Graduating against all odds
sunderlandecho.com A STUDENT who survived a gun attack which claimed the lives of his brother and uncle has told of his pride after he graduated just weeks after his ordeal. […]
Switzerland: Illegal residents to get vocational training
Source: Swissinfo.com Young foreigners living illegally in Switzerland will be allowed to undertake apprenticeships, but only if they are well integrated and if they have attended school for at least […]
End-of-life battles expose the culture clash in Canada’s intensive care units
Source: The National Post: When an Edmonton family went to court to fight a hospital’s plan to withdraw life-sustaining treatment from their deathly ill patriarch, the relatives cited Islamic law, […]
Turkey to exempt 50 countries from visa restrictions
RIYADH: ABDUL HANNAN TAGO Saturday 8 December 2012 Turkey is planning to exempt 50 countries from visa entry, which is already applied to many Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, as […]
Meetings of the Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community at European Parliament
Source:press@ahmadiyya.org.uk On 3rd and 4th December 2012, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and the Fifth Khalifa, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad held a series of meetings at the European Parliament with political leaders and dignitaries from across Europe. During each meeting, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad conveyed Islam’s teachings […]
Muslim Brotherhood Ready for More Active Role in Jordan
The Muslim Brotherhood is one of the largest Islamic groups in the Arab world. For years, the Brotherhood has been banned in a number of Middle Eastern countries. Yet the […]
CNN Religions Blog: Quote of the Day:Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad V Khalifa of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in EU Parliament
Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, presides over a sermon to his followers. Speaking from an Islamic perspective, we should strive for the entire […]
UK: Rise in proportion of young Muslims in jail
The proportion of young offenders in England and Wales describing themselves as Muslim has risen. One in five males in young offender institutions (YOIs) identified themselves as Muslim in 2011/12, […]
French Muslim groups sue magazine over cartoons
France24: Two organisations – the Algerian Democratic Union for Peace and Progress (RDAP) and the Organisation of Arab Union – are claiming a total of €780,000 in costs and damages, according to AFP. The organisations say the court action is to “defend and support Islamic and/or Arabic people”. According to […]
The Holy Quran in the Eyes of the Messiah, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani
The Holy Quran itself had predicted a remarkable teacher of the Scripture in the Latter days. It reads in Surah Al Jumu’ah: He (Allah) it is Who has raised among […]
No peace, even in the grave
Source: Daily Times: By: Gulmina Bilal Ahmad A country that still lacks an effective anti-terrorism law cannot complain about such incidents When an individual comes to the end of his/her journey in this world, he/she is buried in a grave with an inscription marking his/her last resting place. But is […]
Africa’s largest solar power plant to be built in Ghana
Source: Guardian 155MW plant being developed by a British company is expected to create hundreds of jobs, increase electricity capacity and cut emissions Blue Energy constructed a solar park near […]
Dropbox lures Python creator away from Google
Source: ZDnet Dropbox might have just scored a major win against Google — at least as far as personnel goes. The cloud storage provider just hired Guido Van Rossum, creator of the Python programming language. Dropbox confirmed the news in a blog post on Friday, as founder and CEO Drew […]
Ghana extends voting in some areas after glitches, delays
Source: CNN (CNN) — Ghana extended voting into a second day Saturday in areas where election materials arrived late or glitches with a new biometric identification system caused delays. There were reported cases of biometric machines malfunctioning or failing to recognize voters’ fingerprints in the pivotal presidential and parliamentary election, […]
Political Islam in the Middle East
Political Islam in the Middle East Interviewee: Reza Aslan, Adjunct Senior Fellow Interviewer: Toni Johnson, Deputy Editor The Arab Spring has spurred the election of three Islamist-led governments in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya. CFR’s Reza Aslan, an expert in religion and foreign policy, says Islamist parties initiallybenefited from being the most organized […]
Book Review: The New Religious Intolerance — US Vs. Europe
Source: Guardian UK By Giles Fraser Martha Nussbaum and the new religious intolerance ‘Is it right to allow nuns to teach in full habit but to ban Muslim teachers wearing […]
Scared burglar calls 911 for help after confronting gun-wielding victim
Russian TV: A suspected burglar called 911 after the homeowner whose house he allegedly broke into held him at gunpoint and demanded to know what he was doing in the house. At around 12:30 a.m. in Springtown, Texas, 41-year-old Christopher Lance Moore broke into the house of James Gerow and […]
Who killed General Zia? Worldly Theories and/or Divine Wrath
Source: Express Tribune by Khaled Ahmad: Ijazul Haq, son of army chief General Zia, has accused Zia’s then vice-chief General Aslam Beg of being a part of the conspiracy to kill his father. He appeared on Geo TV on December 1, 2012, and said he was sorry that General Hameed Gul, who was the […]
Despicable
Daily Times: Mohammad Ahmad. Both the targeted communities have nothing in common except that both despise violence and work in their own ways to bring man closer to God December 3, 2012 will be remembered in history as a black day for Jinnah’s Pakistan. Two separate incidents occurred in Lahore […]
Low-level Light Therapy to Boost Memory
Source: Medscape: Can Low-level Light Therapy Boost Memory? Low-level light therapy (LLLT) with red to near-infrared light-emitting diodes (LEDs) enhances cortical oxygenation and metabolic capacity and memory retention, scientists observed […]