This Map Of US Female Mortality Will Break Your Heart
Business Insider: Grace Wyler. In a speech at the Women In The World summit Friday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton mentioned a startling fact: Women in the U.S. are living shorter lives than women in almost every other industrialized country. And worse yet, female mortality rates are actually rising in many parts of […]
Stone throwing incident at Al Aqsa
by Sheila Musaji Pamela Geller published an article On Passover, Muslims Stone Jews at the holiest site in Judaism, the Temple Mount and she calls them “savages”. Her partner Robert […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosque West Yorkshire (England) welcomes Lord Lieutenant Dr Roscoe
Source: www.examiner.co.uk [News of 2nd April, but not sure if posted earlier, so posting] A HUDDERSFIELD mosque has welcomed a visit from the Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire. Ingrid Roscoe, the […]
Athens to have at least 7 mosques & Bishop’s Challenge in court
Each of Athens’s seven districts will have one to two mosques. Source: World Bulletin/News Desk The approval to build a mosque in the Greek capital of Athens has opened the […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) Leamington (Canada) to raise £240,000+ in a Charity Challenge
Source: http://www.leamingtoncourier.co.uk Members of the Leamington branch of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) are hoping to raise more than £240,000 for the Warwickshire Association for the Blind by taking part […]
Closed Mosque
Closed mosque: The al-Misbah mosque belonging to the Indonesia Ahmadiyah Congregation stands deserted after being sealed off by public order officers assisted by police officers and soldiers on early Friday. […]
Pictures- Bekasi Ahmadis in stand off
The Jakarta Post: Around 50 Ahmadis in Bekasi, West Java, have sealed themselves in the Al-Misbah Mosque, which the municipal administration closed the day before in a crack down. The […]
The Influences of Islam on Africans
Opposing Views, by Alison Lake. Some 20 percent of the world’s Muslim population lives in Africa, and nearly half of Africa’s population is Muslim. Islamic practice in Africa started over 1,400 years ago [W. African Islam, Ref. 4] with the arrival of Muslim conquerors in North Africa. They came from […]
Taliban Have Second Thoughts About Fighting in Afghanistan
Source: Daily Beast: As the spring weather warms and the snow melts off the high mountain passes separating Pakistan and Afghanistan, hundreds of Taliban fighters who spent the winter in Afghan refugee camps and other safe havens inside Pakistan are preparing to return to battle. But this year some insurgents […]
The psychology of time
Source: The Economist: IN “TIME’S Arrow”, a novel by Martin Amis, the protagonist experiences time backwards. Eating involves regurgitating food into his mouth, sculpting the mush with his tongue, packaging it up and selling it to a grocery store. The passage on defecation is best left undescribed. Such a comic […]
Home grown terrorism in Canada – two Imams involved
After CBC News revealed that two terrorists involved in the attack on a gas plant in Algeria were from London (Ontario), Wael Haddara and Munir el-Kassem told the media that they were unknown to them and that terrorism cannot be linked with religion. From April 2011 to March 2012, while […]
Minority rights: Few years after father’s murder, Ahmedi lawyer shot in Nawabshah
Express Tribune: KARACHI: Tragedy struck an Ahmedi family in Nawabshah once again when the son was shot at by an unidentified man only a few years after his father was killed. The victim A*, who is a lawyer, was at his brother’s shop – taking a break from his morning […]
The Dawning of a New Era of Hope
Source: Spiegel. Ethical worries have slowed medical research into applications for stem cells. But scientists like Robert Lanza have developed less controversial ways to derive stem cells from normal body cells rather than embryos and are already launching the first clinical trials. More:
A Moving Video: Bekasi Mayor Shuts Down Ahmadiyah Mosque
Youtube: Tweet by Deden Sjana: Rehmat Effendi, Bekasi Mayor, has granted the request of islamic hardliner group to shut down an Ahmadiyah Mosque in Bekasi, a city located only 30 kilometers […]
“I only became patriotic after I accepted Islam”: The Daily Mail’s, Bait-ul-Futuh Mosque and Islamophobia
Newreligion.eu: part from defaming Muslims and stirring racial tensions, does the Daily Mail have nothing better to do? Baitul Fatuh Mosque, Morden, UK by Ibn Habeeb Nothing is more certain in life than […]
Biogeography: One of the best proofs for Darwin-Wallace theory of evolution
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Since my visits to Hawaii islands and Bermuda, starting in 2004, I have become a staunch […]
No separate sex sports for Muslim kids
Source: The Local German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday that she rejected the idea of separate sport classes for Muslim girls and boys, saying it would send “a completely wrong integration policy signal.” More:
RO asks Hina Rabbani Khar to produce marriage certificate
Source: Dawn.Com Former foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar. — Photo by AP/File MUZAFFARGARH: The Returning Officer on Saturday asked former foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar to produce her marriage certificate during the scrutiny of her nomination papers in Kot Addu for the NA-177 seat. Returning Officer Abdur Rehman Bodla asked […]
Evacuation warnings, missile fears stoke North Korea crisis
Source: TOI SEOUL: Foreign diplomats in Pyongyang were considering a North Korean evacuation advisory Saturday as concerns grew that the isolated state was preparing a missile launch at a time of soaring nuclear tensions. Bulgaria said the heads of EU missions would meet to hammer out a common position after […]