Global Post: SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea stepped up its military activity after ordering missile units on stand-by to attack US bases in the Pacific in response to American stealth bomber flights over the Korean peninsula. The North’s official KCNA news agency said Kim Jong Un signed off on the […]
Source: Mr Abid Khan London The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, yesterday inaugurated the Baitur Rahman Mosque in Valencia. It is the second Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosque to be built in Spain, following on from the historical Basharat Mosque in Pedro […]
BBC-Urdu: احمدیوں کے ساتھ ریاست کا امتیازی سلوک کیوں؟: The part on Ahmadiyya persecution starts at 22nd minute. Youtube: Watch Here:
Mar 28, 2013 – 15:06 Swiss chocolate maker Lindt & Sprüngli has lost a court battle to protect its gold foil-wrapped Easter bunnies being imitated by a German rival. Lindt, […]
Source: Dawn.Com THE thought itself may smack of fun: Musarrat Shaheen taking on Maulana Fazlur Rehman in a Dera Ismail Khan constituency is material for just as much lighthearted commentary as there was when the former actor and the maulana squared off in an election in 1997. Both, together with […]
March 29, 2013 – By Bassem Mroue – Daily Star, Lebanon Story Summary Syrian rebels on Friday captured a strategic town near the border with Jordan after a day of […]
Saudi Arabia is focusing on the need to make joint efforts to reduce global poverty. “The Kingdom has always stressed the significance of cooperating in all efforts at international level for cheap and reliable availability of fuel to guarantee sustainable development that would cut poverty by half in the world […]
RIYADH: SHAJA AL-BUQAMI ARABNEWS Saturday 30 March 2013 Twitter users beware. The Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) is currently studying the possibility of linking the access to microblogging site with the personal identification of social media users, according to sources. The move is likely to create ripples in the […]
Critical Muslim Studies: Decolonial Struggles, Theology of Liberation and Islamic Revival Granada, Spain-June 10-21, 2013 FINAL ROUND APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 15, 2013 The international Summer School, Critical Muslim Studies: Decolonial Struggles, Theology of Liberation and Islamic Revival, is an intensive seminar composed of several courses (all of them held in […]
Source: Spiegel International Germany is home to some 4 million Muslims. With the long Easter weekend around the corner, a leading member of the country’s Muslim community has called for legal recognition of two Muslim holidays, drawing criticism from among Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling conservatives. In 2010 former German President Christian […]
Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba (Spanish: Mezquita–catedral de Córdoba, Mezquita de Córdoba), also called the Mezquita and the Great Mosque of Córdoba,[2] is now a Catholic Christian cathedral and formerly a medieval […]
A MTA News presentation: Urdu Short Documentary: History of Islam in Spain – Al Andalus: Urdu Short Documentary: History of Islam Ahmadiyyat (The Real Islam) in Spain:
By: M. Imran Hayee, Duluth News Tribune Three months after the shocking Newtown tragedy, America’s top lawmakers remain unable to take action on gun-control legislation. Instead, a fierce fight between President Obama and the gun lobby is on the rise. The gun lobby portrays Obama as an elite hypocrite who […]
Source: The Huffington Post: By Daoud Kuttab The issue of Jerusalem has always been a hot topic at Arab summits. If there were a Guinness Book record for the number […]
Jews, Christians mark religious festivals in Holy City Haaretz: This year, Passover and Easter fall during the same week, and Jerusalem is awash with pilgrims and worshipers from both religions. […]
Hooded flagellants worship during holy week in Pampanga province, Philippines. It looks mighty painful, but for these religious worshipers flagellation is a necessary act of mortification in which they scourge themselves by whipping their own flesh. Although the bloody practice is condemned by the Catholic church and frowned upon in […]
Why is olive oil, the crown jewel of the Mediterranean diet, so good for your health? Nutritionists point to its abundance of antioxidants and oleic acid, a monounsaturated fat that protects the heart. But new research suggests that some of the benefits of olive oil might be contained in its […]
Why fly Pakistani flag in Canada? Tarek Fatah- The Toronto SUN There are many ways to demean an institution. At times it’s the defacing of a war memorial, but at other times the insult is inflicted in a manner that goes largely unnoticed until someone points it out. One such […]
By J. DAVID GOODMAN and WENDY RUDERMAN The New York Times Published: March 28, 2013 Looking to avoid troublesome social media postings by its officers, the New York Police Department has issued strict guidelines and ordered its members to comb through their personal profiles on Facebook, Twitter and other Web […]