Source: Tehelka~ India’s most famous fact finding independent weekly. By:Sai Manish Sunni supremacist groups have terrorised the Ahmadiyyas in Pakistan and declared them non-Muslims. This hatred is now taking roots in India. Sai Manish reports… “The breed of Qadianis will never change. They may multiply up to 99 generations; still […]
The Jakarta Post | Editorial There is no better theme to celebrate during this year’s Ramadhan than pluralism. The fact that Muslims in Indonesia are widely divided about when the […]
Times of Israel President uploads video on YouTube in which he talks of shared values of justice, compassion and peace during Islamic holy month Shimon Peres wished the Muslims of […]
By Steve Almasy and Melissa Abbey, CNN (CNN) – Worshippers at an Islamic center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, will have to wait a few more weeks before they can use their new mosque, officials said Thursday. The mosque – subject of a two-year battle marked by legal wrangling, vandalism and anti-Muslim […]
The members of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at are being tortured and mercilessly killed; their houses and mosques are damaged and looted, and their basic human rights, to practice and preach their faith, are being violated and denied in some Muslim countries. Recently, in Pakistan, minarets of a mosque were demolished with […]
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Source: OnIslam & Newspapers Muslim and Buddhist groups in India called Tuesday, July 17, for the Indian government to intervene to end the ongoing atrocities committed against Muslims in neighboring Myanmar. “There are continuous news reports of atrocities and killing of ethnic Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar which has caused a […]
Source: Dawn.com AID groups have warned of an impending humanitarian catastrophe in western Myanmar as authorities attempt to isolate tens of thousands of the displaced ethnic Rohingya minority in camps described by one aid worker as “open air prisons”. Aid has struggled to reach those affected by sectarian unrest in […]
In Saudi Arabia and surrounding countries, such as Jordan, Ramadan will start tomorrow, Friday, 20th July 2012. At this moment the first Tarawaee Prayers are being broadcast from Makkah al Mukaramah Live on Saudi 1 TV station.
by Marianne Vorthoren Source: bikyamasr http://www.bikyamasr.com/73242/dutch-and-muslim-are-not-mutually-exclusive/ Rotterdam, Netherlands – A few years ago, I had a conversation in a mosque in Rotterdam with two Muslim girls who were about 6 or 7 years-old. They asked me, in fluent Dutch, if I was Turkish. I explained that I was Dutch, and […]
By MANSUR MIROVALEV, Associated Press Source: US NEWS com MOSCOW (AP) — A top Muslim cleric in Russia’s Tatarstan province was shot dead Thursday and another was wounded by a car bomb, attacks that the province’s leader and local religious authorities said were probably related to the priests’ criticism of […]
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Source: Fox News Published July 19, 2012 Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Muslims in a Tennessee congregation prepared Thursday for the holy month of Ramadan a day after a federal judge ruled they have a right to occupy their newly built mosque, overruling a county judge’s order that was keeping […]
Source: THE NEWS Kamila Hyat Thursday, July 19, 2012 From Print Edition. We should, right now, be celebrating. The announcement by physicists in Switzerland last week that they have all but proven the existence of the Higg’s Boson, a subatomic particle, also known as the “God particle,” which pulls together […]
Source : The New York Times By SARA SCHONHARDT Published: July 18, 2012 ……. Intolerance has also led to attacks on Christians, whose churches have been closed under pressure, and on members of the Ahmadiyah, an Islamic sect many mainstream Muslims consider heretical. …… “Five years ago this trend was […]
By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel signaled on Thursday it would not rush into any open conflict with Iran or its Lebanese guerrilla ally Hezbollah despite blaming them for a deadly attack on its citizens in Bulgaria. A suicide bomber killed eight people on a bus carrying Israeli tourists […]
University of Indonesia (UI) has set up Abdurrahman Wahid Center (AWC) to serve as a forum to discuss issues related to democracy, global peace and social conflict. JakartaPost: The government […]
Michael Simpson, Staff Writer PART 1 – Convention While a few thousand Ukrainians got down to business celebrating their culture in Vegreville over the weekend of July 6-8, nearly 20,000 […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Our Correspondent Published: July 19, 2012 ISLAMABAD: A high-powered gathering of the country’s civil and military leadership here on Wednesday finalised a […]