Far-right Dutch Politician Finds Islam
OnIslam & News Agencies Tuesday, 05 March 2013 00:00 “I have all faith in Allah to support me and to guide me through these moments,” Doorn said. AMSTERDAM – A […]
Private sector adds 198,000 jobs in February: ADP
(Reuters) – U.S. private employers added a larger-than-expected 198,000 jobs in February, bolstering hopes that hiring across the economy is improving, a report by a payrolls processor showed on Wednesday. Economists surveyed by Reuters had forecast the ADP National Employment Report would show a gain of 170,000 jobs. January’s private […]
UK: Poor car-owning households spend more than a quarter of income on motoring
Nearly a million households are spending more than a quarter of their income running a car, research has found. The RAC Foundation has used data from ONS, the Government’s statistical […]
UK: Food watchdog to ask shoppers how much horse is ‘acceptable’
The Government’s food watchdog will ask UK consumers how much horse or other species of animal would be “acceptable” to find in their food products. In the wake of the […]
Mother Teresa Humanitarian Image A ‘Myth,’ New Study Says
Source:HUFF POST: A new study by Canadian academics says Mother Teresa was a product of hype who housed the poor and sick in shoddy conditions, despite her access to a fortune. The Times of India, reporting on the controversial essay, wrote that the authors asserted Mother Teresa saw beauty in […]
A Cordial invitation to Sir David Attenborough to be a Theist
Epigraph Blessed is He in Whose hand is the kingdom, and He has power over all things;Who has created death and life that He might try you — which of […]
Video: After Ahmadiyya Muslims, Shia Muslims in Indonesia Also Face Violence
Human Rights Watch: A short video on rising violence against minorities in Indonesia. Published on Feb 27, 2013 (Jakarta, February 28, 2013) — The Indonesian government is failing to protect the country’s religious minorities from growing religious intolerance and violence, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. President […]
As NATO pulls out of Afghanistan it might leave Central Asia in a mess
Source: The Economist: FOR all that the United States, at the head of a NATO coalition, intends to disentangle itself from its war in Afghanistan by the end of next year, Afghanistan itself will not be at peace. Nor will some of its neighbours. To the east, Pakistan last year […]
Ghana Must Go
Source: All Africa. Com Estranged from his children, pining for his ex-wife, and atypically barefoot in the dream home he designed himself, Kweku Sai, the prodigal surgeon pride of Ghana, dies of a heart attack. This happens in the first tightly coiled sentence of Taiye Selasi’s debut novel Ghana Must […]
Hugo Chávez
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈuɣo rafaˈel ˈtʃaβes ˈfɾi.as]; 28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was the President of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013. He was formerly the leader of the Fifth Republic Movement political party from its foundation in 1997 until 2007, when he became the leader […]
The State’s Role in Pakistan’s Ethnic Violence
Source: Huff Post via Wasim Sroya Violence against minority groups has become a staple of life in Pakistan these days – a crisis that country’s government has been complicit in impelling. The most recent attacks against Shias, the minority Muslim group in the country of 180 million, occurred Sunday evening […]
“Dirty Dozens” group blacklists 12 cardinals for pope
Source: CNN Rome (CNN) — A group representing survivors of sexual abuse by priests on Wednesday named a “Dirty Dozen” list of cardinals it said would be the worst candidates for pope based on their handling of child sex abuse claims. Their presence on the list is based “on their […]
Venezuelans mourn President Hugo Chavez
Source: BBC Venezuela has announced seven days of mourning for Hugo Chavez, who has died aged 58, after 14 years as president. Hundreds of Mr Chavez’s supporters took to the […]
10 Memorable Hugo Chávez Moments
Source: Newyork Times: President Hugo Chávez was known for his grand overtures and bold attacks. A exceptionally gifted orator who relished media attention, he continually came up with show-stealing lines. Below are 10 of the many moments that made Mr. Chávez such a distinctive force in Venezuela and across the […]
A Tiny Village Where Women Chose to Be Single Mothers
Source: NY Times: LOI, Vietnam — They had no plan to break barriers or cause trouble. But 30 years ago in this bucolic village in northern Vietnam, the fierce determination of one group of women to become mothers upended centuries-old gender rules and may have helped open the door for […]
The ‘good Muslim’ and the ‘bad Muslim’ in the African Sahara
by Micah Roshan Reddy, Egypt Independent. Mungo Park, the famous 18th century Scottish explorer, had few good things to say about the Muslims he encountered on his journeys through the Sahara. He spoke of the Moors as “a people who study mischief as a science and exult in the miseries […]
German fake bishop infiltrates Vatican
Source: The Local: Berlin’s Roman Catholic Archdiocese has condemned a German charlatan for masquerading as a bishop and sneaking into the Vatican to fraternize with cardinals as they prepare to choose a new pope. More:
Pakistan plunged into election dilemma
Source: Asia Times: By Syed Fazl-e-Haider KARACHI – Violence continues unabated and tragically in Pakistan. As Shi’ites in Karachi buried their dead on Monday – a day after twin bombs killed 48 people in Abbas Town – gunmen in the Sohrab Goth area of the southern port city opened fire […]
An open letter to the preachy married friend all singles have
Source: ET Dear friend, Let me start by telling you I love you and I love our time together. All except your breathless speech about how to find a “good man”, “settle down”, “stop being an idealist”, and “stop evaluating too much”. I know you want me to get married […]