—– If Ahmadiyya community members want wedding services, they must be converted to Islam. If they insist they don’t want to convert to Islam, a marriage registration service will not […]
Muslims Celebrate Jesus year around Source: The North Country Times: By Monsura Sirajee Temecula We may not put up stockings and Christmas lights in my house during the holiday season, […]
Extreme anti-Islam posters to cover New York subway stations next week The National Post: Anti-Islam posters with depictions of the World Trade Towers in flames will be plastered around 50 different New York MTA stations beginning December 17. The $10,000-plus campaign is part of an ongoing campaign by Pamela Geller, […]
The National Post: The Liberals came under fire on Wednesday over Justin Trudeau’s participation in an Islamic conference whose sponsor was stripped of its federal charity status last year for […]
Washington Post: By Lonnae O’Neal Parker Beyond the unifying symmetry of the numbers, what binds and animates the new “Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863, and the March on Washington, 1963” […]
The European Court of Human Rights Global Post: The European Court of Human Rights made history Thursday by ruling in favor of a Lebanese national who said he was tortured by a […]
Dawn: When one is sitting thousands of miles away from Pakistan, every horrifying story and news event come across as more malicious than ever. Perhaps, living in safer countries, where rights are mutually respected and accepted, puts things into clearer perspective. There are times when I want to question God […]
The Associated Press Norwalk supports mosque after lawsuit, fed inquiry By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN Associated Press / December 8, 2012 NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — When Norwalk received a proposal to build the city’s first mosque, it was rejected by officials who said the structure was too big for the largely […]
Source: Kashmir Life and Ahmadiyya Bulletin Germany via Mr Haider Ali Zafar. By Zubair Khan Dr Syed Basharat Ahmed Shah from Bijbehra, now settled in Bonn, Germany, has been honoured with the membership/diplomat ship of Royal College of Veterinary surgeons, United Kingdom. Shah, a scientific consultant working for […]
By Zubair Khan In unfortunate country of Pakistan the defence minister has to appear in the National Assembly to declare that no official department of Pakistan is authorised to consider […]
Source: By Press Trust of India http://ibnlive.in.com/news/politicians-spread-the-poison-of-hindumuslim-divide-katju/310358-3.html Aligarh: Chairman of Press Council of India (PCI) Justice Markanday Katju on Thursday alleged that politicians in independent India “have played a major role in spreading deeper the poison of Hindu-Muslim divide, whose seeds were sown by the British, for serving their own […]
Source: By Dan Evon http://www.inquisitr.com/436952/muslim-students-letter-to-santa-goes-viral/ The fourth grade Muslim student had never written a letter to Santa but did so for a school assignment. An image of the letter was […]
Source: http://presstv.com/detail/2012/12/13/277880/iran-holds-muslim-women-scholar-confab/ Iran has held the International Conference on Muslim Women Scholars, hosting researchers from different countries in the capital city of Tehran, Press TV reports. Scholars from Europe, Africa and Asia have participated in the event to discuss the role of women in science and technology, management and employment, […]
Source: Credit: Eva Bartlett/IPS: By Carey L. Biron: WASHINGTON, Dec 13 2012 (IPS) – Gathering for the first time here in Washington, representatives of the newly established human rights commission of […]
LONDON: ORLANDO CROWCROFT ARABNEWS Friday 14 December 2012 There are those who would argue that the two-state solution was dead long before the recent announcement of new settlements in the E1 area of East Jerusalem last month. But — should it go ahead — Tel Aviv’s controversial plans will be […]
by Islah Bakhat, swissinfo.ch The Arab Spring represents a tectonic shift in the region’s political landscape. Yet two years on, divisions between secularists and Islamists risk stalling the revolutions. Simmering angers over poverty remain and women’s rights progress is sketchy. “Every time society feels its hard-won gains are in danger, […]
(The writer is director, Shah-i-Hamadan Institute of Islamic Studies, University of Kashmir, Srinagar) Peace, harmony and Islam: Peace indicates tranquility, mental calm, quiet, serenity, reconciliation, amity, accord, concord, friendliness, harmony, […]
MARIETTE LE ROUX | AFP ARABNEWS Friday 14 December 2012 PARIS: People live more than a decade longer on average today than they did in 1970, but spend much of […]
WASHINGTON — In a phone call with the president on Thursday, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice formally withdrew her name from consideration as the next Secretary of State, putting an abrupt […]
RT: The Obama administration overruled recommendations from within the US Department of Homeland Security and implemented new guidelines earlier this year that allow the government to gather and analyze intelligence on every single US citizen. Since the spring, a little-know intelligence agency outside of Washington, DC has been able to […]