By M. Imran Hayee, who is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He belongs to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of USA. Source: duluthnewstribune.com Nov. 13, the Islamic […]
Reuters International NOV 30, 2015 – 09:52 By Joe Bavier and Philip Pullella BANGUI (Reuters) – Pope Francis ventured into one of the world’s most dangerous neighbourhoods on Monday to beg Christians and Muslims to end a spiral of hate, vendetta and bloodshed that has killed thousands over the […]
Voices David Cameron, there aren’t 70,000 moderate fighters in Syria – and whoever heard of a moderate with a Kalashnikov, anyway? The Blairite Labour MPs are going to vote with Dave because they loathe Corbyn more than Isis Robert Fisk @indyvoice 36 comments Londoners protest against bombing Syria Getty […]
Addressing suspicion Geneva Mosque rebuffs French imam charges Nov 19, 2015 – 18:04 The Geneva Mosque is Switzerland’s largest (Keystone) Management at the Geneva Mosque has defended two imams accused of featuring on a French police list of individuals who represent a threat. A local newspaper that made the […]
Nov 28,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – MUSA KEILANI The shooting of a Russian warplane by Turkey galvanised public opinion attention in our region. Some financial analysts compared it to the events, 100 years ago, of the summer of 1914, when Grand Duke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the city […]
Nov 27,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI Throughout many private and public encounters across the United States in the past two months, I have repeatedly heard Americans ask whether they are doing the right thing in their current policy to counter Daesh, and whether they should be […]
Nov 27,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – GEORGE S. HISHMEH The carnage that took place a fortnight ago in Paris, admittedly by Daesh, has backfired, hurting Arabs and Muslims everywhere, especially in Africa, Europe and the United States. If nothing else, it has degraded Arabs and Muslims everywhere, igniting racism and […]
How we respond to recent attacks will shape our future for generations to come By Umar Nasser PUBLISHED23/11/2015 Retribution bombing may well destroy ISIL, but that victory will only last as long as the short time it will take for the next extremist outfit to organise itself, writes Umar Nasser […]
Nov 25,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – Editorial The shooting down of a Russian fighter jet by Turkish warplanes along the Syrian-Turkish border on Tuesday shows how fragile peace and security in the region are. Ankara said that the Russian SU-24 had crossed into Turkish airspace many times and had been warned […]
Nov 25,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN Photos of Paris street memorials for the 132 people killed by Daesh on November 13 show flowers, pictures of victims, drawings, and, even, a bottle of red wine. The refrain adopted by mourning Parisians is: “They want to destroy our way of […]
By Reuters – Nov 25,2015 – JORDAN TIMES A Turkish army truck loaded with a tank heading to the Syrian border near Yayladagi, Turkey, Wednesday (AP photo) ISTANBUL/NIZHNY TAGIL, Russia — Russia sent an advanced missile system to Syria on Wednesday to protect its jets operating there and pledged its […]
“Anne Frank could be a 77-year-old woman living in Boston today – a writer” Elahe IzadI A picture of Anne Frank lies in front of her memorial stone Getty Many have noted the historical parallels between the current debate over Syrians seeking refuge in the United States and the plight […]
Source: Huffington Post By Ben Wood; Labour Party Activist It is increasingly likely that parliament will vote in the coming weeks to give Cameron a mandate for intervention in Syria – if they choose to, MPs will be giving an extraordinary mandate to a man that fails to see the […]
Bigotry veiled as liberation Source: Middle East Eye By Adam Walker Earlier this month, the European court of human rights (ECHR) issued a judgment in which it rejected a challenge to the controversial 2011 French law banning the wearing of face veils in public. The ruling has since sparked […]
Colonialism, interventions, the war on terror: the West’s Realpolitik has failed. We have to fundamentally change our relationship with the Muslim world. Von Bernd Ulrich 24. November 2015 The West is in mourning and despair over the deaths in Paris and it shows it. This honours the West, this honours […]
(CNN)Shocked by Donald Trump’s call for the creation of a national database to register all Muslims living in the country to prevent terrorism, one former U.S. marine came up with the perfect comeback. Tayyib Rashid, who describes himself as an “Ahmadi Muslim—Marine—American—Dad—Husband” on his Twitter account, wrote to the 2016 […]
Huff Post: In the aftermath of the Paris attacks, we’d all be wise to listen to the 5th Khalifa of theAhmadiyya Muslims Community who has repeatedly been giving viable solutions to remove the poison of ISIS while exhorting Muslims to be true to the faith they follow. He condemned the […]
Wanted suspected terrorist Salah Abdeslam and Hasna Ait Boulahacen, who died on in Wednesday’s terror raid. Photo: Police nationale/AFP The Paris jihadists who had little time for Islam Published: 20 Nov 2015 16:56 GMT+01:00 Some of the Islamist terrorists who were involved in last week’s Paris attacks were hardly […]
Source: ET There is no member of any religious minority in Pakistan that can sleep safe in their beds. The virulent intolerance displayed against minorities has left two groups particularly vulnerable to attack and discrimination — Christians and the Ahmadis. The latter have the added disadvantage of discriminatory practices being […]
RAMZY BAROUD Published — Tuesday 24 November 2015 I still remember that smug look on his face, followed by the matter-of-fact remarks that had western journalists laugh out loud. “I’m now going to show you a picture of the luckiest man in Iraq,” Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, known as […]