Pakistani whirling dervish dancers from Shah Hussains Mazaar perform during the 2012 International Sufi Festival in Amritsar, India on Oct. 21, 2012. Participants from various countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Maldives, […]
Informant: NYPD paid me to ‘bait’ Muslims The Associated Press Rahman said he wanted to turn his life around and stop using drugs, and said he believed Islam could provide a purpose in life. In the following days, Rahman friended him on Facebook and the two exchanged phone numbers. Shahbaz, a Pakistani […]
By Al Arabiya with Agencies Millions of pilgrims arrived this week in Mecca for Islam’s annual Hajj (pilgrimage), which officially starts on Wednesday. Around four million pilgrims were heading to […]
Source: Daily Guide: It was Gambibgo Primary School that emerged winners in the primary school category with TI Ahmadiyya following. Bukere Primary’s Abdulai Ibrahim was adjudged the discovery player in the primary division, while Asaaba Ayinu, Gambusai Primary finished as the Most Valuable Player. More:
Source: M-Media M-Media A coalition of four major Islamic organizations in Myanmar jointly announces today that Myanmar Muslims will not celebrate this year’s Eid ul-Adha, a holy religious event scheduled for October 27 in Myanmar. The statement, signed by the Olama Muslim Theologians, the Islamic Affairs Council, the Myanmar Muslim […]
Source: MMedia There are 12 wards in Kyauk Phyu Township, Rakhine State and a mosque in West Ward was burnt down by Rakhine extremists at night on 22nd Oct. Very few Muslims live near that mosque. As a result, Muslims were not ready to protect the mosque against this arson. […]
Dawn.com: by Waris Husain. An obstacle that seems to define US-Pakistan relations is the lack of a common enemy recognised by both parties. There is a mutual threat within the military ranks of both nations in the form of infiltrators, using their military training to assist extremist groups. Pakistan’s Army […]
Dawn.com: PESHAWAR: Following the deadly attack on activist Malala Yousafzai a few weeks ago, another schoolgirl from Swat, Hina Khan who was a pioneer in raising her voice publicly against Taliban atrocities in the Malakand Valley, is now also claiming to be on the Taliban’s hit list. What has been further worrisome […]
“You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your heads, neither shall you clip off the edge of your beard.” — Leviticus 19:27 To beard or not to beard is not the question. The beard is a given — given by God. Bearded Gospel Men simply delivers the divine truth […]
Huff Post: by Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo NEW YORK — A paid informant for the New York Police Department’s intelligence unit was under orders to “bait” Muslims into saying inflammatory things as he lived a double life, snapping pictures inside mosques and collecting the names of innocent people attending […]
RT: In a scene reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller The Birds, a murder of crows has stoned several expensive vehicles parked near a regional legislative body in the Russian Urals, prompting internet jokes about possible political motives. “When leaving the office, I saw a group of drivers of ministers’ and […]
October 23, 2012 VOICE OF AMERICA Qatar’s emir has received a hero’s welcome in the Gaza Strip as he became the first head of state to visit the Palestinian territory […]
By Associated Press WASHINGTON POST CAIRO — Tamer Shamy’s butcher shop is all set for one of Islam’s most important holidays — colorful blinking lights have been festooned around hanging […]
Updates from Press Secretary SAAPK who posts from his public twitter account … tweets are listed in reverse order (i.e. latest first): Saleem ud Din @SaleemudDinAA @Hi_Its_Annie No but they were working […]
Prologue First something about the big picture, the Christian apologists want to make a case for Christianity based on laws of nature and science, by showing that there ought to […]
Whereas fruit is mentioned at least 30 times in the Holy Qur’an and seed at least 5 times, the word flower and buds is not mentioned even once Say, ‘Travel […]
By Ehtishamul Haq Mahmood Kauser The life of this noble one is not mysterious to the author of this dissertation. The most prominent example of his character that can be noted is his most warm and wholehearted greeting. Even at his extreme age he would embrace all with a […]
Obama as Commander-in-Chief, Romney as Dithering Bully http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/foreign-policy-debate_b_2004061.html? I thought the third and last presidential debate was a clear win for the president. He displayed the authority of the nation’s Commander-in-Chief — calm, dignified, and confident. He was assertive without being shrill, clear without being condescending. He explained to a […]
WASHINGTON — The next significant event for monetary policy is not the Federal Reserve’s meeting Tuesday and Wednesday, which is likely to pass quietly, but the presidential election two weeks later. Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee, has said that he opposes the Fed’s efforts to stimulate the economy as ineffective […]
Source: Policy Innovations.org By W. M. H. Jaim and Shaheen Akter Bangladesh has achieved remarkable success in food-grain production in the recent past which has made the country nearly self-sufficient in food grain in normal years. Seed, fertilizer, and irrigation technologies known as Green Revolution technologies have been playing major […]