Source / Courtesy: Huffington Post By Dr. Faheem Younus: Adjunct Faculty for Religion, CCBC; Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, UMD What’s common between the following Halloween costumes? A guy who painted his neck red, pretending to be a redneck, his friend wearing a white T-shirt which has “wife beater” written on it, and his friend dressed […]
Archives for October, 2011
The economic case for polygamy. By Tim Harford Source / Courtesy: Slate After more than a decade of war between separatist rebels and the Russian army, there are not many marriageable men to go around in Chechnya. So, acting Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, probably not a feminist, proposed a radical step: “Each man who can provide […]
Source CNN By Susanne Gargiulo, Special to CNN As pumpkins, witches and faux cobwebs have taken over much of North America for Halloween, Clare Slaney-Davis is preparing an October 31 feast that some would consider much spookier, with table settings for her grandparents, a great-aunt and other relatives who have passed away. As she and her living […]
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Source / Courtesy: Bloomberg From his 33rd-floor penthouse apartment with sweeping views of the Nile River, Naguib Sawiris, Egypt’s best-known billionaire and most prominent Christian, can hear the chants of Friday prayers in the distance. As he sits down to a breakfast of taameya and ful, dishes made from fava beans, demonstrators are gathering in Cairo’s Tahrir Square for […]
Source / Courtesy: China Daily The Shenzhou VIII spacecraft is assembled with the Long-March II-F rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China’s Gansu province on Oct 23, 2011. The unmanned Shenzhou VIII, part of China’s first spacecraft rendezvous and docking mission, was reported to be launched in early November.[Photo/CFP]
Source / Courtesy: China Daily KUALA LUMPUR – About 5,000 Malaysian Muslims rallied at a stadium near Kuala Lumpur on Saturday in a move to defend their religion and protest against what they saw as a trend of proselytization among Muslims in the country. They were also pressing for new laws to penalize those who try to convert […]
Debris from Japan’s tsunami approaching Hawaii. (KITV/ABC) Some 5 to 20 million tons of debris–furniture, fishing boats, refrigerators–sucked into the Pacific Ocean in the wake of Japan’s March 11 earthquake and tsunami are moving rapidly across the Pacific. Researchers from the University of Hawaii tracking the wreckage estimate it could approach the U.S. West Coast […]
Until recently I thought that only Christianity had a big problem with enlightenment and science and that I have examined in many of my Google-knols, but, now I am becoming increasingly aware that the medieval Muslim scholars do not fair any better. What do I mean? Firstly, let me address the issue with Christianity by […]
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Until recently I thought that only Christianity had a big problem with enlightenment and science and that I have examined in many of my Google-knols, but, now I am becoming increasingly aware that the medieval Muslim scholars do not fair any better. What do I mean? Firstly, let me address the issue with Christianity by giving […]
Courtesy: CNN The outspoken Ahmadinejad has long been a lightning rod for Iran’s critics. U.S. authorities have accused Iran of being involved in a plot to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, Adel Al-Jubeir, in spring 2012. The alleged scheme involved a connection to the Quds Force, a branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. A […]
A Punjabi poet highlights the importance of spirituality in these words: پڑھ پڑھ کتاباں علم دیاں توں نام رکھ لیا قاضی ہتھ وچ پھڑ کے تلوار توں نام رکھ لیا غاذی مکہ مدینہ گهوم آیا تے نام رکھ لیا حاجی بلهے شاہ کی حاصل کیتا جےیار نہ کیتا راضی
Source / Courtesy: BBC online And when people are brought together, and when the girl-child buried alive is questioned about, ‘For what crime was she killed?’ (Al Quran 81:8-10) More than 200 Indian girls whose names mean “unwanted” in Hindi have been given a fresh start at a mass renaming ceremony in Maharashtra state. They […]
CNN It’s midnight here in Tehran. My interview with Iranian President Ahmadinejad is scheduled for 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. President Ahmadinejad, apparently, gets up at 4:00, goes for a run, then goes to the gym. And so when he’s done with all of that, I will interview him. We’ve got lots of issues to discuss – […]
Source / Courtesy: Yahoo News ISLAMABAD (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that extremists have been able to operate from Pakistani soil for too long, increasing pressure on Islamabad to crack down on Islamist militants destabilizing Afghanistan who are allegedly supported by the government. Clinton is in Pakistan heading an unusually large […]
By Zhao Yanrong (China Daily) BOSTON – A Chinese student organization recently announced it will launch the first forum to focus on entrepreneurship in China at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology next month. The forum aims to provide a platform for Chinese students in the United States and venture capitalists from China to hash out business […]
Source: Wall Street Journal By NICK TIMIRAOS The reeling housing market has come to this: To shore it up, two Senators are preparing to introduce a bipartisan bill Thursday that would give residence visas to foreigners who spend at least $500,000 to buy houses in the U.S. The provision is part of a larger package […]
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Scores of English translations of the Holy Quran are now available online. Translations into several languages, including English and Urdu, by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community are also available online in Alislam.org. I believe that one of the best translations, in English, especially for the Western readers is one by Sir Zafrulla Khan. The whole of […]
So said Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Founder of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Have you any notion what was the strange event that occurred in the desert country of Arabia when hundreds of thousands of the dead were revived within a brief period and those who had been misguided through generations put on Divine color, and those who were […]
During a recent visit to Holland, the world Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, issued a stark warning to Geert Wilders, the farright Dutch politician. He warned Wilders that if he continued to defame Islam and the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) then he and other likeminded individuals would be humiliated by God Almighty. Hadhrat Mirza […]
For Christians, To be Born Again in Islam! 