July 3, 2013 By Saeed Qureshi Egyptian army has removed President Muhammad Morsi of Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) and has taken over power for the interim period. President Morsi assumed office on June 30, 2012 and has been deposed from his office today (July 3, 2013). The decision to […]
Russia Today: Up to one-third of children in the UK have either attempted or considered taking their own lives, according to a new report which sheds light on the ‘shocking […]
Jakarta Post: Indonesian Muslims have been witnessing two contrasting phenomena about humanitarian issues that Islam ironically promotes and upholds. First, we have seen the proliferation of humanitarian NGOs working on relief and humanitarian actions in disaster affected areas. A number of faith-based NGOs were founded by various Muslim groups and […]
Muslims accept fasting as a personal form of worship. During Ramadan, they strive to be closer to God similar to the Christian concept of ‘being born again.’ While they are fasting, Muslims read the entire Quran. Muslims accept fasting as a personal form of worship. During Ramadan, they strive to […]
Source: TOI SYDNEY: Australia’s first female premier Julia Gillard has opened up for the first time on thesexism that plagued her leadership and her famous misogyny speech in her final interviewbefore being ousted. Gillard, an unmarried, atheist lawyer, was dumped as Australia’s prime minister by herruling Labor party last month, almost three years to the day since she toppled Kevin […]
Source: TOI CAIRO: Enraged Islamists pushed back on Friday against the toppling of PresidentMohammed Morsi, as tens of thousands of his supporters took to the streets vowing to win his reinstatement and clashed with their opponents in violence that killed 30 and drove the divided nation toward an increasingly dangerous showdown. In a […]
Source: Conservative Papers. Israel, which has never been reticent about publicizing its rescue missions when disaster strikes in far-flung corners of the globe, is being unusually discreet about its aid to victims of the fighting in neighboring Syria. Israeli flag For the past four months, doctors in the Jewish […]
Source: NY Times: By RACHEL DONADIO VATICAN CITY — Showing more of his sprightly personality and his priorities, Pope Francis sped two of his predecessors toward sainthood on Friday: John Paul II, who guided the Roman Catholic Church during the end of the cold war, and John XXIII, who assembled the […]
Source: BBC The presidents of both Nicaragua and Venezuela have indicated their countries could offer political asylum to US fugitive Edward Snowden. Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro said it would give asylum […]
By Saeed Qureshi Today the American nation is celebrating its 237th independence day. It was on this momentous day that the Declaration of Independence written by illustrious Thomas Jefferson (later the third president of the USA) was adopted by the Second Continental Congress. As a result, the 13 colonies declared independence from […]
Speech by Maulana Rizwan Hameed Khan at Jalsa Salana USA 2013 on 29th June 2013.
Live streaming of sessions in Alislam.org and Alislam.tv The convention started on July 5, after Friday Prayers International Centre, 6900 Airport Road, Mississauga, Ontario Day 1 – Friday July 5, 2013 […]
by Khaled Diab, Journalist A recent poll on Al Jazeera Arabic’s website asked who was responsible for turning the Syrian revolution into a sectarian conflict: the Sunnis or the Shi’a? Around 95% of those who voted blamed the deterioration on the Shi’a. Although this result is shocking in its own […]
“(Fasting) For A Fixed Number Of Days; But If Any Of You Is Ill, Or On A Journey, The Prescribed Number (Should Be Made Up) From Days Later. For Those Who Can Do It (With Hardship), Is A Ransom, The Feeding Of One That Is Indigent. But He That Will […]
by Michel Chossudovsky who is an award-winning author, professor of economics, founder and director of the Centre for Research on Globalization, Montreal and editor of the globalresearch.ca website. The overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi by the Egyptian Armed forces was not carried out against US interests, it was instigated to […]
Nathan J. Brown Op-Ed July 3, 2013 New Republic The final, desperate hours of Mohamed Morsi, the Egyptian president ousted by the military on Wednesday, were in one sense merciful, but also pathetic. After a brief feint that called to mind the image of Salvadore Allende picking up a gun […]
Source: deccanchronicle.com Hyderabad: With Hyderabad’s two most important religious events — Ramzan and Bonalu — coming at the same time after a gap of 33 years, the city’s peace and harmony […]
David Cronin The Electronic Intifada 1 July 2013 Why Israel? It is a question that every Palestine solidarity campaigner has probably been asked. Usually, the question is posed as a […]
Epigraph: And who will turn away from the religion of Abraham but he who is foolish of mind? Him did We choose in this world, and in the next he […]
The Telegraph: More than 1,500 delegates, including government and business leaders, as well as scholars, will descend on London for the three-day event, which sets out to boost trade partnerships […]