Latest reports out of Iraq confirm that the ‘Islamic State of Iraq and Sham’ have taken over Mosul. Situated in the north of Iraq, Mosul is Iraq’s 3rd largest city. Situated in Ninevah province, the city has long been a base of ISIS & has been a stronghold for supporters and ...
Read More »Fourteen years after the Israeli withdrawal: That was then, this is now
How did these lunatics do it? How did they let us get so close to their homes? How could they have spared us the trouble of getting to the point nearest to their positions? They would not have done so had they not been defeated. Truly defeated. And here we ...
Read More »Meeting between Ayatollah Mohsin Araki and Ayatollah Wahid Khorasani
Ayatollah Mohsin Araki, the head of World Forum for Proximity between Islamic Schools, in a meeting with Ayatollah Wahid Khurasani, spoke about the issue of Islamic unity and sectarianism. He stated: “Our policy in the issue of proximity is centralization on issues on which we can work together with the ...
Read More »Awakening of the Nation and Stability of Pakistan Conference bring Sunni and Shia’s together
“Awakening of Nation and Stability of Pakistan Conference,” in Skardu brought Sunni and Shia Muslims together and they vowed united struggle for full rights of people of Gilgit-Baltistan. Majlis-e-Wahdat-e- Muslimeen hosted the largest- attended public meeting in the history of Gilgit-Baltistan. Sunni Bralevis, Deobandis and Ahl-e-Hadees also joined the Shia Muslims’ ...
Read More »Shia killings in Pakistan are not the result of a sectarian war
When Raphael Lemkin coined the term ‘genocide’ in 1944, he would have been hoping against hope that it would not have to be used to describe any events in the future. Mankind had witnessed the horrors of Herero, Zulu, Assyrian, Kurd and the more documented Congolese and Armenian genocides, in ...
Read More »Sectarian hatred against the Shia growing in Indonesia
A planned declaration in Bandung to denounce the Shiite community turned into a fiery call for jihad, or holy war, against the much-maligned minority group. Thousands of people showed up for the event on Sunday hosted by the Anti-Shia Alliance, a gathering of hard-line Sunni Muslim organizations. Ahmad bin Zein ...
Read More »The bias within
By Saad Rasool This week, I happened to meet a man whose story represents a deep rupture in the soul of our “Muslim” nation. This young man, barely in his early thirties, is a bookseller in one of the densely populated urban centers of Lahore. I had been told by ...
Read More »Ayatollah Misbah: Be like Ammar ibn Yasir (ra)
Ayatollah Misbah Yazdi, speaking to a group of university students yesterday, spoke about the status of the youth in the Islamic revolution and the importance of correctly understanding our role-models in Islamic history. Regarding the youth, his eminence said: “One of the blessings and bounties of our nation today are ...
Read More »Saudi’s Lonely, Costly Bid for Sunni-Shiite Equality
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — MIKHLIF AL-SHAMMARI has been jailed repeatedly, declared an infidel, ruined financially and shot four times — by his own son — all for this: He believes his fellow Sunni Muslims should treat Shiites as equals. In a Middle East torn by deepening sectarian hatred, that is ...
Read More »Anti-Taliban “Labbaik Ya Rasoolallah Conference” a show of Shia power
Shia Muslims expressed their mass strength and political power by holding a successful Labbaik Ya Rasoolullah (PBUH) Conference in Khairpur on Sunday. Shia and Sunni leaders called it a referendum against the Taliban terrorists. Shiite News Correspondent reported here that Allama Raja Nasir Abbas Jafari, head of Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen, Sahibzada Hamid ...
Read More »