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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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; […]
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 […]
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. […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Source: ET ARACHI: Shabana Khan* speaks from behind a screen put up to protect her identity at a recent women’s assembly. I cannot see her. I do not know what her age is. I have no way of observing her non-verbal communication. But what I do know is that this […]
By Victor Lipman Being (somewhat) active on Twitter, and fascinated by the vast amounts of wildly random but often extremely useful information endlessly tweeting across it, I’m always interested in […]