AFP | Oct 29, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel is pushing ahead with a plan to build a new neighbourhood for retired security and army personnel in occupied East Jerusalem, with the land now being marketed to potential developers, Peace Now settlement watchdog said. Peace Now spokeswoman […]
KABUL: ARAB NEWS Tuesday 30 October 2012 Saudi Arabia will build a massive Islamic center complete with a university and a mosque in Afghanistan, an Afghan minister said yesterday, describing the project as “grand and unique.” Estimated to cost up to $100 million, the center on a hilltop in central […]
BBC News London: Catrin Nye and Sarah Levene. A group of Muslims have started their own poppy appeal at a London mosque that acted as a bomb shelter during World War II. Working alongside the Royal British Legion, the London-based Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association has sold poppies in the capital […]
The Nation: ISLAMABAD – The Ahmadiya community residing in Rawalpindi city continues to bear the brunt of dangerous religious frenzy. Around 1500-1600 worshippers belonging to Ahmadi community – who were supposed to congregate at the worship place of the community located at E-Block of Satellite Town to observe Eidul Azha prayers – […]
Medina: Saudis take a bulldozer to Islam’s history The Independent: Authorities are building a mosque so big it will hold 1.6m people – but are demolishing irreplaceable monuments to do […]
Dawn: NEW DELHI: New Indian foreign minister Salman Khurshid is the latest member of India’s most illustrious Muslim family to be entrusted with one of the highest offices in the […]
Source/Credit: Ahmadiyya Times By Amjad Mahmood Khan | October 29, 2012 On October 30, Pakistan will take the proverbial human rights “hot seat” in Geneva at the United Nations Human Rights Council’s second ever Universal Periodic Review (UPR). This unique process mandates that all 193 U.N. Member States submit to an […]
Huff Post: by Jahnabi Barooah. In a video that recently aired on “Through the Wormhole” narrated by Morgan Freeman on the TV channel Science, Dr. Hameroff claims, “I believe that consciousness, or its immediate precursor proto-consciousness, has been in the universe all along, perhaps from the Big Bang.” Understanding where consciousness […]
Resurrection is an extraordinary claim and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and the Christian apologists only have a few stories from 2000 years ago to offer. Around minute 58 the debaters get into this criterion and the opening statement of Richard Carrier also offers a good analogy on this theme. […]
by Dr. Muqtedar Khan The Daily Star Lebanon Story Summary I was moved by the promise of Mursi’s presidency, and what it means for Islam and democracy – a promise […]
A 1st grade school teacher had twenty-six students in her class. She presented each child in her classroom the 1st half of a well-known proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb. It’s hard to believe these were actually done by first graders. Their insight […]
France 24: Six out of ten French people believe the influence of Islam in France is “too big” and 43 percent see the religion as a “threat” to national identity, according to the results of an opinion poll published on Thursday. The sensitive poll, which will likely cause ripples in […]
(CNN) — Crew members of a tall ship used for classic adventure films faced a harrowing real-life drama Monday as Hurricane Sandy forced them to abandon ship about 90 miles […]
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By Richard Leiby, Monday, October 29, 9:08 AM LAHORE, Pakistan — One cleric is a wanted terrorist who preaches that the United States is Pakistan’s worst enemy, determined to “wipe out every Muslim” with the […]
FPI’s Latest Ahmadiyah Attack Riles Even MUI The Jakarta Globe: The country’s highest Islamic authority has slammed a hard-line group for attacking an Ahmadiyah mosque in Bandung on the eve […]
Russian TV: Chaos and violence are on the rise in the UK a year after the PM declared a war on gang culture, a study revealed. Police aggression and a […]
Express Tribune: While imagining Pakistan as a bipolar patient, M Bilal Lakhani, in his article “Pakistan’s bipolar disorder” (September 28) cites two hypothetical groups symbolising the ‘highs’ and ‘lows’ of […]
Story Summary The witness accounts gathered by The Associated Press give a from-the-ground perspective for the sharply partisan debate in the U.S. over the attack that left U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead. Within 24 hours of the attack, both the embassy in Tripoli and the CIA […]