Lankaweb: The Annual Convention (Jalsa Salana) of the Sri Lanka Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at was held on last Sunday the 12thMay 2013 at Ahmadiyya Jubilee Hall, Periyamulla, Negombo. The Markaz Representative Mr. Khalid Mahmoodul Hassan Bhatti was the Chief Guest. The day-long program started with pre-dawn prayers and the main event […]
ABDULATEEF AL-MULHIM ARABNEWS Saturday 18 May 2013 In mid-April, an unusual exhibition was held in London, showcasing pictures of Muslims who saved Jews during the Holocaust. During the exhibition people saw love and harmony between people from different faiths, mainly Muslims and Jews. One month later, on May 15 the […]
STORY SUMMARY Washington blunders yet again in Syria It is not reassuring that we know next to nothing about the details of the international conference on Syria that has been endorsed by the United States and Russia. For the Obama administration, a conference would help initiate negotiations between the Syrian […]
By Amira Hass HAARETZ ISRAEL Approximately 22 senior members of Fatah have signed a document calling to resuscitate the Palestinian strategy for a one-state solution, according to a report by Amira Hass in Haaretz [Hebrew]. According to Hass, the document was the product of two years of work (including meetings […]
May 17th 2013, 14:03 by Economist.com A guide to the key rebel forces in Syria AS THE civil war in Syria has dragged on, the rebels have become more Islamist […]
ABU TARIQ HIJAZI ARABNEWS Friday 17 May 2013 Shamsuddin Mohammed, “Ibn Battuta”, the great Muslim adventurer of Morocco, was born on 17th of Rajab 703 AH (corresponding to Feb. 24, […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Saturday 18 May 2013 Most Twitters users in Saudi Arabia are interested in local issues, particularly corruption cases, according to a study conducted last year. The study […]
WARSAW: ARAB NEWS Saturday 18 May 2013 A Saudi preacher is among 14 Muslim scholars from across the globe who will visit the former Nazi Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland next week as part of a Holocaust awareness and anti-genocide program, organizers said yesterday. “This is an opportunity for […]
Source: The Economist Muslim converts – Changing my religion A British strand of Islam is emerging as more people become converts MUSLIM converts have an image problem. A handful, like Richard Dart, a Dorset native jailed last month, have been implicated in terrorism. Samantha Lewthwaite, who was married to Germaine Lindsay, […]
Source: BDNews 24 DHAKA:Bangladesh registered a current account balance surplus of over $2.8 billion in the first nine months (July-March) of the current fiscal (2012-13). This is seen as a comfortable zone for the country with no need to borrow money for regular transactions. In case of debts, a government […]
(CNN) — A federal court has sentenced two Minnesota women to lengthy prison sentences for soliciting donations in the name of charity, then funneling the funds to Somali militants. Authorities said the two women went door-to-door in Somali neighborhoods in the U.S. and Canada, seeking contributions. Amina Farah Ali, 36, got […]
Source: RT One in 10 people under 25 are Muslim, while Christianity is in decline, the 2011 UK census reveals. An explosion in the Muslim population and an aging Christian […]
BBC: A controversial Church of Scotland report which questioned the divine right of Jews to the land of Israel has been rewritten. The 10-page discussion paper is due to be […]
By BEN CASPIT, LIOR NOVIK Senior defense official: Israel thought Assad would fall sooner. Syrian President Bashar Assad heading a cabinet meeting in Damascus, February 12, 2013. Photo: REUTERS/SANA/Handout The debate over the situation in Syria and President Bashar Assad’s chances for survival has sharpened recently within the Israeli defense […]
Israel 21C: There are more museums per capita in Israel than anywhere in the world, and they’re all bursting with innovation and creativity. Israel has more museums per capita than […]
Indonesia has thousands of Museums and cultural heritage sites. Following is only a partial list taken from the Wikipedia: North Jakarta and Thousand Islands Maritime Museum Onrust Archaeology Park […]
Source: CNN By Hussein Rashid, Special to CNN Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the Boston Marathon bomb suspects, reportedly wrote that “an attack against one Muslim is an attack against all” on the wall of the boat in which he was hiding from police last month. Variations of this refrain seem to […]
The Jakarta Globe: A mob of more than 100 people damaged an Ahmadiyah mosque in Tulungagung, East Java, on Thursday night. Baitul Salam mosque, located in Gempolan village, Tulungagung, had […]
Source: ET According to documents available with The Express Tribune, Minister for Information and Technology, Education and Trainings and Science and Technology Dr Sania Nishtar informed Caretaker Premier Justice (retd) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso and her cabinet colleagues that Pakistan was the only country in the world without a clear […]
LUBP: by Ali Taj The spiritual leader and fifth Khalifa of Ahmadiyya Muslim community visited Los Angeles on 11 May 2013 and delivered an address. I had the pleasure and honor of meeting his holiness and asked him a question about the U-turn that Pakistan is taking away from tolerance […]