Source: Huff Post Religion Apparently, attempts are underway to open a new front in the supposed “war on religion” in my home state of Louisiana as it takes center stage in the presidential primary season. Truth be told, from what I have seen lately, those claiming there is a war […]
Source: News Optimist – Adherents of the Islam faith took their message of peace and harmony to North Battleford on March 15. Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association were in the city for an open house at North Battleford Public Library on “The Holy Qur’an.” The goal of the […]
Source: Macleans.ca Why the debate over the veil is much more complicated than you think No item of female apparel summons more attention, animosity, debate or censure in Western society […]
The Global Post.com: Joel Elliott: WALTHAM, Massachusetts — It’s time for the World Bank to stop pretending significant progress is being made in reducing extreme global poverty. The self-congratulatory report it issued recently claimed it […]
Credit: Washington Post Zachary Goldfarb and Howard Schneider 3:20 PM ET Obama nominates Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to head the World Bank, saying he was seeking someone with Kim’s expertise in public health to head what he called ”the world’s largest development agency.” More:
Credit: Newyork Times: I thought I’d take a look back at apologies that should have been delivered, but never were. Lyndon Johnson, for ordering covert operations in the gulf of Tonkin and then lying about it, leading to the war in Vietnam. Also for expanding the war while promising not […]
Source: The Record – Religious misconceptions addressed at open house Misconceptions about Islam, some perpetuated by recent events, were addressed at an open house on the Holy Qur’an held at the Fort Saskatchewan Public Library March 17. “The idea started when Pastor Terry Jones burnt the Qur’an,” said Noman Khalil, […]
Huffington Post: A landmark report in Quebec recommends that doctors be allowed in exceptional circumstances to help the terminally ill die if that is what the patients want. The report was released in the legislature on Thursday after two years of work from the so-called Dying With Dignity Committee, a […]
New York Times: Opinionator; Discussions of religion are typically about God. Atheists reject religion because they don’t believe in God; Jews, Christians and Muslims take belief in God as fundamental […]
Source: China Daily Once again the United States is trying to throw its weight around and impose its unilateral vision on other countries. The US imposed tough new sanctions at the turn of the year, aimed at preventing other countries from importing Iranian oil and conducting transactions with its central […]
Source: Lloydminster Source – After a campaign where members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Group went door-to-door, dispelling myths about the Islam religion, Lloydminster residents recently had another chance to learn more about the eastern faith. Representatives from the youth group were at the Lloydminster Public Library late Thursday afternoon, […]
Credit: TOI It’s something Mitt Romney and Rahul Gandhi are trying too hard to show they have. On Tuesday, American Republicans in the state of Illinois had the chance to vote for their choice to face Barack Obama in November. They backed former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, who needed a […]
Washington Post: By E.J. Dionne Jr.:vWhere evangelicals cast a minority of the ballots, Mitt Romney has won. Where evangelical voters predominated, Romney has lost, in most cases to Rick Santorum. Romney’s victory […]
Is there a God? Yes. I am as certain that there is a God as I am certain of anything. I am as certain that there is a God as […]
Credit: Asia Times: The continuing lull in US-Pakistan relations complicates the Afghan withdrawal process for European forces, with Central Asian routes more expensive and diplomatically complex than the Pakistani link closed over last November’s friendly fire incident. Anger at “negative acts” by US troops is also high among US allies. […]
Examining the new atheists’ own “reasonableness” and “internal coherence The Washington Post: By Tom Gilson The new atheists–participants in the contemporary anti-religion movement led by Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, the […]
Source: the Guardian American Atheists is an educational organization; we always intended to inform, to make people think. We never avoid being provocative, though that’s not the goal. We have not only a right, but a duty to speak the truth and to be heard. So our recent billboard campaign in Brooklyn and […]
Source: Spiegel Germany:By Thomas Schulz in New York Getty Images It wasn’t so long ago that many viewed Germany’s economic model as outdated and the country as the “sick man of Europe.” These days, however, even the Americans have come to praise parts of it, though they still doubt whether […]
Credit: Asia Times: By Karen J Greenberg You might think the United States was entering the end of the 9/11 era. Think again. What we in fact have is a national security state wedded to a “war on terror” growing ever-more obsessed with secrecy and ever-more repressive in a world […]
Source: Kincardine News – The Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association of Canada is once again coming to Kincardine to teach the community about Islam, this time regarding the “misunderstood” Sharia law. National executive director Rizwan Rabbani said the information session is meant to “promote religious harmony dispel misconceptions about Islam and […]