BBC News: by Catherine Wynne – In 1996, a black teenager protected a white man from an angry mob who thought he supported the racist Ku Klux Klan. It was an act of extraordinary courage and kindness – and is still inspiring people today. Keshia Thomas was 18 when the […]
Time World: by Sophie Brown – “Don’t read so much, you’ll become sterile!” Saudi Arabia is the only country where women are not allowed to drive. On Saturday, dozens of Saudi women took to their cars in defiance of the de facto driving ban and postedvideos of their protest online. While […]
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Cairo court Judges, who presided over the trial of Muslim Brotherhood leaders, step down for reason of conscience. The judges presiding over the trial of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood leaders have […]
Cairo court Judges, who presided over the trial of Muslim Brotherhood leaders, step down for reason of conscience. The judges presiding over the trial of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood leaders have […]
Various political powers are shirking responsibility – including the British Government by EMANUEL STOAKES THE INDEPENDENT In recent days, Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, having just been awarded a […]
by Robert Fisk, THE INDEPENDENT A pan-European digital library has collected 500,000 mementos The French embassy in Beirut held a gloomy ceremony last week to mark the killing of its 58 paratroopers in a suicide truck bombing 30 years ago. An Islamic Jihad bomb. For which, I suppose, read Iran. […]
Source: vibeghana.com TI Ahmadiyya Senior High School (SHS) won this year’s Project Citizen competition which was organized for the five Senior High Schools in the Wa Municipality for students to showcase their understanding of social problems and present plans for their resolution. The Wa Senior High Technical High School came second […]
Muslim Sunrise Publishes a Volume about Angels of God Editorial Belief in angels is one of the six articles of faith prescribed for every Muslim. The Holy Qur’an mentions angels, […]
On a recent Thursday, dozens of Latina immigrants clustered in a small, noisy second-floor office in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens, waiting for one of a half-dozen loan officers to call their names and hand over a check. Children loitered in the stairwell or sprawled, calflike, over their mothers’ […]
Salon.com: In a Monday opinion piece for the New York Daily News, Caitlin Flanagan repeated the oft-repeated (and repeated, and repeated, and repeated) idea that our culture is dangerously silent when it comes to policing young women’s behavior. Specifically, Flanagan believes we are failing female college students — who are “living away from home […]
Global Post: AHMEDABAD, India — For any world-class politician, an articulate, telegenic or otherwise appealing spouse is an obvious asset. Think Carla Bruni, Peng Liyuan or even Hillary Clinton. But the man who many believe will become India’s prime minister after the May 2014 elections has an unusual relationship with his wife. They are […]
Her Campus: by Allie Sutherland – While many of us are privileged enough to go to college, barriers to girls’ education throughout the world show us that we shouldn’t take school for granted. That’s why the United Nations created the International Day of the Girl: to promote the rights of […]
Press release PM to unveil plans for new Islamic index on London Stock Exchange Organisation: Prime Minister’s Office, 10 Downing Street Page history: Published 29 October 2013 Policy: Increasing the […]
Source: MINN Post via Wasim Sr: By Jean MacKenzie | 10/28/13 The long-running sham of US-Pakistani relations enjoyed yet another farcical episode last week. In the wake of a report by an international rights group showing the failures and dangers of Washington’s drone program, Islamabad takes its alleged ally to task, warning of dire […]
Time: Romano Prodi, the former Italian Prime Minister, first felt the reach of U.S. surveillance about 10 years ago, soon after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when he […]
Editorial Belief in angels is one of the six articles of faith prescribed for every Muslim. The Holy Qur’an mentions angels, some by name, their functions and their being in service of […]
Huff Post — Last month, Denmark was crowned the happiest country in the world. “The top countries generally rank higher in all six of the key factors identified in the World Happiness Report,” wrote University of British Columbia economics professor John Helliwell, one of the report’s contributing authors. “Together, these six factors […]
Huff Post — Last month, Denmark was crowned the happiest country in the world. “The top countries generally rank higher in all six of the key factors identified in the World Happiness Report,” wrote University of British Columbia economics professor John Helliwell, one of the report’s contributing authors. “Together, these six factors […]