Find Peace Now: Advice from a Medieval Muslim Saint
Source: Huffington Post By Rose Deighton; PhD Student in Islamic Studies at Emory University, Writer, Contemplative The world we live in is fast and whirling. We run for work and […]
جعلی عاشقانِ رسول
تحریر:انعام الحق فروری میں میں نے ممتاز قادری کی پھانسی پر عوام کے ردِ عمل کو دیکھتے ہوئے ایک تحریر لکھی جس کا عنوان تھا ’’قادری کے جنت میں جانے […]
China may be an atheist state, but it’s regulating Buddhist reincarnation
Source: Los Angeles Times In China, it’s not easy to become a “living Buddha.” First come the years of meditation and discipline. Then comes the bureaucracy. “The highest level of […]
Officials from China’s Xinjiang region say extremism waning
Source: Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Communist Party officials in China’s far western Xinjiang region say religious extremism is waning, but the government plans to step up border controls with […]
Donald Trump’s Nightmare Voter: Muslim and Latino!
Source: The Daily Beast By Dean Obeidallah Think Muslims would have it hard under Trump? Latinos? Try being both. Yep, they do exist. And they’re pretty nervous. Think your life […]
NY: Padma Lakshmi lifts the lid on her marriage to Salman Rushdie
By Harriet Alexander, New York 5:52PM GMT 06 Mar 2016 Memoir: Love, Loss and What We Ate Sir Salman Rushdie needed consoling every year he did not win the Nobel Prize for literature, and their marriage was marred by jealousy and insecurity, according to an explosive autobiography by his former wife Padma […]
Feds deal double blow to FLDS, the sect led by the Jeffs brothers
By Ann O’Neill, CNN Salt Lake City (CNN) These are dark days for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the reclusive polygamous sect led by imprisoned prophet […]
Where people were sent to disappear
Source: BBC Panama’s Isla Coiba bears all the hallmarks of a perfect desert island: gin-clear water, powdery white sand, a fringe of palm trees against a backdrop of dense, unexplored […]
The world’s smallest kingdom
Source: BBC Just south of Sardinia’s world-famous Costa Smeralda, the lonely island of Tavolara rises wildly from the cerulean sea like a jagged mountain. There are no roads or hotels, […]
Today is International Women’s Day and We have the Most Extensive Coverage on Women Rights
Epigraph: And We have enjoined on man to be good to his parents. His mother bears him with pain, and brings him forth with pain. And the bearing of him […]
How do you say @ in other languages
Source: BBC Talking about the “at” sign is much more interesting if you’re not speaking English. The Wikipedia entry for @ lists names for it in over 50 other languages, […]
Why does walking through doorways make us forget
Source: BBC We’ve all done it. Run upstairs to get your keys, but forget that it is them you’re looking for once you get to the bedroom. Open the fridge […]
Fasting Diets Are Gaining Acceptance
Source: The New York Times Mark Mattson, a neuroscientist at theNational Institute on Aging in Maryland, has not had breakfast in 35 years. Most days he practices a form of […]
San Jose: Dozens show up at event to learn what the Holy Quran does say
By Julia Baum JBaum@community-newspapers.com POSTED: 02/17/2016 Members of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Silicon Valley last week held an exhibition on the Holy Quran and other Islamic readings in an effort to unite and educate others. Dozens of neighbors turned up at the three-hour event on Feb. 12 at the Pearl […]
Greek newspaper distributes the Holy Quran
Epigraph: “As often as we approach the Quran, it always proves repulsive anew; gradually, however, it attracts, it astonishes, and, in the end forces admiration.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Source: […]
Switzerland: Hardline asylum plan stirs up suburban idyll
LOCAL DEMOCRACY MAR 2, 2016 – Lieli and Oberwil are part of a village outside Zurich. It has attracted many affluent residents but the local council is not keen on accommodating asylum seekers (Ester Unterfinger/swissinfo.ch) The town hall assembly of Oberwil-Lieli last November might go down in the history of […]
Unmistakable signs of fascism
RAMZY BAROUD Published — WWW.ARABNEWS.COM Last update 8 March 2016 Regardless of the outcome of the American presidential primaries, or even the result of the general elections next November, a frightening phenomenon is underway. The US has decidedly moved to the right, in fact the ultra-right; class differences are […]
Militants attack Tunisian forces near Libyan border, 53 killed
By Reuters – Mar 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Tunisian special forces take position during clashes with militants in the southern town of Ben Guerdan, near the Libyan border, on Monday (AFP photo) TUNIS — Dozens of militants stormed through the Tunisian town of Ben Guerdan near the Libyan […]
Of migrants and rights
Mar 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (UN CESCR) has started discussing the scope of socio-economic rights that migrants could be entitled to in hosting countries. It also determined that “migrants”, as distinguished from “migrant workers”, is the correct term to […]
‘Jordan committed to defending Jerusalem, peacemaking’
By JT – Mar 07,2016 -JORDAN TIMES HRH Prince Hassan attends the 5th Extraordinary Islamic Summit on Palestine and Jerusalem in Jakarta, on Monday (Petra photo) AMMAN — Deputising for His Majesty King Abdullah, HRH Prince Hassan attended the 5th Extraordinary Islamic Summit on Palestine and Jerusalem, which […]