Dark clouds of extremism and terrorism!
Source: By: LAIQ AHMED ATIF, President Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta amjmalta@gmail.com The world is not at rest and much of it today is embroiled in wars, disorder and enmities. Some […]
A new dawn for Somalia
Source:DEVEX Flag of Somalia. Academic and civic activist Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has been elected as Somalia’s new president. Photo by: Stuart Price / U.N. Photo / CC BY-NC-ND Somalia made history Monday (Sept. 10) with its “first and fair elections” in 40 years. The election of a new president also […]
The day that didn’t change a thing
Sopurce: Asia Times. Are Norwegians weird, or what? Seventy-seven of them get massacred by a killer who gets a prison term of only 21 years and they don’t take to the streets in protest, even when their president, without a drop of machismo, says: “The bomb and bullets were aimed […]
India donates $200,000 for riot-hit in Myanmar’s Rakhine state
Source: Times of India NEW DELHI: India has finally reacted to the violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state by handing over $ 200,000 to the state administration for the riot-affected people. Government sources here said that the money, which was handed over to Rakhine chief minister U Hla Maung Tin by […]
India gives $10 mn aid to Palestine, pledges support
Source: Firstpost New Delhi: India today announced a $10 million contribution to Palestine and pledged its support to Palestine’s bid for full and equal membership of the UN. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas held comprehensive talks on host of bilateral issues and exchanged views […]
Germany ‘fails to level educational playing field’
Source: The Local One expert spoke of a “fear of advancement” which needs to be tackled, when commenting on the long-term education survey conducted by the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research – commissioned by the Vodafone Foundation. The study spoke of university entry still being socially selective, with children […]
Cleansing St. Augustine into a Muslim Mystic
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Augustine of Hippo ( /ɒˈɡʌstɨn/[1][2] or /ˈɔːɡəstɪn/;[2] Latin: Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis;[3] November 13, 354 – August 28, 430), […]
Muslims give blood to save lives
Soure/Credit: Germantown Islam Examiner By Shahina Bashir It is said that time is the greatest healer. Perhaps it is the only way that man can survive the reality of tragedies and loss. It is hard to believe that the eleventh anniversary of 9/11 is upon us. Though the pain maybe […]
The Head Al Azhar Fatwa Committee issues fatwa to ban Jews from holy sites in Muslim countries
Dr. Abdul Hamid al-Atrash, the head of the Fatwa Committee of Al Azhar in Egypt, has issued a ruling that Arabs may ban Jews from visiting their holy sites in […]
The Most Fearless Surfer
Credit/Source: Huffington Post By Jamail Yogis I love the way stories spread in this era. A couple of years ago, I flew to Bangladesh and reported a story for AFAR Magazine about a homeless girl, Nassima Atker, who’d miraculously become one of the country’s best surfers. (Yes, there is surfing in Bangladesh.) […]
Swiss still against fighter plane purchase
Switzerland does not need new fighter planes, according to results of a survey by the polling institute Isopublic. Just over 57 per cent of potential voters said they would be […]
Islamic Poultry for Latino Tables (Yes, They Have Chilies, Too)
By ANA FACIO-KRAJCER The New York Times – Los Angeles Journal LOS ANGELES — Sebastian Flores walked out of Al Salam Pollería with a free bag of white-feathered chicken heads. […]
Is this Jinnah’s Pakistan?
Credit: ET The writer is professor of political science at LUMS Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the father of our nation, must be turning in his grave if angels were to carry the news and pictures of today’s Pakistan to him — targeted killings of Shias, persecution of Christians and public conversion […]
Dr Shakil Afridi claims ISI regards US as ‘worst enemy’
Credit: ET Afridi claims ISI supports Haqqani network. PHOTO: FILE PESHAWAR: Controversial Pakistani doctor and alleged CIA informant, Dr Shakil Afridi claimed in an interview to Fox News that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency regarded America as its “worst enemy” and that the incumbent government was cooperating with the US only to extract billions […]
CJ refuses to meet UN team investigating enforced disappearances
Source: ET Chief justice says matter is sub-judice, which is why he cannot meet delegation. PHOTO: PID/FILE Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Tuesday refused to meet the UN delegation investigating the issue of enforced disappearances, saying that the matter is sub-judice, Express News reported. The team arrived in Pakistan […]
Expat population ‘could threaten’ GCC security
ARAB NEWS Tuesday 11 September 2012 JEDDAH: More than 12.5 million workers in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are foreigners, accounting for 31 percent of the 40 million GCC […]
Muslims at Catholic Colleges: Aliens From Outer Space Are Thriving on Earth
The other day, I stumbled across a piece on the increasing number of Muslim students at Catholic colleges in the United States. The New York Times article is the result of interviews with students and administrators at several American Catholic institutions. Also accompanying the article was the usual array of […]
FIJIAN KORAN – Credit Pakistani Ahmadi Muslim, Maulana Wahid
SAMABULA (SUVA)- FIJI – I was blown away when I saw manuscript of the first Fijian translation nicely typed and kept at the Ahmadiyya Islamic library here when I volunteered at the library in late 70s. During my breaks and holidays from Police Department, I used work with the then Amir and Missionary in Charge Maulana […]
MUSLIM WRITER TARIQ RAMADAN SPEAKS AT ANN ARBOR
Noted Muslim writer Tariq Ramadan to speak tonight in Ann Arbor Detroit Free Press Staff Writer FILED UNDER The writer who’s the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood — the Islamic group now in power in Egypt — is speaking tonight in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan. […]
ABC NEWS – EXTREME ISLAM IN MALI
Islamists Conduct Amputations in Mali By BABA AHMED and RUKMINI CALLIMACHI Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali September 10, 2012 (AP) Islamic police said they used a stage in a public square to amputate the right hand and left foot of five accused thieves in a city of Mali on Monday, in […]