Why Starbucks Puts Bugs In Your Frappuccino?
Starbucks is coming under fire from vegans for using ground-up bugs to color its Frappuccinos, but the use of cochineal insects is actually quite common in the food industry. In fact, cochineal […]
Far-right groups rally in Denmark to unite ‘anti-Islamic alliance’
Globalpost.com: LONDON, UK – Far-right groups from across Europe are holding a rally in Denmark in a bid to set up “an anti-Islamic alliance” across the continent. A police spokesman told […]
Bangladesh teachers arrested over ‘blasphemous’ drama
AFP: DHAKA: Police in Bangladesh said on Saturday they had arrested two school teachers on suspicion of staging a drama containing blasphemous remarks about the Prophet Mohammed. The school’s Muslim […]
Plot to attack parliament foiled: Rehman Malik
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By AFP / Web Desk Published: March 31, 2012 ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Saturday revealed that police had foiled a plot to attack […]
Slain Iraqi emigrant returns home for burial
Source: CNN Author: Mohammed Tawfeeq Najaf, Iraq (CNN) — An Iraqi woman who died in California after a brutal beating was laid to rest in her native country Saturday. Shaima Alawadi, 32, was taken off of life support last week after being found unconscious in her living room in San […]
Boy and girl killed in Afghanistan acid attack ‘over friendship’
Source: Al-Arabiya News A 12-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy have been killed in an acid attack in Afghanistan, an official said Saturday, with witnesses claiming it was because of their friendship in what is an ultra-conservative country. The bodies were discovered on Friday in wasteland in the Esfandi area […]
The fall of the Roman empire and the rise of Islam
Source: the guardian Whenever modern civilisations contemplate their own mortality, there is one ghost that will invariably rise up from its grave to haunt their imaginings. In February 1776, a few months after the publication of the first volume of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon commented […]
An Islamic Perspective on Religious Pluralism
Source: Huff Post Islam is often viewed as an inherently violent and intolerant world religion. This misconception is fueled in part by the miscreant deeds of some Muslims, particularly toward […]
Ahmadi school teacher tortured to death in police custody
Contrary to SHO Khadim Hussain’s claim in the news story below, Ahmadiyya Times has independantly learned that the victim Abdul Qudoos was first picked up illegally on February 10 and tortured for […]
Computer Science for the Rest of Us
Source: NY Times. Jeff Swensen for The New York Times READING, writing and — refactoring code? Colleges are taking widely different paths to teaching general concepts underlying computer programming language. Tom Cortina, offers a course in “Principles of Computation” at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh. Mark LeBlanc teaches “Computing for Poets” […]
The Woven Brain
Source: Scienceshot. To the unaided eye, the most striking feature of the human brain is its squiggly pattern of bumps and grooves. But within those curves is a latticework of nerve fibers that cross each other at roughly right angles (above), according to a study published in tomorrow’s issue of Science. The […]
Muslim woman beaten to death in California with note on body that says go home
A woman from Iraq who was found beaten, lying in a pool of blood in her in El Cajon, Calif., home next to a note saying “go back to your […]
What if Israel bombs Iran?
Source: CNN Author: Gary Sick Imagine that you wake up tomorrow morning and discover that during the night. Israeli planes had conducted a bombing raid on Iran. How would your […]
Newspapers Review: Land Day Marches Dominate Dailies
Wafa: RAMALLAH, March 31, 2012 (WAFA) – The three Palestinian Arabic dailies Saturday focused on the Palestinian marches marking the 36th anniversary of Land Day in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. The prime headlines reported on the violent Israeli crackdown against protesters, killing one Palestinian in […]
84 Countries participated in Global Jerusalem March.
Organizers: Global March to J’lem reached goals Jerusalem Post: Organizers of Friday’s Global March to Jerusalem said Saturday that the protest rally commemorating Land Day had achieved most of its […]
Jellyfish species on display
Source: China Daily MONTEREY, California – Giant cylindrical aquariums containing Moon Jellies are seen on display during the preview for the “The Jellies Experience” exhibition at the Monterey Bay Aquarium […]
Most US NGOs not registered in China
Source: China Daily Less than 3 percent of US non-governmental organizations operating in China have registered with the civil affairs authorities, a report revealed on Friday. The low rate of […]
The Islamist-secular battle is under way
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star, Lebanon Three great battles over political power have been unleashed across the Arab world and will persist for many years, until a new political order stabilizes in every country. One in particular is now reaching an important point that will reveal much about […]
Mataf to accommodate more pilgrims following expansion
By MAKKAH: ANWAR AL-SAYED ARABNEWS The Mataf, the open area surrounding the Grand Mosque where pilgrims do their circumambulation, will be expended from its present capacity of 50,000 pilgrims an […]