Washington Post: By David Ignatius, Monday, August 6, 7:43 AM By appointing Prince Bandar bin Sultan as its new intelligence chief, Saudi Arabia has installed what looks like a war cabinet at a time of rising […]
Russian TV: Reports are surfacing of a US-Israeli plan to attack Iran’s ballistic missile batteries, giving Israel extra space to tackle Syria and Hezbollah. While no talks have been confirmed, […]
COMMENT: The partition of Punjab — II — Yasser Latif Hamdani Is the Islamic Republic of Pakistan today not a theocratic state? Does it not discriminate against Christians, Hindus and other […]
Ahmaddiya Times: Nation’s oldest Muslim organization sends condolences and calls for peace and justice Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the USA had strongly condemned the ‘senseless shooting’ this morning on Sikh […]
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Huff Post: Simran Jeet Singh On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks shook the American nation to its core. Nineteen individuals associated with al Qaeda coordinated to hijack four passenger jets and use them as weapons of mass destruction. The terrorist attacks of 9/11 claimed approximately 3,000 lives, including all […]
Oak Creek, Wisconsin (CNN) — The FBI will investigate Sunday’s rampage at a Sikh temple in a Milwaukee suburb as a “domestic terrorist-type incident” that left at least six people […]
Philippine News: A ban on Muslim students wearing the hijab at a Catholic-run school in the Philippines, has sparked complaints and controversy. Pilar College in Zamboanga has defended its decision to ban Muslim students from wearing thehijab. Many of the schools 3,000 pupils are Muslim.Ciibroadcasting reported the college president, Sister Maria Nina Balbas, defied the complaints the […]
Finance minister Yiannis Stournaras talks of ‘bridge of hope’ in reform drive. The next few weeks will be crucial if Greece is to avoid defaulting on its mountain of debt […]
Sprinters have long been squeezing their muscular frames into the most eye-wateringly skimpy, tight and revealing costumes imaginable. But one female athlete at this year’s Olympics is bucking the trend for bulging lycra and naked torsos. In 2004, Bahrain’s Ruqaya Al Ghasara, a devout Muslim, was the first athlete to […]
(CNN) — At least seven people, including a gunman shot by a police officer, have been killed in an attack on worshippers at a Sikh temple in the Milwaukee suburb of Oak Creek, Wisconsin, on Sunday, police said. The officer was wounded but “returned fire, and that shooter was put […]
Iranian experts have completed the feasibility studies of Iran’s national plan to build 150-passenger airplanes and the project has entered the designing and manufacturing phase, an Iranian official says. In […]
(CNN) — A shooting at Sikh temple in the Milwaukee suburb of Oak Creek, Wisconsin, on Sunday, left at least three people wounded and one gunman killed by a police […]
Published – Aug 04 2012 07:20AM EST ANDREA THOMAS, Associated Press OTTAWA, Ill. (AP) — Falling at speeds of up to 220 mph, a group of nearly 140 skydivers shattered […]
By ELLEN BARRY INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE MOSCOW — A member of a Kremlin-sponsored civic chamber will ask state prosecutors to investigate racially tinged statements made by the governor of the Krasnodar region, a close ally of President Vladimir V. Putin, to see if the remarks violate Russian law on incitement […]
The Post that inspired me to save her Wikipedia page in the Muslim Times: Philosopher Martha Nussbaum takes aim at anti-Muslim intolerance. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Martha Nussbaum Martha Nussbaum in 2008 Born Martha Craven 6 May 1947 (age 65) New York City Era 20th-century philosophy […]
Military rulers suppressing opposition in Fiji: lawyer Updated 4 August 2012, 8:09 AEST A prominent lawyer says the jailing of Fiji’s last democratically elected prime minister shows the military government is trying to remove its opposition ahead of elections slated for 2014. Jailed for corruption: former Fijian prime minister Laisenia Qarase. (Credit: ABC) […]
Violence erupts at anti-Islam protest in Sweden The Associated Press Published: Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012 – 6:25 am Last Modified: Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012 – 8:56 am STOCKHOLM — Swedish activists clashed with police amid a hail of bottles and fireworks in downtown Stockholm on Saturday as they tried to break […]
http://tribune.com.pk/story/417246/water-world-dr-attaur-rehman-senses-a-scam-behind-man-touting-water-kit/ KARACHI: Sindh Senior Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ayaz Soomro is the latest to jump on the infamous ‘water kit’ bandwagon, having called the man touting the ‘invention’ a national hero. “Agha Waqar’s invention of a water kit has proved and recognised Sindhi people on world level,” Soomro told […]
Nussbaum finds the European and American discourse on the related topics of immigration, integration, hijab, niqab, sharia law, minarets and mosques, including the “Ground Zero mosque,” to be mostly ignorant, […]