Happy New Year Gift: A Wonderful World – By BBC and David Attenborough
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD Epigraph: “He is Allah, the Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner. His are the most beautiful names. All that is in the heavens […]
Ankara must change tack on Syria to avoid a faceoff with Tehran
By Mohammed Ayoob The Daily Star STORY SUMMARY Europe and the United States, which were initially uneasy with Turkey’s growing intimacy with its Muslim neighbors, have more recently hailed Ankara’s role as the spearhead of the international effort to bring down the pro-Iranian Syrian regime. Antagonistic relations between Ankara and […]
Syria backs ‘any initiative’ for dialogue to end conflict
DAMASCUS: Syria’s government yesterday welcomed any initiative for talks to end bloodshed in the country, after UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said he had a peace plan acceptable to world powers. The Damascus regime’s stand, expressed by Prime Minister Wael Al-Halaqi, came amid a flurry of diplomatic activity led by […]
Losing faith? Belgium to charge Church of Scientology with fraud and extortion – reports
After a long lasting legal battle Belgium prosecutors demand to label the Church of Scientology as a criminal organization and charge it and its leaders with extortion, fraud, privacy breaches, and the illegal practice of medicine. The subpoenas have been sent to the scientologists, the local financial newspaper De Tijd […]
अहमदिया सम्मेलन के दूसरे दिन हुआ सर्वधर्म समागम
सौजन्य : दैनिक ट्रिब्यून गुरदासपुर, 31 दिसंबर (निस)। अहमदिया मुस्लिम जमात भारत के 121वें वार्षिक सम्मेलन के दूसरे दिन सर्व धर्म सम्मेलन का भव्य आयोजन किया गया। इस जलसा की अध्यक्षता मुनीर अहमद हाफिजाबादी ने की। कार्यक्रम का आरम्भ पवित्र कुरआन मजीद की तिलावत से हुआ। पहली तकरीर मौलाना ज्ञानी […]
Finding Joy in the Dust of Snow – New Year Resolution
Author: Atif Munawar Mir Popular New Year resolutions such as losing weight, taking a trip, finding a better job, and giving up a bad habit are worth our time and […]
A Look Back at Media Coverage of Islam and Islamic Law in 2012
Huff Post: Krystina Friedlander. Anti-Islam Messages Dominate Media. Hate Crimes Against Muslims Remain High. Anti-sharia Legislation in the United States. This has been a big year for Islam and Islamic […]
2013: What’s in Store? 12 Projections- (Op-Ed)
Russian TV: World Government stepping onto sovereign Nation-States, puppet politicians unable to cope with social challenges, chaos in the Middle East and ever increasing global crises – all this awaits us in 2013. Is it time for ‘We the People’ to wake up? More violence in the Middle East; […]
UN chief condemns ‘escalating’ violence in Pakistan
Express Tribune: UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said Sunday he was “appalled by the escalating terrorist violence in Pakistan,” after 19 Shia pilgrims died in a car bomb and […]
Latino Muslims Carving a New American Identity
Huff Post: Erika L. Sanchez. Latino American, writer, innovator and self-identified indigenous Muslim, Mark Gonzalez, bases much of his work on the issue of identity. Gonzalez, who is of Mexican and French Canadian descent and was raised Catholic, began to explore Islam after practicing Christianity in a very deep way. […]
The World Rings in the New Year – Images from around the World
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Punjab CM Badal praises Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat
Source: Siasat.com Punjab, December 31: In a message delivered on behalf Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, Sardar Sewa Singh Sekhawan, a former state government minister, conveyed the former’s greetings […]
German Ahmadiyya Muslim Community takes an other Lead
By Zubair Khan Mr Abdullah Wagishauser, national head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, in consultation with Mr Shamshad Qamar, principal Jamia (Theological Study Institute) Ahmadiyya, invited community members to visit the Jamia on 30.12.2012 and 31.12.2012. Whole facility of Jamia was opened to visitors. Since on 31.12.2012 was the […]
Granting homeland to Palestinians would be win-win strategy
Source: Duluth News Tribune By: M. Imran Hayee Despite vehement opposition from the U.S. and Israel, on Nov. 29, the United Nations approved the Palestine Authority’s status as “nonmember observer […]
US study endorses Islam as fastest growing religion in world
Washington, NU Online: A recent study by a US forum has endorsed that Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world and extremely popular in youth who are enthusiastic […]
Interview with Ahmed Rashid: The West Should ‘Change Its Approach to Failing States’
Ahmed Rashid, one of the world’s foremost experts on Afghanistan, once welcomed US intervention in the failed state. But in a SPIEGEL interview, the Pakistani journalist says the West’s model for development is fundamentally flawed and must be changed. SPIEGEL: Mr. Rashid, in 2014 the West will withdraw from Afghanistan. […]
Why do Germans call New Year’s Eve Silvester?
Source: The Local Silvester is the German name for New Year’s Eve – owing to the fourth century Pope Sylvester I. Eventually made a saint by the Catholic Church, his feast day is observed on December 31. St. Sylvester’s day became associated with New Year’s Eve with the reform of […]
German Green candidate quits over criticisms of Jews, Muslims
Ulf Dunkel had come under fire from the national Jewish spokesman over two anti-circumcision poems he published. Haaretz: Germany’s Green Party said Monday that a candidate who had described Jews […]
The Bluff
Mulla Nasrudin arrived at a village shouting angrily: “I have lost my saddle bag. Hurry up and find it, or else I’ll do with your village what I did to the other village!” The frightened villagers scattered around looking for the missing bag until someone found it. “What would you […]