VEIL INITIATIVE : Ticino to vote on burka ban
by Gerhard Lob in Bellinzona, swissinfo.ch August 12, 2013 – 11:00 On September 22, Ticino will become the first Swiss canton to hold a referendum on banning face-covering headgear in […]
Standoff in Islamabad ends, gunman captured
Source: Dawn. Com Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Zamurd Khan was instrumental in helping to capture the gunman when he jumped at him and tried to take away his weapon. Earlier on the armed man opened fire in the heavily policed heart of Islamabad after slipping past the capital’s many […]
THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE JUST BEFORE THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD JUMPS YOU
As the recent death toll in Egypt surpasses 500, news of Muslim Brotherhood supporters being slaughtered in Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square has been an especially tragic manifestation of the powder-keg that […]
Obama golfs, Kerry lectures, Egyptians die in droves
By Jennifer Rubin, Published: August 15, 2013 Put it this way: President Obama’s Egypt policy is about as effective as his Syria policy. And for the first time Wednesday, with […]
Sri Lanka told to prosecute mobs who attacked mosque
COLOMBO: The US Embassy urged Sri Lankan authorities on Sunday to arrest and prosecute those responsible for vandalizing a mosque in the national capital. An Agence France Presse (AFP) report […]
Robert Fisk: Bloodbath marks the day when democracy drew its dying breath
15 AUGUST 2013 The Egyptian crucible has broken. The “unity” of Egypt has melted amid the massacres of yesterday’s suppression of the Muslim Brotherhood. A hundred dead – 200, 300 […]
Robert Fisk: Any other ‘statesman’ who negotiated peace like John Kerry would be treated as a thief Kerry isn’t on their side. He’s going all out for ‘peace’ on Israeli government terms
Has John Kerry no shame? First he cuddles up to both Palestinians and Israelis and announces the renewal of a “peace process” which the Palestinians don’t trust and the Israelis […]
SR300bn Makkah projects to expand pilgrim services
JEDDAH: P. K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS STAFF New projects worth more than SR300 billion are being implemented in Makkah to improve services being rendered to millions of pilgrims […]
Obama condemns Egypt bloodshed
Source: BBC US President Barack Obama has strongly condemned the violence in Egypt, and cancelled joint military exercises. He said co-operation could not continue while civilians were being killed. Egypt’s […]
Stop distorting Jinnah’s words
Source: ET It is a sad statement about Pakistan that 67 years after its founding, our education system and public culture continue to distort key ideas enunciated by Mohammad Ali Jinnah to govern the country. To make matters worse, even his words end up being mutilated. In his landmark speech […]
Genetic map of cancer reveals trails of mutation that lead to disease
Souce: The Guargian Genetic map of cancer reveals trails of mutation that lead to disease Map shows how 20 patterns of mutation drive 30 cancer types, pointing the way to prevention and treatment strategies Researchers at the Sanger Institute explain how they identified the patterns of mutation underlying cancer The […]
China will overtake US as world’s No 1 consumer: study
By Zhang Yuwei Source: China Daily Even with the ongoing slowdown of China’s economic growth, the world’s No 2 economy is expected to overtake the US to become the world’s […]
AI urges Bangladesh to restore indigenous people’s land rights
The Amnesty International has urged the Bangladesh government to restore land rights of the indigenous people in the country, said a blog post of Live Wire, the … See all stories on this topic » http://www.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/bangladesh-must-restore-land-rights-of-indigenous-people-says-ai/
Licence to kill?
Dawn.com: by Zubeida Mustafa. Jinnah, it seems, did not envisage Pakistan as a state exclusively for Muslims — especially those of a particular sect. Had he done so he would have been trapped in a futile debate on semantics. Admittedly, he spoke of following Islamic principles, though in a broad […]
Islam and Christianity share a common monotheistic vision: a belief in one divine God: Speech by Prince of Wales
islamicenter.org: ISLAM AND THE WEST Speech by HRH The Prince of Wales, at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford on the occasion of his visit to the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies: […]
The Ahmadis are one of the worst sufferers!
Source: Dawn.Com The Ahmadis are one of the worst sufferers as horrors are being visited on them.Qasim Rashid, a 31-year old Pakistani-American who migrated to the US when he was five, returned home to explore his roots and learn more about the status of his community, the Ahmadis, in the […]
Breaking News: Death Toll in Egypt Violence Climbs to 525, Health Ministry Says
Source: NY Times: The death toll from Egypt’s bloody crackdown on supporters of the deposed president, Mohamed Morsi, soared beyond 500 across the land on Thursday with over 3,700 people injured, the Health Ministry said, in a further sign of the extent and the ferocity of Wednesday’s scorched-earth assault by […]
Massive Church Destruction in Egypt
cbn news: What do Muslim Brotherhood members do when Egyptian Security Forces launch a forewarned operation to clear them from Cairo tent cities? Attack Christians. That’s right. Morsi supporters responded with a monumental attack–unprecedented in modern times–on churches throughout Egypt. The torching and destruction of churches occured within six hours […]
Cairo massacre: After today, what Muslim will ever trust the ballot box again?
Source: The Independent: The Egyptian crucible has broken. The “unity” of Egypt – that all-embracing, patriotic, essential glue that has bound the nation together since the overthrow of the monarchy in 1952 and the rule of Nasser – has melted amid the massacres, gun battles and fury of yesterday’s suppression […]
Fox News guest: Keith Ellison’s transactional tax could be ‘Sharia creep’
Fox News guest: Keith Ellison’s transactional tax could be ‘Sharia creep’ Posted by The Right Scoop Fox News guest Jonathan Hoenig suggested today that Keith Ellison’s ‘Wall Street transactions tax’ idea could be seen as ‘Sharia creep’ given that Ellison is a practicing Muslim and that, as Hoenig says, Sharia law […]