FRANCE 24 A day after locking horns with incumbent French President Nicolas Sarkozy in a heated televised debate, Socialist candidate François Hollande told FRANCE 24 and RFI on Thursday he was satisfied with his performance. “I think the debate unfolded as I hoped it would,” said Hollande, who admitted to having […]
Source: NY Times. By Tamar Lewin In what is shaping up as an academic Battle of the Titans — one that offers vast new learning opportunities for students around the world — Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday announced a new nonprofit partnership, known as edX, to […]
By Abdal Hakim Murad (Professor Tim Winter), Cambridge University It’s no mystery that people like Khalil Dale are drawn to the religion’s ultimate simplicity The discovery at the weekend in […]
Credit. BILD newspaper Berlin via Zafrallah Khan of Germany Imam Basit Tariq of Berlin Berlin – Even against opposition Imam Abdul Basit Tariq (56) opened in 2008 the first mosque in eastern Berlin. Today, four years later, the Imam of the small Ahmadiyya community in Heinersdorf is creating excitement again.The […]
Loonwatch.com: PVV leader Geert Wilders has called on Muslims throughout the world to leave Islam. He made his call in a speech in New York, to promote his English-language book Marked for Death. […]
Euronews: Another voice, that of former Libyan prime minister al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, who is in prison in Tunisia, has added his support to the accusation that French President Nicolas Sarkozy took […]
Dawn: by Asghar Ali Engineer: RECENTLY a conference of the Muslim Personal Law Board in India saw a huge crowd of 200,000 Muslims from all over Maharashtra. The chairman of the […]
An old article of 1996. What has changed in the meantime? Any improvements? Source: http://www.meforum.org/306/why-does-the-muslim-world-lag-in-science Aaron Segal, professor of political science at the University of Texas, El Paso, is the author of An Atlas of International Migration (Bowker, 1993) and Learning by Doing: Science, Technology and the Developing World (Westview, […]
IDEALS AND REALITIES Selected Essays of Abdus Salam by C H Lai & Azim Kidwai The latest edition of “Ideals and Realities” includes some of the most recent talks given […]
LONDON: Adolf Hitler had a “messiah complex” and became increasingly obsessed with the perceived Jewish “enemy within” as World War II turned against Germany, according to a secret 1942 assessment […]
By JEDDAH: AHMED HASSAN ARAB NEWS Published: May 4, 2012 01:44 Updated: May 4, 2012 01:44 The rising cost of living is the greatest concern for young people in the Middle East, according to a poll of young Arab men and women in 12 Arab nations, including the six Gulf […]
By AGENCIES ARABNEWS ANKARA: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan denounced Standard and Poor’s rating agency yesterday, saying its downgrading of Turkey’s outlook was clouded by an “ideological approach.” Erdogan […]
AFP | May 03,2012 | JORDAN TIMES KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait’s parliament on Thursday passed a bill stipulating the death penalty for Muslims who curse God, the Muslim holy book, all prophets and the wives of Islam’s Prophet Mohammad. Forty MPs, including Cabinet ministers, voted for the bill in the […]
A young Sitara Brooj Akbar from Rabwah, Pakistan is the holder of both Pakistani and world records based on her passing of O Level chemistry, biology, English and mathematics. Click here for her brief interview
Guardian.co.uk A project to feed the homeless, undertaken by one of the region of Majlish Khuddam-ul Ahmadiyya (Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association), started on Friday, the 10th of February, 2012 in […]
Huff Post Sam Harris–I know you’re a busy man, but I’d like to ask you out. Will you go to mosque with me? I’m not trying to convert you to Islam. Like you, I’m not a Muslim. Like you, I don’t believe in any gods. I’m happily, openly atheist. A […]
Huff Post Prayer is one of the most interesting ways to understand a person’s inner life. It’s a deeply personal practice that is sometimes made in a public setting. For some, disbelief or dispair is the reason for prayer. For others, prayer is rooted in unshakable trust or overflowing gratitude. […]
The Jerusalem Post: Less than three weeks after at least 1,400 Palestinians in Israeli prisons launched a widespread hunger strike, Israeli Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch on Thursday made several […]
The Express Tribune: Policemen scratched out Quranic verses written on the walls of an Ahmedi place of worship and ordered them to cover up short minarets at the entrance as they made the place look like a mosque, The Express Tribune has learnt. After receiving a complaint about the place […]
Source: WSJ Online BY SADANAND DHUME Despite its 160-million strong population, Bangladesh can find it hard to elbow its way onto the global stage. It’s in an area where India is cast in the lead as the dominant economy, Pakistan plays the intermittent villain, and Sri Lanka and Nepal feature […]