Tolerance No More
Qantara: Indonesia’s brand of Islam is often portrayed by women wearing headscarves smiling in friendly fashion or children playing in front of a mosque. Almost 90 per cent of the […]
Climate Change is Reducing Our Ability to Get Work Done
Source: Smithsonian.com. If you feel sluggish and have difficulty getting physical work done on very hot, humid days, it’s not your imagination. Our bodies are equipped with an adaptation to handle high temperatures—perspiration—but sweating becomes ineffective at cooling us down when the air around us is extremely humid. Add in […]
A Plague of Locusts Descends Upon the Holy Land, Just in Time for Passover
Source: Smithsonian.com. Locusts have plagued farmers for millennia. According to the Book of Exodus, around 1400 B.C. the Egyptians experienced an exceptionally unfortunate encounter with these ravenous pests when they struck as the eighth Biblical plague. As Exodus describes, “They covered the face of the whole land, so that the land was darkened, and they […]
The Bible TV Series: Why It’s Breaking Audience Records
Huff Post: Perhaps it’s because I’m one of the few (if not the only) working television producer in Los Angeles with a Ph.D. in Theology, but I’m often the “go-to” guy when the media is bewildered by Christianity. As a result, I’ve spent the last two weeks talking to various […]
KSA warning: Saudis fighting in Syria will be arrested on return
RIYADH: ARAB NEWS .Saudis fighting in Syria will be arrested when they return home. The warning has been issued by the Interior Ministry. Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki, the ministry’s spokesman, […]
Muslim Leader says World War is Inevitable unless True Justice Prevails
His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad A Press release by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, on March 25, 2013, stated that His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad appeals for an end to inequality. The World […]
PAKISTAN: The houses of Ahmadis are under attack and the police are providing protection to the attackers
PAKISTAN: The houses of Ahmadis are under attack and the police are providing protection to the attackers ISSUES: Religious intolerance, torture, impunity, no rule of law ——————————————————————— The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the attacks on the houses belonging to Ahmadis. The attackers were from two […]
Clerics attack Ahmadi house, torture family in Punjab
Express Tribune: KASUR: Local clerics attacked a house belonging to an Ahmadi family in the Kasur district of Punjab on Tuesday and subjected the family members to violence allegedly over their religious belief, The Express Tribune has learnt. A mob led by a local cleric chanted slogans against Ahmadi families, their religious beliefs […]
Passover: A Timeless Message for African Americans and Jews
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 […]
A mega mosque (Baitul Futuh) in a suburb that was 90 per cent white 30 years ago and the polite apartheid dividing Britain
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 […]
Picture of the Day: The New Mosque in Valencia- Spain- Bait-ur-Rahman
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Real to reel: the story of a Muslim woman and a Brahmin widow
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 […]
Burmese Neo-Nazi Movement Rising Against Muslims
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 […]
Pakistan’s Islam Imperils the Public Space
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 […]
Opinion: This is militant Islamophobia in Burma, rooted in history
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 […]
To Fight India, We Fought Ourselves
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 […]
Arguments in the Home Linked With Babies’ Brain Functioning
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 […]
Discover beauty amidst the chaos
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 […]
Bangladesh’s war-crimes tribunal – Justice is better late than never
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 […]
Report: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaa’t Bhagalpur (Bihar)’s Third All Religions Conference
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 […]