By Paul Kokoski Envy is at once a passion and one of the capital sins. As a passion it consists in a sort of deep sadness experienced in the sensitive part of our nature because of the good we see in others. This sensitive impression often produces a feeling of […]
Toronto Sun: TORONTO – Three liquor stores in the GTA recently sold booze to a 14-year-old boy whose identity was hidden because he was wearing a full-length burka and face veil at the time. The teenager, clad in an Islamic female’s traditional garb of a burka, headscarf and facial covering, […]
by Matthew Barakat, THE REPUBLIC, Columbus, Indiana ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A nearly five-year legal saga will conclude Thursday for Falls Church resident Jamal Abusamhadaneh when he takes the oath of citizenship at a federal courthouse, after a federal judge ruled that immigration authorities wrongly drew sinister conclusions about aspects of […]
WASHINGTON — The argument for the Federal Reserve to introduce another round of stimulus, and its reasons for hesitation, can both be summarized by a single number: 3.53 percent, the average interest rate last week on a 30-year mortgage. The cost of mortgages and other kinds of loans remain well […]
Global Post: US officials have slammed China’s human rights record, criticizing Beijing for continuing to quash dissent. “The overall situation of human rights in China continues to deteriorate,” Agence France-Presse […]
A call for Muslims and Christians that they can work together! Christians and Muslims have a lot more in common!
By MATT APUZZO and ADAM GOLDMAN HUFFINGTON POST NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — He saw something. He said something. And he inadvertently uncovered a secret spying operation that the New York […]
Source: National Post Author: Barbara Kay Not for the first time, I must take issue with my colleague Chris Selley’s occluded interpretation of why burka-haters get “pretty crazy about that issue,” as he says in his latest commentary, “Message in a bottle.” Selley was commenting on a stunt pulled by […]
George Friedman’s “The Next 100 Years; A Forecast for the 21st Century” Reviewed by Bill Marmon “Europe is extinct.” “China cannot survive a billion pissed off peasants.” “Turkey is a power.” “The U.S. will dominate the 21st Century.” These are a few of the audacious and often controversial predictions of […]
Source: New York Times Author: MATT FLEGENHEIMER Many riders tussle daily with the timeless question: local or express? But for the denizens of the N, R or Q trains, traveling […]
Source: Vegreville Observer – Along with my chaperones for the weekend of July 6-8 were other members of the AMYA executive team like Noman Khalid and Aleem Farooqi. Khalid was one of the members who visited Vegreville in the spring to provide information sessions about the Qur’an and the Mother […]
Source : NY Times. PHILADELPHIA — Msgr. William J. Lynn, the first Roman Catholic official in the United States to be convicted of covering up sexual abuses by priests under his supervision, was sentenced to three to six years in prison on Tuesday. “You knew full well what was right, […]
Source: CNN Author: Jeffrey Swanson (Professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University’s School of Medicine) A witness to the horrific shooting rampage in the Colorado movie theater called it “the longest minute” of his life. One can only imagine. But the second longest minute may be the waiting […]
Source: BBC US Roman Catholic Monsignor William Lynn has been sentenced to three to six years in jail for covering up a sex abuse complaint against a priest. Lynn supervised hundreds of priests in his role as secretary for clergy at the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Last month he became the […]
There is a frightening aspect to the present crises in Palestine and Syria: It seems to be a belief among ‘fundamental’ Christians that there must be a ‘Seven Year Tribulation […]
USA-AFGHANISTAN-HOSPITAL:U.S. commander accused of stalling Afghan hospital abuse probe Source: CNBC moneycontrol.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A top U.S. general in Afghanistan sought to stall an investigation into waste, abuse and mismanagement at a U.S.-funded hospital in Kabul for political reasons, a former U.S. military official will tell Congress on Tuesday. […]
By Charles C. Haynes Louisiana State Rep. Valarie Hodges used to be a big fan of school vouchers. “I liked the idea,” she explained, “of giving parents the option of sending […]
The Seattle Chapter of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA and the members of Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue will observe the Muslim fast of Ramadan and the Jewish fast of Tisha […]
Reception held day before Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad returned to London On 16 July 2012, a special reception in honour of the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, was held at the Paramount Banquet Centre in Woodbridge, Ontario. The event was hosted by the Premier […]
This week the British medical journal The Lancet published a new series of studies on the health consequences of physical inactivity. The figures are staggering. They show physical inactivity is responsible for as much as 10% of the “burden of disease” (years of life lost to mortality or disability) from […]