Source: Toronto Star By:Lal Khan Malik Jon Blacker / REUTERS Prime Minister Stephen Harper with Lal Khan Malik, left, national president of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Canada, and Andrew Bennet, ambassador of the new Office of Religious Freedom. (Feb. 19, 2013) The word “empathy” is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as […]
Al Arabia: It has crossed my mind on several occasions during my lifetime that Haifa is the city I could one day live in. Diverse, lively and has a great […]
The Jerusalem Post: The need to categorize and critique each other is killing us all. Let us not fear difference, but embrace it. A Jewish kid from Kiryat Shmona, a […]
Source: Asia Times. By: Peter Van Buren United States’ troops first entered Baghdad a decade ago next month. From that inglorious point to the moment in December 2011 when the last American combat unit slipped out of Iraq in the dead of the night, the mission was madness. And still […]
Source: Dawan My family moved to Lahore in early 1970s. We rented the lower portion of a house in what was still called Kirshan Nagar, despite being renamed Islampura, probably […]
Source: CNN British Prime Minister David Cameron was very pleased with citizens of the Falkland Islands Tuesday. The day before, they said overwhelmingly that they want to remain a part of the family. Residents of the island off the coast of Argentina voted almost unanimously to remain a British Overseas […]
Source: CNN Members of the public waited in long lines Tuesday morning to join the Mass, which was open to all. As the service began, the morning’s brilliant sunshine came to an abrupt end, with the skies letting loose thunder, lightning and a torrential downpour. Applause echoed round St. Peter’s […]
Source: The Local: Public broadcaster NDR said on Tuesday that several extremists from Germany were fighting in cities such as Homs and Aleppo, which have seen some of the fiercest battles between rebels and troops loyal to the Assad regime. NDR’s investigative magazine Panorama said it had no exact figures, […]
Source. The Local: At least 100 vehicles were involved in a huge pile-up amid horrendous weather conditions in central Germany on Tuesday. Initial police information suggested dozens of people had been hurt, several seriously, on the A45 motorway north of Frankfurt. More:
Dr. Tahir Khan, a second year resident at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center has received the “President’s Call to Service Award” from President Barack Obama. This is the highest volunteer service award given by the President’s Council on National and Community Service. The award was presented to Dr. Khan by New […]
By BBC By Kevin ConnollyBBC Middle East correspondent As the US military fought their way into Baghdad 10 years ago, the life of one Iraqi girl was changed forever when […]
Huff Post: I don’t know much of the specific background of the anti-Christian rampage last week in Lahore. But is there anything I don’t know that would mitigate or excuse it? A major theme of my writing and public speaking is an insistence on distinguishing between what I call the […]
By Kevin Connolly BBC Middle East correspondent As the US military fought their way into Baghdad 10 years ago, the life of one Iraqi girl was changed forever when she […]
Huff Post: by Matthew Goodwin: Within British media and the Westminster Village, the recent release of the latest census data has sparked considerable debate. Much of this has focused on […]
An American-born Muslim man has finally returned to his family and job in the country of Qatar after being denied permission to travel by plane on multiple occasions by the […]
“And as to those who disbelieve, their deeds are like a mirage in a desert. The thirsty one thinks it to be water until, when he comes up to it, he finds it to be nothing. And he finds Allah near him, Who then fully pays him his account; and […]
(CNN) — From Masoud Popalzai A policeman sacrificed his life for the sake of others, embracing a suicide bomber in southeast Afghanistan on Saturday morning to dull the blast as […]
by Hussain Ibish, The Daily Beast English has by far the largest vocabulary of any language, but there are still times when we have to look beyond its confines to convey a particular meaning. There is a Spanish word, desengaño, which connotes a combination of disappointment, disenchantment, disillusionment and despair, […]
Last year’s massacre in Kandahar by a US soldier is far from forgotten. The families of the victims continue to demand justice and observers fear there could be an uprising. Samiullah cannot forget how the members of his family lay there in a pool of blood. The images continue to […]
By DANIEL J. WAKIN VATICAN CITY – It begins with prayers chanted in an ancient language and ends with a tiny figure on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica unveiled […]