Daily Times: Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed. Jinnah never wanted to create an Islamic state based on dogmatic Sharia. So, what did he really want Pakistan to be? Once Pakistan came into being, Jinnah wanted Pakistan to be a modern, tolerant state. He attended Mass on Christmas Eve in 1947 in Karachi’s […]
Daily Times: Saad Hafiz. A clear unified lobby who are strong proponents of religious domination, and who provoke attacks on those who value their own autonomy and political choice, are in the driver’s seat The unequal battle between the depleting ranks of secularists and the growing band of Islamists in […]
Written by KBR68H Recently an Ahmadi couple were denied permission to get married by the Religious Affairs Office in Indonesia’s West Java province, unless they agreed to convert to mainstream Islam. And last week, a blood donor event held by a group of Ahmadiyah in the same province was stopped […]
Internet services around Damascus have resumed after a two-day blackout, as violence intensifies. While Syria’s capital seemed to be back online, it was not clear how much internet access there was elsewhere. Activists report continued bombardment of eastern suburbs of the capital which have been the focus of a fierce […]
theforiegner.no: by Michael SandelsonThe Norwegian medical institution says it has introduced a new redesigned Hijab in cooperation with designers that both adheres to Muslim rules and at the same time is […]
(Reuters) – An actress who said she was duped into appearing in an anti-Islam film that stoked violent protests against the United States across the Muslim world lost on Friday her second legal bid to force the video off YouTube. Denying a request by actress Cindy Lee Garcia for a […]
Daily Telegraph: As inflation hits our spending power, it isn’t just households that are suffering. Britain’s charities are finding that cash-strapped donors are less and less inclined to put their […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD In a Machiavellian maneuvering in 1974, the then Prime Minister of Pakistan, Zulifqar Ali Bhutto, possibly in cahoots with the King of […]
Though America may be the “land of opportunity,” Switzerland will be the best place to be born in 2013 according to a quality-of-life index from the Economist Intelligence Unit. The EIU, a sister company to The Economist magazine, determines quality of life based on surveys of the population covering 11 […]
The Syrian army shelled the outskirts of Damascus Saturday in a drive to establish a secure perimeter around the capital, including the key airport road that has come under sustained rebel attack. The 27-kilometre (17-mile) highway remained perilous a day after troops said they had reopened the key link to […]
Jakarta Globe | December 01, 2012 A novel that tells the story of Ahmadis being thrown out of their homes and forced to move to refugee camps has won Indonesia’s […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS: Holy Qur’an Memorization International sees more than 40,000 Qur’an students Saturday 1 December 2012 More than 40,000 people memorized the Holy Qur’an under the supervision of the the […]
by Jürgen Todenhöfer on Friday, 30 November 2012 at 20:36 · On 4 September 2009 the German colonel Klein permitted the bombing of two hijacked fuel tankers. They were stuck […]
Source: Rick Mercer Report on CBC
The Telegraph : By Henry Samuel, Paris French consumption of wine has sunk to a new record low with the average adult now consuming barely a glass a day, a […]
The Telegraph A municipal council in rural Serbia has reportedly issued a public health warning claiming that a vampire is on the loose. Sales of garlic are booming in western […]
There has been a sharp rise in the number of fatal road accidents involving animals according to the latest figures released by the Department for Transport. The DfT said eight […]
Source Aljazeera TV via Wasim Sroya. An extremely interesting video about integration with special reference to Muslims living in Europe. Click HERE to watch the video.
Source: Patheos: As I read through various newspapers these last few weeks the news brought me this: Christian churches burned in India, with pastors and members terrorized by Hindu nationalists while the police did nothing. More threats by Arab and Iranian Muslims against Israel, with a backdrop of hatred for […]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The line in the sand in the fiscal cliff talks is clear: Democrats will only agree to a deal that raises the tax burden on high-income households. Democrats want to accomplish that goal largely through higher tax rates. Republicans hate that idea and say any new […]