Germans overwhelmingly oppose making circumcision illegal
Russian TV: A poll shows that 70 percent of Germans oppose a new law that would effectively prohibit male circumcision in the country, according to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Only 24 […]
The Unequal State of America: a Reuters series
By KRISTINA COOKE, DAVID ROHDE AND RYAN MCNEILL INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, DECEMBER 20, 2012 The U.S. federal government spends hundreds of billions of dollars a year on aid to the poor. There isn’t enough to go around for Shaun Case. The 34-year-old Indiana native has learning disabilities and endured a childhood […]
Why Pakistan is not a failed state
Dawn Blog: byMichael Kugelman: It’s been about a week since the Connecticut school massacre, and Americans are still grieving. Yet we’re comforted by the thought that, with time, the bereaved community of Newtown will bounce back. Students will return to school, and victims’ families will somehow get on with their lives. […]
Patriotic Sierra Leoneans form an organization to support Ahmadiyya schools in Sierra Leone
Ahmadiyya in America By: SEM Contributor on December 20, 2012. Patriotic Sierra Leoneans in Maryland, USA, have formed an organization to support Ahmadiyya schools in Sierra Leone. The organization is called Zintabah USA and was founded three months ago by an international business magnate, Kalilu Fadika. In an interview Yesterday with Sierra […]
Time Person of the Year 2012 Runner-Up: Malala Yousafzai, the Fighter
Time: Ayesha Mir didn’t go to school on Tuesday, Nov. 27, the day after a security guard found a shrapnel-packed bomb under her family’s car. The 17-year-old Pakistani girl assumed, as did most people who learned about the bomb, that it was intended for her father, the television news presenter Hamid […]
Russian Nationalists attack plans to build more mosques in Moscow
Russian TV: Moscow city authorities are about to announce the allocation of plots of land for three new mosques in the city, but ethnic Russian nationalists have voiced their protests […]
Safeguarding the will of the people: Denying Pakistani Ahmadi Muslims Right to Vote: A Real Test for Fakhruddin Ibrahim?
Daily Times: by Mohammad Ahmad: If there are Muslims elected to the US Congress or the UK House of Commons, why cannot a Christian or a Hindu be elected to a general seat in our assemblies? Elections are a representation of the will of the people and form the basis […]
How Israel collected information about Pakistani nukes: document
Dawn: WASHINGTON: One of the major tasks of Jonathan Pollard, an Israeli spy in the United States, was to collect information about Pakistan’s nuclear programme, shows a document released this week. Between 1984 and 1985, Mr Pollard passed on to his Israeli handlers several sets of official US documents about […]
Tracing hate: –The Slippery Slope for Pakistan After 1953 Anti Ahmadiyya Riots
Dawn: Nadeem Paracha: It is believed that Pakistan’s descent into the quagmire of violence, partaken in the name of religion has its roots in 1974 when the otherwise ‘secular’ government […]
‘Jedi’ most popular alternative faith in UK – 4 Million leave Church-Census
Russian TV: ‘Jedi’ is now the most popular faith in the ‘Other Religions’ category in England and Wales. Those identifying with the Star Wars creed outnumber atheists, taking seventh place […]
World’s most dangerous religion: Atheists face worldwide persecution – report
Russian TV: From the Christian West to the Islamic Middle East, atheists face discrimination and persecution including execution, life in prison, the revocation of citizenship and the denial of education […]
UK Foreign Secretary confirms ‘evidence’ of Syrian chemical weapons
Global Post: Without providing details, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Saturday the UK and the US have evidence suggesting Bashar al Assad’s Syrian government is readying its chemical weapons. […]
7 of Top 10 ‘World’s Most Influential Muslims’ Are Islamists
counterjihadreport.com: by: Ryan Mauro The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre has released this year’s list of the 500 “world’s most influential Muslims” and of the top 10, seven are Islamists. The unfortunate reality […]
Ahmadi plight: Dead but not resting in peace
Express Tribune blogs: by Badarchaudry: Pakistan is the bastion of Islam, and Muslims in Pakistan the vanguards of the Islamic movement. They will shortly take over the world and govern it with Shariah laws. The only problem is for us to draw a consensus as to who really is a […]
Bleak time for Britain’s charities as donations drop
Daily Telegraph: As inflation hits our spending power, it isn’t just households that are suffering. Britain’s charities are finding that cash-strapped donors are less and less inclined to put their […]
Entire nations intercepted online, key turned to totalitarian rule: Assange
Russian TV: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says all the necessary physical infrastructure for absolute totalitarianism through the internet is ready. He told RT that the question now is whether the […]
U.S. Sees Gains by Sunnis as Chance to Curb Iran’s Power
NY Times: RAMALLAH, West Bank — For years, the United States and its Middle East allies were challenged by the rising might of the so-called Shiite crescent, a political and […]
Hijab first in British parliament
Express Tribune: LONDON: A 16-year-old girl is thought to have become the first person to speak from the House of Commons despatch box in the British parliament while wearing a hijab, The […]
Opposing Sharia Law Is a Defence of the Rights of Muslims
Huffington Post: by Anne Marie Waters: How can we be a multicultural society if we do not accommodate sharia law? That is one of the most common questions I am asked when travelling the UK as spokesperson of the anti-sharia ‘One Law for All’ campaign (www.onelawforall.org.uk). It accompanies ‘why are you […]
UN and MSF Foreign aid workers burned by Myanmar’s ethnic fires
BANGKOK, Thailand — Myanmar’s coastal Rakhine State is stricken with just the sort of mess certain international aid groups are designed to relieve. Roiling conflict between the region’s native Buddhists and a stateless Muslim ethnicity, the Rohingya, has brought on mob killings, torched villages, mass displacement and even bow-and-arrow wounds. […]