Express Tribune: Don’t be taken in by the negative sound-bites. On the face of it, political forces seem to be struggling to succeed in the litmus test of managing the […]
Dawn: Saudi Arabia on Saturday condemned comments by Russia’s human rights envoy on the situation in the kingdom as “hostile” and an unjustified interference in the kingdom’s internal affairs, the […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Sunday 15 July 2012 Preparations for the Grand Mosque in Makkah and Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah to receive millions of pilgrims and visitors are in place. Head […]
JEDDAH: SARAH ABDULLAH ARABNEWS Sunday 15 July 2012 As Ramadan draws near, many working women begin the relentless search for housemaids, focusing mainly on illegal workers. Sawsan, a service representative […]
Should We Fear Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood? Huffington Post (blog) There are concerns that this and other emerging political groups might usher in a new era of oppression, this time inspired by and based on Islam. For all of Mubarak’s vices, he at least opposed religious extremism; free and fair elections are […]
A giant cake was cut on Saturday afternoon in celebration of the open house for Masjid Dar As-Salam, the new Islamic centre in Charlottetown. The Muslim community on Prince Edward […]
Miss Maryam Khola Hübsch, daughter of late Mr Hydatullah Hübsch, who is quite active in the field of spreading the message of Islam Ahmadiyyat was specially picked, as an Islam expert, from 4 millions Muslims residing in Germany to express her view point about “Circumcision” on one of the largest […]
Metro TV reports that Islamist primitives in Cisalada, West Java, again viciously turned on their peaceful Ahmadi neighbours on Friday, angry because foreign journalists were taking pictures of the persecuted […]
BBC: Islamic groups in Pakistan were initially hostile to cable TV because of concerns about “obscene” foreign imports, but religion now dominates the airwaves. A new breed of Islamic TV evangelist has emerged, leading to a confrontation with liberals. On any day of the week, television in Pakistan is a […]
Religion News Service | By Lauren Markoe HUFFPOST RELIGION (RNS) Ongoing violence in Nigeria has exacerbated tensions between the country’s Muslims and Christians. Nigeria has equal numbers of Christians and Muslims, and 92 percent of the country’s population says they pray every day, according to a 2010 poll by the […]
By Mohammed Masbah The Daily Star Morocco’s Justice and Development Party (PJD) will hold its seventh congress this weekend under extraordinary circumstances; for the first time, the PJD will be holding this conference as the ruling party – a new reality that raises many questions about its internal governance. Abdelilah […]
The Swiss Federal Railways must allow a placard criticising Israel to be hung in the Zurich main railway station, according to a decision by the Swiss Federal Court in Lausanne. […]
BY ROB CRILLY, DAILY TELEGRAPH JULY 14, 2012 4:01 AM It is hardly the sort of endorsement that Britain’s Conservative elite would want or expect. But one of the world’s […]
Rugby: Fijian star Matawalu joins Glasgow Scotsman NEW Glasgow coach Gregor Townsend has added to his squad by signing the Fijianscrum-half hailed by Scotland as the star of their South Seas Test encounter last month. See all stories on this topic » Scotsman How to buy a tiny slice of Fiji The Australian LAST […]
KRAUTHAMMER: Islamic uprising, not Facebook revolution Santa Rosa Press Democrat Post-revolutionary Libya appears to have elected a relatively moderate pro-Western government. Good news, but tentative because Libya is less a country than an oil well with a long beach and myriad tribes. Popular allegiance to a central national … See all stories on […]
Express Tribune: by Amna Agha: The persecution of the Ahmadiyya community has reached new heights following the destruction of six minarets at an Ahmadi place of worship in Kharian on July […]
By VANESSA FUHRMANS WALL STREET JOURNAL BERLIN—Germany’s government pledged Friday to pass a law to protect the ritual circumcision of young boys, seeking to calm a fractious debate over the religious rights of the country’s Jews and Muslims that has erupted since a German court ruled the practice amounted to […]
TRIPOLI — Mahmoud Jibril, the US-trained consultant who abandoned the Muammar Qadhafi administration to become the face of the Libyan revolution, is positioning himself as a potentially unifying force as the country emerges from four decades of dictatorship. The wartime rebel prime minister’s National Forces Alliance (NFA) is headed for […]
PNN: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas used the platform of the First International Conference for the Defense of Jerusalem, held in Doha in February of this year, to appeal to both Christians and Muslims of the Arab world, inviting them to visit and pray in the Israeli-occupied city. Abbas argued that […]
An angry mob attacked members of Bogor’s Ahmadiyah community on Friday as a team of Dutch journalists tried to shoot a documentary on the beleaguered community. Four journalists from the Dutch daily newspaper de Volkskrant arrived in Bogor’s Cisalada village late Friday morning to interview members of the local Ahmadiyah […]