Bill O’Reilly: Americans saying yes to drug abuse
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comments: Could Islam help, by providing absolute standards in regards to alcohol and other drugs? Source: Rapid City Journal Additional Source: Press and Sun, Jan 20, […]
Expecting the unexpected: Rabbis, Islam and End of Days
Expecting the unexpected: Rabbis, Islam, and the End of Days [ by Charles Cameron — strange intersections between Islamic, Judaic and Christian teachers around the end times, also Yehuda Etzion of the […]
Taking a swipe at Harris Zafar: American Thinker
I invite writers and editors to read this and visit American Thinker and post your comments. I my own brief comments in favor brother Harris Zafar. (Koya) Harris Zafar’s Islamic Intellectual Incoherence By Andrew E. Harrod Harris Zafar, national spokesperson for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA, posted recently at the Washington Post’s […]
US Engineer in Saudi Accepts Islam: Lanka Today
US engineer converts to Islam in Saudi Stuart says he liked seeing people kiss the head of the elderly Published Sunday, January 20, 2013 Stuart Elby (SUPPLIED) A US technology engineer in Saudi Arabia converted to Islam, saying he was impressed by the way people kissed the head of their seniors. […]
DEFENDING ISLAM AND MUSLIMS: LANKAWEB
Defending Islam and Muslims-Response to ‘Laws and Religion – Some Concerns of Sinhala Buddhists’ Hameed Abdul Karim Shenali Waduge’s article on ‘Laws and Religion: Some Concerns of Sinhala Buddhists’ appearing in the Daily News on the 12th of January 2013 is the latest in a long series of scaremongering among Sinhala […]
It’s official: Facebook makes you miserable
Source: The Local. Using Facebook can trigger feelings of jealousy and dissatisfaction, German academics said on Monday after studying how the social network affects emotions. More:
Bitter setback for Merkel months before German election
Source: TOI BERLIN: In an extremely tight German state election that seemed to produce few clearcut winners, there was no argument over who the biggest loser was — Chancellor Angela Merkel. Her Christian Democrats (CDU), led in Lower Saxony by rising star David McAllister, had convinced themselves over the past […]
Tips to ensure that you retire rich:
Source: TOI Three retirees are facing a dilemma. One is at the chemist shop, wondering if he should buy all the costly medicines his doctor has prescribed. Another is in a toy shop, weighing his options between the expensive gift his favourite granddaughter wants and the cheaper one his pocket […]
Picture of the Day: Anti-Ahmadiyya Stickers Circulated in Newspapers
Source: Twitter – @SaleemudDinAA Courtesy: Twitter – @SAHaider Anti #Ahmadiyya stickers that @SAHaider received inside his newspaper today. Then we ask where is hatred coming from? pic.twitter.com/NgLhyk8E Translations of these terrible […]
In search of a saviour
Source: ET Tahirul Qadri’s Long March has ended and it is not immediately clear whether it was with a fizzle or a bang. Last week saw days of high drama as Qadri and his supporters camped outside parliament and the Supreme Court ordered the prime minister’s arrest. Then, on January […]
Morality: It’s not just for humans
By Elizabeth Landau, CNN updated 10:49 AM EST, Sat January 19, 2013 http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&contentId=living/2013/01/15/orig-ideas-contagious-yawns-primates.cnn Lawrenceville, Georgia (CNN) — You might recognize prominent primatologist Frans de Waal from lectures he has given about […]
Algeria finds dead Canadian Islamist militants
The Toronto Star ALGIERS—Algerian special forces have found the bodies of two Canadian Islamist fighters after a bloody siege at a desert gas plant, a security source said on Monday, as the death toll reached at least 80 after troops stormed the complex to end the hostage crisis. Algerian Prime […]
Martin Luther King Jr. Would have Stood Against Discrimination, Based on Religion
Epigraph: “O ye people! fear your Lord, Who created you from a single soul and created therefrom its mate, and from them twain spread many men and women; and fear […]
Picture of Day: World’s Most Popular Muslim Mohammad Ali at Ahmadiyya Mosque in Germany
Additional reading and viewing: Muhammad Ali’s Video: Not All Teachers of Islam Come With a Beard
Video: Q&A with Khalifa of Islam: Pakistan’s Future, Tahir-ul-Qadri, Third World War and More!!
Source: MTA: Youtube: Published on Jan 20, 2013: Starting about 45 minutes into the class Huzoor starts answering very interesting questions. Several questions about Pakistan are answered. Video is in Urdu unfortunately with regrets to our English audience. An educational class with Huzoor and students from Jamia Ahmadiyya UK. Recorded on […]
KSA gives $ 1.88 m for Rohingya resettlement
RIYADH: ARAB NEWS Monday 21 January 2013 Saudi Arabia yesterday announced a contribution of $ 1.88 million toward UNHCR’s humanitarian program in Myanmar providing shelter to Rohingyas in Rakhine state. A memorandum of understanding to this effect was signed by Yousef Al-Bassam of the Saudi Fund for Development and Imran […]
Obey the Holy Prophet and try to become his like-Saying of the Promised Messiah(a.s)
“To be a Muslim is not a child’s play. It requires complete submission in every thing to the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). Do not take it cursorily. It is a matter worth deep consideration. Do not feel complacent until you obey the Holy Prophet […]
Ahmadi students hold blood drive to raise awareness of religious persecutions
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Students Organization held an on-campus blood drive Thursday that will continue Friday in response to persecution of Shiite and Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan. The organization and a truck from the Blood Center of Central Texas will be located on Speedway, near Robert A. Welch Hall from noon […]
Muslims for Peace
Huff Post: Kelly James Clark. We can attract more Muslims to the side of justice, peace, and liberty when our majority Christian nation genuinely seeks a world with liberty and justice for all. Noting the behaviors of some Muslims in Muslim-majority countries might leave the impression that most Muslims and […]
Spiritual but Not Religious?
Huff Post: Michael P. Murphy. The word “religion” finds its root in religio, which means “to bind.” And herein lies the main point: we like being “spiritual” because the concept, as we perceive it, makes no claim upon us. It binds us to nothing — or at least nothing communal, confessional […]