IRAQ: Military Skill and Terrorist Technique Fuel Success of ISIS
Military Skill and Terrorist Technique Fuel Success of ISIS By BEN HUBBARD and ERIC SCHMITTAUG. 27, 2014 NYTimes Continue reading the main story Video Play Video|2:10 The Man Who Drew the U.S. Back to Iraq A look at Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and […]
Scientists Take the Edge Off Bad Memories in Mice
Source: New York Times By PAM BELLUCK AUG. 27, 2014 Memories and the feelings associated with them are not set in stone. You may have happy memories about your family’s annual ski […]
He Has a Dream
Source: NY Times By Maureen Dowd WASHINGTON — As he has grown weary of Washington, Barack Obama has shed parts of his presidency, like drying petals falling off a rose. […]
Ottawa Man John Maquire likely joined ISIS
Extremist named John Maguire: Ottawa student likely joined ISIS after converting to Islam and moving to Syria National Post Toronto Stewart Bell | August 25, 2014 11:00 PM ET More from Stewart Bell | @StewartBellNP AP Photo/Raqqa Media CenterThis undated image posted by the Raqqa Media Center, a Syrian opposition […]
The Day The Top NY Times Columnist Threatened to “Get Me” For Criticizing Israel
mjrosenberg.net: The sensational piece about AIPAC in this week’s New Yorker (by my friend Connie Bruck) reminds me of the first time I saw the true face of AIPAC in all its ugliness. It’s a horror story. It was in 1988 and I was a foreign policy aide to Sen. Carl Levin […]
China plans to oust Microsoft, Apple and Android with own software
Source: Guardian UK China is planning its own desktop and mobile software to oust imported rivals from Microsoft, Apple and Google. The unnamed desktop version is due for release in […]
Is this Mormon Lady an Apostate?
Epigraph: There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by those who transgress, and believes in Allah, has […]
The World Needs the Ahmadiyya Muslim Caliph
Source: examiner.com The news of the beheading of American journalist James Foley is another outrageous addition to the list of atrocities ISIS has committed in the last few months. I am appalled by its behavior […]
Muslim Leaders Worldwide Condemn ISIS
Many Americans Want to Know Why Muslims Aren’t Condemning ISIS ABC News’ Laura Ingraham, Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Fox & Friends and other U.S. media commentators say that Muslims are silent and complicit in the barbarian crimes of ISIS. Fox News host Andrea Tantaros said that all Muslims are the […]
[Urdu Artcile] Naseehato’n ka Guldasta (23) by Imam Shamshad A. Nasir
Kindly click on the images to zoom them, jazkallah. Imam Shamshad A. Nasir Shamshad A. Nasir is imam & missionary-in-charge of the Baitul ul Jaam’e Mosque, Glen Ellyn Cell Phone: 909-636-8332 | Email: Shamshadanasir@gmail.com
Phoney indignation
Summary The Daily Star, Lebanon In fact, Washington had already taken firm action, by launching airstrikes in northern Iraq to stem military advances by ISIS that came uncomfortably close to the autonomous Kurdish region and U.S. interests there. The U.S. has acted in Syria and Iraq only when it believes […]
Isis’s undoubted skill in exploiting social media is no reason for US leaders to start talking about the apocalypse – Power without responsibility has provided al-Baghdadi and his men with their most
by Robert Fisk, The Independent We keep banging on about British citizens turning into Jihadists – that tired old public relations man Dave Cameron does this all the time, with his worn-out political correctness – and it’s almost impolite to say “Muslim British citizens”. But isn’t it time we said […]
When Faith and Facts Collide
Source: The Huffington Post By Dave Pruett, Former NASA researcher; Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, James Madison University Conflict between faith and science is as old as science itself. In 1543, Copernicus’s great work, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, laid the groundwork for a new model of the cosmos, with the […]
The Struggle of Muslim Women to Fit in
By Maliha Fatima Rahman Coming of Faith brings the voices of Muslim American women to the world through multidimensional storytelling and empowerment initiatives. This post was originally published on Coming of Faith. I was […]
But no return ticket : A Crazy Plan for Mars
Source: Spiegel. It might become the mother of all reality shows. Fully 704 candidates are soon to begin competing for a trip to Mars to establish a colony there. Broadcasting rights are to fund the mission, but a return ticket is not part of the deal. More:
Muslim Community Seeks to Spread Message of Peace
austin.twcnews.com: An empty room isn’t always bad thing. To the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, it’s a sign they’re part of Round Rock. “It’s gotten to that point now to where it’s like, ‘Oh, open house. We already know these guys,’” Usama Malik, the Round Rock mosque was barred from participating in a […]
Who is Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi? From Al-Zarqawi to Al-Bagdahdi: “The Islamic State” is a CIA-Mossad-MI6 “Intelligence Asset”
the following article first published ten years in June 2004 pertains to Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, the legendary leader and founder of Al Qaeda in Iraq. The name of this mysterious jihadist organization was later renamed the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) and in 2013 it became the Islamic State of […]
For Nuncio Accused of Abuse, Dominicans Want Justice at Home, Not Abroad
Source: The New York Times By LAURIE GOODSTEIN AUG. 23, 2014 SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — He was a familiar figure to the skinny shoeshine boys who work along the oceanfront promenade here. Wearing black track pants and a baseball cap pulled low over his balding head, they say, he would stroll […]
California earthquake strikes San Francisco Bay area
24 August 2014 Last updated at 07:53 ET Share this page bbc.co.uk California earthquake strikes San Francisco Bay area Continue reading the main story Related Stories How earthquakes happen The Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’ Earthquake rocks California coast An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 has shaken northern California, reports […]