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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Source: BBC An inquiry comprising clerics and local politicians has been formed in Pakistan to investigate the destruction by a mob of a leading school in Lahore. Hundreds of protesters […]
Source: Toronto Star A little girl’s anguished tears over listening to a story about U.S. presidential politics one more time has struck a nerve across the world. More than 1.2 million viewers have watched the 22-second clip of 4-year-old Abigael in just two days. Abby started sobbing on a […]
Source: Toronto Star Author: Amy Dempsey One Sunday two years ago, Laiq and Badrunnisa Khurshid set out for a midnight stroll. The couple walked hand in hand through their suburban Vaughan neighbourhood, chatting about their children, reflecting on life. Their son had just bought a new home in Mississauga, their eldest […]
Indonesia president attends state banquet hosted by the Queen The Queen has paid tribute to the “common values” shared between Indonesia and Britain at a state banquet for the Indonesian […]
An email has been forwarded a few times from respected Imam Zafar Anjum and other Muslim groups like Frisco Masjid and Irving Muslims. I am posting this at http://www.WorldMuslimCongress.com, http://www.Quraantoday.com […]
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/opinion/mitt-romney-versus-the-automakers.html?hp Romney Versus the Automakers Published: October 31, 2012 105 Comments When General Motors tells a presidential campaign that it is engaging in “cynical campaign politics at its worst,” that’s a pretty good signal that the campaign has crossed a red line and ought to pull back. Not Mitt Romney’s […]
Source: The Telegraph Burma has acknowledged the persecution of its stateless Rohingya Muslim minority and is considering giving citizenship to thousands of members of the group as a first step to finding a solution to the conflict with local Rakhine Buddhists. The government’s search for a ‘win-win’ solution to the […]
Source: Washingtonpost YANGON, Myanmar — The authorities have ordered people in strife-torn western Myanmar to surrender guns, swords and other weapons to the police within three days or face legal action. The announcement in the state-run Myanma Ahlin daily on Thursday said that some groups of people in the state […]
As election day looms, I know I’m not the only American woman biting her fingernails. We all care about who the next president will be, but for women the race is particularly anxiety-inducing. The difference between President Barack Obama and governor Mitt Romney on issues of gender can be measured […]
Ahmadiyya Times: Lutf Blog: By Lutful Islam : In order to understand the motives behind Bhutto government’s decision to declare Ahmadis non-Muslims, we also need to understand the sequence of events leading […]
RT: A major oil spill has occurred in the strait of water separating Staten Island, NYC and the state of New Jersey. The spill, of more than 300,000 gallons of diesel fuel, reportedly occurred in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. The Coast Guard said the incident occurred in the Arthur […]
Chicago Tribune: GENEVA (Reuters) – Pakistan, plagued by Islamists militancy, sectarian violence and frequent disasters that push its people deeper into poverty, told the United Nations on Tuesday it is a democratic and progressive state working to protect human rights. But Western countries and the normally anti-Western Belarus countered that […]
Source: The Guardian Guardian: US military commanders have warned their Israeli counterparts that any action against Iran would severely limit the ability of American forces in the region to mount their own operations against […]
British anti-war campaigners will hold a protest against the rise of Islamophobia in Britain and across Europe in London on Friday November 2. The Stop the War Coalition said the […]
In an effort to bring stability amid the ongoing finger-pointing between the Syrian rebels and government over blame for disrupting a truce, UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is in Moscow […]