Source: The New York Times Author: Charles M. Blow America is in trouble. Emerging economic powers China and India are heavily investing in educating the world’s future workers while we squabble about punishing teachers and coddling children. This week, the Center for American Progress and the Center for the Next […]
ScienceDaily (Aug. 22, 2012) — Melbourne scientists studying the impact obesity has on pregnancy, are urging men to get ‘match fit’ before conceiving to assist with fetal development. Reproductive experts from the University of Melbourne’s Department of Zoology have discovered that a father’s obesity negatively impacts sperm, resulting in smaller fetuses, […]
Huff Post: Rev. Martha Spong. I’ve been speechless for the past couple of days. I’ve been thinking quite a lot about the words Todd Akin used to describe rape. I’ve been thinking and reading the words of others in their responses to him. On religious websites, the comments devolve immediately […]
Express Tribune: By Aakar Patel. On May 27, 1953, the Tamil reformer EV Ramaswami Naickersmashed an idol of Lord Ganesha in public at the Town Hall maidanin Tiruchirapalli. Naicker, who was angered by Hinduism’s caste system, made a speech announcing his intention to do this before breaking the idol. Veerabadran Chettiar, an […]
Haaretz: Hatred of Arabs is part of the test of loyalty and identity that the state gives its Jewish citizens – a loyal Israeli will leave an Arab to die, […]
Source: Jagran Post London: Despite differences in rituals and beliefs among the world’s major religions, spirituality often enhances individuals’ health, according to University of Missouri researchers. The MU researchers believe […]
The Daily Star — After two years of legal wrangling, a 12,000-square-foot mosque opened Aug. 10 in Murfreesboro, Tenn., a city that has 104,000 people and 140 churches but only […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD The Christian apologists always argue for a Transcendent God of Jewish and Muslim traditions, and forget their Triune God in debates and […]
A female zookeeper dies in hospital of her wounds after being mauled by an escaped tiger in Germany. A tiger has been shot dead after killing a female zookeeper in […]
His family said they were “heartbroken” by his death and called him “a reluctant American hero who always believed he was just doing his job.” They said he died from […]
A Lower Hutt art gallery is fielding complaints following the announcement that men will be banned from viewing an upcoming exhibition that shows Muslim women without veils. The Dowse Art Museum is preparing to host the world premiere of a video display entitled Cinderazahd: For Your Eyes Only, that shows […]
Credit: Islam Watch by Wasim Sroya. Wherever terrorist attacks happens in the West — Asia, Europe, America, Australia, or Africa — all are linked to Pakistan in one way or another… Pakistan has become the most dangerous ‘Terrorist State’ of the world. There is a long history and relation of […]
ISLAMABAD, 24 August 2012 (IRIN) – At 70 years old, Mohammad Issa is already struggling to survive in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, where he sought refuge from war in Afghanistan years […]
by Rahul Karmakar, Hindustan Times. Surrounded by hatred and fear in violence-hit western Assam, Jamaluddin Sheikh, 43, a relief camp inmate in the Muslim-majority Dhubri district, entrusted his 19-year-old daughter’s life to a Hindu he met for the first time at the camp and took an instant liking to. “I […]
NBC Producer Aarne Heikkila recently traveled to Yiwu, China, a city renowned for its 70,000 wholesale vendors selling everything from plastic figurines to rubber bands, jewelry to exercise books. Recently […]
Credit: Belief CNN via Wasim Sroya By Reza Sayah, CNN Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) – An 11-year-old girl is being accused of blasphemy in Pakistan. Her accusers says she burned pages from the Quran, Islam’s holy book. Now, she is being detained by authorities, and her family appears to be on […]
by Daniele Mariani, swissinfo.ch Switzerland has always been the crossroads of Europe and today there are “cultural routes” commemorating the historic highways and byways through the country. It is becoming […]
AYA BATRAWY | AP ARABNEWS Friday 24 August 2012 CAIRO: Several thousand Egyptians rallied Friday in the first significant protests against the country’s Islamist President Muhammad Mursi, accusing him and his Muslim Brotherhood group of trying to monopolize power. The main protest in Cairo, which counted around 3,000 people and […]
by George S. Hishmeh | Aug 23, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES It is a fact of life that in the campaign for presidential election in the US, held once every four years, foreign policy is not a contentious issue. This time around, however, the policies of Israel, a revered ally […]
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