THE SOUTH ASIA CHANNEL Pakistan’s Original Sin BY USMAN AHMAD OCTOBER 13, 2014 The fields of Hampshire are usually associated with blazing crops of rapeseed and fragrant lavender. But on the final weekend of August, over 30,000 Ahmadi Muslims from all over the world converged on Oakland Farm in East […]
Religious News Service | by Naveed Ahmad Posted: 02/19/2014 2:32 pm EST Updated: 02/19/2014 2:59 pm EST ISLAMABAD (RNS) Mohammad Asghar, a 69-year-old paranoid schizophrenic, faces a death sentence in Pakistan for claiming to be the Prophet Muhammad in letters written to officials and police in 2010. The retired British national of Pakistani descent is […]
Religion News Service | By Richard S. Ehrlich Posted: 09/25/2013 10:23 am EDT (RNS) Pakistan’s constitutionally mandated Council of Islamic Ideology told the government anyone who wrongly accuses a person […]
Source: business-standard.com Pakistani police have arrested a woman under the controversial blasphemy laws for declaring herself a ‘Prophet’. According to police, Salma Fatima, wife of Tanvir, who lived in the vicinity […]
Friday 7 June 2013 ARABNEWS ISLAM prohibits sinful speech that intends to cause harm to other human beings. It also prohibits excessive laughter or extreme humor. People in general do not think twice about what they are saying; they forget that every word they utter is being recorded and will […]
Source: NY Times By STEVEN LEE MYERS WASHINGTON — Countries around the world, including allies of the United States, have used laws on blasphemy and apostasy to suppress political opponents, the State Department said on Monday in an annual report chronicling a grim decline in religious freedom that has resulted in rising […]
Last Sunday, Pope Francis canonized the 800 Christian martyrs executed by Muslim Ottoman forces raiding southern Italy in 1480.According to reports coming from Rome, the 800 were killed because they […]
Source: BD News 24 By Reazul Bashar It was Monday morning, at around 11am, when a stroll at Paltan Intersection towards Comrade Moni Singha Intersection revealed heaps of ashes lying on the footpath to the left. There were rows of bookstalls selling old books there even until Sunday noon. Hifazat-e […]
Source: BD News 24 Kamal Hossain Talukder DHAKA: Hifazat-e Islam had lost control over its Sunday’s rally, Junaid Babu Nagari, Secretary General of the organisation, told detectives during interrogations on the first day of his police remand. When asked who were then controlling the rally, Monirul Islam, Joint Commissioner, Detective Branch, […]
Source: Aljazeera Hundreds of thousands of people have held protests in Bangladesh to demand that the government introduce an anti-blasphemy law that would include the death penalty for bloggers who insult Islam. Protest organisers called Saturday’s rally the “long march”, with many travelling from remote villages to the capital, Dhaka’s […]
AGENCIES – ARABNEWS Sunday 4 November 2012 LAHORE: A Pakistani court yesterday refused bail to the head teacher of a school caught in a blasphemy row. Asim Farooqi, 77, was […]
In Pakistan, the Muslim cleric who denounced a mentally challenged Christian girl of 14 for blasphemy has now been arrested for allegedly framing her. It is the latest bizarre twist in a case that sparked a worldwide outcry. In Pakistan, blasphemy can bring a death sentence or life in prison, […]
LONDON, September 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Annual Convention: 7th- 9thSeptember 2012, East Worldham, Alton, Hampshire A Muslim community has highlighted the plight of persecuted minorities in the wake of a Pakistani Christian girl accused of defaming Islam. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has joined religious and secular groups worldwide that have […]
AFP | May 03,2012 | JORDAN TIMES KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait’s parliament on Thursday passed a bill stipulating the death penalty for Muslims who curse God, the Muslim holy book, all prophets and the wives of Islam’s Prophet Mohammad. Forty MPs, including Cabinet ministers, voted for the bill in the […]
Express News: LAHORE: An elderly man, recently released from prison after acquittal by the court on proving innocent in a blasphemy case, was shot dead by the complainant in the Farooqabad […]
Eurasiareview.com: By Murad Khan: The mother of a 6-month-old girl has been wrongly jailed for more than a month, as Pakistani authorities have failed to file a charge sheet within the […]
Calgary Ahmadiyya Muslim Examiner: Deeba Chaudry: As Muslim, when one say “Assalamu Alaikum” means “May peace and blessings of God be upon you.” Can one imagine that Ahmadi Muslims in […]
AFP: DHAKA: Police in Bangladesh said on Saturday they had arrested two school teachers on suspicion of staging a drama containing blasphemous remarks about the Prophet Mohammed. The school’s Muslim […]
Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | Source/Credit: Compass Direct News, By BP News Attempt fails as influential Islamic family intervenes on behalf of Christians SIALKOT, Pakistan (Compass Direct News)–Tensions are still high in […]
Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | Int’l Desk, Source/Credit: The News | Pakistan By Khalid Hurral | February 27, 2012 JHANG: Four Danish nationals have been booked under the blasphemy law in Jhang. […]