Pakistani judges provoke laughter, with oddball questions for election candidates The Toronto Star, April 5, 2013 By: Sebastian Abbot The Associated Press, Published on Fri Apr 05 2013 ISLAMABAD—Aslam Khan Khattak passed his first — and perhaps most curious — test this week in his quest to become a member […]
Source: www.chinafile.com http://video.chinafile.com/players/s8YTlES9-ylyuUi5i.html China’s Hui Muslims are unique in many respects. The country’s second-largest ethnic minority share linguistic and cultural ties with the majority in China that have allowed them to […]
Source: www.jihadwatch.org How could this have happened in a peaceful, tolerant Muslim nation such as Bangladesh? Did they appoint Eric Posner, Sarah Chayes, or Nathan Lean (aka “Garibaldi“) as Internet czar? “Bangladesh arrests three atheist bloggers,” from AFP, April 2 (thanks to Lookmann): DHAKA: Bangladesh police have arrested three atheist bloggers for allegedly defaming Islam and […]
Source: www.messenger.com.ge The new government of Georgia offered President Mikheil Saakashvili to reface some parts of the Rabati fortress in Akhaltsitkhe. The complex is of a multicultural architecture, and includes a […]
Source: BBC There’s a thing about being alone and there’s a thing about being lonely, and they’re two different things. I was alone but I was not lonely. My background was as a fighter pilot in the airforce, then as a test pilot – and that was mostly in fighter […]
Source: BBC.COM The future of warfare is no longer about bullets and bombs, or dominating land, sea and air. Instead, tomorrow’s victors will dominate the ether. The voice of the foreign military commander is sinister and gloating. “On the anniversary of our nation’s most glorious sea victory, let us remember […]
Source: CNN Cairo, Egypt (CNN) — At least five people have been killed and five more injured after clashes between Christians and Muslims in Egypt’s Qalyubia province, a spokesman for Egypt’s health ministry said. The violence in the city of Khosous, north of Cairo, broke out after Coptic Christians drew […]
Business Insider: Grace Wyler. In a speech at the Women In The World summit Friday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton mentioned a startling fact: Women in the U.S. are living shorter lives than women in almost every other industrialized country. And worse yet, female mortality rates are actually rising in many parts of […]
by Sheila Musaji Pamela Geller published an article On Passover, Muslims Stone Jews at the holiest site in Judaism, the Temple Mount and she calls them “savages”. Her partner Robert […]
Source: www.examiner.co.uk [News of 2nd April, but not sure if posted earlier, so posting] A HUDDERSFIELD mosque has welcomed a visit from the Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire. Ingrid Roscoe, the […]
Each of Athens’s seven districts will have one to two mosques. Source: World Bulletin/News Desk The approval to build a mosque in the Greek capital of Athens has opened the […]
Source: http://www.leamingtoncourier.co.uk Members of the Leamington branch of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) are hoping to raise more than £240,000 for the Warwickshire Association for the Blind by taking part […]
Closed mosque: The al-Misbah mosque belonging to the Indonesia Ahmadiyah Congregation stands deserted after being sealed off by public order officers assisted by police officers and soldiers on early Friday. […]
The Jakarta Post: Around 50 Ahmadis in Bekasi, West Java, have sealed themselves in the Al-Misbah Mosque, which the municipal administration closed the day before in a crack down. The […]
Opposing Views, by Alison Lake. Some 20 percent of the world’s Muslim population lives in Africa, and nearly half of Africa’s population is Muslim. Islamic practice in Africa started over 1,400 years ago [W. African Islam, Ref. 4] with the arrival of Muslim conquerors in North Africa. They came from […]
Source: Daily Beast: As the spring weather warms and the snow melts off the high mountain passes separating Pakistan and Afghanistan, hundreds of Taliban fighters who spent the winter in Afghan refugee camps and other safe havens inside Pakistan are preparing to return to battle. But this year some insurgents […]
Source: The Economist: IN “TIME’S Arrow”, a novel by Martin Amis, the protagonist experiences time backwards. Eating involves regurgitating food into his mouth, sculpting the mush with his tongue, packaging it up and selling it to a grocery store. The passage on defecation is best left undescribed. Such a comic […]
After CBC News revealed that two terrorists involved in the attack on a gas plant in Algeria were from London (Ontario), Wael Haddara and Munir el-Kassem told the media that they were unknown to them and that terrorism cannot be linked with religion. From April 2011 to March 2012, while […]
Express Tribune: KARACHI: Tragedy struck an Ahmedi family in Nawabshah once again when the son was shot at by an unidentified man only a few years after his father was killed. The victim A*, who is a lawyer, was at his brother’s shop – taking a break from his morning […]