thejakartaglobe: The plight of the Al-Mujahadah Foundation madrassa in southern Aceh illustrates the perils of rising religious intolerance for Indonesia’s religious minorities. The school, a private institution that instructed dozens of students 8 to 25 years of age in the principles of Sufism — devotion to more mystical interpretations of […]
How could the dead rest? Their wooden coffins banged against the iron gates of the mortuary, the families shrieked with horror, the cellophane-wrapped corpses were piled high with blocks of […]
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR ARABNEWS Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sumait, who helped thousands of Africans understand and embrace Islam, constructed 5,700 mosques and four universities in Africa, passed away on Thursday. He […]
Source: Indo American News via Wasim Sr: Guests from other faiths and Members of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Houston are listening to the presentation on Ramadan. HOUSTON: In this time and age where hatred and animosity is tearing the world apart, specially in the name of religion, any voice promoting the […]
BURAIDAH: MUHAMMAD AL-HARB ARABNEWS Published — Friday 16 August 2013 Buraidah’s date season started and the air in the area designated for the city’s annual date market was filled with […]
Submitted by Abraham Greenhouse on Thu, 08/15/2013 – 19:21 The Electronic Intifada Following Israeli media reports on a “covert” government program to pay students for spreading pro-Israel messages on social […]
By ID/Novy Lumanauw, SP/Carlos Paath & Lenny Tristia Tambun on 7:50 am August 16, 2013. JAKARTA GLOBE Just as the flow of Idul Fitri travelers is beginning to quiet down […]
By Bahar Gholipour, Staff Writer Published: 08/14/2013 08:22 AM EDT on LiveScience People who tend to remember their dreams also respond more strongly than others to hearing their name when […]
RT: On the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the American Muslim Political Action Committee will host a gathering of one million people in Washington, DC, denouncing “FBI traps” […]
Source: Press Release Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Kolkata Chapter celebrated their Eid Milan Party on 14th August 2013 at Hotel Golden Parkk. Dignitaries from all walks of life attended the function. […]
Epigraph: “The Messiah, son of Mary, was only a Messenger; surely, Messengers like unto him had indeed passed away before him. And his mother was a truthful woman. They both […]
by Gerhard Lob in Bellinzona, swissinfo.ch August 12, 2013 – 11:00 On September 22, Ticino will become the first Swiss canton to hold a referendum on banning face-covering headgear in […]
Source: Dawn. Com Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Zamurd Khan was instrumental in helping to capture the gunman when he jumped at him and tried to take away his weapon. Earlier on the armed man opened fire in the heavily policed heart of Islamabad after slipping past the capital’s many […]
As the recent death toll in Egypt surpasses 500, news of Muslim Brotherhood supporters being slaughtered in Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square has been an especially tragic manifestation of the powder-keg that […]
By Jennifer Rubin, Published: August 15, 2013 Put it this way: President Obama’s Egypt policy is about as effective as his Syria policy. And for the first time Wednesday, with […]
COLOMBO: The US Embassy urged Sri Lankan authorities on Sunday to arrest and prosecute those responsible for vandalizing a mosque in the national capital. An Agence France Presse (AFP) report […]
15 AUGUST 2013 The Egyptian crucible has broken. The “unity” of Egypt has melted amid the massacres of yesterday’s suppression of the Muslim Brotherhood. A hundred dead – 200, 300 […]
Has John Kerry no shame? First he cuddles up to both Palestinians and Israelis and announces the renewal of a “peace process” which the Palestinians don’t trust and the Israelis […]
JEDDAH: P. K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS STAFF New projects worth more than SR300 billion are being implemented in Makkah to improve services being rendered to millions of pilgrims […]
Source: BBC US President Barack Obama has strongly condemned the violence in Egypt, and cancelled joint military exercises. He said co-operation could not continue while civilians were being killed. Egypt’s […]