The convention (Jalsa Salana) will take place from June 24 to 26, 2011 in Karlsruhe. Frankfurt: The annual convention of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Germany, the Jalsa Salana, will be held this year in the Messe Karlsruhe area. The Jalsa Salana, the largest regularly scheduled annual gathering of the Muslims in Germany, is […]
By GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Human rights officials and social workers have called for increased police patrols to prevent abductions and other crimes. They also called for a review of laws to ensure speedy trials of suspected rapists. “About 200 cases of child rape are reported annually […]
The Federal Court says the humanitarian situation in most regions of Afghanistan is too critical to send back asylum seekers whose requests were rejected by Switzerland. A court statement said security had deteriorated in all regions of Afghanistan over the past few years. It added the return of an asylum […]
Image: monument for the Dutch workers who were working on the dams to protect the country. The following is an extract from the friday Sermon of Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (aba), delivered from Nunspeet, the Netherlands, on August 24, 2007: As most of you must already know, a politician from here (Holland) […]
Every day radical Muslims make headlines in creating violence of one form or the other in one or the other part of the globe. They draw condemnation of the international community and the media and rightly so. But, this also creates two illusions, one that Islam may be associated with violence […]
By SYED FAISAL ALI | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Pilgrims coming through the Haj Committee of India are likely to get mobile SIM and debit cards. The Indian Consulate is trying to obtain as many SIM cards as possible with important numbers uploaded on them for pilgrims this year, Consul General […]
By BRETT ZONGKER | AP WASHINGTON: A prize-winning journalist who reported for The Washington Post went public Wednesday with a secret he has been keeping for nearly two decades: He is an illegal immigrant. Jose Antonio Vargas, whose mother sent him from the Philippines to live with his grandparents in […]
By Taylor Luck AMMAN – Iraqi refugees are at risk of being overlooked as victims of a forgotten conflict, a UN official in Amman warned on Wednesday. As the international community marks World Refugee Day – observed annually June 20 – donor countries and the greater global community risk suffering […]
ROME (AFP) – Upheaval across the Arab world is causing capital flight of up to $500 million a week, Finance Minister Mohammad Abu Hammour said on Thursday at an Arab banking conference in Rome. “There is capital flight. Five hundred million dollars a week are leaving the Arab world. Tourism […]
Anti-Islam campaigner and MP Geert Wilders has been found not guilty of charges of inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims and non-westerm immigrants by judges in Amsterdam. The court ruled that some of Wilders’ statements were insulting, shocking and on the edge of legal acceptibility, but that they were made in the broad […]
DAMASCUS — Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem on Wednesday rejected foreign meddling in his country’s internal affairs while stressing Damascus is keen to maintain good ties with longtime ally Turkey. “We are keen on maintaining good relations with Turkey with which we share a common border of 850 kilometres (528 […]
The top 20 failed states on this index are: Somalia Chad Sudan Congo Haiti Zimbabwe Afghanistan Central African Republic Iraq Ivory Coast Guinea Pakistan Yemen Nigeria Niger Kenya Burundi Burma Guinea-Bissau Ethiopia Read more
Avi Benlolo: President Kennedy, in his first meeting with Soviet premier Khrushchev during a period of high tension between the superpowers, remarked wryly that the countries faced a cold winter ahead. Between the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the UN-sponsored Durban III hate conference and the Palestinian Authority’s planned unilateral declaration […]
DELHI – The impoverished family of Indian conjoined twins won worldwide sympathy when they rejected the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi’s offer to pay for surgery to separate them. They feared that one or both might die in the operation and could not bear to lose either. Five years later, […]
There is no likelihood that the U.S. will do the logical thing and vote for Palestinian statehood in the UN this fall,” lamented Andrew Sullivan recently. I’m not optimistic enough to share the noted pundit’s pessimism. I think there’s a good chance that the U.S. will do the logical rather […]
JERUSALEM — Israel’s security cabinet on Wednesday met for the first time in a secret nuclear bunker in Jerusalem, officials and press reports said, as part of a massive nationwide defence exercise. As air raid sirens cut through the air at 11:00 am (0800 GMT), the 14-member security cabinet was […]
How funny it is that people will support the right to free speech only when it applies to them, but when it comes to Israel, the rules never applied. You can question the existence of God, insult Jesus or even call our president by any name in the book and […]
21.06.2011, Dietzenbach ahmadiyya.de The Head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, opend a Mosque in Dietzenbach, the Bait-ul-Baqi-Mosque, on 21th June 2011. More then 450 guests attended this ceremony. The city Mayor Jürgen Rogg, Ex-Mayor Jürgen Heyer and Ute Zapf (Member of the German Parlament) and judge Horst Schäfer attended the ceremony and held a […]
click photo to enlarge Description: Messier 16 Emission Nebula. Distance ~7000 Light Years. Mag. 6.4. Visible Diameter 7.0′ / 7.0′. Constellation Serpens. Authors note: This is a planetary Nebula, M16 or also known as Eagle Nebula. New stars are born here. The small region on top left nebula is larger […]