Egypt Independant: Members of the Constituent Assembly agreed last week to remove a proposed article which provided some constitutional support for gender equality — provided that such equality did not violate the provisions of Islamic Sharia law. The episode showed the ability of both liberals and ultra-conservative Salafis to stamp […]
Daily Times: Mehboob Qadir. The Umayyid genius for a reasonably decentralised rule unshackled the Islamic state system and Muslim society, opening them to evolution, expansion and absorption of ideas from neighbouring civilizations. Thus began the enrichment and rise of Islamic civilisation. Arts and crafts, architecture, music, sciences, medicine, literature, industry, state […]
RT: Houston, we have a problem: more than 70,000 people have signed a petition on the website of the White House asking for Texas to secede from the United States. Less than a day after RT first reported that a petition demanding the secession of The Lone Star State from the US […]
By the Grace of Allah, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Malta had a very successful participation in the Annual Book Fair. They distributed more than 2,000 books, including the Maltese translation of the […]
Muslim Canadian Congress denounces defacing of war memorial Two Muslim students of York University chanting obscenities at Canada’s Armed Forces disrupted Remembrance Day ceremonies at Toronto City Hall. MCC denounces vandalizing of Toronto War Memorial and Disruption of Remembrance Day ceremony by Muslims TORONTO, ON – The Muslim Canadian Congress […]
The Vatican has long maintained a hardline stance against gay marriage, but over the last few days, the Holy See has intensified its anti-gay agitprop, vowing to fight LGBT marriage equality around the world. According to Reuters, the governing body of the Catholic Church launched an anti-gay media campaign over […]
Source: BBC Workers have sealed off the tomb of the former Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, in Ramallah in preparation for the possible exhumation of his body. Officials plan to dig up his remains in the coming weeks to allow scientists to ascertain whether his death in Paris in 2004 was […]
All the great radical clerics have gone, bar one. There’s Omar Bakri Muhammad, the “Tottenham Ayatollah” who raged against the Spice Girls and other manifestations of decadent Britain (I’m sort […]
by Lolita Baldur, Huffington Post WASHINGTON — A senior U.S. official says Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has demoted the former head of U.S. Africa Command who was accused of spending […]
By Peter Eigen, Special to CNN Editor’s note: Peter Eigen is a member of the Africa Progress Panel, chaired by Kofi Annan. He is the founder and chair of the Advisory Council, Transparency International, and chairman of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. The views expressed are the author’s own. China’s […]
Source: Yahoo News PHOENIX (Reuters) – An Arizona woman, in despair at the re-election of Democratic President Barack Obama, ran down her husband with the family car in suburban Phoenix […]
Source: Allafrica.com via Wasim Sroya: Last week, the Ahmadiyya High School at Gomoa Postin held a Speech and Prize-Giving Day to mark 40 years of its establishment. According to Mr. […]
http://www.guardian.co.uk: The teaching of English in Indonesia’s primary schools will end next year as the government attempts to reverse falling standards in Bahasa Indonesia. Deputy education and culture minster Musliar […]
The Examiner: By the Grace of Allah Almighty! The first magazine “ISMA‘IL” for Waqifeen-e-Nau (Life Devotee) has been launched at a time when it coincides with the Tehrik Waqf-e-Nau scheme […]
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‘Canada will burn praise Allah’: Vandals deface Toronto war memorial on Remembrance Day TORONTO — Police are investigating after a war memorial was vandalized on Remembrance Day in Toronto. The Victory Peace memorial in Coronation Park was defaced with the words “Canada will burn praise Allah” written in what appeared to […]
He says that we can draw our inspiration from our scriptures but we have to translate the message into a language that is understood by other fellow citizens from different […]
By: Muhammad Umar Source: The Review of Religions May/June 1993 Vol. LXXXVIII No. 5/6 http://www.alislam.org/library/links/in_vedas.html Almighty God has provided for all our physical needs. The Holy Quran says: He it is Who created for you all that is in the earth. (2:30) And He has subjected to you whatever is in […]
Right Side News 12 November 2012 By Soeren Kern The statements of Mark Elchardus, author of a 426 page study, who linked Islam with anti-Semitism, earned him a lawsuit filed by […]
Epigraph: “If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of the greatest geniuses the world has known.” Karen Armstrong Source: Islam is Peace Website Innocence of Muhammad: An in-depth Response to Recent Events Recently a film named Innocence of […]