I want to know… Do you agree with me? Life has become a race today – a race to be the richest, the best, the famous, the greatest… The paradox of our time is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; Wider freeways but narrower viewpoints; We spend more […]
Source: alislam.org Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad meets various dignitaries and holds media conference The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad was visited by […]
Rod Such The Electronic Intifada 28 May 2013 130528-pretending-democracy.jpg Pretending Democracy: Israel, an Ethnocratic State is a collection of essays by Israeli, Palestinian and South African intellectuals dissecting the nature […]
It’s Back to Basics on Pancasila Day Firdaus Mubarik of the Indonesian Ahmadiyah Congregation (JAI) says this is particularly apparent in the ongoing persecution of the minority Islamic sect by […]
Calgary Herald: by Salman Khan. It has become more and more apparent why the true and peaceful teachings of Islam need to be spread, because it is Muslims themselves who need reformation, not Islam. Re: “Soldier-killing suspect linked to al-Qaeda ally,” May 27, and “Tenth suspect arrested in terrorist murder […]
Huff Post: by Chris Stedman. “I’m actually an atheist.” And then she added: “You know, I don’t blame anybody for thanking the Lord.” In a couple of short sentences, Vitsmun delivered two equally powerful messages: that she was not embarrassed by her atheism, and that she respected her religious friends […]
Huff Post: T. Sher Singh. I, for one, would welcome some prayer, any prayer, even the Lord’s Prayer — a Christian observance — in preference to NO prayer. All I can say to my friend is this: Closed minds can do much harm to us all. Let’s open them — […]
Union City, Oklahoma (CNN) — The full scale of the destruction wrought by five new tornadoes that plowed through the Oklahoma City area will only be apparent in the light of day Saturday. The fresh twisters Friday evening killed at least five people, less than two weeks after a monstrous tornado […]
Alislam.org: Bounties of God can be worldly, regarding faith as well as spiritual. Worldly bounties are granted to one and all, across the board. Those who have faith and consider […]
UN approached over targeted killings of Pakistani Shias – by Murtaza Ali Shah Source: The News, 1 June 2013 LONDON: All Parliamentary Human Rights Group in the British Parliament has […]
ET: BISHKEK: Parts of Kyrgyzstan were under curfew Saturday after clashes between security forces and protesters who want a Canadian-owned gold mine nationalised led the president to declare a state of emergency. President Almazbek Atambayev signed the declaration Friday for the Dzheti-Ogyzsky district of the northern Issyk Kul region, where the […]
ET: ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan is being flown to London for a medical checkup due to ‘slow recovery’ from injuries he suffered after falling from a forklift during the election campaign in May. “His (Imran) recovery is slower than expected and he will be taken to London […]
Huff Post: Secretary of State John Kerry performed an important public service on May 20 by personally announcing the release of the U.S. State Department’s 2012 Report on Religious Freedom, which contains the disturbing findings that anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are on the rise in countries around the world. Bad news is […]
After 5-days intensive session MEST concludes Science and Technology Workshop By: SEM on May 30, 2013. It is no secret that there has been poor performance and less attention paid […]
qasimrashid.com: In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?” The other replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.” “Nonsense” said the first. “There […]
Guardian: Turkey has been engulfed by a series of protests across several cities after riot police turned Istanbul’s busiest city centre hub into a battleground, deploying tear gas and water cannon […]
By AllAfrica.com Makyinmabre is a farming village in the Nkoranza South District of the Brong Ahafo Region. This village lies within the stool land of the Atekoanohene, Nana Kofi Adu III, who is a sub-chief of Katakyie Agyeman Kodom IV, Omanhene of the Nkoranza Traditional Area. Makyinmabre is a cosmopolitan […]
Village after Shia village had hung photos of men who went to fight for Qusayr two weeks ago Loulou Awad’s blood still stained the concrete of her broken home, the latest Lebanese innocent to pay the price of Syria’s war. Her almost equally broken father Abdullah pressed the hands of […]
STORY SUMMARY The conflict in Syria and the uprisings in Bahrain and other countries represent one of the two important battles underway in the Arab world, whose outcomes will largely determine the future shape of Arab political systems. The second battle is not about who rules in a country, but […]