Year: 2013

Blasphemous content:

Source: ET ISLAMABAD: The ministry of information technology was upbeat about lifting the ban on video sharing website YouTube after having finally acquired the ‘missing’ filters to block blasphemous content within days but it seems that the matter will consume more time. On August 22, State Minister for Information Technology Anusha […]

Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack in Syria

August 31, 2013 Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack by Dale Gavlak and Yahya Abaneh http://original.antiwar.com/Dale-Gavlak/2013/08/30/syrians-in-ghouta-claim-saudi-supplied-rebels-behind-chemical-attack/. GHOUTA, Syria – As the machinery for a U.S.-led military intervention in Syria gathers pace following last week’s chemical weapons attack, the U.S. and its allies may be targeting the wrong culprit. Interviews with people […]

Al-Jahiz: A Pioneer in Theory of Evolution

Suggested reading For Darwin Day, 6 facts about the evolution debate Islam’s evolutionary legacy ڈارون سے ہزار برس قبل نظریۂ ارتقا پیش کرنے والا مسلمان مفکر کون تھا؟ From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia al-Jāḥiẓ (Arabic: الجاحظ‎) (full name Abū ʿUthman ʿAmr ibn Baḥr al-Kinānī al-Baṣrī أبو عثمان عمرو بن بحر الكناني البصري) (born in Basra, 781 – December 868/January […]

Syria: History teaches us that limited Western intervention can only Inflame and do nothing for Peace

PATRICK COCKBURN Sunday 1 September 2013 The discredited justifications that preceded the invasion of Iraq still dominate British and American perception of military intervention in Syria. In a similar way in the 1930s, popular revulsion at the lies and exaggerations of First World War propaganda meant that the first accounts […]