Nigeria: Shun Selfishness - Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Tells Politicians

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The group also advised the electorate to elect competent people with high moral standard instead of electing people on tribal or religious sentiment.

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By Chinyere Abiaziem | November 23,  2014

Lagos — Disturbed by the state of the nation especially as the 2015 elections, are getting closer, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at Communty has called on Nigerians, especially politicians to shun selfishness and activities that expose citizens' lives and properties to danger.

The group also advised the electorate to elect competent people with high moral standard instead of electing people on tribal or religious sentiment.

While encouraging prospective leaders to keep their promises in ensuring adequate supply of food, housing, quality health care and security, the group bemoaned the "shoddy" arrangement of voters registration, noting that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should have set a deadline for the registration exercise.

Human Rights Watch calls on Israel to stop demolition Palestinians homes as collective punishment

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Demolishing the family homes of Palestinians suspected of carrying out attacks on Israelis amounts to collective punishment - a war crime, the rights group says.

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By Haaretz |  November 22, 2014

Human Rights Watch called on Israel Saturday to immediately impose a moratorium on its policy of demolishing the family homes of Palestinians suspected of carrying out attacks on Israelis.

According to the international organization, the policy deliberately and unlawfully punishes people not accused of any wrongdoing, and when carried out in the West Bank and East Jerusalem amounts to collective punishment, which is a war crime.

“Punitive home demolitions are blatantly unlawful,” said Joe Stork, the organization's deputy Middle East and North Africa director. “Israel should prosecute, convict, and punish criminals, not carry out vengeful destruction that harms entire families.”

Canada: Calgary's Ahmadiyya Muslims take aim at ISIS terrorist and radicalization of youth

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“We must come together and let the world know Islam means ‘peace’ and those who teach violence are sick-minded people frustrated with their own lives — we have to change that today.”

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Source/Credit: The Calgary Sun
By Mark Villani | November 23, 2014

Love for all, hatred for none.

That’s the motto of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community who joined a nationwide campaign Sunday dubbed ‘Stop The Crisis,’ taking a stand against radicalization of youth and the extremist influence of ISIS.

Local Muslims stepped up to support the cause at Cardel Place in northeast Calgary, preaching messages of education for their youth to remove the negative misconceptions of Islam.

Over the last year, Calgary has become a hub for youth joining the ISIS terrorist group.

Several Calgarians including Damian Clairmont and brothers Collin and Gregory Gordon are just some of the recent cases to have joined the extremist group.

Farah Malik, the Calgary organizer of Stop The Crisis, said the aim is to educate and rid the stigma of violence wrongly placed on Islam.

“We must come together and let the world know Islam means ‘peace’ and those who teach violence are sick-minded people frustrated with their own lives — we have to change that today,” she said.

Bangladesh: Ex-leader & Jama'at-e Islami operative Mobarak Hossain to hang for '71 war crimes

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He, as a commander of the Razakar force, substantially “participated in”, “contributed to” and “facilitated” the commission of crimes in different parts of Brahmanbaria in 1971.

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By Star Online | November 24, 2014

A special tribunal in Dhaka today handed death penalty to local Awami League leader Mobarak Hossain for gunning down 33 people in Brahmanbaria during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.

The 64-year-old has also been awarded life term imprisonment for killing one Abdul Khaleque as the International Crimes Tribunal-1 found Mobarak guilty in two out of total five charges.
The war criminal served as the AL organising secretary of a union parishad unit for 16 years till 2012.

Mobarak was involved in murder, abduction and torture while serving as a member of Jamaat-e-Islami in 1971.

Malta: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community participate in Book Fair 2014

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The President of Malta, Her Excellency, Marie Louise Coleiro Preca; The Prime Minister of Malta, Hon. Dr Joseph Muscat and the Education Minister, Hon. Evarist Bartolo also visited the Ahmadiyya Muslim stall

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By Laiq Ahmed Atif | November 23, 2014

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta participated in Malta’s Annual National Book Fair 2014, held between 12 to 16 November at the Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta.

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta had also displayed various books in three different languages such as Arabic, English and Maltese and Roll-UP banners containing brief teachings from the Holy Quran on various subjects. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community published 6 new items of literature in Maltese language; ‘GOD in 21st Century’, ‘Four Fundamental Attributes of GOD’, ‘JIHAD: The True Islamic Concept’, ‘Islam – a Religion of Peace’, ‘Islamic Veil’, and ‘Fundamental Principles of Islam’. The Community also published 9 new roll-up Banners.

The President of Malta, Her Excellency, Marie Louise Coleiro Preca; The Prime Minister of Malta, Hon. Dr Joseph Muscat and the Education Minister, Hon. Evarist Bartolo also visited the Ahmadiyya Muslim stall and were presented with books by Laiq Ahmed Atif, president Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Malta.

Eye on Health: Study About Warm Air Hand Dryer Will Have You Saying 'Ewww'

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[H]ow you dry your hands makes little difference if you're not washing them in the first place. And according to a 2013 study, only 5 percent of people wash up properly after using the bathroom.

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By David Freeman | November 21, 2014

In the supermarket, it's paper or plastic. In many public restrooms, it's paper towels or electric hand dryers--and a new study from England adds to a body of research suggesting that paper towels may be the healthier choice.

The study shows that as they remove moisture from users' hands, the dryers spew bacteria into the air and onto people.

Well that blows.

Conventional (warm air) and high-velocity (jet air) dryers alike spread bacteria into the air, according to the study. Airborne germ counts near warm-air dryers were found to be 4.5 times higher than the counts near paper towel dispensers, and the counts near jet air dryers were a whopping 27 times higher.

Pakistan connection: In a book on Islam in the UK, most Deobandi influences are traced back to Pakistan

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Barelvis control 25.7 per cent of the total 1,700 mosques but their version of Islam is perceived as far from threatening. Barelvis as well as Shias are of immense significance in the context of Great Britain, hence cannot be ignored.

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Source/Credit: The News on Sunday
By Tahir Kamran | November 23, 2014

The prominence accorded to the oneness of Muslims in the form of umma, where caste, creed and nationality become superfluous, is rendered hackneyed when it comes to the essence of their faith and the way it is practically demonstrated. Sectarian and in most cases sub-sectarian fissures run so deep that the category of umma or milat is reduced merely to clichéd locutions.

This assertion is evident in Innes Bowen’s book Medina in Birmingham Najaf in Brent: Inside British Islam, which is undoubtedly an invaluable contribution to the existing body of literature on British Islam.

Another striking feature of the book is the Pakistan connection. Every denomination discussed in the book, barring the chapter on Muslim Brotherhood, is somehow linked with Pakistan — particularly to get religious instruction from institutions like Jamia Uloom Islamia in Binori Town, Karachi or for training jihadis at various jihadi camps, including Dawat-ul-Irshad in Muridke.

Somalia's Al-Shabab Says It Killed 28 non-Muslims In Kenya

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Nineteen men and nine women were killed in the bus attack, said Kenyan police chief David Kimaiyo.

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By Tom Odula | November 22, 2014

NAIROBI, Kenya — One gunman shot from the right, one from the left, each killing the non-Muslims lying in a line on the ground, growing closer and closer to Douglas Ochwodho, who was in the middle.

And then the shooting stopped. Apparently each gunman thought the other shot Ochwodho. He lay perfectly still until the 20 Islamic extremists left, and he appears to be the only survivor of those who had been selected for death.

Somalia's Islamic extremist rebels, al-Shabab, attacked a bus in northern Kenya at dawn Saturday, singling out and killing 28 passengers who could not recite an Islamic creed and were assumed to be non-Muslims, Kenyan police said.