News around the Muslim World on Friday 26 December 2014

The organisation had asked the Ahmadi residents of Rabwah to immediately remove Quranic verses and the Islamic references from all Ahmadi buildings. The organisation said it would be forced to take unilateral action if the community failed to follow its diktat. Provocative material against the community has been in circulation for two weeks. 

More persecution of minorities.

Source: The Express Tribune

The heritage of centuries has been wiped out in little more than a year.

Eventually the need to wipe out all traces of unbelief becomes obsessive. At one time, for instance, Egyptian law demanded that any house found to contain a copy of The Apology of al-Kindi (a book containing a polemical dialogue between a Muslim and a Christian) would be demolished along with 40 houses around it.

History being erased In Iraq.

Locals survey the hill of rubble that resulted from the destruction
of the Tomb of Yunus (Jonah), in Mosul, Iraq. The Islamic State
blew up the tomb and mosque on July 24, 2014.

Source: The Independent, 11 December 2014

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News around the Muslim World on Thursday 25 December 2014

'A thousand years ago, all the Muslims and Christians in India were Hindu. They were converted by the sword.'

The conversion issue pits those who believe India is a Hindu nation against the values in the constitution

By his count, Vyankatesh Abdeo has helped convert 700,000 Indian Christians and Muslims to Hinduism over the last two decades, but he would describe it differently.

 

"It is not conversion; it is reconversion," said the professorial Abdeo, national secretary of Vishva Hindu Parishad, a pro-Hindu organization.

Shuddi's back - converting Muslims to Hindus.

Source: Copyright © 2014, Los Angeles Times

 

Every human has a strong preference when choosing which hand to write with, and even crows have even been found to have a favoured side when using their beak as a tool.

Now new evidence suggests that ants tend to turn left when exploring new surroundings.

A study has found that the insects are significantly more likely to turn left than right when exploring new nests.

Ants turn left.

Source: Daily Mail

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Santa arrives in Karachi!

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