Source / Credit: BBC Chinese solar power pioneer Huang Ming is one of four winners of the 2011 Right Livelihood Awards, sometimes also called the alternative Nobel prize. Mr Huang was honoured for developing “cutting-edge technologies for harnessing solar energy”. Also honoured were Chadian human rights activist Jacqueline Moudeina, […]
By Zia H Shah Let me lay down a few quick facts about the Bible in the very beginning. The Sheperd of Hemas was part of the canon for centuries and now it is not. The Shepherd of Hermas (Greek: Ποιμήν του Ερμά; Hebrew: רועה הרמס; sometimes just called The Shepherd) is a […]
BOSTON — A team of Japanese scientists who invented a fire alarm that smells like wasabi were among the winners of this year’s Ig Nobel prizes that were handed out for head-scratching scientific discoveries Thursday at Harvard University. The Japanese team won the chemistry prize for the alarm that emits […]
The mother of a passenger aboard a plane that crashed in a remote area of Indonesia says her daughter has called her, raising hopes of finding survivors as rescuers struggled to reach the site. Search and rescue teams had been unable to reach the accident site in a mountainous area […]
Source: The Local A Hannover microbiologist and fashion designer is releasing a new clothing line with a twist: the clothes are partly created from powdered milk – aiding skincare. “The proteins in the powder care for the skin,” said 28-year-old Anke Domaske, who has founded the QMilch line, explaining […]
Source: Physics World Can particles travel faster than the speed of light? Most physicists would say an emphatic “no”, invoking Einstein’s special theory of relativity, which forbids superluminal travel. But now physicists working on the OPERA experiment in Italy may have found tantalizing evidence that neutrinos can exceed the speed […]
Source: Qantara The women of Saudi Arabia will be allowed to vote for the first time in 2015. Why not already today in the current local elections? Abdelmoula Boukhraiss discussed this topic with the well-known Saudi Arabian civil rights activist and journalist Abdul Aziz Al-Khamis in London Why aren’t […]
Source/Credit: /29 September 2011/ Translation by Google After a long time patiently waiting for the operating permit is ready for the official opening of Baitun Nasr Mosque in Furuset in Oslo. It should have happened a year ago, but Friday is the last. The mosque is not only just the latest addition […]
The international press reported that in August the Netherlands paid to the World Health Organization one hundred million Euros taken from confiscated ‘Ghadaffi Funds’ Approximately two month later a visit to the Ministry of Health warehouse in Benghazi showed no sign of WHO medicines. Donations of medicines had reached from […]
Courtesy / Source: Muslim Sunrise A lot of world history has been created by copy cat Neroes, who have established themselves by being defenders against an external, partial or non-existent threat, appealing to the sentiments of the masses of fear and prejudice. In this century Islamophobia can certainly serve as an explosive […]
By Qasim Yousafzai For CentralAsiaOnline.com Shehrbano Taseer, daughter of slain Pakistani Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, spoke at a panel discussion at UN European headquarters in Geneva WASHINGTON, D.C. – Islam’s greatest threat comes from those who claim to be serving it – extremist militants, Shehrbano Taseer, daughter of slain Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, said June […]
A rocket carrying China’s first space laboratory, Tiangong-1, has launched from the north of the country. The Long March vehicle lifted clear from the Jiuquan spaceport in the Gobi Desert at 21:16 local time (13:16 GMT). The rocket’s ascent took the lab out over the Pacific, and on a path […]
By Benjamin Bidder in Bolshaya Elnya, Russia, SPIEGEL ONLINE Mother Fotina once led a “Center for Cosmo-Energetic Medicine,” and now she prays to Vladimir Putin. Her sect, in a village east of Moscow, honors Russia’s once and future president as a reincarnation of St. Paul. The group represents a rising […]
By Nick Valencia, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — “Go home!” she yelled at me. “Why don’t you go back home to Mexico before you ruin this country like you ruined your own!” I was standing in a crowd at the Music Midtown festival in Atlanta, where I live. A few minutes […]
Report prepared by Dr Daud Tahir By the Grace of Allah Taalah, the 29th Annual Ijtema of Majlis Ansarullah UK took place on the 23rd, 24th and 25th of September 2011 at Baitul Futuh Mosque, Morden. The proceeding of the Shura of Majlis Ansarullah took place on Friday […]
BERLIN — The German Parliament easily approved the expansion of the bailout fund for heavily indebted European countries Thursday, the most important step in a tortuous process that has rattled markets and raised doubts about the ability of governments to react to the expanding debt crisis. The tally also marked […]
Indonesia’s biggest Muslim organization is calling on the government to block international radical Islamist sites. Nahdatul Ulama says extreme teachings are fueling racial violence across Indonesia. It is understood a suicide bomber who attacked a church in Central Java last week accessed radical Islamist websites. The government has already passed […]
If politics are personal, then let me say this. I love almost everything about the Judaism I practice: Born into a Jewish family, but raised without any formal religious education, I have in recent years become a member of a Reform synagogue in Brooklyn. I love singing the ancient prayers. […]
It is said and believed by many people, including unfortunately many Muslims, that the punishment for blasphemy is death. Such an assertion is totally incorrect. The Holy Book of Islam, the Holy Quran – the source of all the guidance mentions nowhere that the punishment for blasphemy is death, nor even a […]