GAZA — Gaza will no longer be “liveable” by 2020 unless urgent action is taken to improve water supply, power, health, and schooling, the United Nations’ most comprehensive report on the Palestinian enclave said on Monday. “Action needs to be taken now if Gaza is to be a liveable place […]
Credit CNN via Wasim Sroya of Selvenia. Editor’s note: Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is chairman of the Cordoba Initiative, one of the key figures in the plan for an Islamic center near ground zero, and author of “Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Women Association holds 33rd National Annual Convention Ghana News Agency 27, GNA – Dr Maulvi Wahab Adam, Ameer and Missionary in charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, has said that it is important for all Ghanaians to approach the up-coming elections with honesty and in all seriousness. He said peaceful and […]
Pakistan should abolish overly-abused blasphemy laws Source: The Washington Post By Arsalan Iftikhar Local women walk past the locked house of a Christian girl in a suburb of Islamabad, Pakistan on Aug. 20, 2012. (AP) My grandfather was one of the most well-known literary figures in Pakistan’s history and once famously told […]
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Sultan endorses N0.5m Islamic studies’ scholarship | Print | E-mail Written by Biola Azeez, IlorinTuesday, 28 August 2012 The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has announced an annual donation of half a million naira to the best graduating student from the Department of Islamic Studies, University of Ilorin. Speaking at the opening of […]
U.S. troops tried to burn about 500 copies of the Koran as part of a badly bungled security sweep at an Afghan prison in February, despite repeated warnings from Afghan […]
Russian TV: Sardinian miners armed with hundreds of pounds of explosives have barricaded themselves over 1300ft (400m) underground in Italy’s only coalmine, presumably threatening to blow themselves up unless the […]
Express Tribune: The Sindh provincial government has moved a step closer to ensuring minority places of worship are protected from the tentacles of the “land mafia”. “Religious buildings are only […]
Dawn: by Faiza Mirza: When Jinnah said that “religion and state should be kept separate”, he could not have more appropriately warned the people of present-day Pakistan where the constitutionally […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD The opening chapter of the Holy Quran, Sura Fatihah, which has only seven verses, alludes to the Christians and the Jews in […]
RT: As the US government deports tens of thousands of immigrants, children are increasingly watching their parents handcuffed and dragged away as they get handed to social workers and denied contact with their broken up families. Nearly 45,000 parents who were illegally in the US were deported in the first […]
Watching a documentary on Africa and its various countries two days ago on BBC I discovered a religion that has been there before Christianity and Islam … and still exists. There were hundreds of worshippers dancing and praying, while many Christians and Muslims stood on the roads to see them […]
Scientist refutes Big Bang theory – proposes Earth cooled down Big Bang Was Actually a Phase Change, New Theory Says http://www.space.com/17217-big-bang-phase-change-theory.html How did the universe begin? The Big Bang is traditionally envisioned as the moment when an infinitely dense bundle of energy suddenly burst outward, expanding in three spatial directions […]
Discovering Fiji: SUVA Solomoni Biumaiono Sunday, August 26, 2012 Suva was officially declared a city in October of 1953 when it extended its one square mile boundary to include Walu Bay, Tamavua, Samabula, and Muanikau. But it began the year as the centre of the celebrations in the Fiji colony […]
Source: Myanmar Times By Tim McLaughlin Volume 33, No. 641 August 27 – September 2, 2012 Ko Htuu Lou Rae with one of ‘COEXIST’ t-shirts he has created. Pic: Yadanar THE first screen-printing shop Ko Htuu Lou Rae visited refused to make his t-shirts. The workers looked at his design, […]
Source: Pakistan Today ISLAMABAD – All Pakistan Ulema Council and Pakistan Interfaith League on Monday formed an Alliance to promote Interfaith Harmony and Peace in the country and stand united to curb all acts of religious extremism. Both the parties decided to form a special committee for investigating the present situation regarding […]
by Amatullah http://muslimmatters.org/2012/08/27/how-university-made-me-a-better-muslim/ It was 2010 and I had just returned from my studies in Cairo. I was in a “Muslim bubble,” having just come from a place where I heard the adhān every day and I was just another covered woman walking in the streets. Coming back home was […]
Muslims in Pakistan, show compassion and justice By Feisal Abdul Rauf, Special to CNN updated 1:42 PM EDT, Sun August 26, 2012 Pakistanis gather in Islamabad, Pakistan, on August 22 outside the closed house of a Christian girl accused of blasphemy. STORY HIGHLIGHTS A young Christian girl in Pakistan was accused of burning […]