foreign policy is a process that might bluntly be described as “seduction and abandonment”. On June 13, the White House announced it would provide military aid to the Syrian opposition because the Assad regime had crossed a “red line” by […]
Epigraph: Allah and His angels send blessings on the Prophet. O ye who believe! you also should invoke blessings on him and salute him with the salutation of peace. (Al Quran 33:57) EDDAH: P.K. ABDUL […]
AFP | Jul 17, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s nominee for UN envoy Wednesday slammed the global body’s “unacceptable bias” against Israel, and pledged to lobby hard to get America’s closest Mideast ally a seat on the Security Council. Even as detractors criticise her past statements […]
Well this is a pretty sweet deal. Pope Francis has offered a reward to people who follow a Catholic youth event on Twitter and other social media sites: a lightening of penalties for […]
thedailybeast: Israel has now struck inside Syria three times since the civil war there began in 2011, report Josh Rogin and Eli Lake. The U.S. intelligence community has determined that Israeli jets bombed a Hezbollah weapons depot containing advanced Russian weaponry inside Syria earlier this month. Israeli soldiers stand by a […]
USCIRF 2013 Fact Sheet Pakistan: : Imporant to note that due to large number of Shias the number shot dead is proportionaly much lower while of Ahmadiyya Muslims who are […]
Aljazeera: Pope Francis will be in Brazil starting on Monday, the start of an ambitious, week-long visit coinciding with World Youth Day events, expected to bring over a million Catholic pilgrims, mostly youth, to Brazil. It will be historic for all the obvious reasons: The first Latin American Pope, the […]