Source: The Record – Fort Saskatchewan recently played host to a Muslim group looking to dispel misconceptions about the Islamic religion. Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association of Canada (AMYA) sent a group of 15 youth volunteers out to the Fort on Saturday in an effort to counter terrorism and to educate […]
Source: Washington Post By Harris Zafar On Tuesday, January 17th, former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich said that the only way he would ever support a Muslim for the […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Agencies / Faisal Shakeel / Web Desk Published: January 19, 2012 ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani appeared before the Supreme Court on Thursday in […]
DOHA — From its startling winning bid to host the 2022 football World Cup and mediating roles in Middle East and African conflicts to its role leading Arab efforts to […]
Source: Washington Post, VOA & Business week DHAKA, Bangladesh — The Bangladesh military said Thursday it foiled a plot by a group of hardline officers, their retired colleagues and Bangladeshi conspirators living abroad to overthrow Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The coup attempt underscored tension between Hasina’s government and elements of […]
By ARAB NEWS Published: Jan 19, 2012 01:05 Updated: Jan 19, 2012 01:05 MAKKAH: The Ministry of Rural and Municipal Affairs will this year implement development projects in the holy […]
By JORDAN MICHAELSMITH, ARAB NEWS Across the political spectrum, once-taboo criticism is now common With Hamas and Fatah meeting in Cairo, reconciliation between the rival Palestinian political parties is likely only a matter of time. Official US policy holds that Hamas is only a terrorist entity, and any agreement between […]
Source: Daily Star Forty years after war of independence of Bangladesh, former Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Ghulam Azam was sent to jail yesterday on charges of committing crimes against humanity and peace, genocide and war crimes in 1971. Read more.
By ARAB NEWS Published: Jan 19, 2012 01:05 Updated: Jan 19, 2012 01:05 ALKHOBAR: Saudis don’t usually like it when their mother gets remarried. But when it comes to their father, no one has a problem. According to a report in Al-Riyadh Arabic daily, the sentiments that children have toward […]
Source: AP. DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — The Bangladesh military has foiled a plot by a group of hardline officers, their retired colleagues and Bangladeshi conspirators living abroad to overthrow Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, a military spokesman announced Thursday. Read more.
Courtesy: Daily Times Pakistan: Nursing mothers in the Indonesian capital who have to return to work but want to keep feeding their babies have a novel service they can turn […]
(Reuters) – Iran’s foreign minister warned Arab neighbors on Thursday not to put themselves in a “dangerous position” by aligning themselves too closely with the United States in the escalating […]
lislamForWest.org is the official website of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community to present Islam to the Christian, agnostic and atheist readers, in a user friendly fashion. In addition to the Homepage, […]
Source: Weyburn Review – A group of young Muslims from Saskatoon gather on Weyburn’s boardwalk before setting off to some of Weyburn’s residential neighbourhoods on Saturday, where they went door-to-door in frigid temperature of -25C to talk about their religion. Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association of Canada, Saskatoon […]
Happiness doesn’t change much with age: …interviews with representative samples of people of all ages reveal that no time of life is notably happier or unhappier than others…. Source: “Who is happy?” from Psychological Science Men and women are about equal overall. Women show more highs and lows but the […]
IN an article ‘Neutrinos and Angels’ he wrote for a national daily, Prof Pervez Hoodbhoy, one of Pakistan’s leading scientists, quotes the late Carl Sagan, America’s well-known astronomer, astrophysicist, and science communicator. Sagan told Bible Belt Americans: “Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during […]
Source: Discovery News. Since light cannot escape the gravitational pull of a black hole, taking a picture of it – is not realistic. However, scientists are working towards planning to capture a picture of ‘event horizon’ – the swirl of energy and matter around the black hole. Read more.
(WNN) BREAKING Jerusalem, Israel: The women sit in the front instead of the back as they are supposed to here. Some followers of ultra-Orthodox Judaism believe men and women should be separated in public, although it is illegal under Israeli law. Women who challenge segregation have been insulted and spat […]
Rfi France. The Senate’s Laws Commission rejected the bill on grounds that it was inadmissible, with 23 votes for, nine against and eight abstentions. On Monday, a plenary session will vote on the commission’s decision, however most of the senators likely to oppose the bill are expected to abstain. The […]
In Blu Greenberg’s dream world, everyone appreciates what a tremendous democracy Israel is. They marvel at how inclusive a religion Judaism is. But then this woman, who is as famous for her book How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household as she is her work as founding president of the […]