Bowe Bergdahl’s father practices Islam because…he has a beard and speaks a foreign language. Yes, Fox News’s has some real super sleuths. Bill O’Reilly isn’t just an awe-inspiring successful television host, he’s also “The Muslim Hunter.” His Islamadar is so strong he can instantly tell if a person is a […]
Bowe Bergdahl’s father practices Islam because…he has a beard and speaks a foreign language. Yes, Fox News’s has some real super sleuths. Bill O’Reilly isn’t just an awe-inspiring successful television host, he’s also “The Muslim Hunter.” His Islamadar is so strong he can instantly tell if a person is a […]
By Nabila Pathan | Special to Al Arabiya News Friday, 6 June 2014 British Muslim TV, a new channel aimed at British Muslims will be launching in the UK this June. Its arrival joins an already growing number of specialized, niche channels for religious and ethnic minorities in recent years. […]
STORY SUMMARY For all the serious flaws in Syria’s election, it underscored the considerable support that President Bashar Assad still enjoys from the population, including many in the majority Sunni Muslim community. Syria’s conflict is often portrayed through one of its many prisms — that of a sectarian struggle, in […]
STORY SUMMARY For all the serious flaws in Syria’s election, it underscored the considerable support that President Bashar Assad still enjoys from the population, including many in the majority Sunni Muslim community. Syria’s conflict is often portrayed through one of its many prisms — that of a sectarian struggle, in […]
TAJ AHMAD Published — Friday 6 June 2014 Protecting consumers from malpractices of traders and commercial organizations is an important responsibility of any state. Qur’an and Hadith laid down the basic structure of consumer protection some 1,400 years ago which are as valid today as they were during the golden […]
AIJAZ ZAKA SYED Published — Friday 6 June 2014 PALESTINE. That’s the word that comes to mind to describe the eventful life and times of Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi. Born in 1944 in Nablus at the height of the Palestinian displacement or Nakba (catastrophe) as they call it, like many […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — Anniversaries are useful moments to pause and reflect. For the 70th anniversary of D-Day and subsequent campaign in northern France, it is also an opportunity to look at the past in detail and ask how much of what we think we know is true and how […]
Source: TOI One person was killed and three injured in a shooting at a Seattle college campus on Thursday, a hospital spokeswoman said. LOS ANGELES: One person was killed and three injured in a shooting at a Seattle college campus on Thursday, a hospital spokeswoman said. Those injured, including one […]
Source: TOI Swords and sticks were openly used as scores of men from both sides chased each other outside the Akal Takht building inside the complex, which is home to the holiest of Sikh shrines — ‘Harmandar Sahib’. Many people could be seen running for cover to save themselves. […]
Source: ET The rights — or rather the lack of them — of the small but diverse groups of religious minorities in Pakistan has once again come to the attention of the Supreme Court (SC). On June 4, the apex court inquired whether provincial and federal authorities were formulating any […]
The Connecticut Mirror: by Josiah H. Brown — Pope Francis – following his recent trip to the Holy Land – expects June 8 to welcome Israeli president Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas to a Vatican prayer meeting. Separately, like-minded action is afoot in our state. On June […]
Legalbrief Today — Three independent UN human rights experts have urged Pakistan to adopt urgent legislation to put an end to faith-based killings and protect the country’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community, whose faith is currently outlawed, the Jurist states. The call follows a resurgence of violent attacks in Pakistan targeting Ahmadiyya Muslims, which have […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Yasmine Hafiz, who is the former Associate Editor of The Huffington Post’s Religion section and is currently an MSc. candidate at the London School of […]
Source: 680 News Thousands gathered Wednesday at the Vaughan funeral of a Canadian doctor gunned down in Pakistan late last month. The service for cardiologist Mehdi Ali Qamar, 51, was […]
Source: CBC News A Canadian cardiologist shot dead in Pakistan was remembered Wednesday as a selfless humanitarian who was “murdered because of his faith,” with mourners making impassioned calls for Ottawa to better pressure the South Asian country on religious freedoms. READ MORE
Source: CBC News A Canadian cardiologist shot dead in Pakistan was remembered Wednesday as a selfless humanitarian who was “murdered because of his faith,” with mourners making impassioned calls for Ottawa to better pressure the South Asian country on religious freedoms. READ MORE
Source: National Post Mehdi Ali Qamar was a member of an outlawed religious minority VAUGHAN, Ont. — Mehdi Ali Qamar’s father was a farmer in an area of Pakistan so rural, there was no doctor. So he decided to do it himself. “He took diplomas and learned some herbal remedies […]
by Alexander Smith NBC NEWS Grim reports that nearly 800 dead babies were discovered in the septic tank of a home run by nuns has set off a round of soul-searching in Ireland and sparked calls for accountability from government and Catholic Church officials. Fresh research suggests that some 796 […]
Source: The Gulf News: New Delhi: A lawmaker from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party has described rape as a social crime, saying “sometimes it’s right, sometimes it’s wrong”, in the latest controversial remarks by an Indian politician about rape. The political leaders of Uttar Pradesh, the state where […]
