Pentagon encircles Iran: Victory would take 3 weeks
Russian TV: As the US beefs up its military presence in the Persian Gulf region, Pentagon strategists estimate that they would need less than a month to defeat Iranian forces […]
Russian TV: As the US beefs up its military presence in the Persian Gulf region, Pentagon strategists estimate that they would need less than a month to defeat Iranian forces […]
The Huffington Post: Waqar Hasan was a Pakistani Muslim immigrant who had come to New Jersey to live the American dream. Leaving his family in Milltown, NJ, he went to Dallas, TX, to open a grocery store. Four days after 9/11, a gunman came to his store and shot him […]
Credit: Asia >Times Barack Obama’s surprise visit to Kabul on Tuesday provides telling evidence that he has a game plan for Afghanistan going into and beyond his bid to be re-elected United States president. Everything in the strategy, including renewed traction for closer ties with neighboring countries, is built around […]
The Horn The Ahmadiyya Muslim Student Organization presented their interfaith dialogue Coexist: A Message of Peace throughout The University of Texas campus community on Sunday, April 29 in the SAC Black Box Theatre. Founded to spread awareness of Ahmadiyya Islam, the purpose of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Student Organization is to […]
Source: Huffingtonpost Jewish Americans hold more favorable views of Mormons and Muslims than those belonging to the “Christian Right,” according to a recently published survey on Jewish values. The findings were part of the “2012 Jewish Values Survey,” which was published on April 3 by the non-Jewish Public Religion Research […]
Source: BBC Abuse of prescription painkiller have reached “epidemic” levels in the US, a government report says. Overdoses of pain relievers cause more deaths than heroin and cocaine combined, the report has found. It says sales and prescriptions of the drugs have risen sharply in recent years and this was […]
(Reuters) – In October, Texas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress ignited a firestorm by calling Mormonism a “cult” and telling Republicans not to vote for Mitt Romney because the presidential aspirant […]
US President Barack Obama has refused to comment on Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese dissident said to be at the US embassy after fleeing house arrest. Mr Obama told a news conference he was “aware of press reports” on the issue, but would not make a statement on it. Read More…
Huff Post We all know the standard traditions of marriage in America: something borrowed, something blue… the groom doesn’t see the bride before the wedding… processional and recessional… the kiss, the toast… the newlywed couple cutting the cake and smearing it on one another’s faces, throwing rice on the departing […]
By RIYADH: GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN ARAB NEWS STAF Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah held wide-ranging talks with US Sen. Joseph Lieberman, chairman of the US Senate Homeland […]
Huff Post WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has suspended a course for military officers that officials say contained inflammatory material about Islam. Defense Department spokesman Capt. John Kirby said Wednesday that among problems with the course taught at Norfolk, Va., was a presentation that asserted the United States is at war […]
In early spring of 1998 when the torn piece of paper arrived in my mailbox at Goodyear, listing my name and salary alongside those of the three other area managers, my life changed forever. I’d stopped to check my mail, as I’d done every day for 19 years. I flipped […]
Russian TV: Despite continuing pleads to abolish drone strikes in Pakistan, the United States used an unmanned aircraft to target a girls’ school over the weekend, executing four suspected militants […]
In Los Angeles, a Wal-Mart building permit is getting a once-over. In New York, the City Council is investigating a possible land deal with the retailer’s developer in Brooklyn. A state senator in California is pushing for a formal audit of a proposed Wal-Mart in San Diego. And in Boston […]
Credit: Asiatimes: This is in light of the widely-disseminated news over the weekend that the US has deployed its latest generation of stealth bombers at “Iran’s doorway”, possibly in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which is in dispute with Tehran over the three islands of Abu Musa, Little Tub and […]
Ahmadiyya Times: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Brazil held it 19th Annual Convention on April 14 and 15 at their Mission House in Petrópolis, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The two-day […]
Everybody has heard about the tragic Trayvon Martin murder. Far fewer, however, are aware of the brutal killing of Shaima Alawadi, an Iraqi-born American citizen and mother of five, in her home near San Diego. There are conflicting reports about the facts of the crime. In some accounts, a note was found […]
By Zunaira Mubasher Satkohi, USA In Pakistan women can legally divorce their husbands. Through the woes of my colleagues, however, I learned about the social stigma associated with divorced women in Pakistan. In an Islamic studies class I learned of the prohibition of female infanticide towards the beginning of […]