A close friend introduced me to the idea that practicing martial arts has the potential to assist a Muslim in achieving a higher spiritual connection with God. Since I had always associated martial arts with Asian culture and Eastern religions such as Zen Buddhism, the connection with Islam did not […]
(AP) JAKARTA, Indonesia — The chanting crowd at the radical Muslim protest in Indonesia stood out for its normalcy: smartly dressed businessmen, engineers, lawyers, smiling mothers, scampering children. At a time when al-Qaida seems to be faltering, the recruitment of such an educated, somewhat mainstream following is raising fears that […]
Source/Credit: Dawn KABUL: The killer of Afghan peace envoy Burhanuddin Rabbani was Pakistani, a statement from Afghanistan’s presidential palace said Sunday, quoting investigators. Evidence shows that Rabbani’s death last month “was plotted in Quetta and the person who carried out the suicide attack against Rabbani was a citizen of Pakistan,” the […]
One lunch. That is the sum total of political activity between Norway and China in the past year wrote NRK. The current state of relations between Norway and China remain cool since Torbjorn Jagland announced Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Chinese authorities responded by condemning […]
Source / Courtesy: Press Release by Ahmadiyya Muslim Community: The world Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad officially inaugurated the Baitul Nasr mosque in Oslo on Friday, 30 September 2011. The mosque is Scandinavia’s largest and has a capacity of 4,500 worshippers. Visible from a great distance, the mosque has already […]
Source: examiner.com Author: Robert Tilford “We (the words of the Quran) have not come down except in accordance with the command of your Lord. To Him belongs our past, present and future. And your Lord is never forgetful…” Quran 19:64 Suicide and murder are strickly forbidden in Quran. The Quran […]
By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEW JEDDAH: The Labor Ministry intends to launch 30 new initiatives as part of its ongoing efforts to create jobs for the increasing number of Saudi university graduates, Labor Minister Adel Fakeih announced Saturday. Addressing prominent businessmen and executives in the city, he said […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Key US lawmakers are blocking about $200 million in Palestinian aid in response to their UN statehood bid, congressional aides said Saturday. Members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have frozen the funding “until the Palestinian statehood issue is sorted out”, […]
source: asisa times on line Afghan President Hamid Karzai has come out fighting after Burhanuddin Rabbani’s assassination, painting the Taliban as a Pakistani proxy. However, the death of the Afghan High Peace Council’s chief has stranded Karzai in isolation as the insurgents, the United States and erstwhile Northern Alliance allies […]
source: dawn .com Karachi: Representative Sunni Tehreek Muhammad Shahid Ghuori has strongly criticised verdict of capital punishment to Mumtaz Hussain Qadri and termed it as un-Islamic. He was addressing to a large gathering protesting in front of Karachi Press Club on Saturday. He said that if the government does not implement the laws of blasphemy then […]
Source/Credit: / 29 September 2011 / By: Inger Anne Olsen – Commentator in Aftenposten / Translation by Google Bait-un-Nasr mosque in Furuset to be the seat of the Norwegian 1500 ahmadiyyaer – probably the country’s most oppressed Muslim community. Photo: Erlend Aas / SCANPIX Tomorrow opens the largest mosque in Furuset in Oslo. It is an example of how easy […]
Courtesy /Credit: TheWashington Post By Asif Ali Zardari, Democracy always favors dialogue over confrontation. So, too, in Pakistan, where the terrorists who threaten both our country and the United States have gained the most from the recent verbal assaults some in America have madeagainst Pakistan. This strategy is damaging the relationship between Pakistan […]
JERUSALEM — Two thousand years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls went online for the first time this week in a project launched by Israel’s national museum and the web giant Google. The appearance of five of the […]
Is Indonesia headed for another round of deadly sectarian violence? Following the suicide bomb attack in Solo which has so far claimed two lives and injured more than 20 worshippers in a church, the country’s political elite has a lot of questions to answer, and we need a firm and […]
By RFI France on Friday introduced a ban on praying in the street forcing thousands of muslims into temporary alternative spaces for their day of prayer. Interior Minister Claude Gueant has said that praying in the street is a direct attack on the principle of secularism. In Paris, a former […]
By Tony Cross The TV debate between France’s aspiring Socialist presidential candidates may have beaten Masterchef in Thursday evening’s ratings, but the party still has its work cut out to ensure victory in the election next year. Five million viewers watched the six would-be candidates politely disagree on secondary matters […]
By RFI Nicolas Bazire, Sarkozy’s best man at his 2008 wedding to Carla Bruni, was charged with corruption on Thursday after being questioned overnight in connection with allegations of kickbacks on an arms deal with Pakistan. President Nicolas Sarkozy’s staff issued a communiqué on Thursday to distance him from […]
By RFI French police questioned President Sarkozy’s longtime friend and adviser Brice Hortefeux on Friday, in connection with the so-called Karachi affair, in which two of Sarkozy’s closest allies are already implicated. He was interviewed over a phone call he made to a suspect in the Karachi affair, to warn […]
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1062349–teen-in-love-gets-herself-put-on-watch-list-to-avoid-arranged-marriage?bn=1 Lesley Ciarula Taylor Staff Reporter An Australian Muslim teenager on the verge of being married against her will in Lebanon has won a court order against her parents. Federal Magistrate Joe Harman praised the 16-year-old’s “act of great bravery” in seeking help from Legal Aid New South Wales to […]
Source / Courtesy: Dawn.com ISLAMABAD: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) awarded death penalty to Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri on Saturday, DawnNews reported. Mr Taseer was assassinated by his security guard and personnel of Punjab Elite Force, Mumtaz Qadri, on January 4, 2011 at Kohsar Market in Islamabad. “The court has awarded my client with death. The court announced […]