theguardian Europe’s fourth-biggest carrier says bright makeup ‘impairs visual integrity’, triggering concerns over creeping Islamisation Turkey‘s national airline has barred flight attendants from wearing red lipstick and nail polish, triggering concerns among secular Turks that the country is becoming more Islamic. Turkish Airlines, Europe’s fourth-biggest carrier, said the ban was […]
Lights in the sky over Damascus. Another Israeli raid – “daring” of course, in the words of Israel’s supporters, and the second in two days – on Bashar al-Assad’s weaponry and military facilities and weapons stores. The story is already familiar: the Israelis wanted to prevent a shipment of Iranian-made […]
STORY SUMMARY There is good news and bad news on the Arab-Israeli peacemaking front this week. The good news is that the United States and the Arab League’s ministerial committee seem energized to restart Palestinian-Israeli negotiations. This culminated a few days ago in the Arab clarification that the 2002 Arab […]
STORY SUMMARY Israel sought to reassure the Syrian regime Monday that its weekend airstrikes against military sites near Damascus were not aimed at boosting the rebels, as activists claimed at least 42 army soldiers were killed in the attacks. Early morning airstrikes against what Syrian state media reported were scientific […]
Over the last six decades, the U.S. has invested $299 billion in military and economic aid for Middle Eastern and Central Asian countries currently in turmoil. Egypt tops a list […]
Written for Muslims Times by Abdul Alim 07 May 2013: The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community will boycott of Pakistan 2013 Elections. We look at the implications and impact of this on […]
By Jakarta Globe on 12:26 am May 7, 2013. An Indonesian human rights organization has blasted a US-based interfaith group’s decision to recognize President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for championing religious […]
IPSnewsnet: Zofeen Ibrahim: KARACHI , May 6 2013 (IPS) – Twenty-five-year-old Syed Hasan, a doctor practicing in a private hospital in Lahore, plans to spend most of May 11, Pakistan’s long-awaited Election Day, in bed. Members of the minority Ahmadi community in Pakistan say they have been disenfranchised by the country’s […]
BBC: ہ تشدد کے حوالے سے حساس شہر ڈیرہ اسماعیل خان میں مذہبی رواداری کا ایک ایسا واقعہ پیش آیا ہے جس میں ہندو جوان کو بچاتے ہوئے دو مسلمان بھی ہلاک ہو گئے۔ دونوں افراد میں سے ایک حافظ قران تھے اور دوسرے ڈیڑھ سال پہلے عیسایت کا مذہب […]
Russia Today: Doctors are warning that a drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea could be more deadly than AIDS, and are urging members of US Congress to spend $54 million for the development of a drug that would fight it. “This might be a lot worse than AIDS in the short run […]
Press Release: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA Welcomes His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad on his first trip to the West Coast Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA welcomed the Khalifa of Islam yesterday, His Holiness […]
Source: The Daily Star. DHAKA: A number of copies of the holy Quran were burnt when the stalls and pushcarts of hawkers were set ablaze during the violence at the south gate of Baitul Mukarram mosque Sunday afternoon. Hundreds of people gathered near the south gate of Baitul Mukarram […]
Source: Science Daily Brain function in adults as young as 35 may decline as their heart disease risk factors increase, according to new research in the American Heart Association journal Stroke. “Young adults may think the consequences of smoking or being overweight are years down the road, but they aren’t,” said […]
NERVANA MAHMOUD Special to The Globe and Mail On late Saturday, Pope Tawadros II led his first Easter Mass as head of the ancient Coptic Christian Church in Egypt by […]
A Muslim group’s effort to move its campus from College Park to Maryland’s rural Howard County is being met with opposition from local residents, who say dense construction plans for the site would spoil the quiet character of the area. Although both sides insist that the debate turns solely on […]
Source: The Local. Just to name two examples – of course a democracy must reform its citizenship laws if the danger emerges that a growing part of its population is being shut out of the political process because they have no right to vote. And of course schools need to […]
Source: Guardian via Wasim Sr. As Pakistan’s election campaign enters its dying days, no town has escaped the attention of the country’s politicians as they crisscross the country, plastering every spare billboard, lamp-post and shop-front with posters bearing their heavily airbrushed faces. Except Rabwah, a sleepy riverside settlement in the […]
http://pshared.5min.com/Scripts/PlayerSeed.js?sid=281&width=490&height=275&playList=517466993 A good Religion itself, philosophy and science rule out a God, which does miracles that break the laws of nature. God of Islam is Al Baatin, the Hidden, the Subtle, who uses laws of nature to grant devout and righteous believers, their prayers. Defining a domain of metaphysics, properly, […]
by CORINA LASS (please bear with us – Google translate from German being used). Herford. The years after 2000 were troubled. Parental divorce, comprehensive school Friedenstal, vocational training year, training […]