Source: The Local German women have on average 1.3 children, among the lowest rate in the industrialised world, resulting in a shrinking and ageing population that threatens long-term finances and the ability of companies to find workers. However Family Minister Kristina Schröder does not see the government’s annual €200 billion […]
Source: ET “It was just a bomb blast and not the end of the world,” this incisive observation was reportedly made by the Khyber-Pakthunkhwa (K-P) information minister while commenting on the suicide blast on a Shia imambargah, which killed at least 15 people this past Friday. Well, Minister, for those […]
Source: ET The K-P Finance Minister apparently has said that all citizens from the ages of 18 to 35 should be given military training to be prepared for “Jihad” and the K-P government might be willing to pay for it. I do not want to continue with this trope too […]
AMMAN/GAZA CITY — A 23-year-old wedding singer from a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip has given Palestinians a rare sense of pride and national unity by winning “Arab Idol”, […]
DR. HAZEM SAID & MAHA EZZEDDINE ARABNEWS Friday 21 June 2013 ABU Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Allah will say on the Day of Judgment, “Son of Adam, I was sick but you did not visit Me.” ‘My Lord, […]
Source: ET US Secretary of State John Kerry put the onus on the Taliban to revive stalled efforts to end Afghanistan’s 12-year-old war and warned the ultraconservative militia on Saturday they might lose their new office in Qatar if the peace bid collapsed. US officials were due to hold preliminary […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Sunday 23 June 2013 Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal and Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, head of the Presidency of the Two Holy Mosques, yesterday emphasized the need […]
Source: CNN Godless congregations For Epstein, who started community-building at Harvard nearly 10 years ago, the idea of a godless congregation is not an oxymoron. “We decided recently that we want to use the word congregation more and more often because that is a word that strongly evokes a certain […]
JEDDAH: AFIFA JABEEN QURAISHI Sunday 23 June 2013 Eating 22 live scorpions or making the largest Kabsah dish may seem frivolous tasks but such are the unique feats that an increasing number of Saudis are embarking on to establish themselves for posterity in the pages of the Guinness World Records. […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — A third person has died in the extensive flooding that has deluged entire towns and threatens even more communities in southern Alberta, Canada, authorities announced Saturday. The three victims, two females and a male, were all found in the Highwood River that runs through the town of […]
Local sources have reported Saturday [June 22] that several extremist Israeli settlers of the Bracha illegal settlement, attacked Palestinian shepherds in the southern area of Burin village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The settlers then burnt 20 Dunams of Palestinian olive orchards. The sources said that […]
Christof Lehmann (nsnbc),- Chemicals, which were used in a chemical weapons attack against Syrian civilians in the Khan al-Asal district of Aleppo in March 2013, have been delivered to the insurgents by two Qatari military officers. The Qatari officers transported the chemicals through Turkey. Turkish authorities had foreknowledge and approved […]
(Reuters) – Gunmen stormed a hotel in a remote part of northern Pakistan on Sunday and killed 10 foreign tourists, police and security officials said. “Unknown people entered a hotel where foreign tourists were staying last night and opened fire,” Ali Sher, a senior police officer in the northern Gilgit-Baltistan province, told […]
journaltimes.com: RACINE — Local Muslims shared their convictions Saturday, reaching out with the message that Islam can help solve issues plaguing Racine’s black community. The George Bray Neighborhood Center, 924 Center St., again played host to a presentation from the Lake County, Ill.-based Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, which has previously done […]
Source: aljazeera.com The controversial Canadian author Irshad Manji discusses Islamophobia and the need to reform Islam. Is there really a problem with Islam today? Critics see Muslim women as downtrodden and […]
Source: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta “There cannot be a common refugee policy in the EU unless all states acknowledge that some immigrants have to be relocated to other member states.” This […]
Source: CNN The Fairfax County, Virginia, health department is investigating a tuberculosis outbreak at an area school after three people tested positive for the potentially fatal bacteria, officials said Thursday. The health department has contacted 430 people who may have been exposed and need to be tested as a result […]
Source: Pak Tea House By Yasser Latif Hamdani So complete have been the state sponsored mythologies in the subcontinent that both Indians and Pakistanis are incapable of looking at the […]
Full Address by Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community at Houses of Parliament London on 11th June 2013 Epigraph: And if thy Lord had enforced His Will, surely, all those on the earth […]
Jakarta, NU Online: Bowing to pressure from Muslim groups, politicians and rights activists, the National Police is set to revoke an internal regulation that bans female officers from wearing the […]