Huff Post: At the Passover Seder, when we recall the Ten Plagues that God visited upon the ancient Egyptians, it is important to remember that not all of the plagues manifested themselves in the form of physical afflictions. Rabbinic sages explain that the ninth plague — the plague of Darkness […]
Mailonline: David Goodhart argues that a new patriotism can unite our nation again We will have an ethnic minority population of around 25 per cent by 2020 Goodhart says a […]
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Source: Indian Express Thirteen years ago, a Muslim housewife in Kerala had stopped an old and destitute Brahmin widow from jumping in front of a train and ending a life for which she saw no hope. The Muslim woman, then 34, took the 76-year-old high-caste Namboothiri woman home, gave her […]
Source: Asia Sentinel A troubling new movement spells disaster if left unchecked When Dr. Maung Zarni, an outspoken activist academic, labeled the ongoing anti-Rohingya and anti-Muslim movement in Burma as neo-Nazi, some Burmese said Zarni was exaggerating. Western commentators have also avoided the term. But Zarni has been proven right […]
Huff Post: Qanta Ahmad: The deliberate torching of 178 Christian homes in Joseph Colony, Lahore, in response to accusations of blasphemy posed to a single resident in that community is a stark example of the perils of a public space governed by an ‘official’ Islam. Today’s Pakistan, originally founded to […]
Source: Asian Correspondent In November last year, a piece I wrote on the potential for the Arakan state violence to evolve into wider anti-Muslim conflict in other parts of Burma was met with accusations of sensationalism and a misreading of the root causes of the Arakan unrest. The piece had […]
Source:NYTimes By MOHSIN HAMID ON Monday, my mother’s and sister’s eye doctor was assassinated. He was a Shiite. He was shot six times while driving to drop his son off at school. His son, age 12, was executed with a single shot to the head. Tuesday, I attended a protest in […]
Source: Science Daily Being exposed to arguments between parents is associated with the way babies’ brains process emotional tone of voice, according to a new study to be published in Psychological […]
Courtesy: http://www.stuff.co.nz/ MARK DAPIN I’d read warnings about travel in Bangladesh: the toilets are filthy, the kitchens are like toilets, and travellers will get sick. Hartals, or general strikes, regularly paralyse the state. In the villages, people are taken by Bengal tigers. But nothing filled my […]
Courtesy: The Economist Mar 23rd 2013 |From the print edition IN 1961 Israel kidnapped Adolf Eichmann from Argentina and put him on trial for crimes committed 20 years earlier. Eichmann had been secretary at the Nazis’ Wannsee conference that led to the Holocaust. His trial in Jerusalem was a […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaa’t Bhagalpur Zone Organized The All Religions Conference on 17th March 2013 at Modern Marriage Garden,Tatapur Bhagalpur.under the guidance of Ameer Jamaa’t Bhagalpur zone Janab Syed Abdul Naqui […]
2nd Masroor badminton tournament was organized by Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya Ernakulam zone on 24th March 2013 as a part of Platinum Jublee Celebrations. Event was inaugurated with silent prayers by […]
Reporter: M Haleem Asad | PakObserver.Net Monday, March 25, 2013 – Timergara—The central vice chief of the Jamaat-i-Islami and partynominated candidate for PK-95 Sirajul Haq has said that establishment of ‘khilafat […]
The US has handed over to Afghanistan the only prison still under American control, resolving an issue that has strained ties between the countries. BBC News A transfer ceremony took […]
The Indian unit of Ford Motor Company has apologised for an advertisement showing former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi with a group of bound women in the boot of a […]
Press TV: According to the survey conducted by the French Sociovision Institute and released on March 8, 68 percent of the French Muslims attach more importance to their religious values […]
Bangladesh honours 13 Pakistanis for 1971 support Courtesy: Zee News Dhaka: Bangladesh on Sunday honoured 13 “Pakistani friends” for their outstanding moral support during its nine-month long liberation war, 42 years after they defied risks of persecution by the then military junta. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina handed them over the […]
Europeans will have to prove they are “genuinely seeking employment” to claim UK jobless benefits for more than six months, David Cameron has said. BBC News The prime minister said […]