Believers’ hearts remain with Allah at all times
HARUN YAHYA ARABNEWS Friday 31 May 2013 Some people never consider the great blessings they enjoy throughout their lives. Yet starting the day in good health every morning, being able […]
Chinese worker cleared of blasphemy
Daily Times: MUZAFFARABAD: Authorities in Azad Kashmir on Thursday cleared a Chinese man accused of committing blasphemy by desecrating a holy Quran, officials said. Lee Ping, the administration manager of a Chinese consortium building a major hydropower project, was accused on May 17 of throwing the Islamic holy book on […]
The road less travelled: From Ismail Goth to Harvard
ET: KARACHI: “If someone had told me ten years ago, that one day I will be going to Harvard, I would have asked them what Harvard was,” stated 23-year old Anum Fatima in a gentle but poised tone. Seated amidst endless volumes of books in the library at The Citizens Foundation, […]
Violent militants are not Muslims
startribune.com: by Fouzia Saeed: Citizens of peaceful countries cannot continue to live in fear, seeing the space for their daily activities steadily reduced. The Boston Marathon bombing has created the potential for generating worldwide support to deal with the menace of terrorism. Many militants call themselves jihadis and crusaders of […]
British Christianity dies while Islam thrives. Why?
Telegraph blogs-podcast: New analysis of the 2011 census makes horrible reading for the Churches – attendance down 15 per cent in a decade. Meanwhile, one in 10 young Britons is […]
A Prayerbook for Peace: Nurturing Understanding Between Abrahamic Faiths
Huff Post: John Philip Newell: I do not know how many Christians have read the Quran. And I do not know how many Muslims have read the Christian Scriptures. But […]
Deism: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
Epigraph: And He it is who created the heavens and the earth in accordance with the requirements of wisdom and the Truth; and the day He says, ‘Be!’, it will […]
The World’s Muslims’ Poll and Women Rights
Source: Pew Research Center A new survey report looks at attitudes among Muslims in 39 countries on a wide range of topics, from science to sharia, polygamy to popular culture. The survey finds that overwhelming percentages of Muslims in many countries want Islamic law to be the official law of their land, […]
Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) ISLAMABAD: Minorities to be unsafe if blasphemy law amended
Source: www.thenews.com.pk ISLAMABAD: The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has said that the existing blasphemy law should not be amended, saying that all the prophets are equally respectable. It said that the minorities would become unsafe if amendments were made in the blasphemy law. These views were expressed in a meeting […]
Dubai charity gives Dh9m to schools in Comoros
DUBAI // About 58,000 pupils in 309 primary schools in Comoros have benefited from a four-year programme funded by a UAE charity. Dubai Cares said its Dh9.4 million initiative was […]
Assad Says Syria Has Received Advanced Missiles From Russia
By ANNE BARNARD THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIRUT, Lebanon — President Bashar al-Assad of Syria said in a television interview to be broadcast on Thursday that Russia has delivered S-300 […]
SYRIA Middle East countries fighting proxy war in Syria
By sending help to Syria’s warring factions, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are struggling to gain influence in the Middle East. The conflict between Sunnis and Shiites has become a proxy war over strategic regional goals. At the moment, several conflicts are being fought simultaneously in Syria. The civil war […]
Muslims Who Combat Antisemitism Gather in Jerusalem
The Jewish Express: A small, but increasingly vocal number of Muslims are rejecting radical hate speech and combating antisemitism in the Muslim world. In the recent Global Forum for Combating […]
UK divided: Islam used as scapegoat in extremist attacks?
RT: Social rifts have been widening in the UK after the Woolwich murder and the discovery of an Oxford sex-grooming ring. In the midst of growing anti-Muslim protests, it has […]
How Islam Made the West “Cool”
Written by Khaled Diab: Journalist Huff Post: Those who fear Muslim influence should raise a glass to the Sultan of Style next time they freshen up, don the latest fashions or […]
SYRIAN OPPOSITION WON’T PARTICIPATE IN PEACE TALKS
by Barbara Surk AP BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s main Western-backed opposition group says it will not participate in U.S.-Russian sponsored peace talks while the regime is carrying out massacres in Syria. Thursday’s announcement came at the end of weeklong opposition talks in Istanbul to try and forge a united view […]
Ahmadi Muslims do not seek U.S. government funds
sentinellandenterprise.com: We read with interest Tuesday’s editorial “‘U.S.-friendly’ Islam?” While we appreciate the newspaper’s efforts to highlight some of the repression that the Ahmadiyya Muslim community faces, we take exception to the baseless assertion about the Ahmadiyya Muslim community has pursued or is pursuing “CIA or state department” (or any […]
Investors cast doubt on Spain’s rosy economic pic
FORTUNE — A disastrous share offering in Madrid earlier this week portends continued economic trouble for Spain and, quite possibly, for the European Union. Shares of Bankia, the nationalized Spanish lender, fell by as much as 21% Tuesday as the bank issued 11.5 billion new shares in a bid to […]
Doctrine of armed jihad or doctrine of Saudi Wahhabi caliphate?
Source: LUBP While the world is being wrecked by terrorist acts of Wahhabi-Deobandi extremists right from Boston to Woolwich and Madrid to Kabul, a concerted effort is being made to hide the central role of the supremacist, totalitarian ideology that is being spread by Saudi Arabia. More:
Islamabad, the seat of the caliphate?
Source: LUBP The Majlis-e-Shoora will soon meet in Islamabad, the seat of the caliphate. Its first act will be to pass the twenty first amendment to the constitution, so that your brother is recognised as the Commander of the Faithful, the Caliph of Islam and Chief Zookeeper of Jati Umra. […]