Nana Rukmana, The Jakarta Post, The Ahmadiyah community in Manislor village, Jalaksana district, Kuningan regency, West Java, are going about their business as usual and remaining calm despite the recent […]
Source: NY Times/AP DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s government plans to raise the minimum wage for garment workers after the deaths of more than 1,100 people in the collapse of a factory building focused attention on the textile industry’s dismal pay and hazardous working conditions. A new minimum wage board […]
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Source: LA Times: Names and money, it turns out, have some correlation. According to a survey of top earners, the shorter the name, the higher the salary is likely to be. Or at least, people with high salaries tend to have very short names. Before you go changing your moniker […]
Wall Street Journal: CHINO, Calif.—This week, thousands of families arrayed in their colorful best are crowding into a sprawling mosque set among the golden hills of this old agricultural community east of Los Angeles. Some have come from across the country, and some from as far as Ghana. A few […]
Source: LATIMES. In the post-9/11 culture wars over Islamic fundamentalism, American conservatives — properly — have condemned attempts in Muslim countries to punish blasphemy or insults to the prophet Muhammad. It will be interesting to see if they are similarly outraged over what has happened to an art student at […]
Source: LATIMES: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s overwhelming victory in parliamentary elections this weekend returns to power a seasoned politician who historically has had rocky ties with Pakistan’s powerful military and is viewed by many as soft on militants and extremist groups. More:
Source: The Huffington Post By Hunter Stuart Posted: 05/12/2013 1:55 pm EDT | Updated: 05/12/2013 11:12 pm EDT The little town of Muldrow, Okla., is in turmoil after a national nonprofit organization reportedly threatened a […]
newsobserver.com: by Mandy Locke. CARY — When Salma Azam graduates from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Sunday, her degree holds a delicate promise abided by a woman and her mother. In Salma’s senior year in high school, she felt the weight of her mother’s long-delayed dream of […]
Washington: The Mothers’ Day parade shooting in New Orleans, coming less than a month after the April 15 Boston bombing, is the fourth major incident of mass shooting in the […]
Foreword: The purpose of Islam is to teach man the ways of attaining peace, both with himself and with his Creator. Under Divine direction, over 1,400 years ago, Hadrat Muhammad (sa), the Holy […]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In Muslim eschatology, the Mahdi is a Messianic figure who, it is believed, will appear on Earth before the Day of Judgment and, alongside Jesus, will rid the world of wrongdoing, injustice and tyranny. People claiming to be the Mahdi have appeared across the Muslim world – in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East – and throughout history […]
The Hindu: Farahnaz Isphahani: While Nawaz Sharif has won the election decisively, he faces the challenge of reaching out beyond his main base in Punjab to the rest of Pakistan Pakistan achieved a historic landmark with the completion of its five-year term by the civilian coalition government led by the […]
Inland Valley-Daily Bulletin: Canan Tasci, Staff Writer The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community began on March 23, 1889 by the 19th-century Indian-born Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.It is the only Islamic organization to believe the long-awaited Messiah has come in the person of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, who is the fifth and current […]
by Luigi Jorio, swissinfo.ch May 10, 2013 – 11:00 Most armed conflicts are resolved not by force but at the negotiating table. However, the growing number of mediation actors seen […]
by Areej Abuqudairi | May 12, 2013 | 23:57 AMMAN — Politicians and academics on Sunday called for rethinking Arab and Turkish ties to build on cultural commonalities and correct “misunderstandings in history”. “There is an urgent need for re-examining historical ties between the Arabs and the Turks to reach […]
The Buffalo Chapter of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community will hold its nineteenth interfaith conference on Sunday June 9th, 2013 between 2:00 – 5:00 pm at the Millennium Hotel, 2040 Walden Avenue, Cheektowaga, NY 14225, across from the Walden Galleria Mall. The topic of discussion: Reconciling Human Suffering and Existence of […]
Mysore, Karnataka It was over 15 months ago that Magic Bus mentor Shahbaz Pasha, in his constant endeavour to reach out to more and more children in the Haleem Nagar […]
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq. The war itself had been planned years earlier. by S. Taalay Ahmed In 1999, the London Institute of Petroleum invited Dick Cheney to address their Autumn lunch. Cheney had previously served as President George H. W. Bush’s secretary […]
By Robyn Dixon May 10, 2013, 12:28 p.m. JOHANNESBURG — Africa loses the benefit of billions of dollars each year through illegal tax evasion, money transfers and secretive business deals, […]