News Around the Muslim World on Thursday 21 August 2014

A daily lesson on Islam in Urdu

Source : Jamaateahmadiyyaalamgheer

                                                                           

Octopuses and squid possess the amazing ability to blend in with their surroundings, but now, researchers have created a man-made system that mimics this form of camouflage. The team developed flexible sheets of light sensors, containing a temperature-sensitive dye, that can automatically sense and adapt to the color of their surroundings. The technology could have consumer, industrial and military applications, according to the study, published today (Aug. 18) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Nature teaches humans how to hide.

Source : The Christian Science Monitor

                                                                               

. . . religious persecution in Pakistan: the 2011 assassinations of the Christian religious minorities minister and the Muslim Punjab governor for opposing the blasphemy laws; the Badami Bagh riots in Lahore in March 2013; kidnappings and forced conversions to Islam of Hindu women in Sindh; the bombing of All Saints Church in Peshawar in September 2013, when 128 Christians were killed and about 170 wounded. In February of this year the Pakistani Taliban warned the Kalash, a polytheistic people in mountainous Chitral, to convert to Islam or face death. 

Kill them in the name of Islam

Source : http://www.christiancentury.org/

                                                                       

To "believe in" Islam requires action on our part. What are those actions?

What does it mean to 'believe in' Allah?

Source : www.virtualmosque.co.uk

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