President Thomas Jefferson — Was he a monotheist?
Source / Courtesy: Review of Religions and Alislam.org A compelling argument that Thomas Jefferson negated belief in the divinity of Jesus Christ and affirmed the unity of God. Was he […]
Russia: EU Sanctions on Syrian Newspapers Irrational
MOSCOW, (SANA) – Russia described the EU decision to impose sanctions against the Syrian newspaper al-Watan and Cham Press news website as “irrational” and that it came within the framework […]
New Niqab Rules Ban Muslim Face Coverings During Canadian Citizenship Ceremonies
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/12/12/new-niqab-rules-ban-citizenship-ceremonies_n_1143101.html?ref=canada OTTAWA — The Conservative government’s announcement Monday that it will prevent Muslim women from wearing face coverings during citizenship ceremonies is being met with applause from a group of moderate Muslims calling for a Canadian ban on niqabs and burqas and total rejection from another group saying it is […]
Excessive Running Triggers Heart Damage
Jogging or running could be said as a favorite exercise for most people. Without requiring a lot of equipment and cost, jogging effectively improve health carequality. But, if you like jogging, you should notice the rhythm and duration. Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia, shows, excess rhythm and duration likemarathon running, actually increase […]
5 Things You Didn’t Know About Body Language
Here’s what you might not know: 1) Men can tell if women are fertile by the way they walk and psychopaths can tell who is a good victim by their stride. 2) You can learn to be more charismatic. 3) Hand position can signal power or submissiveness. 4) There are types of body language that are better when you’re […]
Philippines becoming int’l healthcare hub
Medical or wellness tourism is a term involving people who travel to a different country to receive treatment for a particular health condition or in other cases pursue activities that maintain or enhance their personal health and well-being to enjoy much lower cost of care, higher quality of care if […]
Study Finds How Child Abuse Changes the Brain
LONDON (Reuters) – Children exposed to family violence show the same pattern of activity in their brains as soldiers exposed to combat, scientists said on Monday. In a study in the journal Current Biology, researchers used brain scans to explore the impact of physical abuse or domestic violence on children’s […]
Pan African Dinner, 26th November 2011, Ahmadiyya Muslims celebrate African Independence
On 26 November 2011, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat celebrated the Golden Anniversary of the Independence of Cameroon, Sierra Leone and Tanzania in an event organised by the Pan-African Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
Lowe’s Pulls Ads from TLC Show ‘All-American Muslim’
courtesy: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images UPDATED: But a TLC rep says: “There is strong advertising support for the show.” NEW YORK – Retail giant Lowe’s has pulled advertising from Discovery Communications-owned TLC’s reality show All-American Muslim. all-american-muslim-sneak-peek The conservative Florida Family Association in a statement said it has sent […]
Netanyahu, Peres champion women’s rights
Prime minister: Segregating genders against democratic, Jewish values; president: If a man doesn’t want to get on a bus, then he shouldn’t get on. Talkbacks (2) Both Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres championed a woman’s right to sit or appear in public spaces freely during a human […]
Video shows Turkish woman being slapped by police
Istanbul (CNN) — A high-ranking Turkish government minister is calling for the speedy punishment of several police officers who were caught on a police station camera, repeatedly slapping a detained woman in the face and pulling her hair even after she had been hand-cuffed. The video showed an incident that […]
Researchers develop method to form blood platelets from stem cells
KYOTO — A team of researchers from Kyoto University and the University of Tokyo has worked out a method using artificially created stem cells to produce a large volume of […]
How Europe came to forget about its Arabic heritage.
BY ABDUL HAQ COMPIER Source / Courtesy: January 2011, Alislam-eGazette Summary: Traditional education about Western civilisation tells the story of how around 1500, Greek texts recovered the lost memory of Europe’s Greek […]
Israel Expands Settlement, Mulls Azan Ban
With their completion, Jewish settlement in the northern Etzion bloc will reach the edges of Bethlehem’s southernmost suburbs. CAIRO – In a clear punishment for the Palestinian people following moves […]
Muslims and Jews search for the ties that bind
Most of the religious news today is about how different beliefs supposedly divide people, but leaders of Staten Island mosques and synagogues made history yesterday by gathering together to find […]
Access undeniable
Source:TOI Theoretically, it is not impossible to pre-screen user-generated content. Many websites do it. Most news sites, for example, have a system in place for readers ‘ comments. To read and approve each comment, they employ dedicated staff. However, applying the same rules to the web in general and websites […]
Netanyahu backs law to ban loudspeakers at mosques
Source: TOI JERUSALEM: In a controversial move, Israel’s hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed his support for a proposed law that would ban mosques from using loudspeakers to call people to pray, stressing that “there is no need to be more liberal than Europe”. The law popularly known as the […]
Iran looks to its allies
Source: Asia times. Iran is facing ominous rhetoric and deadly explosions as the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia step up efforts to open Iran’s nuclear facilities to inspection. Tehran is gauging its support from abroad. Syria, a longstanding ally, is in turmoil and Hezbollah in Lebanon would be of […]
The challenge facing the US is to locate an Ayub Khan in Pakistan!
Source: Asiatimes. The United States-Pakistan relationship has reached a turning point reminiscent of the run-up to October 1958, when Washington encouraged General Ayub Khan’s coup, apprehending the coming into power of an elected government in Pakistan that might have refused to collaborate as the US’s Cold War ally against the […]
Khalifatul Masih V, International leader of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community recommending an Italian Author
Khalifatul Masih V, International leader of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (Hudhur) quoted from a book by Prof. Laura Veccia Vaglieri, in a recent Friday sermon and highly applauded it. The book is titled, An […]