How Muslims should respond to terror
Source: CNN “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” Sundays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN By Fareed Zakaria The sheer barbarism of the attack on a British soldier in Woolwich is really beyond comprehension […]
Ahmadis will never give up striving to show the world the true message of Islam: Khalifa of Islam
Alislam.org: The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad was visited by the Mayor of Calgary, Nasheed Nenshi and various other dignitaries at […]
Man charged $ 750,000 tax after LinkedIn profile reveals secret job
Tuesday 28 May 2013 ARABNEWS STOCKHOLM: A man from Sweden has been ordered to pay $ 750,000 (£ 494,000) after authorities discovered he had a secret job via his LinkedIn profile. The resident of Djursholm, an affluent suburb of Stockholm, had failed to declare all sources of income to the […]
Saudi King’s intercultural vision to be outlined
RIYADH: ARAB NEWS Monday 27 May 2013 The vision of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah for a world living in peace and harmony will be outlined at […]
Libya: Seize Chance to Protect Women’s Rights
HRW: (Tripoli) – Libyan authorities should seize a historic opportunity to promote and protect women’s rights as the country transitions from four decades of dictatorship, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. The parliament, government, and other bodies should ensure that women can participate actively and equally […]
France’s anti-gay marriage movement eyes future fights
France 24: By Rachel HOLMAN (text) As workers diligently set about clearing the stage from a last-ditch demonstration in Paris against a recent French law legalising same-sex marriage and adoption on Sunday evening, protest organisers and participants already had their minds geared towards how to keep their movement alive. Staged by the organisation Manif […]
EDITORIAL: Get Churches Out of Public Schools
NY Times: New York City prohibits the use of public school facilities for regular religious services. That policy makes sense for buildings that are used and maintained by taxpayers. But the City Council wants to eliminate that policy through a new state law. Itvoted 38 to 11 on Wednesday to pass […]
In Sweden, Riots Put an Identity in Question
NY Times: ……Ms. Bromster rushed to the school, in the mostly immigrant district of Tensta, north of Stockholm, and found one room gutted by fire and another filled with ankle-deep […]
Creative industry: Here’s why being Pakistani should make you proud
ET: DUBAI: Would it make you proud if I told you that the Venom character in the Spiderman III movie was developed and animated by a Pakistani? How does it feel to know that a Pakistani animator worked on Hollywood blockbusters such as X-Men First Class, The Day After Tomorrow, […]
Khilafat Day, May 27: Celebrating the Second Manifestation
Epigraph: Allah has promised to those among you who believe and do good works that He will surely make them Successors in the earth, as He made Successors from among those […]
Turkey’s Hadith Project: Diyanet Presents Prophet’s Sayings For The 21st Century
The Huffington Post By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor ANKARA, May 22 (Reuters) – Scholars around the Muslim world were alarmed five years ago by news reports that Turkey planned a new, possibly heretical compilation of the Prophet Mohammad’s sayings that might scrap those it thought were out of date. Turkish […]
Should Outsiders Be Meddling In Indonesia’s Religious Affairs?
The Jakarta Globe: As local authorities debate over banishing Indonesia’s Ahmadiyah Muslim sect and several congregations remain barred from their houses of worship, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono this week will […]
Anti-Ahmadi Ads on Facebook
Courtesy: Khalid Ahmed Saeed The following anti-Ahmadi ad was seen on Facebook by the author on Facebook: The Urdu reads “Invitation to Islam for Ahmadi Brothers”.
Vesak 2013 celebration at Borobudur Buddhist Temple
Buddhist students campaign for Borobudur preservation REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, MAGELANG – Buddhist students campaigned for preservation of Borobudur Temple on the sidelines of Vesak 2557 BE (2013) celebration in Borobudur Sub-district, Magelang […]
Israel’s Peres calls for return to peace talks
SOUTHERN SHUNEH, Jordan (AP) — Israel’s president urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Sunday to overcome differences and resume peace negotiations, saying the sides could not afford “to lose this […]
Alphonse de Lamartine
Epigraph “If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and outstanding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in modern history with Muhammad?” Alphonse de Lamartine, Foreign Minister of France, in his book History of Turkey From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump […]
Video of the Astonishing story of Prophet Muhammad: Peace Symposium Malta, 2013
Epigraph “If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and outstanding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in modern history with […]
Leaders open landmark AU summit in Ethiopia
Meeting to mark African bloc’s 50th jubilee expected to call for dropping of ICC charges against Kenyan leader. Dozens of African leaders met in the Ethiopian capital to mark 50 years since the founding of the African Union, a continentwide organisation that helped liberate Africa from colonial masters and which […]
Syrian opposition in knots over Muslim Brotherhood: dissidents
By Serene Assir (AFP) – GOOGLE NEWS ISTANBUL — A Saudi-led bid to dilute the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence over Syria’s main opposition has thrown the group into disarray, dissidents said Saturday, with some even warning that the power tussle is “killing” the group. Syria’s main opposition National Coalition has been […]
Quantum Theory – Sign of a Personal God
Epigraph: Eyes cannot reach Him but He reaches the eyes. And He is the Incomprehensible, the All-Aware. (Al Quran 6:103/104) He is the First and the Last, and the Manifest […]