Guest columnist Zohaib Zafar writes on the importance of understanding the underlying causes of conflict in the Islamic world. (Cory Shaffer/cleveland.com/file photo) PrintEmail By Guest Columnist/cleveland.com on October 23, 2016 at 12:00 PM Zohaib ZafarZohaib Zafar Guest columnist Zohaib Zafar, a Brecksville resident, is a student at Davidson College in […]
BORDER CROSSINGS JUNE 9, 2016 CHOOSING BETWEEN SHADOWS: PART II RICHARD POTTER Editor’s Note: This essay is the second in a two-part series on persecuted religious minorities fleeing Pakistan and seeking […]
June 21, 2016 RECORDER REPORT The management of Aaj TV and organisation’s staff members have unwavering faith in the finality of prophethood of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him). This was stated by Shahab Zuberi, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Aaj TV, in his meeting with a […]
By Life&Style Published: June 12, 2016 The actor and social activist questioned the oppression of Ahmadis. PHOTO: FACEBOOK Hamza Ali Abbasi has arrived everyone. Practice makes perfect. After numerous social media posts that only received the ire of many, Hamza has finally done something many in his position wouldn’t dare to […]
The murder of an Ahmadi Preparing for the worst May 21st 2016 | From the print edition THERE are few signs of life at the Stockwell Green mosque in south London at the moment. The gates are padlocked and the telephones have been disconnected. And some hope it will stay […]
THE Prime Minister has given his full support to a campaign against extremism in Scotland following the murder of the popular shopkeeper in Glasgow. Read more at http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/an-absolutely-shocking-murder-david-7794912#F6sRGAcCyKtiZ2fk.99
http://sapelosquare.com/: This photo is the first known group photo of visibly-identifiable Muslim women in the United States. It was originally featured in the January 1923 edition of The Moslem Sunrise, the newsletter of the Ahmadiyya Movement of Islam (AMI) in the United States, a South-Asia based Islamic missionary movement that was […]
By Saeed Qureshi, Dallas Texas The death and ascension to Heaven of Jesus Christ or Hazrat Isa (in Arabic) two thousand years ago is as enigmatic as are his birth, […]
An architect’s model of the mosque planned for the Leipzig plot where the dead piglet was found. Photo: DPA Published: 25 Feb 2016 14:51 GMT+01:00 An empty lot in Leipzig where a local Muslim community plans to build a mosque was the target of an apparent Islamophobic attack on Wednesday, […]
Ahmad Junaidi, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Archipelago | Sat, February 06 2016, 3:15 PM Women and children of the Ahmadiyah religious sect in a district in Bangka regency, Bangka Belitung province, were evacuated on Friday evening to save them from the wrath of local residents. The evacuation was made […]
Posted about 11 hours ago | 1 comment The Indonesian bishops are stressing the need for a dialogue in ending a pattern of harassment and intimidation faced by the Ahmadiyya Muslim minority sect in Bangka district, Bangka-Belitung Islands province. In early January the local government ordered the Ahmadis living in […]
Tribune: ISLAMABAD: It is important to talk about issues considered a taboo and an attitudinal change is required to protect Pakistani minorities. This was consented at the launch of Jinnah Institute’s (JI) report ‘State of religious freedom in Pakistan’ and screening of its documentary, ‘Strangers in Their Own Land’, on Tuesday. […]
Veep charged Muslims to live peacefully with others Pomadze(C/R), Jan. 8, GNA – Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has called on Muslims to live peacefully with other religious faiths in order to enhance the country’s development. He also called for frank and honest debate in the sharing of the nation’s resources […]
Tribune India: You wouldn’t know where Qadian is unless you know what it stands for. For the record, the town’s streetlights are switched off because the Municipal Committee owes Rs 26 lakh to the power utility. It has irregular water supply for its over 40,000 residents. And its lone government […]
Guardian: Two Pakistani clerics have come to blows at a meeting of the religious establishment over the fraught issue of the status of Ahmadis, a Muslim sect that hardliners want declared apostates. A scuffle broke out on Tuesday between the two at a gathering of Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology […]
Jinnah’s vision EDITORIAL — DAWN.COM 22 COMMENTS The frequent projection of Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s Aug 11 address to the Constituent Assembly creates an impression that this is the Quaid’s only speech that gives us his vision of Pakistan. On the contrary, throughout his political career, Jinnah made it repeatedly […]
Daily Star: Three people were injured during Juma prayers in a suicide bomb attack in this mosque on Friday. Police cordon off the Ahmadiyya mosque at Bagmara of Rajshahi to conduct investigations as curious onlookers crowd the scene. Photo: Banglar Chokh It was a suicide attacker who blew himself up […]
Dec 25, 2015 15:45 IST Dhaka: A bomb exploded Friday at a mosque of the minority Ahmadi Muslim group in Bangladesh’s northwestern town of Bagmara leaving the suspected suicide bomber dead and four other people injured, police said. Police said the bomb blast occurred when the small Ahmadiya Muslim Jamaat […]
RELIGIOUS SPACES Shrines in the Valley are much more than just spiritual retreats. Chitralekha Zutshi · Today · 12:30 pm Photo Credit: Tauseef Mustafa/AFP Tucked away on the edge of a forest in a corner of the Lolab Valley lies a makeshift shrine, now in a state of disrepair. Next […]
Source: Aljazeera Hina Rabbani Khar (Urdu: حنا ربانی کھر; born 19 November 1977)[3] is a Pakistani stateswoman who was the 26th Foreign Minister of Pakistan. Hailing from a powerful feudal […]