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 […]
Hazara Shias lose all hope in Pakistan
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 […]
The World’s Most Active Twitter City? You Bet.
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 […]
67% of Israelis say they would support two-state solution based on the 1967 borders
Two-thirds of Israelis support peace with Palestinians that ensures security, polls find The Times of Israel: 67% of respondents say they would support two-state solution based on the 1967 borders, […]
Punjab CM Badal praises Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat’s efforts to promote world peace and brotherhood
Newstrackindia: Qadian (Punjab), Dec.31 (ANI): 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 […]
Read if you can
Source: ET We have yet to learn how to grieve as a nation the thousands of names and the unnamed. If we stopped for a second to make the pain register, perhaps something unimaginable would happen to us as a people. Perhaps, for now, because it is so unbearable, our […]