A Million Hijab March!
I just read an inspirational news in the Huffington Post, One Million Hijabs For Shaima Alawadi: Women Wear Hijabs In Support Of Slain Iraqi Woman, and that gave me an […]
MLK, Trayvon and Jesus
Huff Post April 4 is the 44th anniversary of the martyrdom of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This week is Holy Week. So what do Trayvon Martin, Dr. King and Jesus have in common? No, this question isn’t the beginning of a bad joke — the answer is […]
NYPD’s ‘stop, question and frisk’ policy is racial profiling,critics say
Source: CNN Author: Steve Kastenbaum Every time a cop car slows down near him, Djibril Toure worries that he’s about to be stopped and questioned. Not because he did anything wrong […]
$10 million mystery-Joke? – or Just Politics: a bounty on Hafiz Saeed?
Global Post: Officially, India welcomed the US decision to offer a $10 million bounty for information leading to the capture of alleged Pakistani terrorist Hafiz Saeed, whom both the US […]
From Pakistan, answers needed about Osama bin Laden
Credit: Washington Post: By David Ignatius, Wednesday, April 4, 2:14 AM Let’s see if we’ve got the numbers straight: Osama bin Laden lived in five houses in Pakistan, fathered four children there, kept three wives who took dictation for his rambling directives to his terror network, had two children born in public […]
Beauty contest may allow transgender
Credit: TOI The Miss Universe Organization announced on Monday that it might reverse an earlier decision and allow a transgender woman to enter the Miss Universe Canada pageant. Jenna Talackova, 23, was born male, leading organizers to disqualify her last month as a finalist in the 61st Miss Universe Canada […]
Shari’a Law Open House
Source: Tillsonburg News – The Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association of Canada (AMYA) is hosting a Shari’a Law open house this Saturday (April 7) at the Tillsonburg Public Library from 12 noon until 4 p.m. The event is titled “Shari’a, The misunderstood Islamic Law” and designed as an information session to […]
Truck Trailers Tossed like Toys in Texas
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=bestoftv/2012/04/03/vo-nr-texas-tornado-trailers-wfaa.cnn Lancaster, Texas (CNN) — Cleanup efforts began in Texas on Tuesday after tornadoes ripped through the Dallas-Fort Worth area, tossing tractor-trailers like toys, forcing airlines to cancel flights and causing widespread damage. In Lancaster, Texas, south of Dallas, roofs were stripped to bare plywood and houses were speared by […]
One Million Hijabs For Shaima Alawadi: Women Wear Hijabs In Support Of Slain Iraqi Woman
By Omar Sacirbey Religion News Service (RNS) Jean Younis won’t be wearing an Easter bonnet at church this Sunday. Instead, the office manager at Bonita Valley Adventist Church in National City, Calif., will don an Islamic headscarf to support the family and friends of Shaima Alawadi, the Iraqi immigrant and […]
93-year-old Florida woman retires her car after 576,000 miles
Courtesy: Yahoo These days, most people consider themselves lucky if a new car lasts 5 to 10 years. Make it to 100,000 miles in your vehicle, and the car company might make a commercial about you. That makes 93-year-old Rachel Veitch a notable exception. Veitch is retiring her 1964 Mercury […]
America, Afghanistan and the prisoners they hold
Source: Reuters (Blogs) Author: Sanjeev Miglani As in any conflict, the prisoners that the players in Afghanistan hold are a key part of their political and military strategy as they head into 2014. For the United States, the more Taliban fighters or even potential Taliban are kept off the battlefield, […]
One-year-old boy drowns in washing machine
Credit: TOI OREM, UTAH: At 21 months, Ollie Hebb was his mother’s helper on laundry day, climbing atop a bin so he could toss clothes into a top-loading washer. On the morning he went missing for a few minutes, Tiffany Hebb went through her house calling for him but got […]
California university shooting: 7 dead, suspect detained
Credit: TOI California university shooting: 7 dead, suspect detained OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA: A gunman opened fire at a Christian university in California on Monday, killing at least seven people and wounding three more, before being captured in a nearby city, authorities said. The gunfire erupted around midmorning at Oikos University in […]
Lashkar chief Hafiz Saeed dares US, says he is not hiding in caves
Credit: TOI Lashkar chief dares US, says he is not hiding in caves ISLAMABAD: Lashing out at the US for putting a bounty of USD 10 million on his head, a combative Hafiz Mohammad Saeed today said Washington was “frustrated” with him for his countrywide protests against the resumption of […]
U.S. Offers $10 Million Reward for Pakistani Militant
NY Times: …………..Wendy Sherman, the United States under secretary of state for political affairs, announced the reward for Mr. Saeed, described as the leader of Lashkar-e-Taiba, during a visit to India on Monday. […]
President Thomas Jefferson from Wikipedia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Thomas jefferson) This article is about the United States president. For other uses, see Thomas Jefferson (disambiguation). Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of […]
Trayvon Martin’s last minutes in Florida
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=bestoftv/2012/04/02/nr-trayvon-martin-timeline.cnn Law enforcement expert Alex Manning analyzes a complete time line of the Trayvon Martin shooting, based on 911 calls.
Did the US just break the secret Israeli-Azerbaijani alliance against Iran?
Russian TV: According to an alleged leak, Israel is secretly staging an airstrike on Iran in neighboring Azerbaijan. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been salivating over the thought of […]
The author of the Book of Revelation did not approve of St. Paul
Source: CNN The author of Revelation hated Rome, but he also scorned another group – a group of people we would call Christians today, Pagels says. There’s a common perception […]
The Fierce Urgency of Now : Why We, Too, Are Shaima Alwadi
Huff Post It doesn’t take much to look around and see that there is a need for understanding and love, instead of fear and hate. Still reeling from the death of Trayvon Martin, the resulting protests and revelations, and stories that abound about people who die every day in this […]