Otherizing
Epigraph: “Has the story of Abraham’s honored guests reached thee? When they entered upon him and said, ‘Peace!’ he said, ‘Peace!’ They were all strangers. And he went quietly to his household, […]
Hours after launching, NI21 in polygamy row
by Sam McBride sam.mcbride@newsletter.co.uk Just hours after an enthusiastic launch attended by hundreds of people, Northern Ireland’s newest political party found itself backed into an extraordinary cul-de-sac in a debate […]
How to destroy the future: From the Cuban missile crisis to a fossil fuels frenzy, the US is intent on winning the race to disaster by Noam Chomsky
What is the future likely to bring? A reasonable stance might be to try to look at the human species from the outside. So imagine that you’re an extraterrestrial observer who is trying to figure out what’s happening here or, for that matter, imagine you’re an historian 100 years from […]
NSA’s Prism surveillance program: how it works and what it can do
Slide from secret PowerPoint presentation describes how program collects data ‘directly from the servers’ of tech firms James Ball guardian.co.uk, Saturday 8 June 201 The slide details different methods of data collection under the FISA Amendment Act. Since Prism was first revealed by the Guardian and the Washington Post, there […]
Sweden’s Princess Madeleine marries New York banker in lavish ceremony
Swedish Princess Madeleine wed New York banker Christopher O’Neill in a lavish and emotional wedding ceremony in Stockholm on Saturday. see video report here:
Let ailing Nelson Mandela go, friend urges
South Africans were urged to let go of their beloved hero Nelson Mandela after the ailing 94-year-old spent a second night in hospital with a recurrent pneumonia infection. Officials have not released an update on Mandela’s health since announcing that he was back in hospital and was in a “serious […]
A Compliment in Disguise: Pakistan Government has Banned the Muslim Times
By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor As of 7th of June, 2013, the Muslim Times has been banned in parts of Pakistan. When the readers try to log in, […]
Malaysia: NGO lodges report against two for allegedly insulting Prophet Muhammad and police
Source: thestar.com.my GEORGE TOWN: The 1Malaysia Cyber Movement lodged a police report Saturday against two individuals who made statements which allegedly insulted Prophet Muhammad and the Royal Malaysia Police. Its president, Mohamad Sharom Rahman, lodged the report with a committee member at the Bayan Baru Police Station at 3pm. Mohamad Shahrom […]
Ahmadi literature: Blasphemy suspect denied bail
ET: LAHORE: An additional district and sessions judge on Saturday dismissed an after-arrest bail application of a man accused of operating a printing machine on which blasphemous literature was produced. Asmat Ullah had said he was innocent and that he had nothing to do with the offence. He had also asked […]
Spying: US agency collected second-highest amount of digital data from Pakistan
ET: Pakistan is the second-highest country on the list of nations spied on by the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA), an exclusive report in The Guardian revealed. The NSA is in possession of a powerful data mining tool, which it uses to record and analyse massive amounts of digital data, a […]
Bible- New Testament is a Jewish Book?
Huff Post: The New Testament in Historical Context When I’m invited to teach in churches, I often invite questions from the group before I begin my planned presentation. I call this “building an agenda,” a process that helps me understand where people are coming from and helps the audience pursue […]
Exclusive to MTA: Full CBC Canada Interview of Khalifa of Islam
Published on Jun 8, 2013 Source: Alislam, Youtube and CBC News Canada An exclusive interview coverage of the Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (may Allah be […]
Kaaba to be washed tomorrow
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Sunday 9 June 2013 The ceremonial washing of the Holy Kaaba, which is carried out before the beginning of the month of each Ramadan, is set to […]
Umrah visa’s validity limited to two weeks
JEDDAH: SIRAJ WAHAB ARABNEWS Sunday 9 June 2013 The Haj Ministry has decided to limit the validity of Umrah visas to only 14 days because of the ongoing work to […]
Switzerland: June 9 votes: More stringent asylum rules set to be confirmed
by Urs Geiser, swissinfo.ch June 8, 2013 – 15:10 Voters have the final say this weekend whether a more restrictive asylum law introduced last autumn should be upheld. They also […]
Opinion: The Syria the World Forgot (or, The Syria the World managed to destroy).
By ALIA MALEK Published: June 8, 2013 The New York Times LAST month, while we waited at the Lebanese border for our papers to be processed so that we could […]
Major Milestone For Islamic Community to be Marked in UK Houses of Parliament
World News Report: Reception celebrates centenary of Ahmadiyya Muslims in UK and contribution to British life Tuesday 11th June 2013 12.15 PM at Churchill Room 100 years of countering extremism and serving as loyal […]
Eternal Hell: A Dilemma for ‘Loving’ Trinitarian God of Christianity
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comments: Contrasting the Christian and the Muslim concept of hell Discussion of Hell From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: This article is about the theological or philosophical afterlife. For other uses, see Hell (disambiguation). See also: Hell in Christian beliefs, Harrowing of Hell, and Hades Medieval illustration of Hell in the Hortus deliciarum manuscript of Herrad […]
Buffalo, NY Conference Live Today: Reconciling Suffering and Existence of God
Epigraph: “From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There […]