Epigraph:
“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.” – President Theodore Franklin D. Roosevelt
China plans to oust Microsoft, Apple and Android with own software
Source: Guardian UK China is planning its own desktop and mobile software to oust imported rivals from Microsoft, Apple and Google. The unnamed desktop version is due for release in…
Jewish centre reopens in Mumbai
Dawn: MUMBAI: A Jewish centre in Mumbai reopened on Tuesday, nearly six years after heavily armed militants stormed the building and killed six people inside during the 2008 attacks on…
Ottawa Man John Maquire likely joined ISIS
Extremist named John Maguire: Ottawa student likely joined ISIS after converting to Islam and moving to Syria National Post Toronto Stewart Bell | August 25, 2014 11:00 PM ET More from…
CEASE-FIRE EXTENDED BUT NOT HAMAS TERMS: THE NEW YORK TIMES
Cease-Fire Extended, but Not on Hamas’s Terms By JODI RUDORENAUG. 26, 2014 Photo A Hamas militant fired a rifle into the air in celebration on Tuesday in Gaza City after…
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL (AIPAC): NEW YORKER
Friends of Israel The lobbying group AIPAC has consistently fought the Obama Administration on policy. Is it now losing influence? BY CONNIE BRUCK 2014_09_01 TABLE OF CONTENTS » For AIPAC,…
U.S. readies duties on Mexican sugar in win for sugar lobby
(Reuters) – The United States is set to slap import duties as high as 17 percent on Mexican sugar in a victory for the powerful U.S. sugar industry but a…
French President names new cabinet in ‘last chance’ reshuffle.
By RFI French President Francois Hollande named a new cabinet on Tuesday after an open row led to the removal of top dissident voices against austerity cuts. The first government of…
Manal al-Sharif: A Saudi woman who dared to drive
A 15 minute video from Ted Talks…
Palestinian joy as Israel agrees Gaza truce – Hamas and Israel agree long-term deal which will ease Israeli blockade of enclave after talks brokered by Egypt.
The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, said on Tuesday from the occupied West Bank that a formula had been accepted by all parties and that a ceasefire had gone into effect…
Second Amendment, Ahmedis and Democracy
Pak Tea House: Raza Habib Raja Frankly I would like to say at the onset that I think the Second Amendment which declared Ahmedis as non Muslims is one of the…
Pakistan’s prime minister meets army chief amid crisis
(Reuters) – Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met the country’s powerful army chief on Tuesday as a political deadlock over mass protests to demand the government’s resignation showed no signs…
The Day The Top NY Times Columnist Threatened to “Get Me” For Criticizing Israel
mjrosenberg.net: The sensational piece about AIPAC in this week’s New Yorker (by my friend Connie Bruck) reminds me of the first time I saw the true face of AIPAC in all its…
UK: James Foley murder: Ahmadi youth members speak out on radicalisation of British Muslims
Source: m.yourlocalguardian.co.uk As the hunt for the allegedly British murderer of US photojournalist James Foley continues, Muslims from the Ahmadiyya community in Morden have spoken out about combatting radicalisation in the UK. Fears…
UK: Keighley Ahmadiyya Youth children raise cash for Manorlands at Morrisons Supermarket
Source: thetelegraphandargus.co.uk by Miran Rahman A GROUP of youngsters raised £250 for Manorlands by taking part in a weekend collection at a Keighley supermarket. The five children aged five to 11 were supervised by…
eDigest: Is this Mormon Lady an Apostate?
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…
Manal al-Sharif: A Saudi woman who dared to drive
Additional Reading Gender Equality in the Holy Qur’an – In the Beginning Man and Woman Were Equal…
The Unprotected: A Gaza Family Destroyed by Israeli Bombs
By Julia Amalia Heyer and Juliane von Mittelstaedt SPIEGEL.DE Zaki Wahdan is looking for a head. Or a body. The remains of eight people that have to be here. The…
The Growth Mindset
A short video…
Iraq and Syria Follow Lebanon’s Precedent
By George Friedman GEOPOLITICAL WEEKLY, STRATFOR Lebanon was created out of the Sykes-Picot Agreement. This agreement between Britain and France reshaped the collapsed Ottoman Empire south of Turkey into the…
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