Indonesia has been urged to repeal its blasphemy laws and provide greater protection to religious minorities – including Christians and the Muslim Ahmadiyya sect – in order to safeguard its reputation as one of the world’s most progressive and tolerant Muslim-majority countries. “If extremists are allowed to continue to terrorise religious minorities with impunity, […]
Turkish foreign minister says divided island should be reunited in time to assume European Union presidency in 2012. Turkey hopes terms for the reunification of Cyprus can be agreed upon by the end of the year so that a referendum can take place in early 2012 before the island takes over […]
GRIM number of the week: 14,087,000. Fourteen million, in round numbers — that is how many Americans are now officially out of work. Word came Friday from the Labor Department that, despite all the optimistic talk of an economic recovery, unemployment is going up, not down. The jobless rate rose […]
The financial crisis “almost certainly” led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say. The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations studied. The increases varied between 5% […]
Reaction at globeandmail.com to Monday’s article on Muslim youth in Canada was swift, and divided. Many online commenters expressed fear about how growth in the Muslim population will change Canada. In response, Muslim readers went online to address misconceptions about how they reconcile their faith with their citizenship. In one exchange, […]
Source/Credit: The Times of Malta: As the church bells chimed three o’clock yesterday afternoon, the nation mourned the loss of former First Lady Mary Fenech Adami who passed away six days after she was taken ill at a wedding reception. Mrs Fenech Adami, 77, was hospitalised last Saturday after suffering a heart […]
New Malden, United Kingdom, July 8 (ENInews)–The European Parliament adopted a resolution on human rights in Indonesia on 7 July, making reference to attacks on religious minorities such as Christians and the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, according to a news release from Christian Solidarity Worldwide. The move by the European Parliament […]
Deputy foreign minister says assistance proves Israel is not alone; “no country would allow a violation of its sovereignty”; 124 pro-Palestinian activists refused entry at B-G Airport, awaiting deportation. Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon thanked European countries on Saturday for helping to limit the number of pro-Palestinian activists arriving at […]
PART: 2 Women in Islam, speech delivered by by Laiq Ahmed Atif, president Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta, in the ‘Seminar about Women’, on Friday 17th June 2011. This especial event was organised to commemorate the “International Women’s Day Centenary 1911-2011″, by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta. Find original post:
Terror attacks abroad, rightwing policies and a biased media are all reasons why Muslims increasingly seem to have a bad image in Switzerland, a report has found. In particular the debate surrounding the national minaret vote of 2009 – in which the building of minarets was banned – was revealed […]
Aspects of Islamic Faith – 108: Selfishness that incurs God’s punishment By ADIL SALAHI Published: Jul 7, 2011 21:24 Updated: Jul 7, 2011 21:24 Sometimes the Prophet (peace be upon him) used a form of stern warning in order to impress on people the horrid nature of the action he […]
By MD MUJAHID SYED | ARAB NEWS Published: Jul 8, 2011 23:29 Updated: Jul 8, 2011 23:29 JEDDAH: “Urdu is the second most spoken language after Arabic in the Kingdom. It is no more the language of the Subcontinent but is spoken in all continents by hundreds of millions of […]
By DIANA AL-JASSEM | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Saudi nationals who have mothers from different countries claim they are often referred to in a derogatory manner as “half-Saudi.” They complain of being mistreated or mistaken for expatriates, especially if they have blue eyes or blond hair and talk with an accent. […]
By SAEED AL-BATATI | ARAB NEWS SANAA: Yemen’s main opposition, the Joint Meeting Parties, has embarked on consultations to form a unilateral transitional council to replace the current government, a move that was strongly denounced by the government that warned of repercussions. Mohammed Al-Mutwikil, a senior opposition figure, told Arab […]
By REUTERS Published: Jul 8, 2011 20:47 Updated: Jul 8, 2011 20:47 KHARTOUM/JUBA: Sudan became the first state to recognize the independence of its oil-producing south on Friday, smoothing the way for the division on Saturday of Africa’s largest country into two. Underdeveloped South Sudan secedes Saturday — a hard-won […]
By Qasim Rashid My wife reminded me we were running late. I closed an article about Peter King’s self-aggrandizing radicalization hearings and grabbed my car keys. My phone buzzed — an email from a reader. “I wish Muslims would stay the hell out of our Christian country and go back […]
With climate change, concrete deserts and agriculture, human beings have fundamentally altered the face of the Earth. But have we really ushered in a new geological era, the so-called Anthropocene? Paul Crutzen, winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, finds it hard to believe. “It’s incredible to see what a […]
Following a series of abuse cases in Europe and North America, revelations have emerged of sexual abuse by priests in a number of African countries. The case of Father Renato Kizito, who is accused of raping young men in Kenya, shows how local power structures work in favor of the […]
That reporting a rape is an arduous ordeal is a truth that resounds globally. When braving for police investigations, enumerating the ordeal in court and damaging stereotypical media representations become a norm then the argument for a pellucid approach becomes preemptory. In 2006, a much-heated debate on the Hudood […]
For the second month in a row, employers added barely any jobs in June, showing that the economic recovery has hit a serious speed bump. With all levels of government laying off workers, the Labor Department reported that employers eked out just 18,000 new nonfarm payroll jobs in June. The […]