Chennai: Well-known Indian actress Monica has decided to revert to Islam, don Islamic headscarf and quit the film industry, Times of India reported. “I have not convert for the reason of love or money, am not such a person. I like Islamic principles. This is why I have converted to […]
SYDNEY – A new eye-opening documentary film that shows the true nature of Islam has been approved to be shown to high school students in South Australia, in a step […]
Indonesian authorities said on Friday they were testing products made by British confectioner Cadbury to check they complied with Islamic standards after two chocolate varieties in neighbouring Malaysia were found to be contaminated with pork DNA. The scandal over the ingredient banned under Islamic dietary laws has sparked outrage among […]
Online petition requesting day off for Eid and Diwali has 119,000 signatures Under rules topic has to be debated in parliament once it reaches 100,000 Would be first non-Christian religious holidays to be marked Has angered nationalists who complain St George’s day is ignored An online petition urging politicians to […]
Telegraph: Israeli tourists murdered in an attack on a Jewish museum in Brussels could have been targeted for their intelligence work, an Israeli newspaper has claimed. An Israeli couple who were gunned down outside a Jewish museum in Brussels could have been killed because of their work with the government, an Israeli […]
Telegraph: Islamic groups angry at Cadbury Malaysia after two batches found to contain pork DNA. Muslim groups have declared jihad on Cadbury after two of its products sold in predominately Islamic Malaysia were found to contain traces of pork. The discovery was made during a periodic check for non-halal ingredients […]
A three-year spell of exceptionally high temperatures has weakened the ice stream. Daily Telegraph: The last edge of the Greenland ice sheet that had resisted global warming has now become unstable, adding billions of tonnes of melt water to rising seas. In a study published in the journal Nature Climate […]
Daily Telegraph: The combined wealth of the UK’s top five billionaires and their families is more than £28.1 billion, an Oxfam report says. The country’s five richest families are wealthier than the poorest 20 per cent of the population, a leading charity has revealed. 28.1 billion of the 12.6 million people […]
CNN: By Randi Kaye and Chelsea J. Carter — One woman is under water and without oxygen for 30 minutes after a kayaking accident. Another has end-stage cancer. A teenage boy suffers heart failure. On the brink of death, all three tell stories of leaving their bodies, going to heaven and […]
Huff Post: by Meredith Bennett-Smith — Just in time for the holiday season, an anti-religion organization is planning on erecting dozens of atheists billboards in an effort to let fellow non-believers know they’re “not alone.” The Greater Sacramento Chapter of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) has paid for 55 different […]
theguardian — Our panel discusses whether a secular society merely separates church and state, or if secularism has a wider remit Will Self: ‘I think of it as the separation of church(es) from the state’ I suspect it doesn’t mean anything particularly original to me: I simply think of it […]
ABC News: by Justine Toh — Such a world may set the stage for remarkable feats of human endeavour but it endlessly frustrates the inevitable questions of human existence (how are we here? why are we here? why does anything exist at all?) that the silence of space can only […]
Huff Post: by Bruce Reyes-Chow — If you are like me, every once in a while an email arrives in your inbox from someone who is stuck in London or the Philippines because they were mugged and had their wallet stolen. Well, I didn’t get mugged and instead of “stolen” […]
Clare’s Law, aimed at protecting women from violent abuse by their partners, will be rolled out across the country. A pilot scheme to protect women from violent partners, known as Clare’s Law, is to be rolled out nationwide. Theresa May, the UK Home Secretary, is expected to announce the […]
Daily Telegraph: Almost half of Britons think Romanians and Bulgarians should have no right to live and work in the UK as the Telegraph reveals the Home Office has failed to reject a single request from British employers to hire Bulgarian immigrants since 2007. Almost half of Britons think Romanians […]
Huff Post: by Erol Yayboke — Every year millions of Muslims from around the world participate in the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Despite being a fundamental pillar of Islam, the Hajj is often misunderstood, especially by those wary of increased religion-tinged violence in recent years. The July 7 bombers of the London public […]
Huff Post — Comedian Sarah Silverman may have a rabbi for a sister, but she takes great delight in skewering religion in her stand-up routines. However, she alsoappreciates some aspects of it. She told HuffPost Live: I am Godless, but I’m fascinated by religion. I think there is a lot of […]
By Humanity First Canada Team — On Friday, November 8, 2013, Typhoon Haiyan devastated a large path through the middle of the Philippines. By Monday, November 11, 2013, Humanity First initiated an international response. The team started the initial assessment and relief operations in cooperation and coordination with other NGOs […]
By Brain Wilson — The HF teams members working in the disaster hit areas; HF Canada – Mr. Brian Wilson, Mr. Hassan Naeem, Mr. Ataul Wahid HF Indonesia – Mr.Fakih Ahmad, Mr. Doni Sutriana, Mr. Arif Rahman Hakim HF Philippines – Mr. Abdul Wahhab Salvatierra November 20, 2013 Installation of […]
By Brian Wilson (Humanity First Canada) — Monday, Nov 19, 2013 Humanity First (HF) teams from Canada, Indonesia and Philippines, conducted assessments in conjunction with the Canadian Armed Forces of […]