Scientists unveil incredible shrinking car
Source: The local Scientists at the world’s biggest IT fair unveiled on Tuesday what they hope is the car of the future that can shrink to fit tight parking spaces […]
Thomas More and Islam: Utopia (1516)
Sir Thomas More, by Hans Holbein An odd case in early 16th century literature on tolerance is the work of Erasmus’s personal friend Thomas More. In his Utopia of 1516, More pictures an ideal society where different religions co-exist. He not only allows the diversity of Islamic society to enter the stage, […]
India’s Supreme Court to Hear Dispute on Drug Patents
MUMBAI, India — While China was becoming the world’s shop floor, India took its place as the world’s pharmacy, and in recent decades has been the largest provider of cheap, lifesaving medicines in poor countries across the globe. But most of that medicine has been generic copies of brand-name drugs […]
Cross country exhibition visits Moose Jaw
Source : Moose Jaw Times Herald – It started as a movement of using peaceful means to combat hostility and misunderstanding towards Islam, and on Saturday the ‘Holy Qur’an open house’ tour will be coming to the Friendly City — and all are invited. “The whole idea is to show […]
I will never allow my people to live in the shadow of annihilation-Israeli PM.
Credit: Washington Post: “None of us can afford to wait much longer,” Netanyahu told a cheering audience at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference in Washington. “As prime minister of Israel, I will never allow my people to live in the shadow of annihilation. Read Complete […]
Pakistan’s Fearless women: Sherry Rehman, Shehrbano Taseer feature on world women list
Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | Source/Credit: The Express Tribune Pakistan Ambassador to the US, Sherry Rehman and daughter of slain Punjab governor Shehrbano Taseer, have featured on The Daily Beast (Newsweek) list […]
European asylum seekers in the Ottoman Empire
Christmas celebration in present day Istanbul During those troubled decades, the empire also became a haven for the religiously oppressed. In the mid seventeenth century, for example, a cluster of […]
Jona Lendering: Islam’s Contributions to Modern State Law; the Myth of Hellenism
Historian Jona Lendering just republished his book ‘Vergeten erfenis. Oosterse wortels van de westerse cultuur’ (Lost Legacy. Eastern Roots of Western Culture) in which he confirms two strong suspicions of mine, namely that Islamic Law was in fact the basis for the modern State — with its fabled separation of […]
AIPAC beats the drums of war: A question of when, not if?
Washington Post: Dana Milbank: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told the AIPAC gathering on Monday night that Obama needs more of a “clear, declaratory policy” toward Iran. “If Iran […]
UK: Far-right Supporters Agree with Armed Attacks
Significant numbers of far-right supporters in the UK consider violence and “armed conflict” a legitimate form of political expression, experts will warn this week. The first audit into the attitudes […]
Saudi Arabia and the Muslim Brotherhood: Unexpected Adversaries
Credit: Stratfor: A demonstrator steps on an ostrich egg with a drawing of Saudi King Abdullah on March 17 in Ankara The political gains of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt have breathed new life into long-suppressed political Islamist forces across the Arab world. While it may appear on the surface […]
Insecure minorities: Pakistani Hindus seek safety in India
Express Tribune: KARACHI: Preetam Das is a good doctor with a hospital job and a thriving private clinic, yet all he thinks about is leaving Pakistan, terrified about a rise in […]
Saudi diplomat shot dead in Bangladesh: Police
Credit: TOI DHAKA: A Saudi Arabian diplomat was shot in the chest and died in the Bangladesh capital in the early hours of Tuesday, the deputy commissioner of Dhaka police said. Police found Khalaf Al Ali’s body at an intersection just two buildings away from his residence in the city’s […]
Singapore convict escapes caning after sex change
Credit: TOI on Line: SINGAPORE: A Singaporean man who underwent sex change surgery before being convicted on drugs charges escaped caning after a court recognised the change in gender, local media reported Tuesday. Preeta Nivashani M Rechnam, 40, was jailed on Monday for seven years and three months for a […]
FRANCE: More Fuel to the Fire!
Source: REUTERS By: Tom Heneghan. PARIS, March 5 (Reuters)- France’s prime minister urged Muslims and Jews to consider scrapping their halal and kosher slaughter laws on Monday as President Nicolas Sarkozy […]
Bosnian pilgrim walking to Mecca reaches Turkey
AFP | Mar 05,2012 | JORDAN TIMES ISTANBUL — Bosnian Muslim Senad Hadzic, who left home in December to walk to Mecca for the Hajj, on Monday told AFP he […]
Turkey exploring paths to end Kurd conflict
By REUTERS Published: Mar 6, 2012 00:04 Updated: Mar 6, 2012 00:04 ANKARA: Turkish Gendarmerie Colonel Ridvan Ozden was killed in 1995, his wife says, not by Kurdish militants, but by his own colleagues for opposing their “dirty war” and saying the solution to the Kurdish problem was not through […]
Founder of Tunisian ‘religious police’ eschews violence
Reuters | Mar 05,2012 | 23:26 TUNIS — The head of a group that has government permission to seek to promote religious teachings in Tunisia says he will use persuasion and protest but not violence to encourage Islamic behaviour in one of the Arab world’s most secular countries. Adel Al […]
Earthquake measuring 4.9 on Richter Scale jolts India
Less than three weeks after the authorities here proclaimed that their first-ever exercise to test the preparedness for a great earthquake was a success, a gentle earthquake of 4.9 magnitude on Monday made clear that neither the public nor emergency services are in fact ready to deal with a real-life […]
Another Mosque inaugurated in UK By World Muslim Leader
Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad calls on the media to utilise its influence with responsibility and justice The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat is pleased to announce that on 4 th March 2012, […]