Cologne witchcraft trial reopens after 400 years
Source: The Local A witchcraft trial is re-opening in Cologne on Monday in the hope that one woman will have her name cleared, centuries after being burned at the stake. […]
SPIEGEL Interview with the King of Bahrain – ‘Arab Spring? That’s the Business of Other Countries’
Source: Spiegel International One year ago, Arab Spring protests briefly gripped the tiny Gulf country of Bahrain. Just as quickly, however, they were crushed. SPIEGEL spoke with Bahrain’s King Hamad […]
Economists Warn of Long-Term Perils in Rescue of Europe’s Banks
http://pix04.revsci.net/H07707/b3/0/3/0806180/791260957.js?D=DM_LOC%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.themuslimtimes.org%252Fwp-admin%252Fpost-new.php%26DM_CAT%3DNYTimesglobal%2520%253E%2520General%26DM_EOM%3D1&C=H07707FRANKFURT — Few would begrudge Mario Draghi his boast last week that he and the European Central Bank had prevented a disastrous credit crisis by showering banks with cheap loans in December. But beneath the gratitude toward Mr. Draghi, the president of the central bank, lurks a fear that the […]
NYU Research Finds Top-Heavy Flying Objects Maintain Balance Best
Source: Red Orbit/NYU. Contrary to popular belief, it is actually easier for top-heavy structures to maintain their balance while hovering in midair than those with lower centers of gravity, claim scientists from New York University (NYU). According to UPI reports on Saturday, the findings counter commonly held theories that […]
COMMENTS ON AHMADIYYA BY PUBLIC FIGURES (of Nigeria):
Source: WorldStageGroup WorldStageNewsOnline from an article entitled: The cold war of faith between Ahmadiyya and orthodox Muslims ALHAJI SIR ABUBAKAR TAFAWA BALEWA: IN 1947, during the budget session of the […]
Contempt case: Supreme Court indicts Gilani
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Web Desk / AFP Published: February 13, 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/worldwide/player.swf ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday indicted Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani for contempt of […]
Egypt’s Unwise Course
NY Times Editorial: …….The army is under fire at home for holding back the democratic tide, abusing civilians even more than Mr. Mubarak and failing to govern effectively, so it is using America as a scapegoat. The confrontation is poisoning relations with a key ally at a time when Egypt […]
Violence offers glimpse of Greece’s reform challenge
(Reuters) – Greeks swept rocks and broken glass from the streets of Athens on Monday after a night of violence that gave lawmakers a taste of the challenge they face […]
The Silent Minority: ‘Only Muslims and men can live in this country’
Express Tribune: It started late, rushed to resolve and concluded with dismay. Indeed, the amount of interest displayed in the session on ‘The Silent Minority: A voice for the voiceless’ at the second day of the Karachi Literature, unfortunately reflected reality in Pakistan. While the issue is one of immense significance, […]
Norwegian-born Eva Joly to run for French presidency 2012.
France 24. REUTERS – Norwegian-born Eva Joly, a formidable former judge who came to France as an au pair in the 1960’s, will run for French president in 2012 as the Greens’ candidate after winning her party’s nomination on Tuesday. Results of a ballot of 23,000 Greens showed the 67-year-old, who […]
Muslim and Jewish celebrations ‘should be French bank holidays’
France 24. Speaking in Paris on Wednesday at her first campaign rally, Green presidential candidate Eva Joly argued that national holiday status should be accorded to the Muslim festival of Eid-ul-Fitr and the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur. Currently six of the 12 national holidays in France are Catholic […]
‘The Risk that Nuclear Weapons Will Be Used Is Growing’
Credit: Spiegel International AFP A Russian intercontinental ballistic missile is driven through Moscow’s Red Square in 2009. Anxieties are mounting as nuclear weapons make their way into unstable regions. In a SPIEGEL ONLINE interview, US disarmament expert Richard Burt discusses the growing risk of their use, why allowing Iran to […]
Benefits of lemon
Credit: TOI on Line Benefits of lemon (Thinkstock photos/ Getty Images) Lemons are an excellent source of vitamin C. Having a lemon squeezed in warm water first thing every morning will cleanse your digestive system. It also increases the levels of immunity thus cutting the chances of infections. Because it […]
Muslim ‘terror threat’ belied by numbers
Credit: Asiatimes: By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON – The threat of terrorism carried out by Muslim Americans appears to have been exaggerated by US officials in recent years, according to a new study on domestic terrorism released Wednesday. The study, the third in an annual series by the Triangle Center on […]
Syria, the new Libya
Credit: Asiatimes: By Pepe Escobar A Kalashnikov in Iraq, until recently, sold for US$100. Now it’s at least $1,000, and most probably $1,500 (those were the days when Sunnis joining the resistance in 2003 could buy a fake Kalashnikov made in Romenia for $20). Destination of choice of the $1,500 […]
For France’s blighted north, a Green path out of crisis
France24. Eva Joly, the Green candidate in France’s forthcoming presidential election, sought to breathe The Norwegian-born former magistrate, whose campaign has been dogged by rumours of sedition within her party’s ranks, picked the impoverished former industrial hub near the border with Belgium to present a green platform with a strong […]
Roma travel in search of winter asylum
by Isabelle Eichenberger, swissinfo.ch The number of Serbian asylum seekers, generally Roma, has peaked in Switzerland in recent months. This “winter tourism” can be explained by the worsening quality of […]
Salafism is only an approach, says justice minister
By ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Minister of Justice Dr. Mohammed bin Abdul Kareem Al-Issa said Salafism should not be interpreted as Islam at Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh. The minister said in reply to a question by the rector of the university: “Salafism is only a descriptive approach, […]
Policing the religious police in Saudi Arabia
KHALID ALNOWAISER, ARABNEWS Recently, the Saudi government appointed a new president for the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice who is known to be a more […]
Jordan: Camp to accommodate displaced Syrians opens this week
Petra. JORDAN TIMES MAFRAQ — Jordan will open a camp for Syrians seeking refuge in the Kingdom, in the Ribaa Al Sarhan area in Mafraq at the end of this week, Jordan Hashemite Charity Organisation (JHCO) Secretary General Ahmad Amyan said on Sunday. Infrastructure work has been completed at the […]