Ahmadiyya Times: Several Ahmadī volunteers at a bookstall organized by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community were beaten and abused by an Islamist mob in Kasaragod, Kerala, India. The bookstall was part of […]
Dailytimes; Yasser Latif Hamdani: Much like Akbar the Great, the Mughal Emperor, Mehmet Fateh and Suleiman the Magnificent refused to give in to the whims of the Muslim clergy. Their […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Karen Armstrong FRSL (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator known for her […]
After declaring Ahmadiyya as Non Muslim, Pakistan solved all its problems, except of course electricity shortage. This was a deliberate conspiracy to make the Fort of Islam weak and to […]
Source: BBC Defence lawyers for five men accused of plotting the 11 September 2001 attacks have challenged the fairness of the military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay. The defendants, who include the alleged mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, were formally charged with murder and other offences on Saturday. None of […]
Credit: Express Tribune: Report on Ahmedis reveals victimisation and harassment. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE LAHORE: The Urdu press and media are contributing to the hate campaign against Ahmedis by publishing “baseless stories,” the […]
Inqiurer News Philippines By: Shlomo Ben Ami MADRID—Mohamed Merah’s killing spree in and around Toulouse in March, like the 2004 Madrid train bombings and the 2005 suicide attacks in London’s […]
The Sacramento Bee ISLAMABAD — Last week, police officers in the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore visited a mosque run by Ahmadis, a minority Muslim sect considered by the rest of the country to be heretical. They looked around, and then announced their conclusion: The mosque looks too much like a mosque. So, […]
By DR. KHALID ALNOWAISER Youth need hope and a real chance to pursue their lives free of restrictions If I were asked to name the greatest challenge currently facing Saudi Arabia, I would not say it is Iran, nor the disturbing events taking place in the Middle East and not […]
NAJAF, Iraq — Hussein Al Kharsan kneels, bent over a giant sheet of paper, laboriously writing the words of Islam’s holy book, the Koran, in beautiful Arabic script with a traditional wood and feather pen. The 25-year-old Iraqi aims to take an unusual path to fame: writing the longest copy […]
Jordan Times AMMAN — The Delegation of the European Union to Jordan has announced that all consulates of Schengen states in Amman will start applying a new procedure for visa applications as of May 10, according to a statement from the delegation. Consular sections will collect biometric data, including fingerprinting […]
Source: The New York Times Fifteen million babies are born prematurely each year, and the United States fared badly in the first country-by-country global comparison of premature births, which was released Wednesday by the World Health Organization and other agencies. Although American hospitals excel at saving premature infants, the United States is similar […]
France24. François Hollande has won France’s presidential election, giving the country its first Socialist president in almost two decades, exit polls showed Sunday. According to Ipsos polling institute, the left-wing candidate took 51.7% of the vote to incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy’s 48.3%. Celebrations are underway at the iconic Place de la Bastille […]
Rfi. ince 1958 only Giscard d’Estaing has failed to win a second term, apart from Georges Pompidou who he died in office. Sarkozy, whose popularity slumped while he was in office, staged a determined comeback campaign, reducing Hollande’s lead over him in the polls. But he lost when it counted […]
April 24, 2012 Rfi. France. Emerging from a meeting with colleagues on Monday, Socialist party leader Martine Aubry told journalists that Hollande had “only one strategy: to get France back on its feet, to put justice back at the centre of all our decisions and unite the French, in other […]
Paris (CNN) — Francois Hollande, the winner of Sunday’s presidential runoff, thanked his supporters in a victory speech and promised to be a president for all of France. “Many people […]
Credit BBC News Socialist Francois Hollande has been elected as France’s new president. He got about 52% of votes in Sunday’s run-off, according to early projections, against 48% for centre-right […]
Medical News Today A new study provides a long-sought explanation for the beneficial fat-fighting effects of black pepper. The research, published in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, pinpoints piperine – the pungent-tasting substance that gives black pepper its characteristic taste, concluding that piperine also can block the formation of […]
ScienceDaily (May 3, 2012) — A Queen’s University researcher has created a Star Trek-like human-scale 3D videoconferencing pod that allows people in different locations to video conference as if they are standing in front of each other. “Why Skype when you can talk to a life-size 3D holographic image of another […]
the Atlantic There are two general ways to think about the problem of misogyny in the Arab world. The first is to think of it as an Arab problem, an issue of what Arab societies and people are doing wrong. “We have no freedoms because they hate us,” Eltahawy writes, […]