http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2011/12/05/private-billionaire-shahid-khan-revealed-in-jaguars-sale/ Last week’s sale of the Jacksonville Jaguars thrust soon-to-be new NFL owner Shahid Khan into the spotlight. A low profile private businessman for 30 years at Flex-N-Gate, an international auto supply company, he had rarely appeared in national press and never before was listed among the Forbes 400 Richest […]
Arabs are Semites and Arabic is a Semitic language and hence Islamophobia is antisemitism by definition! In linguistics and ethnology, Semitic (from the Biblical “Shem“, Hebrew: שם, translated as “name”, Arabic: ساميّ) was first used to refer to a language family of largely Middle Eastern origin, now called the Semitic […]
Jerusalem patriarch calls for Mideast reconciliation AFP |Jordan Times BETHLEHEM — Tens of thousands of Christians were flocking to Bethlehem on Saturday to celebrate Christmas following a year of political […]
By ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is sending a humanitarian mission to Mindanao in Philippines, to take account of the situation there following a devastating storm […]
AMMAN — Iraq has refused to allow passage of Jordanian trucks heading for Turkey through its territories, citing concerns that such a move would have negative effects on the Syrian people. Salam Quraishi, an economic adviser to the Iraqi government, said on Saturday that using Iraq as an alternative transit […]
Source: http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/Christmas_TheRealStory.htm A. The Origin of Christmas Tree Just as early Christians recruited Roman pagans by associating Christmas with the Saturnalia, so too worshippers of the Asheira cult and its offshoots were recruited by the Church sanctioning “Christmas Trees”.[7] Pagans had long worshipped trees in the forest, or brought them […]
Source: http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/Christmas_TheRealStory.htm (a Jewish website) A. Roman pagans first introduced the holiday of Saturnalia, a week long period of lawlessness celebrated between December 17-25. During this period, Roman courts were […]
(Reuters) – The U.N. General Assembly on Saturday approved a 5 percent decrease in the United Nations’ budget for 2012-2013 over the previous two-year period, only the second time in 50 years that the world body has slashed its spending. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised the 193-nation General Assembly for […]
DAWN: Nadeem Paracha: OP-ED: When on December 18 leaders from more than a dozen radical religious parties, certain down-and-out politicians, one very verbose former ISI chief and the son of a bygone and dead dictator graced the ‘Defend Pakistan’ rally organised by the controversial Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD), I wondered, was the […]