The Reason for the Season — and It’s Not Jesus
Source / Courtesy: The Huffington Post By Kirsten West Savali Growing up in an African Methodist Episcopal household as a child (A.M.E. shout out to Richard Allen!), the annual Christmas […]
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A Q Farhat
A Retired Asst Professor of Pediatrics currently working in Canada.
Pictures: Merry Christmas in Bethlehem
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Tens of thousands of tourists and Christian pilgrims packed the West Bank town of Bethlehem for Christmas Eve celebrations Saturday, bringing warm holiday cheer to […]
Indonesia girl back with family after 2004 tsunami
Banda Aceh, Indonesia • A girl who was swept away in the Indian Ocean tsunami seven years ago said Friday she broke down in tears this week after tracking down […]
The most striking videos of 2011
INDONESIA: Members of a Muslim group lynched by extremists In February, members of the Ahmadiyya community – an Islamic movement considered a sect by Islamic traditionalists – became victims of an extremely violent lynching, as police looked on helplessly. Our Observer received footage of this barbaric act from one of […]
Mistletoe Extract as Cancer Therapy
By Dr. Mitchell Gaynor Founder and President, Gaynor Integrative Oncology Asst. Clinical Professor of Medicine, Weill-Cornell Medical College Cancer is a scary diagnosis. There’s no doubt about that. Treatment is […]
Free Christmas trees for Jerusalem Christians
JERUSALEM, Israel — Israeli authorities are bringing Christmas cheer to the Holy Land. Again this year, the Jewish National Fund distributed Christmas trees to local churches, monasteries, convents, embassies, foreign […]
Is it rational to believe in God?
Jakarta Post The world’s most famous physicist Prof. Stephen Hawking has declared that God does not exist. Hawking joins the opinion of several other world-class scientists like Richard Dawkins, Peter Atkins, James Watson, Victor Stenger and many others who deny the existence of God in the name of the latest […]
IN PICTURES / Jews around the world celebrate Hanukkah
Celebrations of the Festival of Lights take place at various locations throughout the world, including the Champs-Elysees in Paris, Trafalgar Square in London and the Ellipse outside the White House […]
Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism
Book of the Year: Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism A sea-change is happening in the world of autism. Just a few years ago, the loudest voices in media coverage of […]
Top 10 health stories of 2011
Top 10 health stories of 2011: food chemicals, vitamin D and brain waves • EEG shows awareness in some vegetative patients. Canadian researchers discover that the brains of patients in […]
Indonesian Women Awarded for Community Contributions
Yes, They Can: Traditionally, the only roles available to women in Indonesia were “masak, macak dan manak” (cooking, dressing up and bearing children). But today, this is far from the […]
What happens when a Gazan wants to marry a West Bank woman?
Did you know that Israel allows Gaza residents to enter the West Bank to attend their relatives’ weddings but not to get betrothed themselves? By Amira Hass Did you know that Israel allows Gaza residents to enter the West Bank to attend their relatives’ weddings but not to get betrothed […]
Violation of Religious lands
Grave matters: Israel violates Muslim religious lands Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denounced the recent rash of desecration and vandalism of mosques and Muslim cemeteries. But the destruction of […]
Bleak prospects for Ahmadis
Panca Nugraha, The Jakarta Post, Mataram A community of Ahmadis living in a village in West Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, are still fearing for their future both as workers and […]
Why is Indonesia growing so slowly
Indonesia battles religious intolerance From Mr David J. Critchley. Sir, Why, asks David Pilling, is Indonesia growing so slowly (“Just two cheers for a sputtering Indonesian dream”, December 15)? One […]
Persecution of Ahmadis in the Islamic Republic
By Yasser Latif Hamdani esq. The basic premise on which we won ourselves Pakistan was that a permanent majority cannot and should not dominate a permanent minority on account of numeric strength. Yet contrary to that founding logic, Pakistan is today legally a totalitarian fundamentalist theocracy A fresh round of […]
Muslims to form ‘i-mosque’ network
The Jakarta Post JAKARTA: The Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals Association (ICMI) says it wants to develop a digital “i-mosque” network to expand the role of the nation’s mosques. “It is an effort to build an Islamic civilization,” ICMI chairman Ilham Akbar Habibie said on Thursday as quoted by as quoted by […]
Catholic shrine vandalized in Surakarta
Catholic shrine vandalized in Surakarta, priests call for calm The Jakarta Post, Surakarta, Central Java The Sendang Pawitra Sinar Surya Catholic shrine in Tawangmangu, Surakarta, Central Java, was vandalized by […]
Map of Muslim Countries that the U.S. and Israel Have Bombed
Source / Courtesy: Loonwatch.com Pro-Israel propagandist Jeffrey Goldberg made an inadvertent but profound admission the other day when he said: “[T]he U.S. have been waging a three-decade war for domination […]
Rabwah Times Publisher Receiving Death Threats!
RABWAH, PAKISTAN — Publisher of the Pakistani-based Rabwah Times, a small online news publication founded in 2008 to highlight the plight the Islamic sect of Ahmadiyya, is today reporting its […]