Swiss businesses ready to enter Turkey
by Alexander Kuenzle, swissinfo.ch For Swiss exporters and investors, an emerging market is opening. Foreign trade booster Osec will open its 20th Swiss Business Hub in Istanbul next spring. Also […]
Swiss to vote on curbing population growth
Campaigners have collected enough signatures to force a nationwide vote on a proposal to slow down population growth through immigration limits and measures to promote birth control in developing countries. The Environment and Population Association (Ecopop) on Friday handed in more than 120,000 signatures to the federal authorities. No date […]
India’s Secret Weapon: Its Young Population
Source: Yahoo Finance and CNBC By Ansuya Harjani | CNBC – 1 hour 9 minutes ago The average age of employees at India’s top software services exporter — Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), one of the country’s largest private sector employers — is 28. Students attend class at the Bansal Classes in Kota, […]
Debate: Who was Jesus? Man or God? Sir Anthony Buzzard vs Drew Ayers
God the Father is referred to as God more than 1300 times in the New Testament alone, which forms only 25% of the Bible. References to Jesus as God are […]
As death toll mounts, Ahmadis fight back – with letters
Express Tribune: KARACHI: During a recent Supreme Court hearing in Karachi that was examining the progress made on its 2011 verdict on violence in the city, a police officer attempted to […]
Sun Rises from the West: New Jamia Ahmadiyya Uk Building Inaugurated
LONDON, 1 November 2012 PRESS RELEASE NEW JAMIA AHMADIYYA UK BUILDING INAUGURATED Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad inaugurates and inspects newly acquired Jamia building in Haslemere, Surrey On 21 October 2012, […]
New Jamia Ahmadiyya UK Building Inaugrated
Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad inaugurates and inspects newly acquired Jamia building in Haslemere, Surrey On 21 October 2012, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, […]
Israel to stay on its own if Iran is attacked, US warns
RT: A military strike on Iran by way of Israel could still occur at a moment’s notice, but the US is now warning its allies that any action overseas would jeopardize America’s ability to assist in a Middle East war. Although US President Barack Obama and his challenger Mitt Romney […]
Pope Benedict XVI prays in Arabic for the first time
Benedict XVI typically delivers greetings in six languages, including English and Italian, but added a message in Arabic as he addressed the crowds in St Peter’s Square. “The pope prays for all people who speak Arabic. May God bless you all,” the Pontiff said. Read more
Israel confirms killing Arafat’s deputy in 1988
LONDON: ARAB NEWS Friday 2 November 2012 Israel has for the first time admitted assassinating the deputy of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Abu Jihad, in a raid on the movement’s […]
After Vatican screening of ‘Muslim Scare’ video, a call for dialogue
By Jordan Denari THE WASHINGTON POST When he presented an amateur and xenophobic film about the threat of “rising Muslim demographics” a few weeks ago at the Vatican’s Synod to a group of more than 200 prominent bishops, Cardinal Peter Turkson sent an implicit message: religious pluralism and dialogue with […]
Opinions – Why the US needs Muslim allies
By Husain Haqqani, The Washington Post Friday, November 2, 2012 Husain Haqqani was Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States from 2008 to 2011. He is a professor of international relations at Boston University and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. American foreign policy is not making enough of an […]
Obama breaks with Syrian Muslim Brotherhood
Call this a belated awakening. or more cynically, a case of plausible deniability, but the Obama Administration is breaking with the Syrian National Council which was a Muslim Brotherhood front […]
T.I. Ahmadiyya Girls S.H.S. gets more support from P.T.A.
Kumasi, Nov 01, GNA – The Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) of the T.I. Ahmadiyya Girls Senior High School (SHS) is making some significant contributions towards the development of the school. It has built a new classroom block and provided it with two vehicles – a 60-seater and 15-seater buses, at a […]
Romney on Abortion and Separation of Church and State
Businessinsider.com: Earlier, we posted a fascinating video clip from 2007 of Mitt Romney talking about his religious beliefs. The clip came from a conversation Romney had during a commercial break […]
Number of unmarried parents doubles: Signs of Later Days?
Daily Telegraph: Official figures also show that the number of same-sex couples living together has increased eightfold in that time and that the number of homosexual or lesbian couples bringing […]
From Sacred to the Sacral: How Mecca can be used for Big Business?
New plans for Saudi Arabia: Bulldozing historic holy sites Express Tribune: The current controversy of the potential Saudi demolition of Riyad-al-Jannah and the graves of Islamic caliphs Hazrat Abu Bakr (RA) and Hazrat Omar […]
The Great Debate: Is Jesus God? ( 1 of 3 ) Sir Anthony Buzzard vs Dr. James White
God the Father is referred to as God more than 1300 times in the Bible. References to Jesus as God are a couple or very few at best and are contextual misinterpretations or later interpolations. Sir Anthony Buzzard states in the very beginning that Unity of a God is a […]
There is No Quranic or Islamic basis for Blasphemy Laws
By Ali Khan Mahmudabad theguardian.com, Thursday 1 November 2012 Jump to comments (291) Pakistan and Indonesia’s blasphemy laws have no basis in the Qur’an The Guardian: It is ironic that the […]
Spreading the message of peace and belief
Source: Calgary Herald By Kathleen Renne, For Neighbours Published: Thursday, November 01, 2012 Mansoora Chaudhary is in something of a post-holiday frame of mind. Just last week, she, along with the rest of the Muslim world, celebrated Eid al-Adha, the celebration marking the end of the hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage to […]