AFP | Apr 23, 2013 | 23:31 JORDAN TIMES RAMALLAH — An Israeli-held Palestinian prisoner on a life-threatening hunger strike has agreed to end his fast in return for his early release, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Under terms of the deal, Samer Issawi, who has intermittently refused food since […]
AMMAN — Jordan’s security and stability is not a coincidence, but it is the result of the hard work and determination of the Jordanian people, His Majesty King Abdullah said […]
Terrorism and the other Religions Posted on 04/23/2013 by Juan Cole Contrary to what is alleged by bigots like Bill Maher, Muslims are not more violent than people of other […]
Editor’s Note: An incident in the US in Boston allows Islamophobes to come out guns blazing to paint Islam as a terrorist promoting Religion. Thousands of Rohingya Muslims have been killed in one of the worst ethnic cleansing since the Bosnian Muslim Genocide, by the Buddist Monks but no one […]
CNN Religion Blogs: Editor’s Note: Naseem Mahdi is national vice president and missionary in charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA. By Naseem Mahdi, Special to CNN Last weekend, more than 6,000 Ahmadi Muslims gathered in Virginia for their 62nd annual convention. But with more than 2 million Muslims living in the United States, […]
Express Tribune: As has been the case since 1985, the country’s 200,000 Ahmadis will not be casting their ballots on May 11. They remain a community without representation and voice, marginalised within a society where they have been subjected to ceaseless discrimination, denied jobs and education, ostracised, beaten and sometimes […]
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (left) and US Congressman Keith Ellison (right) at his swearing-in ceremony with President Thomas Jefferson‘s Qur’an, in 2007 Keith Maurice Ellison (born August 4, 1963) is an American politician and lawyer serving […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Rabbi Marc Schneier: President, Foundation for Ethnic Understanding; Vice President, World Jewish Congress In the wake of the horrific attacks in Boston last week perpetrated by two ethnic Chechen brothers who appear to have been motivated by extreme Islamist ideology, we are already seeing a dangerous […]
Updated: 2013-04-11 10:54 By Joseph Boris in Washington (China Daily) Source: China Daily On a day of unseasonable heat that ensured all of Washington’s cherry blossoms had burst into full bloom, Chinese and American dignitaries opened the first Confucius Institute in the US capital, expressing hope for a flowering of […]
Editor’s note: David Rothkopf writes regularly for CNN.com. He is CEO and editor-at-large of the FP Group, publishers of Foreign Policy magazine, and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. (CNN) — […]
Source: China Daily The $300 million scholarship fund for foreign students to study in China launched by US private equity tycoon Stephen Schwarzman represents a “remarkably ambitious” effort to boost understanding of China by the United States and other Western nations, an executive member of the Asia Society said. “For […]
Bali festivals showcase interfaith bonding …………. Pointing to the recent incident where the Islamic Defender’s Front pressured the closure of three Ahmadiyah mosques in West Java, Suratna stated “ We […]
By Ian Johnston, Staff Writer, NBC News Muslims helped foil an alleged al Qaeda-backed plot to blow up a rail line between the United States and Canada, according to a […]
Feiz Mohammad, the radical preacher cited by dead Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is a former boxer who blames women for being raped and called for a prominent Dutch politician to be beheaded. Widely known as ‘Sheikh Feiz’, the preacher was born in Australia circa 1970-1 but fled to Lebanon, […]
Please click on here to access the library of Questions and Answers provided by Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Khalifatul-Masih IV. (may Allah be pleased with him). http://www.alislam.org/v/c-17.html
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the Congressman. For other people named Keith Ellison, see Keith Ellison (disambiguation). Keith Ellison Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota‘s 5th district Incumbent Assumed office January 3, 2007 Preceded by Martin Olav Sabo Member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from the 58B district […]
Huff Post: by Todd Storch. Our oldest daughter Taylor has been buried. She was 13. The world as I knew it is over. Nothing makes sense. Up is down. Go is stop and left is right. I have no control. On the first day of our family ski trip, Taylor, […]
For terrorists, the prison experience can be harrowing, especially in other countries where civil rights aren’t a thing. However, in Saudi Arabia, prison for terrorists is eerily like a resort […]
The Huffington Post | By Amanda Terkel Posted: 04/22/2013 5:02 pm EDT | Updated: 04/22/2013 5:07 pm EDT Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), the first Muslim elected to Congress, issued a word of caution on Monday […]
King urges swift, effective solution to escalating Syria crisis AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Monday emphasised the important role US Arab and Islamic organisations can play in communicating […]