Epigraph:
There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by those who transgress, and believes in Allah, has surely grasped a strong handle which knows no breaking. And Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (Al Quran 2:257)
Congresswoman Jackie Speier
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U.S. Congresswoman Jackie Speier: Blasphemy Laws and Discrimination in Pakistan Must Go
Epigraph: There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by those who transgress, and believes in Allah, has…
Qur’an lesson for today: If you are kept back, then make whatever offering is easily available
135. If you are kept back, then make whatever offering is easily available [2:197] And complete the Hajj and the ‘Umrah for the sake of Allah: but if you are…
Damning reports will show state schools in Birmingham are imposing Islamic practices
Teachers are to be sent on training programmes to help them stop extremism entering the classroom, as damning reports show that some state schools have been imposing Islamic practices and…
Syria bomber was Florida-born, raised in middle-class family
TORY SUMMARY The man believed to be the first American suicide bomber in Syria was born in Florida and loved to play basketball. The family of Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha, 22,…
Robert Fisk: Alaa al-Aswany, Egypt’s greatest living novelist, knows Sisi is not a true democrat – but is still hopeful that he can ‘do good’ “I think we must give the Sisi government a chance. People are terrorised”
The private Garden City Club: a broiling Cairo night, lots of dust outside, but the same scuffed old floorboards and art deco interior with photos of British oarsmen on the…
Robert Fisk on Sisi poll: All hail the Egyptian Emperor – but what about that missing 7%?
NINETY-THREE PER CENT! Let me write that again: 93 per cent! Or 93.3 per cent if you want to be precise. This superb, stunning, incredible – quite literally, one might…
Pope Francis And Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Announce United Gathering In 2025
The Huffington Post | By Yasmine Hafiz Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Barthlomew I prayed together in Jerusalem at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in a beautiful act of unity. Now, they’re…
11 Bizarre Church Laws That Could Send You To Jail
The Huffington Post | By Yasmine Hafiz Some states take their religious services very seriously. Breaking these laws could send you straight from the chapel to the cooler for something as…
How to Get Girls Into Coding
The NewYork Times: by Nitahsa Tiku — So what if, instead of trying to guess at what might get girls interested in technology, we looked at what’s already on their…
Can Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif Deliver?
By Saeed Qureshi The good neighborly relationship between India and Pakistan could not be brought about for seven decades. Can Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif resume the peace process initiated…
eDigest: Fatwa Against Honor Killings Declared By Pakistan Ulema Council Of Muslim Leaders
Epigraph: On account of this, We prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land…
eDigest: Northern Ireland’s first minister called on to apologise publicly to Muslims
Epigraph: Allah likes not the uttering of unseemly speech in public, except on the part of one who is being wronged. Indeed, Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (Al Quran 4:149) …
Tamil actress Monica reverts to Islam, quits film industry
Chennai: Well-known Indian actress Monica has decided to revert to Islam, don Islamic headscarf and quit the film industry, Times of India reported. “I have not convert for the reason…
A vigilante state & society
Dawn: DO you judge a society by how it treats its mighty or its vulnerable? What do you call a state that serves the powerful and not the weak? What…
A Real National Front: The French Far Right Aims High
By Stefan Simons in Paris spiegel.de After its triumph in European elections on Sunday, the French far-right Front National is hoping to increase its power back home, with Marine Le…
Australia Documentary Defends Islam
SYDNEY – A new eye-opening documentary film that shows the true nature of Islam has been approved to be shown to high school students in South Australia, in a step…
Indonesia testing Cadbury products after pork traces
Indonesian authorities said on Friday they were testing products made by British confectioner Cadbury to check they complied with Islamic standards after two chocolate varieties in neighbouring Malaysia were found…
Britain may soon have Muslim bank holidays: Parliament petition urges MPs to consider having a day off during Hindu and Islam festivals
Online petition requesting day off for Eid and Diwali has 119,000 signatures Under rules topic has to be debated in parliament once it reaches 100,000 Would be first non-Christian religious…
Pakistani immigrant convicted of wife’s murder in New York
Noor Hussain, 75 allegedly murdered his wife 66, because she cooked him lentils rather than goat. Tribune.com.pk By AFP ,Published: May 30, 2014 http://tribune.com.pk/story/715295/pakistani-immigrant-convicted-of-wifes-murder-in-new-york/ The Pakistani woman was allegedly murdered…
Scientists catalogue most of proteins human bodies need to function
Scientists catalogue most of proteins human bodies need to function A decade after human genome mapped, protein map, or proteome, is next step in understanding complexity of human genetics. The…
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