by Rula Samain | Jun 03, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Muslim preachers, both male and female, from all governorates met over three days last week to discuss how best to promote the values enshrined in the Amman Message, which Jordan adopted in 2004 to introduce the true teachings […]
theguardian: by Abigail Haworth. When her widowed mother remarried, Parvin Rema, then 13, was part of the deal – one of several such arrangements in Bangladesh. Abigail Haworth talks to mothers and daughters about a particularly knotty relationship As a child in rural Bangladesh, Orola Dalbot, 30, enjoyed growing up around […]
Huff Post: Qasim Rashid: In her recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, atheist and anti-Islam activist Ayan Hirsi Ali finally admits, “In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing and the Woolwich murder, […]
Newhaven Register: The news seems to report much about problem leaders of the Muslim world. They include bloodthirsty extremists, fiery Mullahs and unyielding autocrats. Also, throw in the chatter from absolute cynics who can’t believe that a practicing Muslim could possibly live a life of peace. And we are left […]
Source: Daily Times Author: Husain Nadim The use of anti-Ahmadi rhetoric by political parties raises a serious question: Is there anyone who will ever stand up for their rights? “It’s almost laughable. You first forcefully declare us a minority, then you promise to protect minority rights, and when you fail, you conveniently […]
Alfurqan administration is honored to announce the start of English Translation Class in Summer of 2013. The details of the class is as follows: Basic Translation of the Holy Qur’an […]
The Huffington Post | By Cavan Sieczkowski Posted: 06/03/2013 2:40 pm EDT In a column for the Daily Mail, former British prime minister Tony Blair stated “there is a problem within […]
SENATORS CRITICIZE SHAMIR’S POSITION ON MIDEAST PEACE (Interesting look at history – not all that long ago and still the same). By NEIL A. LEWIS, Special to the New York Times Published: March 06, 1988 Thirty United States Senators, including many of Israel’s staunchest supporters, have written a letter criticizing […]
YUSRA OWAIS (AMATULLAH) | JUNE 20, 2012 SubaibWebb.com What comes to your mind when I say, “A beautiful Muslim woman”? Many of us may think of a woman in hijab (headscarf) or modest attire. Hijab is indeed beautiful, but by thinking Islamic beauty is only because of hijab, we are […]
Monday, 03 June 2013, 07:50 GMT Source: Kurdish Globe, Erbil, Kurdistan (autonomous region of Iraq) SULAIMANI, Kurdistan Region – Intransigence on the part of both the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) and international actors is undermining prospects for a solution to the conflict in Syria, Democratic Union Party (PYD) co-chairman Salih […]
Nancy Folbre is an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Current and prospective college students are receiving real-world instruction in the dismal political economy of public finance. Unless Congress can overcome its partisan differences, interest rates on federally guaranteed Stafford loans, an important means of paying for college, […]
Source: Local Guardian This year marks 100 years since the first Ahmadiyya Muslims made the journey from India to settle in the UK.Over the weekend members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community held a series of events inviting everybody to celebrate their history.On Sunday a family picnic took place in Figges […]
WAS PARTITION OF INDIA INEVITABLE? by Dr. R. M. Pal ………..It was not Jinnah but the Hindutvavadi leader Sarvarkar who first propounded the two-nation theory. Veer Sarvarkar, while presiding over the 1937 session of the Hindu Mahasabha, said in plain and simple words, advocating the two-nation theory, “ I warn the Hindus […]
Epigraph: And as to the people of Noah when they rejected the Messengers, We drowned them, and We made them a Sign for mankind. And We have prepared a painful […]
Ina Parlina and Margareth S. Aritonang, The Jakarta Post | Headlines | Sat, June 01 2013, 11:58 AM Strident protests did not deter President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono from accepting the World Statesmen Award from New York-based interfaith organization the Appeal of Conscience Foundation (ACF) as he vowed to maintain harmony […]
June 3, 2013 – SWISSINFO.CH The Swiss foreign ministry has said it is “extremely concerned” about the situation in Syria, particularly the intense fighting in the city of Qusair, and […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent Mohammed Nour is the spokesperson for the Northern Storm Brigade, accused of kidnapping 11 Lebanese pilgrims in Syria “Hezbollah suspects Hamas has been teaching Sunni […]
The Daily Times: Husain Nadim: The use of anti-Ahmadi rhetoric by political parties raises a serious question: Is there anyone who will ever stand up for their rights? “It’s almost laughable. You first forcefully declare us a minority, then you promise to protect minority rights, and when you fail, you […]
Gatestone Institute: Robert E Kaplan: Each of these United States military interventions occurred in an area that had been part of the Ottoman Empire, and where a secular regime was replaced by an Islamist one. So far, the German policy of keeping hidden its leadership role in its attempt to […]
LONDON, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – The Ahmadiyya Muslim Association UK (AMA) condemns in the strongest of terms the heinous murder of a British citizen in Woolwich on Wednesday. It […]