Source: The Atlantic Jul 5 2012, 3:54 PM ET 18 Ami Vitale’s beautifully shot documentary visits the communities on the Bay of Bengal that are already suffering the consequences of global warming. Vitali, a photojournalist, made the switch to video to tell the story of one mother who, fearing that […]
Washington Post: A district judge in Cologne, Germany, recently ruled that ritual circumcision is a crime, violating “the fundamental right of the child to bodily integrity,” which outweighs other parental and […]
Dawn: IT appears that there are three schools of thought when it comes to minority rights in Pakistan. There are those who champion religious minorities and raise their voices against […]
by Shireen Younus Eighth-grader from Maryland HUFFINGTON POST Life in middle school is rife with drama over friends, grades and the struggle to be accepted. I’ve seen that acceptance […]
By Joe Mandak Associated Press Deseret News PITTSBURGH — A former police officer who retired from the FBI due to post-traumatic stress disorder linked to her role in the aftermath […]
The body of a man found in woods near Utrecht has been identified as that of a former provincial councillor for the anti-immigration PVV, according to media reports on Wednesday afternoon. Jos van Hal Scheffer left the party last month after his wife became a suspect in a million euro […]
Terrorist acts against Palestinian civilians committed by Israeli colonists clearly point to “a religious war” By As’ad Abdul Rahman, Special to Gulf NEWS Under the watchful eyes of the Israeli […]
DUBAI: A premature baby born at just 570 grams with a head as small as a plum has miraculously survived after battling it out for four months at a private […]
Parvez Ahmed Associate Professor of Finance, Coggin College of Business, University of North Florida GET UPDATES FROM PARVEZ AHMED L Appreciating Islam’s Contribution to Civilization Posted: 07/05/2012 5:35 pm Fox News , Islam , Islamophobia , Muslim Innovations , Muslim Inventions , Pbs ,Religious Stereotyping , Religion News SHARE THIS STORY http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?action=like&api_key=46744042133&channel_url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.ak.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter.php%3Fversion%3D9%23cb%3Df148c06524%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%252Ff31b214fa8%26domain%3Dwww.huffingtonpost.com%26relation%3Dparent.parent&extended_social_context=false&font=lucida%20grande&href=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%252Fparvez-ahmed%252Fappreciating-islams-contribution-to-civilization_b_1648224.html&layout=standard&locale=en_US&node_type=link&sdk=joey&show_faces=false&width=244 27 11 0 https://plusone.google.com/_/+1/fastbutton?bsv=pr&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fparvez-ahmed%2Fappreciating-islams-contribution-to-civilization_b_1648224.html&size=tall&count=true&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com&hl=en-US&jsh=m%3B%2F_%2Fapps-static%2F_%2Fjs%2Fgapi%2F__features__%2Frt%3Dj%2Fver%3DqtvzPMli2GA.en_US.%2Fsv%3D1%2Fam%3D!0Tt3uNrLr0Coc6egjA%2Fd%3D1%2Frs%3DAItRSTOtcgAD4dpnSQl_RohzS0XsePhHFg#id=I2_1341586551837&parent=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com&rpctoken=248747437&_methods=onPlusOne%2C_ready%2C_close%2C_open%2C_resizeMe%2C_renderstart Submit […]
Source: The Post – A Muslim associais offering residents of Lindsay and area free transportation to attend a convention and banquet lunch at no charge this Sunday, July 8 being held in Mississauga. Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association of Canada (AMYA) is an auxiliary wing of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community ( http://www.alislam.org […]
Credit: Nation via Wasim Sroya PTA bans Ahmadi website By: Our Staff Reporter | July 06, 2012 | 0 LAHORE – Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has banned a website by the name alislam.org which was controlled by the Ahmaddiya community. An official of the authority said that the site had […]
A former councillor for the anti-immigration PVV in Noord Holland has close ties to the neo-nazi group Stormfront and submitted 2,200 items to the organisation’s website, the Noord-Hollands Dagblad reported on Friday. Monica Nunes is one of three provincial councillors who left the PVV earlier this year to go it […]
Jehovah’s Witnesses who have heart surgery don’t seem to fare any worse than other patients, even though they refuse to undergo blood transfusions during the surgery, a new study has […]
Source: DNA India On Sunday evening, the city of Ahmedabad paid tribute to Vasantrao Hegishte and Rajab Ali Lakhani who died saving others during a communal flare-up in 1946 Rath Yatra. NGOs Anhad, Sauhard and Action Aid had organised a cultural event on the occasion. The venue, a small auditorium […]
Source: Khabarsoutheastasia Better education and a less conservative mindset may be contributing to a higher quality of life for Muslims in India’s southern provinces compared to those in the north, sources told Khabar South Asia. Children watch from a mosque during a procession to mark Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi, the celebrations of the […]
Germany is coming under increasing pressure over the court decision that ruled circumcision was bodily harm and thus a crime – with the Wiesenthal Centre quoting Hitler, and a Muslim group saying it was a blow against integration. The Los-Angeles-based Jewish group called on German lawmakers to provide legal safety […]
Tripoli: Libya’s top politicians have hatched a deal by which the Muslim Brotherhood will lead the government after the country’s first free elections on Saturday in almost five decades. According to The Telegraph, negotiations between the Muslim Brotherhood and a secular-based political movement led by former interim prime minister Mahmoud […]
At least some in Pakistan have the good grace to recognise Dr. Salam’s contribution in the field of science. Few Pakistanis know what the Higgs boson is and even fewer […]
The government has decided to tighten economic sanctions against Tehran, but stopped short of implementing a ban on trading Iranian oil to match an embargo by the European Union or […]
AFP ARABNEWS Thursday 5 July 2012 LONDON: WikiLeaks on Thursday began publishing more than two million e-mails from Syrian political figures which could shed light on a crackdown that has […]