International Middle East Media Center: The al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage issued a press release on Wednesday morning stating that dozens of Israeli soldiers and fundamentalist settlers broke into […]
Credit: Asia Times: By Victor Kotsev Amid the ever-growing diplomatic noise and military buildup in the Persian Gulf, a key issue has received insufficient attention: the dual problem of possible radioactive contamination and civilian casualties resulting from an operation against Iran. Strikes on nuclear facilities carry enormous stigma; those directed […]
Using Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Other Internet Tools, Pakistani Terrorist Group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Incites Violence against Shi’ite Muslims and Engenders Antisemitism Introduction This paper examines the role of Pakistani terrorist group […]
Worthy Christian News: WASHINGTON D.C. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom recommended that the Secretary of State name Pakistan as a Country of Particular Concern in its 2012 Annual Report. […]
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA; At least 27 Indonesian delegates departed for Karachi in Pakistan on Friday to join “Global March to Jerusalem (GMJ)”. From Pakistan, the convoy will travel by land then […]
Russian TV: Mohamed Merah, the notorious killer shot in a stand-off with police a week ago in Toulouse, is still stirring controversy in France. An ex-chief of the French spy […]
New York Times: By DIANE ACKERMAN: A RELATIVELY new field, called interpersonal neurobiology, draws its vigor from one of the great discoveries of our era: that the brain is constantly rewiring itself […]
Express Tribune: And now he wants enforcement of Shariah law in the country. After already managing to get pricey land in Sector H-11 for rebuilding the madrassah (a girls’ seminary) that […]
Credit: Wibledon Guardian via Wasim Saroya: Downsizing? London’s mayor Boris Johnson is shown a model Routemaster bus by Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad The threat of nuclear war was discussed among a band of political heavyweights who visited Morden on Saturday. No less than eight MPs – two of them cabinet […]
Source / Courtesy: CNN and Muslim Sunrise October 2011. Scientists studying universe’s expansion win Nobel Prize in Physics CNN) — Two scientists from the United States and one from Australia […]
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star Lebanon I have been following the deliberations of Arab summit meetings for my entire adult life, and still remain dubious about the value of such gatherings. The summit taking place this week in Baghdad seems no different – but the Arab world itself […]
By REUTERS ARABNEWS BEIJING/BEIRUT: Syria has accepted a cease-fire and peace plan drawn up by UN and Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan, his spokesman said on Tuesday, even as Syrian troops thrust into Lebanon to battle rebels who had taken refuge there. Annan conceded he faced a “long and […]
By contributing writer Gautama Mehta, originally published at KidSpirit Online Growing up in a Hindu family in New York, I’ve always been taught that I should try my best, but understand that after I’ve done what I personally can, I should leave the rest to God. Well, not specifically God, […]
AMMAN/BAGHDAD — Deputising for His Majesty King Abdullah, Prime Minister Awn Khasawneh will head the Jordanian delegation to the 23rd Arab Summit, which opened in Baghdad on Tuesday. The delegation includes ministers of industry and trade and foreign affairs Sami Gammoh and Nasser Judeh, respectively, Jordan’s Ambassador to Egypt and […]
By OSAMA AL SHARIF, ARABNEWS Arab Islamist movements have never been so close to grabbing power through open and democratic elections as they are today. They have already succeeded in Tunisia and Egypt. They are expected to do well in Algeria’s upcoming polls. And if elections are held in Jordan […]