Source: The Economist: INDIA is so crammed with colourful “godmen”, quacks hawking dodgy medicines and palmists to trace your fate, it is easy to miss the mild-mannered rationalists in the scrum. Extreme followers of Kali, the goddess of power, occasionally still leave a decapitated human sacrifice at one of her […]
Source: The Economist. “YOU see: the more persecution, the more the church grows,” said Pastor Samuel Lamb in 1993. Before he was jailed for 20 years in 1958, fewer than 400 worshippers attended his underground church, Damazhan. When he returned to his pulpit, the congregation grew to 900. It swelled […]
Dawn: NEW YORK: Pakistan’s new government should urgently address serious human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said today in a letter to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif outlining “10 Steps to Improve Human Rights.” The abuses include attacks on religious minorities, disappearances in Balochistan, and impunity for abusive militant groups. In May […]
Global Post: Following reports of a large-scale chemical weapons strike, pressure is mounting on the United States and its Western allies to act to halt the violence in Syria. But, with politicians and public […]
Russia Today: Despite President Obama cautioning against intervention in Syria, the Pentagon is making “initial preparations” for a cruise missile attack on Syrian government forces, according to a new report. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey is expected to present options for such a strike at a White House meeting […]
Source: NY Times: Our genes may have a more elevated moral sense than our minds do, according to a new study of the genetic effects of happiness. They can, it seems, reward us with healthy gene activity when we’re unselfish — and chastise us, at a microscopic level, when we […]
Source: NY Times: If the U.S. goes in and attacks another country without a U.N. mandate and without clear evidence that can be presented, then there are questions in terms of whether international law supports it, do we have the coalition to make it work?” Mr. Obama said on Friday […]
Source: Dawn.Com ABOARD A US MILITARY AIRCRAFT: The Pentagon is moving forces into place in case President Barack Obama opts for military action against Syria, US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel suggested Friday. Amid calls for military intervention after the Syrian regime carried out an alleged chemical weapons attack this week, […]
Source: ET On Friday, rival members confronted each other before an intermittent exchange of fire ensued. The firing killed three people on the spot, while two more died as they were being shifted to the hospital. Another died while under treatment at the hospital. More:
by Scott Capper, swissinfo.ch August 23, 2013 – 16:13 An alleged chemical bombing outside the Syrian capital Damascus, with potentially hundreds of civilian victims, has left the international community horrified. […]
Source: The World via Wasim Sr. A group of young boys wearing tight, crocheted caps rock back and forth as they recite verses from the Quran. Their voices–some loud, some hushed–resound through the domed mosque in a cacophony of swirling melodies.Recent reports have pointed to Pakistan’s Islamic, religious schools like […]
Source: RT via Wasim Sr. A non-Arab state, like Turkey, can’t rule the Arab World, Egypt’s interim foreign minister, Nabil Fahmy, told RT Arabic in an exclusive interview, calling Ankara’s ambitions to restore the Ottoman Empire groundless due to failed relations with neighbors. Egypt’s interim government has only nine months […]
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND: FOUZIA KHAN Published — Saturday 24 August 2013 A four-day international Islamic conference focusing on the de-radicalization of Muslim youths concluded this week with a vow against extremism. […]
MADINAH: ARAB NEWS Published — Saturday 24 August 2013 The General Presidency for the Affairs of the Prophet’s Mosque has organized an exhibition on the mosque’s history and expansion works […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Published — Saturday 24 August 2013 The Grand Mufti Abdulaziz Al-Asheikh has stressed the need to adhere to the teachings of the Qur’an and Sunnah to unify […]
By davidswanson – Posted on 20 August 2013 By Inder Comar SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., (Aug. 20, 2013) — In court papers filed today (PDF), the United States Department of Justice requested that George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and Paul Wolfowitz be granted procedural immunity […]
Report By: Abu Bakar Thitenge The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of the Democratic Republic of Congo organized the reception this Saturday (August 17, 2013) at 14:00 hours in the Botanical Garden […]
by Raj Baddhan 23rd August 2013 11:31 bizAsia @RajBaddhan raj@bizasialive.com UK broadcaster Takbeer TV has been fined £25,000 for airing material that subjected members of the Ahmadi community and their beliefs to abusive treatment in June/July last year. The channel, which targets the Sunni Muslim community in the UK and […]
By C. J. CHIVERS Published: August 22, 2013 Matthew Schrier was helpless. An American photographer held in a rebel-controlled prison in the Syrian city of Aleppo, he and a fellow […]
From Neha Sharma, for CNN updated 9:42 AM EDT, Fri August 23, 2013 New Delhi (CNN) — Police have arrested one man and identified others in the alleged gang rape of a 23-year-old female photographer in the Indian financial hub of Mumbai, police said Friday. The incident is the latest shocking report […]