The Secret Faith of Washington
Source:The daily Beast. A godless city? Please. President Obama’s former religious adviser on the surprising number of believers in D.C.’s corridors of power. More:
Israeli yellow card for US on Iran
Source: Asia Times: Israel is standing up to American pressure to leave the Iranian nuclear program to Washington, despite recent reciprocal high-level visits and an “unprecedented” US$10 billion arms deal. Its intensions appear to be two-track: to push the US into more decisive action and to prepare world opinion for […]
She wanted to live for her son. What a tragedy?
Source:CNN By the time the rescuers were able to go back into the area, it was too late for Shahina. They brought out her body on Monday and took it to the nearby schoolyard that has become a makeshift morgue.It was unclear whether she had died from the fire or […]
First Dutch king in more than 120 years
Source: CNN Willem-Alexander was sworn in as the first Dutch king in more than 120 years on Tuesday after his mother, Queen Beatrix, abdicated the throne, ending 33 years as the country’s monarch. The 75-year-old monarch handed over power in a constitutionally ordained ceremony in the Mozes Hall of the […]
Bangladesh Needs Strong Unions, Not Outside Pressure
Source: NY Times Op-Ed By FAZLE HASAN ABED BANGLADESH, my country, is again in tears. Last week in Savar, a suburb of Dhaka, the capital, a poorly constructed building that housed garment factories and other businesses collapsed. More than 300 have been confirmed dead, and the final death toll could well […]
USA: Islam’s Top Peace Advocate to Visit Los Angeles May 4-15 this Year
Ahmadiyya Times: Source/Credit: Baitul Hameed Mosque: By Baitul Hameed Mosque | April 29, 2013 The news often highlights calls for Jihad against America, Israel and the West made by politically or religiously extremist […]
Neighbourly acts: Seven Ahmadis detained without an FIR
ET: LAHORE: Gulshan-i-Ravi police arrested seven members of the Ahmadi community on Monday after close to 300 people protested in front of what was described as a place of worship of the community. The police raided an alleged Ahmadi place of worship and arrested seven people without registering a FIR […]
The importance of Keith Ellison: Patriot who’s also a Muslim is our best defense against Islamic extremism and violence
Salon.com: Progressives loved seeing Rep. Keith Ellison smack down his GOP congressional colleague Peter King on “Meet the Press” Sunday, insisting that profiling Muslims in the wake of the Boston bombing is not only wrong but “ineffective law enforcement.” As Ellison warned: “Once you start saying, we’re going to dragnet or surveil […]
Writing as a Spiritual Practice
Huff Post: by Pat Schneider. Sometimes when things are so real they hurt, words come that T.S. Eliot called “what we know and do not know we know.” I said, “Fred, I bet God is delighted! For the first time in your life, you talked to God in your native […]
Kimberly Rivera Pleads Guilty To Desertion Charges (refused to go on a second tour to Iraq)
FORT CARSON, Colo. — A female soldier in the U.S. Army pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of desertion after fleeing to Canada to avoid a second tour of duty in the Iraq war. Pfc. Kimberly Rivera was sentenced to 10 months in prison and a bad-conduct discharge after entering […]
Jemima Khan and the Part-Time Wife
BBC: Jemima Khan investigates the practice of polygamy in the UK’s Muslim community. For divorced Muslim women, finding a new spouse isn’t always easy. But would being a part-time wife […]
Short Video: Life Under Siege in Bekasi Mosque for 20 Ahmadiyya Muslims- (Bahasa)
Editor’s note: Although the whole video is in Bahasa Indonesia, it is very simple to understand and how beautifully the life of these brave Ahmadi Muslims has been documented. Worth Watching and please remember them in prayers. youtube: Published on Apr 27, 2013 Watch here: 4 April 2013, Walikota Bekasi menutup […]
Naturalisation? No thanks : Why some residents choose not to become Swiss
by Jeannie Wurz, swissinfo.ch April 29, 2013 – 11:00 Naturalisation is a Swiss political hot potato, with moves afoot to make the process harder in the face of rising immigration. […]
‘Au revoir’ (Good Bye) to English, demands French PM
France 24: French Socialist Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault wrote a letter to members of the government Thursday asking them to avoid using English words, even when dealing with technological innovations. The request comes after Arnaud Montebourg, minister of industrial renewal, and Michèle Delaunay, minister for the elderly, announced they were creating a new […]
Stop the Blaming: Rise of Ignorance and Islamophobia
Source: The Huffington Post By Nicola Moors: Editor of the University of Sheffield’s student newspaper, Forge Press, where she is also studying journalism During the majority of the 1930s and 1940s, around […]
Early marriage persists in society despite law amendments — activists
by Areej Abuqudairi | Apr 29, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Activists and civil society groups warned that the practice of early marriage persists despite an amendment to the […]
Palestinian Christians urge Pope to oppose wall
AFP | Apr 29, 2013 | 23:44 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Palestinian Christians near Bethlehem on Monday urged Pope Francis to speak up against an Israeli decision to build its controversial separation barrier on a route they say would cut off their community. “We cry to your Holiness with a feeling […]
Truthfulness is a vast curriculum – Teachings from the Qur’an
Salman Al-Awdah ARABNEWS Friday 26 April 2013 O YOU who believe! Have taqwa with Allah, and be among the truthful.” (Al-Qur’an, 9:119) Many people understand truthfulness to mean truthfulness of the tongue through speech alone. In reality, truthfulness is a vast curriculum. It is as much one of the characteristics […]
Willem-Alexander becomes new Dutch king
MIKE CORDER | AP ARABNEWS Tuesday 30 April 2013 AMSTERDAM: King Willem-Alexander became the first Dutch male monarch in more than a century Tuesday as his mother Beatrix abdicated to […]
I gotta admit: I’m not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be,” Obama said
Source:CNN Obama went for it anyway, joking about his appearance — “These days I look in the mirror and I gotta admit: I’m not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be,” he said — and his recent “rookie mistakes,” one of which being his remark about California […]