Epigraph: Every human life is sacred and precious and killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Derived from Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: BBC San Bernardino shooting: Police kill two suspects […]
LINDA S. HEARD Published — Wednesday 2 December 2015 The self-assigned capital of Daesh, Raqqa, is being pounded from the air, forcing fighters to send their families across the border to Mosul for safety. For the West, the Paris attacks have been a game changer. Now that Daesh commanders have […]
Dec 01,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMZY BAROUD Israeli commentators Yaron Friedman, of Ynet News, and Haviv Rettig Gur, of The Times of Israel, are clueless about the driving force behind the Palestinian mobilisation and collective struggle. In two recent articles, and with unmistakable conceit, they attempted to highlight what they […]
Dec 02,2015 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN –– His Majesty King Abdullah said that current events taking place in the Middle East will shape the security and stability of Europe and the world for decades to come. In an article the King wrote for The Daily Telegraph newspaper of the UK […]
Source: Huffington Post By Craig Considine; Sociologist, Speaker, Writer Donald Trump recently told the world that he would absolutely use torture if he were the next President of the U.S. […]
Voices Is David Cameron planning to include al-Qaeda’s Jabhat al-Nusra in his group of ‘70,000 moderates?’ If he was, Nusra men are likely to prove very expensive ‘ground troops’ for the RAF and its two Tornados if they bomb Syria Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent @indyvoices 14 comments The former wife […]
The curious case of the dancing Muslims Gulf News Tariq Al Maeena, Special to Gulf News,ThinkerMaybe what the insufferable and by now exceedingly tiresome Donald Trump had in mind was Erle Stanley Gardner, author of the Perry Mason detective series, when he recently evoked the case of the dancing […]
Source: Huffington Post By Rose Deighton; PhD Student in Islamic Studies, Writer, Contemplative If you grew up in rural Ontario, you would probably agree that cultural diversity wasn’t a […]
Source: Time Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy Tuesday following the handling and release of a controversial video showing a white Chicago officer shooting a black 17-year-old 16 times. “Now’s the time for fresh eyes and new leadership,” Emanuel said at a press conference Tuesday, saying he […]
Source: Time Sixty years after Rosa Parks refused to stand up on a Montgomery bus for a white man, Hillary Clinton travelled to Alabama Tuesday to call for an end […]
Source: CNN If you want super-fast Wi-Fi in your home, you may want to turn off your Christmas lights. Britain’s communications regulator Ofcom has published a report showing that about […]
tribune.com.pk By AFP / Web Desk Published: December 1, 2015 BERLIN: A German court Tuesday sentenced a Pakistan-born couple to life in jail for the “honour killing” of their 19-year-old daughter, who had had sex before marriage. The 52-year-old father was found guilty of strangling the teenager to death, and the 41-year-old mother was […]
PARIS, FRANCE: Police shut a mosque east of Paris and arrested the owner of a revolver found in related raids on Wednesday as part of a crackdown called after the November 13 attacks on the capital, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said. He told journalists that authorities had closed another two mosques […]
Southern India hit by floods after heaviest rainfall in more than a century Rescue operation in place as floods shut factories, paralyse air travel and force thousands to flee homes in Tamil Nadu. theguardian.com A family is rescued from a flooded residential area following heavy rains in Chennai. Photograph: Xinhua/Landov/Barcroft […]
Europe’s oldest person celebrates 116th birthday in Italy Emma Morano, the second oldest person in the world, puts longevity down to leaving a violent husband and eating three eggs a day – two of them raw http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/30/europes-oldest-person-emma-morano-116th-birthday-italy Emma Morano looks at an old portrait of herself at her apartment in […]
To dispel myths about Hijab, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (AMJ) has launched a nationwide campaign titled “Je Suis Hijabi”, or “I Am Hijabi”. It is to remove the misconceptions that […]
Reliable sources indicate Ahmadiyya Muslim Missionary of Srai Alamgir near Jhelum was overpowered by few anti Ahmadiyya fanatics and were wounded by blades on his whole body. Details still emerging.
By Adrija Bose Huff Post: NEW DELHI–In a sharp attack, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor blamed the government for the ‘rising intolerance in the country’ on Tuesday. Addressing the Lok Sabha, […]
Source: The New York Times CHARLESTON, S.C. — The man she had married professed to be deeply religious. But after more than seven years with Robert L. Dear Jr., Barbara […]
Source: BBC Scientists say they have fine tuned a gene editing method to make it safer and more accurate – vital if it is to be used in humans to […]