We Are All Muslims: A Sikh Response to Islamophobia in the NYPD and Beyond
Source: Huffington Post By Sonny Singh: musician & social justice educator As a brown-skinned Sikh with a turban on my head and a long beard on my chin, I deal […]
Russia to finally send man to the Moon
Russia will send a team of cosmonauts to the Moon, 60 years after Neil Armstrong’s Apollo mission effectively ended the US-Soviet space race. A spacecraft will “conduct a demonstrative manned […]
Brits cut back on Champagne as austerity bites
Britons drank almost one million fewer bottles of Champagne last year than they did in 2010, in the latest sign that consumers are cutting back on the finer things in […]
Smoking ban ‘has cut heart attacks’
Source: The Local The smoking ban in German pubs and cafes, even patchily implemented, has clearly reduced the number of heart attacks over the last few years, a report published […]
Most kids’ food products ‘too sweet and fatty’
Source: The Local Most food products aimed at German children is too sweet and fatty, making it “practically impossible” to give kids a healthy diet based on food designed for […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Myanmar celebrates Prophet’s day
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Myanmar celebrated Prophet’s day on 11th March 2012. Six hundred guests attended the function, out of which around 300 were guests and 300 members of the […]
February retail sales rise, highest in five months
(Reuters) – U.S. retail sales posted their largest gain in five months in February as Americans stepped up purchases of motor vehicles and other goods even as they paid more for gasoline. Total retail sales increased 1.1 percent, the Commerce Department said on Tuesday, after a 0.6 percent rise in […]
ASWJ calls for protest against ‘curriculum change’ in Gilgit-Baltistan
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Asad Kharal Published: March 13, 2012 LAHORE: Ahle-Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ), while making a pledge to ensure that “Gilgit-Baltistan remains a Sunni […]
Dr A Wahab Adam, Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, Ghana, honored by UN!
Dr A Wahab Adam, Head of Ahamdiyya Muslim Mission, Ghana. By Zubair Khan Nature has a unique phenomenon of rewarding those who very honestly and sincerely devote their God given […]
Church Puts Legal Pressure on Abuse Victims’ Group
NY Times: Turning the tables on an advocacy group that has long supported victims of pedophile priests, lawyers for theRoman Catholic Church and priests accused of sexual abuse in two Missouri […]
Norway: Ahmadiyya Bait-un-Nasr Mosque to add planned community, cultural center
Ahmadiyya Times: Aftenposten By Magnus Brattset Drabløs: Ahmadiyya community in Oslo wants to build housing, cultural and business center around the mosque site, writes Aftenposten. It is uncertain who will be charged with development of […]
Pakistan: Faith and persecution: The believers share my infidel air, it is only I who suffocate
Pakteahouse.net By Usman Ahmad: I first wrote this piece in 2010 after the terror attacks on two Ahmadi masjids in Lahore. Today the words seem to read as true as they […]
Israel uses Gaza to test its Iron Dome
By LINDA HEARD, ARABNEWS People who believe Israel has the right to send its bombs and emissaries anywhere on the planet to carry out extrajudicial assassinations have a warped moral compass. However it’s dressed, murder is murder. It’s bad enough when an individual premeditates to take the life of another […]
Belgian mosque attacked, imam dies
ArabNews. BRUSSELS: A mosque near Brussels was the target Monday evening of an arson attack in which the imam died, Belgian authorities said late Monday. One man was arrested — a Muslim who said he was born in 1978 — in the attack on the mosque in Anderlecht, a suburb […]
OIC to dispatch humanitarian aid to Syria
By JEDDAH: GALAL FAKKAR, ARAB NEWS STAFF The 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will send humanitarian assistance to Syria after Damascus gave its consent to the move, the Jeddah-based organization announced yesterday. “The OIC secretariat received a written letter from the Syrian government allowing it to send humanitarian aid […]
Man gives his wife million scarlet roses as apology
Pravda.Ru A male resident of Kazakhstan decided to impress his wife with an apology for a family fight that the couple had had before. The man ordered a bouquet of one million red roses to apologize and surprise his wife. The man lives in the city of Kyzylorda in the south […]
Aircraft carrier to begin service this year in China
Source: China Daily Weaponry developing in line with rising defense needs, say analysts China plans to put its first aircraft carrier into service later this year, a top navy official […]
Peace Symposium 2012 in Malta
Speakers: Hon. Simon Busuttil – Member of European Parliament Hon. Evarist Bartolo – Member of Maltese Parliament Ms. Angele Deguara – Malta Green Party Fr. Edgar Busuttil SJ – Representing […]
PAKISTAN-VIEW: Ahmedi killing
The DailyTimes: by Usman Ahmad: The day was in the words of Charles Dickens, “…one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold; when […]
It’s un-American to silence Limbaugh
By Marc. J. Randazza, Special to CNN updated 9:19 AM EDT, Mon March 12, 2012 Editor’s note: Marc J. Randazza is a Las Vegas based First Amendment attorney. He is […]