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 Stewart Bell | @StewartBellNP AP Photo/Raqqa Media CenterThis undated image posted by the Raqqa Media Center, a Syrian opposition […]
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 the long-term cease-fire was announced. Credit Roberto Schmidt/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Continue reading the main storyShare This Page EMAIL […]
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, it is crucial to appeal across the political spectrum. But Israel has become an increasingly divisive issue with the public. […]
(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 blow to U.S. candy and soft drink makers who face paying more for the sweetener. Mexican producers urged a deal […]
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 Valls, which was appointed less than five months ago, dissolved on Monday after former economy minister Arnaud Montebourg made strong […]
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 at 1600 GMT. He hailed the agreement as a chance to “build a new nation and end the occupation”, before […]
Source: Pak Tea House By Raza Habib Raja: The author is a PhD student at Maxwell School, Syracuse University and can be contacted at rhr53@cornell.edu Frankly I would like to say at […]
(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 of resolution. Pakistan has been gripped by peaceful anti-government protests demanding Sharif’s resignation this month, with thousands of demonstrators camped outside […]
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 ugliness. It’s a horror story. It was in 1988 and I was a foreign policy aide to Sen. Carl Levin […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) Temple […]
Additional Reading Gender Equality in the Holy Qur’an – In the Beginning Man and Woman Were Equal
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 […]
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 states we know today — Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, and to some extent the Arabian Peninsula as well. For nearly […]
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 […]
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 […]
Relation between God, His Messengers & Man ~OR~ The Creator & His creation: God says: [17:71] Indeed, We have honoured the children of Adam, and carried them by land and sea, and given them of good things and exalted them far above many of those whom We have created. Now, […]