TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA 1. Vancouver : 1.5 million people and two bridges. You do the math. 2. Your $400,000 Vancouver home is just 5 hours from downtown. 3. You can throw a rock and hit three Starbucks locations. 4. There’s always some sort of deforestation protest […]
Source:The daily Beast. The day after last week’s attack in Boston, David Sirota wrote a column for Salon entitled “Let’s Hope the Boston Marathon Bomber Is a White American,” arguing that this would limit the resulting crackdown on civil liberties. At first, conservatives were appalled. Then, when police fingered the […]
Source: The daily beast. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s diplomatic initiative to host talks between Afghan and Pakistani leaders in Brussels this week was a timely step meant to reset tense relations between the two South Asian neighbors, and revive stalled talks with the Taliban as the 2014 deadline […]
Source: NY Times: A Punjabi show has married Canada’s national pastime with the sounds of the Indian subcontinent, providing a glimpse into the changing face of hockey. Read More:
Source:Spiegel In the opening chapter of “The Jewish Candidate,” Frank Carver, a reporter for the fictitious London Chronicle, is posted to Germany to cover the country’s most-fascinating election campaign since World War II. Rudolf Gutman, the first Jew to run for chancellor, is promising to free Germany from the shackles […]
Source:Vanguard via Wasim Sr. The Majlis Khuddam-ul-Ahmadiyya of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Organisation, has charged leaders at various level of governance to lead by example, show justice and equity and eschew all forms of vegeance inorder to move the nation forward. The cahrge was contained in a communique issued at […]
Evening Standard London: A master bombmaker trained by al Qaeda was handed five life sentences today and told he may never be released unless he gives up extremism. Above from left, […]
dna: In a major victory to 4 lakh dalits in the UK, a bill that will outlaw discrimination on the basis of caste in Britain has received royal assent from […]
religiondispatches: In the wake of the Boston Bombings, Eboo Patel, public intellectual and director of the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), has proposed, in a recent article on HuffPo, that this explosive violence resulted partly from a failure of interfaith dialogue. With the caveat that “interfaith programs are not a miracle solution,” he […]
theguardian: by Ian Birrell. It is hard to take claims of religious intolerance from Christians seriously when UK Muslims are daily subject to real hate crimes A recent Chatham House study by […]
Source: NY Times. By JULFIKAR ALI MANIK, STEVEN GREENHOUSE and JIM YARDLEY DHAKA, Bangladesh — As the search for survivors continued on Friday in one of the worst manufacturing disasters in history, pointed questions were being raised about why a factory building in Bangladesh was not padlocked after terrified workers […]
ScienceDaily. Apr. 25, 2013 — In many places around the world, people are living longer and are having fewer children. But that’s not all. A study of people living in rural Gambia, published in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on April 25, shows that this modern-day “demographic transition” may lead women to […]
The Leaders stand in the background as contracts are signed Source: China Daily Xi, Hollande vow to push ties and build multipolar world order Beijing and Paris signed 18 deals on […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s Note: Those with eyes open and sight working should not find it difficult to read this article and then see what is happening to Ahmadiyya Muslims […]
Aisha Sherazi, National Post Toronto As a Muslim, my own faith journey began when a co-worker committed suicide by hanging himself, using sheets from his bedroom window. He was the life and soul of the party, and I was in my early 20s, young and shocked. I wondered: What happens […]
The Rhode Island medical examiner’s office says a body found in Providence is that of a Brown University student missing since last month. Health Department spokeswoman Dara Chadwick says the body of 22-year-old Sunil Tripathi was identified Thursday morning through a forensic dental exam. The cause of death has not […]
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit: Dawn.com AFP | 22nd April, 2013 LAHORE: Some 200,000 members of Pakistan’s minority Ahmadi community will boycott next month’s election in protest at […]
Youtube: Alislam.org: A new urdu programme taking its title from a very famous couplet from Pakistan’s great poet, Faiz Ahmad Faiz highlights the plight and persecution of Ahmadiyya Muslims in […]
AMMAN — Arab Bank on Thursday said a New York federal court has rejected some of the lawsuits filed against the financial institution that alleged it provided banking services to […]
by Areej Abuqudairi | Apr 25, 2013 JORDAN TIMES BAPTISM SITE — Religious leaders have a great responsibility in creating interfaith harmony and promoting peace worldwide, experts and scholars said […]