DR. ALI AKBAR ARABNEWS Friday 30 November 2012 Sheikh Zainuddin Makhdum II, author of Tuhfatul Mujahideen and Fathul Mueen, was a heroic personality in history as he had played a major role in achieving social and religious renaissance, especially in the south Indian state of Kerala. Unfortunately, his life and […]
Source: Milli Gazzette Mumbai (1 December 2012): Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP) conducted an insightful and successful seminar on “Vision 2020 for Indian Muslims” in Mumbai today. Considering the plight of Indian Muslims, AMP organized an discussion and brainstorming to have a vision charted out for improving the state of affairs of […]
Source: Zee News New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has said any further movement on India-Pakistan ties will depend on Islamabad acting against perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attack. Replying to questions on a news channel, Khurshid said: “Our then home minister (P) Chidambaram had given a list to […]
Source: cbc.ca A Toronto group wants to spread understanding about the Prophet Muhammad using a stage production. http://www.cbc.ca/video/swf/UberPlayer.swf?state=sharevideo&clipId=2309710287&width=480&height=322 Click on the picture below to watch in CBC, Canada:
Huff Post: Joshua Stanton. Whether our religious texts were created by God or by an unending line of thinkers who stitched their earliest forms, it is the human hand that often makes evident the sacredness within them. The word “sacred” is applied so ubiquitously that its meaning is seldom consistent, […]
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 […]
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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 […]