UNESCO celebrates KSA heritage
By ARAB NEWS PARIS: Culture and Information Minister Abdul Aziz Khoja and UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova opened a three-day Saudi cultural event at the UN educational body’s headquarters here […]
Jordan: Libyan guests will be asked to evict hotel rooms Sunday (or: “Medical tourism ‘out of control’)
Libyan gov’t owes JD90m to local hotels by Khetam Malkawi | Apr 18,2012 | Jordan Times AMMAN — The Kingdom’s hotels on Wednesday decided to stop receiving Libyan guests due […]
Prince Ghazi, Egypt Mufti visit Al Aqsa Mosque
Jordan Times AMMAN — HRH Prince Ghazi, Chief Adviser to the King for Religious and Cultural Affairs and the King’s Personal Envoy, along with Grand Mufti of Egypt Sheikh Ali […]
Langley Green church converts to new mosque
Source: Sussex It was sold to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association, with the church moving services to Ifield. The building’s new residents are already using it for prayers – and an open day is being held, as part of plans to make the mosque as welcoming as possible to the whole […]
Battle of the Sexes: Women Get Less Exercise Than Men
Women are less likely than men to do 30 minutes of exercise each day. A new study found that women get on average 18 minutes a day of moderate to vigorous exercise while men get 30 minutes a day, according to a story on Live Science. Those who don’t get at […]
Separating ‘Islamism’ and ‘Islam’
Source :thenewfederalist. eu The Toulouse killings revived the debate on Islam in Europe On 19 March, France woke up to the dreadful news that someone had killed three children (aged 3, 6 and 10 years old) and a teacher in a Jewish school in Toulouse. It soon appeared that the […]
Brandi and Russel Bellew, Parents, Lose Children After Son Dies Due To ‘Faith Healing’
Huff post After 16-year-old Austin Sprout lost his life when his parents, Brandi and Russel Bellew, opted for prayer instead of medical treatment, their remaining six children are now wards of the state, the Register-Guardreports. According to the paper, the couple can still see their children under a new “in-home safety plan” […]
In Pakistan, saying goodbye can be a religious statement
Source: the guardian Does it matter what name people use for God? This is the question thrown up as a result of a strange development in Pakistani etiquette. Until about 10 years ago “Khuda hafiz”, which means “God protect you”, was the phrase commonly used to say goodbye. But, in […]
My Legal Journey From Muslim to Non-Muslim and Back
Pakteahouse: Maudood A. Bhatti: I was born a Muslim. Until the second amendment was passed in Pakistan’s constitution in 1974, I remained a legal Muslim. I was very young when this […]
Intrigues to Incriminate Ahmadis in State Rebellion: Story of Failures
Pakteahouse: by Aziz Bilal: Remembering Qadir & Qudoos It would not be inappropriate to commemorate the sacrifices that the Ahmadiyya community has offered in its commitment for peace and promoting […]
When Torture Became Virtue: Why Abdul Qudoos was murdered?
Pakteahouse; By Ayesha Noor: On March 30th, 43-year-old Master Abdul Qudoos lost the battle of his life in Rabwah, Pakistan. A relatively young man, he did not die of a heart attack, nor did he die of a fatal accident, neither […]
An Indian Muslim’s response to Pakistan
Pakistan is full of people who still think that they will someday launch a ‘holy war’ or let’s say “Gajwa–e-Hind” on India. They aspire of imposing their colonial rule on India, quite same as America has done in Afghanistan and Iraq. The subjects as it aspires will have a unbreakable […]
U.S. faces big tax, budget test at year end: Geithner
(Reuters) – The government will face a major test on whether it has the capacity to govern when it faces big tax and budget decisions at the end of the year, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday. Before 2013, the country will be forced to deal with the […]
Amazon’s Secretive Cloud Carries 1 Percent of the Internet
Source: Wired.com By Robert McMillan Amazon’s cloud computing infrastructure is growing so fast that it’s silently becoming a core piece of the internet. That’s according to an analysis done by DeepField Networks, a start-up that number-crunched several weeks’ worth of anonymous network traffic provided by internet service providers, mainly in North […]
Web Site Stole Job Seekers’ Data in Tax-Fraud Scheme
Source: NY Times. A Web site that promised to connect people with much-needed jobs during the recession was actually a means to steal the applicants’ personal information in a scheme to file fraudulent tax returns, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The site, http://www.jobcentral2.net, listed nonexistent jobs and used applicants’ identities to […]
Six Million African Muslims Convert to Christianity Each Year?
Quoting: Al-Jazeerah Website Synopsis from The American Thinker by James M. Arlandson. This translation of a televised conversation reveals a rare glimpse into the outlook of Muslim scholars who are concerned about Christianity’s growth. The invited guest is Sheikh Ahmad Al Katani; the president of The Companions Lighthouse for the Science of […]
India: Religious leaders praise Ahmadiyya community’s efforts to promote peace
Ahmadiyya Times: India; Press Statement : New Delhi: Leaders belonging to different faiths praised Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s effort to promote Peace in society during the one day Peace Symposium held here on Saturday. […]
Pakistan imploding under sectarian violence
Dawn: By Murtaza Haider: After decades of waging the propaganda war against India for its highhanded treatment of Kashmiris, Pakistan is now the subject of a similar campaign by India […]
A blessing or a bane?
Credit: Pakistan Today by Wasim Saroya By:Rabia Ahmed Hundreds of people are killed in the name of religion Many moons ago in a different continent a Pakistani acquaintance asked me, very seriously, whether she should attend the wedding of her friend’s daughter. Let me explain. My acquaintance, her friend and […]
Lady Bird
Credit: Spiegel Germany Spanish King Juan Carlos’ recent elephant hunting mishap in Botswana resulted in perhaps the most damaging political photo since US presidential candidate Michael Dukakis was photographed in a tank in 1988. The image depicts the king, a patron of the nature conservancy group WWF, holding a rifle […]