The British officer’s advise (to ISI)
Waseem Altaf The fact that Hamid Mir received six bullets on his body is no more an issue. That Hayatullah, Musa Khankhel and Saleem Shahzad were brutally murdered was […]
French schoolboys wear skirts to fight sexism
France24. The “Lift the Skirt” initiative, an idea put together by students, saw pupils at 27 schools in the region around Nantes invited to attend school wearing skirts as part […]
The Last Supper: A Fiction Opposing the Account of Garden of Gethsemane
Epigraph: Then whoso does an atom’s weight of good will see it, and whoso does an atom’s weight of evil will also see it. (Al Quran 99:8-9) By Zia H […]
American Rabbis Welcome Pope Francis To Israel
The Huffington Post | by Yasmine Hafiz Ahead of Pope Francis’ arrival in the Holy Land on May 24, over 450 American rabbis have signed a letter of welcome as he […]
Imran Khan should Demonstrate Political Maturity
By Saeed Qureshi Imran Khan and his unruly and impulsive political cohorts should not demonstrate indecent haste in dislodging the incumbent elected PMLN government thus opening a corridor for the army to take over power. He should understand that by doing so he would inflict a deadly blow to democracy […]
UK: Traditional University lectures ‘being consigned to history’
Telegraph: Traditional university lectures are being consigned to history because students are accessing professors’ notes online without turning up in person, research suggests. Undergraduates are skipping almost 10 per cent of teaching time – more than an hour every week – despite a sharp rise in tuition fees, it emerged. […]
UK:Prince Charles ‘Hitler’ row ‘risks triggering international scandal’
Telegraph. Prince Charles’ comparison of Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler risks an ‘international scandal’ a Russian newspaper warns. Nick Clegg has defended the Prince of Wales over his comparison of Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler, saying the heir to the throne is ‘entitled to his views’ despite warnings from a […]
Christian and Minority Rights Must be Top of the Muslim World’s Agenda
Source: gmablog.org | Usman Khan Respect and tolerance are attributes charged with the potential to unite people and to establish meaningful peace; yet minorities in Muslim majority countries, particularly Christians, are all […]
Boko Haram and Muhammad bin Qasim enslaving non-Muslims
Tarek Fatah, The Toronto Sun “We Muslims are caught in a conundrum. If the Arab general bin Qasim is our hero for enslaving non-Muslim women in India in the eighth century, how could Boko Haram be judged wrong for doing exactly the same in Nigeria today?” May 20, 2014 Muslims […]
eDigest: Is Richard Dawkins leading people to Jesus or Muhammad?
Epigraph: And most of them follow nothing but conjecture. Surely, conjecture avails nothing against truth. Indeed, Allah is well aware of what they do. And this Qur’an is not such […]
50 Actual Facts That Challenge What You’ve Been Told About Muslims
Source: PolicyMic By Laila Alawa: Laila Alawa is a Muslim feminist, writer and cultural critic who has been published at The Huffington Post, The Guardian, Patheos, The Islamic Monthly, and serves […]
Humanity First steps in to help flood affected people in Balkan Region.
By Zubair Khan MUCH of Serbia, Bosnia and eastern Croatia are under water. Flood maps marking the affected areas make it look as though a vast inland sea has suddenly appeared across the region. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated. In Serbia some 300,000 do not have access […]
China bans Microsoft Windows 8 on government computers
Source: BBC China has banned the use of Microsoft’s latest operating system on government computers. Beijing issued the restriction as part of a decree about the use of energy-saving products. […]
‘Over My Dead Body
Source: The Daily Best: In 2012, the Obama administration reached a secret, surprising conclusion: Al Qaeda was no longer a direct threat to America. That assessment was in keeping with the message coming from the White House as President Obama rode to reelection in 2012. However, reports Eli Lake, the […]
Bear pulls cub to safety from busy highway
Tornado hunter Ricky Forbes was driving in Kootenay National Park in British Columbia when he noticed a cub stranded on a busy road dangerously close to traffic as its concerned […]
Religion and the First World War: From Godlessness to Ruthlessness?
From Economic Issues May 6, 2014 – 8:43am AS the anniversary of the first world war draws closer, we will be hearing more and more arguments about the causes, both […]
Russia’s Putin signs 30 year gas deal with China
Source: BBC Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has signed multi-billion dollar, 30-year gas deal with China. The deal between Russia’s Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) has been 10 years […]
Bangladeshi, Egyptian Islamists Facing Doom, Pakistani Islamists Bloom
VoA: Two populous Muslim nations, geographically far apart, did one thing in common, perhaps coincidently, and it was to rein in Islamic groups recently. General Abdel Fatah el-Sisi took on the powerful Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the government of Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Haseena banned the Jamate Islami party […]
The beginning or end of the state of Pakistan?
Instead of grappling with insurgents as a separate stakeholder, their inclusion in the system and then subsequently in primary institutions is likely to infect these power centres in a dreadful way “A great civilisation is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within” — Will Durant. Much has […]
Prof. Richard Dawkins interviewed by a Muslim, for Al-Jazeera
Incidentally, the Ahmadiyya Muslim understanding of Meeraje of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, may peace be on him, is an elaborate spiritual experience and they do not define it in physical […]