Course brings Jewish and Muslim women together
The Canadian Jewish News: A new weekly course is bringing together Jewish and Muslim women to study each other’s spiritual texts and the roles of women in these religions. Shari […]
Rashid: Don’t take your right to vote for granted
By: QASIM RASHID | Richmond Times-Dispatch Published: October 30, 2012 The presidential debates are history, leaving us cherishing Big Bird, binders full of women and horses and bayonets. America’s future now rests in the voters’ hands. Yet, about 90 million of us won’t vote this November — a trend that […]
Why don’t more Muslims speak out against the wanton destruction of Mecca’s holy sites? – by Jerome Taylor
LUBP: Saudi Arabia’s Wahabists are tearing down buildings that have links to the Prophet and replacing them with skyscrapers and shopping malls. Muslims are often criticised for not speaking out more vocally on key issues that affect their community. Barely a week goes by without the media asking why community […]
UBS announces up to 10,000 job cuts – UBS shares rise
Banking giant UBS has announced massive layoffs along with huge losses in its third-quarter results, saying it aims to trim as many as 10,000 employees to drastically shrink its ailing investment bank. Switzerland’s biggest bank said that as part of the cost-cutting drive it “is likely to have a headcount […]
Swiss Urged to Lift the Ban on Minarets
Mahmud Mosque in Switzerland built before recent ban on minarets in Switzerland By Simon Bradley Source: Swissinfo.ch United Nations member states have urged Switzerland to step up its fight against […]
Israel okays East Jerusalem district for ex-servicemen
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 […]
KSA to fund $ 100 m Kabul Islamic center
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 […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association starts poppy appeal
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 […]
Ahmadis barred from offering Eid prayer
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 – […]
Will the Saud’s destroy the Graves of the Holy Prophet and the two Caliphs?
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 […]
Meet the New Illustrious Foreign Minister of India: Salman Khurshid
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 […]
Op-Ed: Pakistan’s High Stakes Review
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 […]
Scientist Shows What Happens To ‘Soul’ After Death
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 […]
Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? – Debate – Mike Licona vs Richard Carrier
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. […]
Democracy and equality at the heart of Islamic revival
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 […]
School kids complete the English sentences
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 […]
Survey exposes French anxieties over Islam
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 […]
Crew abandons movie ship, awaits rescue
(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 […]
In pictures: French pilgrim town of Lourdes under water
Source: BBC Click on the picture to see pictures of flooding: