Nearly Three Quarters of Venice is Flooded
Source: Yahoo News VENICE, Italy (Reuters) – Nearly three quarters of Venice was flooded on Monday and tourists swam in St Mark’s Square as a wave of bad weather swept […]
My President is busy
Source: NY Times op ed By Thomas Friedman ISRAELI friends have been asking me whether a re-elected President Obama will take revenge on Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu for the way he and Sheldon Adelson, his foolhardy financier, openly backed Mitt Romney. My answer to Israelis is this: You should be […]
Real Islam on the Move: Message of Peace on London Bus
Message of Peace, Photo curtesy of Basharat Nazir, Twitter
Marble polishing work on Minaretul Masih in Qadian
Marble polishing work on Minaret-ul-Masih in Qadian[/caption Curtesy Mr. Kashif Khalid, Twitter http://twitpic.com/bbmthi
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Bangalore is Now a Part of New Guinness World Record!
Alhamdulillah, the Bangalore branch of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community under the banner of “Humanity First” participated along with many other organizations to set the New World Record for the Largest ‘Health Awareness’ Programme at a single Venue. The Attempt was organized by the Danish Pharmaceutical Company Novo Nordisk at the […]
Obama reelection a ‘win’ for China, too
Source: China Daily It’s not often that the once every decade change of China’s leadership and an American presidential election would occur in the same week. The reelection of Barack […]
The art of Listening
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/opinion/sunday/why-listening-is-so-much-more-than-hearing.html?src=me&ref=general HERE’S a trick question. What do you hear right now? If your home is like mine, you hear the humming sound of a printer, the low throbbing of traffic from the nearby highway and the clatter of plastic followed by the muffled impact of paws landing on linoleum — […]
Australian Roman Catholic Church admits child sex abuse
Source: BBC 22 September 2012 The Roman Catholic Church in the Australian state of Victoria has confirmed that more than 600 children have been sexually abused by its priests since the 1930s. The Archbishop of Melbourne, Denis Hart, described the figures as “horrific and shameful”. They were released in a […]
Australia PM Julia Gillard announces child abuse probe
Source: BBC Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced a national inquiry into institutional responses to the sexual abuse of children. The move followed pressure from lawmakers amid police claims the Roman Catholic Church had concealed evidence of paedophile priests. The inquiry will look at religious groups, NGOs and state-care […]
Pakistani lawyers go from heroes to ‘gangsters’
Washington Post: LAHORE, Pakistan — The young police inspector came to court to present evidence in a beating case. He left with his head and lip bloodied and his uniform torn — assaulted, he said, by a gang of black-suited assailants. The notorious lawyers of Lahore had struck again, police and […]
Learning to understand Islamic Finance: What is ‘Sukuk’ ?
We are just referring you here to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukuk Sukuk: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search Part of a series on Sukuk (Arabic: صكوك, plural of صك Sakk, “legal instrument, deed, check”) is the Arabic name for financial certificates, but commonly refers to the Islamic equivalent of bonds. […]
UN and MSF Foreign aid workers burned by Myanmar’s ethnic fires
BANGKOK, Thailand — Myanmar’s coastal Rakhine State is stricken with just the sort of mess certain international aid groups are designed to relieve. Roiling conflict between the region’s native Buddhists and a stateless Muslim ethnicity, the Rohingya, has brought on mob killings, torched villages, mass displacement and even bow-and-arrow wounds. […]
Talking to foreign media is haram: Grand mufti’s edict
Express Tribune: Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti issued a religious edict prohibiting contact and cooperation with the foreign media seeking to “spread chaos and strife in the Muslim world”. Addressing a Friday sermon at a mosque in Riyadh, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh said that people should not divulge their country’s secrets […]
Muslim cleric elected head of Syrian opposition
Syria opposition groups agree to unite against Assad as US swiftly declares its support to new National Coalition. Middle East Online By Faisal Baatout – DOHA Syria’s deeply divided opposition […]
‘Palestinian UN non-state bid this month’
RAMALLAH — The Palestinians will submit a bid to the General Assembly for non-state membership of the United Nations later this month, President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday. “We’re going […]
Preserving spiritual gains from Haj
Arab News Friday 9 November 2012 Allah the Almighty legislated acts of worship and obedience for great wisdom and sublime objectives. They strengthen one’s faith, purify soul, correct the attitude and refine the morals. If acts of worship do not achieve these objectives, then the Muslim would not benefit from […]
Jordanian jihadist killed in Syria as gov’t ups border security
by Taylor Luck | Nov 11, 2012 | 22:48 AMMAN — A Jordanian jihadist has been killed in southern Syria, to Islamist sources, as the government reportedly increased security along the northern border to curb the rising flow of Islamist militants. The local jihadist movement said 37-year-old Amad Natour was […]
Report evaluates conduct of Haj
ARAB NEWS Monday 12 November 2012 .JEDDAH: Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal stressed the need for all departments and agencies serving the Haj pilgrims to review and update their plans […]
Obama skips Philippines–again
Inquirer.net: Amanda Doronila. Fresh on the heels of the reelection of US President Barack Obama, the White House announced that he would visit Burma (Myanmar) as his first foreign policy initiative at the start of a three-leg tour of Southeast Asia that covers Thailand and Cambodia on Nov. 17-20. The […]
What does President Obama’s re-election mean for us? — Yasser Latif Hamdani
Pakistan is likely to remain a very important part of Obama’s foreign policy agenda in his next term Pakistan was the only country amongst 21 countries surveyed that preferred Governor Mitt Romney over President Barack Hussein Obama in the US election. It may well be a commentary on the resentment […]