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, […]
Ten years ago, to be a religious Muslim youth would be considered to be conservative or traditional. Ten years later, to be a pious Muslim youth is being associated with […]
STORY SUMMARY Source: Daily Star, Lebanon A Saudi court jailed a Lebanese man for six years and sentenced him to 300 lashes after convicting him of encouraging a Saudi woman to convert to Christianity, local dailies reported Sunday. The same court sentenced a Saudi man convicted in the same case […]
STORY SUMMARY By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star It might be coincidental timing or just a really bad case of mean-spirited in-your-face aggressive Israeli diplomacy. In the same week […]
STORY SUMMARY Hezbollah denounced Sunday the car bombings that left dozens of people dead in south Turkey near the border with Syria and called for stopping terrorism that is targeting […]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Albigensian Crusade Part of the Crusades Political map of Languedoc on the eve of the Albigensian Crusade Date 1209–1229 Location Languedoc, France Result Crusader and French victory Belligerents Crusaders Kingdom of France Cathars Counts of Toulouse Crown of Aragon Commanders and leaders Simon de Montfort† Philip II […]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Spanish Inquisition (disambiguation). Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Spain Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición Spanish Inquisition Seal for the Tribunal in Spain. Type Type Tribunal under the election of theSpanish monarchy, for upholding religious orthodoxy in their […]
Epigraph: “There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by those who transgress, and believes in Allah, has […]