West Java Governor Signs Deal With FPI Banning Ahmadiyah
The Jakarta Globe: Just days before a provincial election, West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan has signed a deal with the hardline Islamic Defenders Front in which he has reportedly agreed […]
How life was like in 1910
The year is 1910, over one hundred years ago. What a difference a century makes! Here are some statistics for the Year 1910: ************ ********* ************ The average life expectancy for men was 47 years. Fuel for this car was sold in drug stores only. Only 14 percent of the […]
US Supreme Court recognized four Prophets as Great Law-Givers, in 1932
Epigraph: “Say, ‘We believe in Allah and in that which has been revealed to us, and that which was revealed to Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the […]
Islam belongs to all believers, Amina Wadud; Qantrada.de
t Interview with Amina Wadud”Islam Belongs to All Its Believers” Amina Wadud is an American scholar of Islam with a progressive focus on Koran exegesis. In 2005, she led Friday prayers in the US, which not only broke with tradition, it also triggered debate and Muslim juristic discourse on the […]
Navan (Ireland) teenager killed fighting with Syrian rebels
MARY FITZGERALD, Foreign Affairs Correspondent A teenager from Navan who joined rebels in Syria last year without his parents’ knowledge has been killed as fighting between the Assad regime and […]
KHUTABA JUMMAH, HAZRAT KHALIFATUL MASIH V: MTA
Synopsis of Friday Sermon (22-Feb-13) prepared by Sister Shermeen Butt Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih said that he had in mind to deliver today’s sermon with reference to the Musleh Maud prophecy. He felt that we usually present the prophecy and mention the achievement of Hadhrat Musleh Maud (may Allah be pleased […]
Islamic Socialism: A history from left to right
Nadeem F. Paracha DAWN.COM Between the 1950s and early 1970s, a powerful ideology in the Muslim world galvanised itself from the minds and fringes of modern Islamic intellectualism and made its way into the mainstream political arena. But this ideology did not have a single originator. Its roots can be […]
UN will not compensate Haiti cholera victims, Ban Ki-moon tells president. – World body invokes legal immunity to rebuff claims despite studies identifying UN peacekeepers as source of the outbreak
Rashmee Roshan Lall in Port-au-Prince and Ed Pilkington in New York THE GUARDIAN The UN has taken the rare step of invoking its legal immunity to rebuff claims for compensation from 5,000 victims of the Haiti cholera epidemic, the worst outbreak of the disease in modern times and widely believed […]
Palestinian Oscar nominee laments US airport snub
Friday 22 February 2013 ARABNEWS LOS ANGELES: Oscar-nominated Palestinian director Emad Burnat lamented that US border guards detained him and his family at the Los Angeles airport as they arrived […]
Youngest Muslim to learn Qur’an by heart
CAIRO: A three-year-old girl is amazing Nigeria after memorizing the whole Qur’an, becoming one of the youngest Muslims in the world to learn the Noble Book by heart. “Honestly, I […]
Saudi Arabia: Unlicensed news websites to be blocked
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Saturday 23 February 2013 The Ministry of Culture and Information will block 1,400 unlicensed news websites, according to the ministry’s Assistant Undersecretary for Internal Media, Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Aqeel. Speaking at a symposium on the future of new media held by the commerce chamber in Al-Kharj, Al-Aqeel said […]
‘Fundamentalism’ has nothing to do with Islam or Hinduism’
Source: The Times of India, by Bruce Lawrence. HYDERABAD: Eminent scholar Bruce Lawrencesaid that the word ‘fundamentalism’ does not fit Islam and Hinduism as both religions were not fundamentalist in nature and that the verses of the Quran have been taken out of context by radical groups to further their agenda. […]
Cardinal Keith O’Brien, Britain’s Most Senior Catholic, Says Priests Should Be Able To Marry
Epigraph: Then We caused Our Messengers to follow in their footsteps; and We caused Jesus, son of Mary, to follow them, and We gave him the Gospel. And We placed […]
The Islamic Urbanist Tradition Is in Danger of Going Extinct
by SARAH GOODYEAR Imran Aukhil describes himself as “a Muslim and a committed urbanist.” Those things, he says, should be complementary rather than contradictory. And yet Aukhil, who tweets as […]
The Character of Syria’s Upheavals
by Majid RafizadehFulbright teaching scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars HUFFINGTON POST The upheavals in Syria have generally been interpreted from a culturalist or structuralist perspective. Some attribute the emergence of the democratic uprisings to historic long-term tensions between different ethnic groups which include Alaawite, Syrian Turkmen, Armenians, Druze, […]
Galloway leaves debate with Israeli upon learning of his origin
British MP George Galloway has walked out of a debate at Oxford University upon finding out that his opposite side is an Israeli. According to Thursday reports, Galloway immediately left […]
Pakistan nabs leader of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militant group
Pakistan has arrested Lashkar-e-Jhangvi’s leader Malik Ishaq following the militant group carried out two deadly bombings, mainly targeting Shia Muslims. Ishaq was detained at his residence in the central city of Rahim Yar Khan on Friday and taken to the local jail. “Malik Ishaq has been detained under the Maintenance […]
Morocco offers a paradigm for good ties with Jews
STORY SUMMARY In the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict, “Jewishness” and “Arabness” are often positioned as mutually exclusive; Morocco seems to exemplify important ways of reconciling these identities. Jews have […]
Hypocrisy galore
STORY SUMMARY Editorial, Daily Star, Lebanon This week’s news of offensive cartoons in Europe is nothing new, although the party doing the complaining should take a long look at itself in the mirror. In recent years, countries such as Denmark and France have received international attention for the publication of […]
Thousands of Syrians find jobs in ‘abandoned sectors’ in Jordan
ZARQA — “Syria will never be the same as it was before the revolution.” Those were the words of Syrian refugee Abdullah Mzayyek, who fled the violence in his country […]