The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a document to help and support mankind, and all those countries who have signed this declaration are duty-bound, morally and legally, to abide to all articles, clauses and regulations stipulated in this declaration. FIND MORE:
Source / Courtesy: The News Tribune By M. Imran Hayee: A professor and director of graduate studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth. On the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, what can Muslim-Americans do to help alleviate their fellow citizens’ growing fear of Islam? Jihad! No kidding. The true Islamic Jihad, in […]
American companies are adding jobs slowly and unevenly, just enough to plug the dike against a wave of fears that the economy could slip back into recession. But with a ballooning European debt crisis sending ripples across the Atlantic and anxiety continuing over the tortured political landscape here, there is […]
The Dalai Lama has criticised China via a live video link in South Africa, after he cancelled a trip to celebrate Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s birthday. The Tibetan spiritual leader’s office said the South African government had failed to grant him a visa on time. Read More…
Source: International Business Times By Cavan Sieczkowski A computer virus has hit the U.S. Military fleets of America’s Predator and Reaper drones. The computer virus is capable of logging pilot’s keystrokes while remotely flying the drones in conflict areas such as Afghanistan from the Creech Air Force Base in Clark […]
At least 56 people have been killed in a series of road collisions in China including 35 mainly young people travelling on a bus. Read More…
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, observed this year from sundown on Friday night, October 7th until nightfall on October 8th, and is the Most Awesome Day in the Jewish calendar. Concluding the “Ten Days of Repentance,” also known as the “Days of Awe,” Yom Kippur is a day where […]
Vatican City. Pope Benedict XVI urged Catholics in Indonesia on Friday to defend tolerance, peace and the rights of minorities, saying that the country’s constitution “guarantees” freedom of worship. Meeting with Indonesian Catholic bishops in Rome, Benedict encouraged them to “strengthen Indonesian society by promoting those values that your fellow […]
SOURCE: DAILY TIMES PAKISTAN NEW YORK: The American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA) announced the Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality (WISE) Conference to be held from October 14 to October 17 in Istanbul, Turkey. “Soon the world will witness how Muslim women activists, scholars, politicians jurists and poets have assumed […]
Alstom’s TGV holds record for high speed rail travel: 574,8 km/h By Rfi An agreement on the construction and operation of a 350 kilometre high-speed rail line linking Tangiers and Casablanca via the capital, Rabat, was signed during Sarkozy’s 2007 visit to Morocco. He vowed then that he would return to […]
By RFI Talks got underway in Paris on Saturday between International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde and French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The leaders planned to discuss the European debt crisis before Lagarde heads to Berlin on Sunday to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel for more talks on how […]
Source: Wasim Saroya, Ahmadiyya Missionary Bosnia, Selwenia The history behind Jinnah’s return to Indian politics in 1934 makes for an inconvenient truth. The man whose eloquent persuasion left Jinnah no escape in returning to politics, has been forgotten in the annals of official Pakistani history. That man was not Liaqat […]
Source / Courtesy: Alislam.org Khalifatul Masih V (aba) said in Friday sermon on October 7, 2011: There is an element of opposition within the sphere of Islam as well, which Jamaat Ahmadiyya is also tackling. These are the people who spread the false teachings of Islam attributing them to the holy name of […]
by Alexander Kuenzle, swissinfo.ch Germans often wonder why they are considered arrogant in Switzerland, when they say all they want to do is to express themselves clearly. To help overcome misperceptions, the state-owned power company in canton Bern, BKW, has organised integration courses for the many Germans it has hired […]
SIDON, Lebanon: A senior Hamas official dismissed Friday Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ decision to seek U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state as “a political jump in the air” designed to scupper an inter-Palestinian reconciliation. Mahmoud Zahar, a member of Hamas’ political bureau, spoke to journalists after touring the Palestinian refugee […]
By ARAB NEWS To start with, it is strange to have such a name, Amah, which means ‘slave woman’. Why would anyone call his daughter that? Yet the Arabs at the time used very strange names. Perhaps because of this she was better known by her nickname, ‘Umm Khalid.’ Her […]
By MAAYAN LUBELL | REUTERS ARABNEWS JERUSALEM: In its troubled peace talks with the Palestinians, Israel has demanded that it should be recognized as a Jewish state, but there is deep domestic division on what that means. Yoram Kaniuk, a rambunctious 81-year-old author, was hailed by Israeli secularists this week […]
By MUHAMMAD HUMAIDAN | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, who is also chairman of the Central Haj Committee, will launch this season’s national media campaign to enlighten domestic pilgrims on Haj regulations on Oct. 15. The logo of the campaign, which was first launched in the Haj […]
Credit/Source: The Express Tribune: By: Ajmal Kamal / Published: October 7, 2011 By the time Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi became a prominent active maulvi, Muslim shurafa as a class or a bunch of upper caste groups — both with a religious bent of mind and with a more open worldly outlook — […]