The United Nations has announced plans to relocate some 80,000 displaced Somalis living in the war-torn capital Mogadishu, Press TV reports. According to the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), an estimated 200,000 to 360,000 people who fled the country’s famine, are currently living in more than 500 overcrowded camps. In […]
Reports from Syria say Wahhabi extremists have desecrated the grave of an ancient Muslim figure near the capital, Damascus. The militants have reportedly attacked the mausoleum and exhumed the grave […]
Source: China Daily SHENYANG – A robot industrial base with an estimated annual output of 50 billion yuan (8 billion U.S. dollars) will be established in northeast China’s Liaoning Province, […]
Source/Credit: Germantown Islam Examiner By Shahina Bashir The news of the Tsarnaev brothers have left the front pages but the question, ‘Why did they do this?’ hasn’t left our minds. […]
Source: CNN Money By Emily Jane Fox The Walt Disney Company has stopped production of branded merchandise in Bangladesh, in response to the spate of fatal factory accidents last fall. The company sent a letter in March to vendors and licensees to transition production out of the “highest-risk countries,” like […]
Epigraph: “And when My servants ask thee (Muhammad) about Me (Allah), say: ‘I am near. I answer the prayer of the supplicant when he prays to Me. So they should […]
The Republic of Prejudice “A whopping 86.6 per cent reject the idea of voting for a party that promotes a secterian agenda … 45.7 per cent reply they would vote […]
Source: www.economist.com The authorities think that too many people are claiming to be the Mahdi EARLIER this year Iran’s authorities arrested a score of men who, in separate incidents, claimed to be the Mahdi, a sacred figure of Shia Islam, who was “hidden” by God just over a millennium ago and […]
Smallest Cat Mr Peebles may look like a kitten, but he is actually 2-year-old. The tiny cat got its size from a genetic defect that stunts growth. At just 6.1-inch (15.5 cm) high and 19.2-inch (49 cm) long, he currently holds certification from The Guinness Book of World Records as the worlds smallest […]
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Business Insider: Dylan Lovan. Sharon Rengers, a longtime child advocate at Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville, said making and marketing weapons specifically for children was “mind-boggling.” “It’s like, oh, my God,” she said, “we’re having a big national debate whether we want to check somebody’s background, but we’re going to […]
The Telegraph: The Vatican will become home to two Popes today for the first time in the history of the Roman Catholic Church when Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI moves back […]
Standpointmag: As Friday prayers end thousands of believers stream out of the mosque. Keen-eyed men with Pashtun cheekbones hover by a convoy of cars, many of them wearing the traditional […]
Source: The Express Tribune ET: Once again, the Ahmadi community is being harassed by radical clerics. On April 29, theGulshan-e-Ravi police in Lahore arrested seven members of the Ahmadi community without filing an FIR against them when around 300 people protested in front of an Ahmadi place of worship. With mounting pressure […]
Bill O’Reilly Confronts Muslim Guest Over Why Many Muslims Believe Violence Is Justified by Josh Feldman Bill O’Reilly brought up a Pew study [PDF] finding that a disturbingly high percentage of Muslims in some […]
Source: Indian News Line via Wasim Sr Lahore/Islamabad: After battling for life for more than six days following a brutal assault by fellow inmates inside Pakistan’s Kot Lakhpat Jail, Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh died in a Lahore hospital on Thursday. His body has been shifted to the mortuary […]
Reports of the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons are part of a retold drama riddled with plot-holes ROBERT FISK SUNDAY 28 APRIL 2013 Is there any way of escaping […]
April 30, 2013 – 13:50 Switzerland is still not a priority target for jihadists according to the Federal Intelligence Service (FIS), although it cannot rule out that these organisations could […]
ALEPPO, Syria — The gash on Abu Ahmed’s face has almost healed but the troubling memory of Syrian rebels thrashing him with rifle butts evokes fear of another looming war: […]