By snubbing Copts on their holiest day, Egypt’s Morsi failed as President
NERVANA MAHMOUD Special to The Globe and Mail On late Saturday, Pope Tawadros II led his first Easter Mass as head of the ancient Coptic Christian Church in Egypt by […]
Muslim development plans meet resistance in rural Maryland
A Muslim group’s effort to move its campus from College Park to Maryland’s rural Howard County is being met with opposition from local residents, who say dense construction plans for the site would spoil the quiet character of the area. Although both sides insist that the debate turns solely on […]
Muslim as a label
Source: The Local. Just to name two examples – of course a democracy must reform its citizenship laws if the danger emerges that a growing part of its population is being shut out of the political process because they have no right to vote. And of course schools need to […]
The 4m votes no one wants
Source: Guardian via Wasim Sr. As Pakistan’s election campaign enters its dying days, no town has escaped the attention of the country’s politicians as they crisscross the country, plastering every spare billboard, lamp-post and shop-front with posters bearing their heavily airbrushed faces. Except Rabwah, a sleepy riverside settlement in the […]
Science & God: Will Biology, Astronomy, Physics Rule Out Existence Of Deity?
http://pshared.5min.com/Scripts/PlayerSeed.js?sid=281&width=490&height=275&playList=517466993 A good Religion itself, philosophy and science rule out a God, which does miracles that break the laws of nature. God of Islam is Al Baatin, the Hidden, the Subtle, who uses laws of nature to grant devout and righteous believers, their prayers. Defining a domain of metaphysics, properly, […]
Finding a new home in Islam – Why a young man from Herford (Germany) converted to Islam
by CORINA LASS (please bear with us – Google translate from German being used). Herford. The years after 2000 were troubled. Parental divorce, comprehensive school Friedenstal, vocational training year, training […]
[Urdu Video] Khidmat-e-Quran – Rah-eHuda [4-May-2013] from Dar-ul-Amaan Qadian
Source: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community An interactive talk show discussing and answering questions in relation to the beliefs of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, thus rectifying misconceptions. For more information please visit alislam.org […]
Rare Painting of Prophet Muhammad (saw)’s footprints to be auctioned
Source: www.hindustantimes.com A rare painting of the footprints of Prophet Muhammad will go under the hammer and is expected to fetch 10,000-15,000 pounds at a British auction later in May. The painting made during the 18th century Ottoman Empire will be auctioned at the Mullock’s Auctions. Mullock’s auctioneer, Richard Westwood Brookes […]
Ahmadiyya Muslims spread ‘Love For All’ message
Source: www.cbc.ca Ahmadiyya Muslims were out to spread a message of peace on the weekend. Local members went door to door to promote the national Love for All, Hatred for None […]
It is a Message to Iranians
Source: NY Times: JERUSALEM — The twin airstrikes in Damascus on Friday and Sunday attributed to Israel appear to be more about Jerusalem’s broad, mostly covert battle with Iran and Hezbollah than about the bloody civil war raging in Syria. Despite intensifying concern over the future of Syria, Israeli political […]
How Nawaz Sharif is more mature and ready to lead Pakistan
Source: Daily Telegraph via Wasim Sr The politician most likely to be Pakistan’s next prime minister is a wiser man and a more mature leader than the one who governed twice in the 1990s before being overthrown in a military coup, according to one of the women who knows him […]
Sajdah to Mullah Tahir-ul-Qadri! Mullah Shirk
Source. Wasim Sr Click HERE to see video in Youtube. Now watch Tahir ul Qadri’s condemnation of prostration to any human:
Bangladesh Clashes: Police, Islamic Hardliners Battle Over Blasphemy Law (VIDEO)
Source: Huffington Post /AP By FARID HOSSAIN DHAKA, Bangladesh — Police banned all rallies in Bangladesh’s capital for the rest of the day Monday after at least 20 people died in clashes between police and large numbers of Islamic hardliners demanding that the government enact an anti-blasphemy law, officials said. […]
National Police to Set Up Task Force to Investigate Tasikmalaya Ahmadiyah Attack
The Jakarta Globe: The National Police have set up a special team to investigate Sunday’s attack on the Ahmadiyah community in Tasikmalaya, West Java, by Islamic hard-liners. A mob of […]
U.S. Muslims More Moderate Than Muslims Worldwide
Source: The Huffington Post By Omar Sacirbey Religion News Service (RNS) Muslims in America are much less inclined to support suicide bombing than other Muslims abroad, and are more likely […]
Old wine in new bottle
Source: BD News 24. By Moinul Hoque Chowdhury Hifazat-e Islam’s Dhaka blockade is a demonstration of the muscle power of religion-driven politics, but under a non-political banner in a year when parliament elections are due, political analysts say. The radical Islamist organisation enforced the Dhaka blockade within a month of its […]
Press Release: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA Welcomes His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad on his first trip to the West Coast
Alislam.org: Press Release: Khalifa of Islam Greeted by Thousands of Americans Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA Welcomes His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad on his first trip to the West Coast Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA welcomed the Khalifa of Islam yesterday, His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad, to Bait ul Hameed Mosque in Chino, California […]
Nine Times bigger Telescope for Hawaii
Hawaii Islands – Picture is courtesy of PacificIslands.com Source: China Daily By Chen Jia in San Francisco (China Daily) Chinese astronomers are helping develop technologies for what it is intended […]
Shia, Ahmadi, Hindu? Then Run for Your Life
India Today: By Pervez Hoodbhoy Blaise Pascal, the famous 17th century philosopher and mathematician, observed that “men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it for religious conviction”. His words could apply to Gujarat 2002. Or to today’s Pakistan, where your religious affiliation-whether by birth or […]