Allah’s Mercy has No Limits
Aisha Stacy ARABNEWS: AND with Him are the keys of the unseen; no one knows them except Him. And He knows what is on the land and in the sea. […]
Fearing stark future, Syrian Alawites meet in Cairo
Mar 23, 2013 – 02:20 By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN (Reuters) – Opposition campaigners from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite sect will meet this weekend to support a democratic alternative to his rule and try to distance the community from wholesale association with the government’s attempts to crush a two-year […]
Pope Francis wants Catholic Church to ‘intensify’ dialogue with Islam
VATICAN CITY: ARAB NEWS Saturday 23 March 2013 Pope Francis yesterday called for the Roman Catholic Church to “intensify” its dialogue with Islam, echoing hopes in the Muslim world for […]
Ocalan’s cease-fire call marks a turning point for Kurdish nation
Prashant Rao ARABNEWS Saturday 23 March 2013 Abdullah Ocalan’s cease-fire call marks a key turning point for the Kurdish nation that 25 years ago was hit by the deadliest use of chemical weapons ever and had begun an armed conflict for independence. The cease-fire call, set out in a letter […]
Asian arrivals helping set new Umrah record
Jeddah: Irfan Mohammed ARABNEWS A large number of Umrah pilgrims arriving from Asian countries this week are about to set a new record. The Ministry of Haj has indicated that […]
Iraq war anniversary: ‘Iraqis would be better off under Saddam’, says Andrew Gilligan
Prominent Iraq war journalist Andrew Gilligan delivers his verdict on the allied invasion ten years on. Speaking on the anniversary of the Iraq invasion, former war reporter and Sunday Telegraph London editor Andrew Gilligan said that rather than rescuing Iraqis from the grip of a tyrant, the toppling of former […]
Iraq War Anniversary: Birth Defects And Cancer Rates At Devastating High In Basra And Fallujah (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | By Eline Gordts Ten years after the start of the U.S. invasion in Iraq, doctors in some of the Middle Eastern nation’s cities are witnessing an […]
Picture of the Day: A Hand Above all Hands
Collected by Abdul Alim: The Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, told us: “When you find the Mahdi, perform bai’ah (pledge of allegiance) at his hand. […]
Pope urges dialogue with Islam
Source: Reuters, by Philip Pullella. (Reuters) – Pope Francis urged the West on Friday to intensify dialogue with Islam and appealed to the world to do more to combat poverty and protect the environment. Speaking in Italian, the new pontiff said richer countries should fight what he called “the spiritual […]
China to create home-grown operating system
Source: BBC China is working with software firm Canonical on an open-source operating system customised for Chinese users. The collaboration will produce a version of Canonical’s Ubuntu operating system called Kylin which will be released in April. The deal is part of a five-year plan by China to get more people using […]
Islamic Prescription for Racial Discrimination (1)
By Wael Hamza Friday, 22 March 2013 00:00 {I am better than him: You created me from fire and You created him from clay} (Saad 38: 76) This was an infamous racist statement made by Satan, or the Devil, in his arrogance and disobedience to Allah. The story of Satan […]
Obama meets Jordan’s King Abdullah II – Syria conflict figures in talks between the two leaders as thousands of refugees continue to pour into Jordan.
Barack Obama, the US president, has arrived in Jordan on the last leg of his three-day Middle East trip after making symbolic visits to Israeli Holocaust memorial and Church of […]
Israeli PM apologizes to Turkey over Gaza flotilla deaths, agrees to compensation (why now?)
In their first phone conversation since 2010, the Israeli PM has apologized to Turkish PM Erdogan for deaths in the Gaza flotilla raid, Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said. Israel also agreed […]
Barack Obama visits Jordan amid red faces at King Abdullah’s comments
King Abdullah II, shaken by events of Arab spring, reportedly made series of indiscreet remarks about other leaders guardian.co.uk, Friday 22 March 2013 Barack Obama flies to Jordan on Friday […]
Obama heads to Jordan after symbolic visit to Herzl grave
Jerusalem (CNN) — President Barack Obama paid tribute to the father of modern Zionism on Friday in a symbolic visit to Theodor Herzl’s grave before ending his trip to Israel by departing for neighboring Jordan for talks with King Abdullah II. Joined by Israeli President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Benjamin […]
British-Asian billionaires double in past year
London: Britain’s Asian entrepreneurs have defied the recession with some becoming billionaires from millionaires, according to a latest report on some of the country’s richest businessmen. The ‘Eastern Eye Asian Rich List 2013’ found that the number of billionaires in the annual list more than doubled to seven, up from […]
The Virus of Anti-Semitism Has Infected the British Muslim Community
Source: Huff Post, by Mehdi Hasan. I can’t keep count of the number of Muslims I have come across – from close friends and relatives to perfect strangers – for whom weird and wacky anti-Semitic conspiracy theories are the default explanation for a range of national and international events. Who […]
Pope urges dialogue with Muslims and atheists
Express Tribune: VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis on Friday called for the Roman Catholic Church to “intensify” its dialogue with Islam and with non-believers, condemning the “spiritual poverty” of the “rich countries” […]
Video-Urdu: Imam Mehdi and Pakistani Ulema’s Views: Ghamdi, Qadri, Israr and Naik
Youtube: by Proudtobahmadi- Published on Mar 14, 2013 SKYPE ID mahmoodahmadi2 For any questions about contents of this video, please feel free to contact, Javed Ahmad Ghamidi, Tahir UL Qadri, followers of Dr. Israr or Amir […]
Bekasi church bulldozed over permit issue
The Jakarta Post: After years of struggle to obtain a building permit for their house of worship, the congregation of the Batak Protestant Church (HKBP) in Taman Sari, Setu district in Bekasi regency, watched the local administration demolish their unfinished church building. “It’s over. The church building was demolished at […]