Source: Amnesty International Blog By Zeke Johnson April 23, 2013 at 1:56 PM My cousin lives in Boston and I was worried that he was somehow affected by the attacks. It immediately brought me back to 9/11 and the memory of how powerless I felt watching the Twin Towers […]
Venue Wednesday, April 24 7-10 p.m. WSU Vancouver campus Dengerink Administration building, room 110 FREE and open to the public For more information, visit vancouver.wsu.edu Theme of Discussion Moderated by […]
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME INDONESIA: Government collaborates with non-tolerant groups in closing down three Ahmadi mosques in Cianjur ISSUES: Freedom of religion; minorities; non-state actors; police […]
You have to know Urdu to read this Ad by a Fundamentalist’s organization as they vilify the most honored and respected philanthropist in Pakistan, Abdul Sattar Edhi, because of their hatred of the […]
Times of Malta.com: by Laiq Ahmad Atif. Love is a powerful weapon that unites and brings people, communities, nations, religions and countries closer. In the same way, hatred and malice are the instruments of division and conflict. The editorial of The Times of April 4, ‘Maltese perception of Muslims’ shed […]
Huff Post: by Scott Stephens. Dawkins’ views on religion are by now extremely well-known, to the point of cultural saturation thanks to the media’s fixation with him. Dawkins makes for good copy — that’s why journalists love him. But the dogmatic assertions and withering dismissals that made Dawkins a media-darling, […]
By Lynsay Williams | The Daily Tar Heel A little more than a week after the bombings at the Boston Marathon, Muslims in the Triangle came together Tuesday to promote Islam as a peaceful religion. The event, held in the Frank Porter Student Union and attended by about 60, was […]
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Source: The Huffington Post By Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman: Blogger, Sinai and Synapses I recently had a conversation with a neuroscientist, who also happened to be a self-described atheist. He knew I […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Source / Courtesy: Review of Religions and Alislam.org. First published in 2007. A compelling argument that Thomas Jefferson […]
Source: BBC By Sean Coughlan: BBC News education correspondent An international training institute to teach online tactics for human rights campaigners is being set up in the Italian city of […]
Source:RT.Com via Wasim Sr. Video footage allegedly showing Kindergarten-aged children firing an arsenal of heavy firepower at a terrorist training camp in Pakistan’s tribal area has surfaced online. Young children garbed in shalwar kameez can be seen lined up in neat rows, straining under the recoil as they fire semi-automatic […]
JEDDAH: JASSIM ABUZAID ARABNEWS Wednesday 24 April 2013 The office of the Ministry of Islamic and Endowment Affairs in Makkah has barred non-Saudis from being imams and muezzins. Abdullah Al-Nasser, head of the ministry’s office in Makkah, said there will be no exception to the ruling, a local newspaper reported. […]
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 […]