Source: NYTimes BAGHDAD — One by one, the Marines sat down, swore to tell the truth and began to give secret interviews discussing one of the most horrific episodes of America’s time in Iraq: the 2005 massacre by Marines of Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha. “I mean, whether […]
Source: TOI WASHINGTON: Contending that US relationship with Pakistan had reached a dead end, an American lawmaker has said there was a sense among Congressmen that time had come to “side” with India to “cut off the ISI”. Senator Mark Kirk said at a discussion forum by prestigious Washington-based think […]
FORT Bragg, North Carolina (AFP) – President Barack Obama on Wednesday honoured America’s nearly nine years of “bleeding and building” in Iraq, hailing the “extraordinary achievement” of a war he once branded “dumb”. “Welcome home, welcome home,” Obama cried in an aircraft hangar in North Carolina, basking in the “Ooh […]
Abrahamic faiths should and can be working partners in the service of God. Land buys a big Tri-Faith leap By Christopher Burbach: WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER Omaha Jewish, Muslim and Christian […]
Source^: NY Times: By the time he was 16, Newt Gingrich was sure of two things. He would marry his high school geometry teacher. And he would save Western civilization. Gingrich has moved on to younger wives. But he’s still obsessed with numbers and rescuing the planet. In 1994, he […]
Source: Asia Times. By Nick Turse As the Arab Spring blossomed and President Barack Obama hesitated about whether to speak out in favor of protesters seeking democratic change in the Greater Middle East, the Pentagon acted decisively. It forged ever deeper ties with some of the most repressive regimes in […]
Source: September 2011 Alislam-eGazette This post is part of the Muslim Times’ campaign to demystify Sharia Law and diffuse the propaganda of the fundamentalist Christians and power grabbing politics of the […]
Source: The Independent By Robert Fisk: A multiple award-winning journalist on the Middle East, based in Beirut. Writing from the very region that produces more clichés per square foot than […]
By ASSOCIATED PRESS TEHRAN: Iran claims its experts are in the final stages of recovering data from the US surveillance drone captured by Iranian armed forces. Lawmaker Parviz Sorouri, from […]
Washington Post: Opinion by Michael Gerson: ……Who else shares this interpretation of sharia law? Well, totalitarians naturally do. Gingrich joins Iranian clerics, Taliban leaders and Salafists of various stripes in […]
The private firm hired by the U.S. that became synonymous with civilian killings in the Iraq war has once again decided to rename itself (via the Washington Post). First known as Blackwater, the security contractor changed its name to Xe about three years ago to distance itself from all […]
Between its nuclear program and its general sabre rattling foreign policy, Iran’s position with the U.S., and the world, is easy to take for outright aggression. With that in mind, it’s interesting to look at the world as Iran sees it from inside its borders. This map from Democratic Underground puts a […]
Lowe’s may not be the only big company to cave under pressure from the Florida Family Association. The conservative Christian group claims that more than 60 companies that it emailed, from Amazon to McDonald’s, have also pulled adds from TLC’s All-American Muslim, according to the AP. So far Lowe’s is the only major company to […]
Source: TOI on line. WASHINGTON: Hezbollah has partially unraveled the CIA’s spy network in Lebanon, severely damaging the intelligence agency’s ability to gather vital information on the terrorist organization at a tense time in the region, former and current US officials said. Officials said several foreign spies working for the […]
Source: Asia Times. By M K Bhadrakumar I wrote yesterday that the ramifications of Iran’s “scoop” – downing the US drone (”Beast of Kandahar”) – are bound to spread. President Barack Obama has now broken silence, revealing, “We’ve asked for it back – we’ll see how the Iranians respond.” This […]
Source: Asia Times. By KK Ghouri Cassandras are having a field-day as far as the future of United States-Pakistan relations is concerned. They’re saying that epitaph on the tombstone of these relations has already been written; it was done last November 26. That was the day North Atlantic Treaty Organization […]
Source / Courtesy: Review of Religions and Alislam.org A compelling argument that Thomas Jefferson negated belief in the divinity of Jesus Christ and affirmed the unity of God. Was he […]
Most of the religious news today is about how different beliefs supposedly divide people, but leaders of Staten Island mosques and synagogues made history yesterday by gathering together to find […]
Source: Asiatimes. The United States-Pakistan relationship has reached a turning point reminiscent of the run-up to October 1958, when Washington encouraged General Ayub Khan’s coup, apprehending the coming into power of an elected government in Pakistan that might have refused to collaborate as the US’s Cold War ally against the […]
NY Times Opinion: By ERIC WEINER: ….We are more religiously polarized than ever. In my secular, urban and urbane world, God is rarely spoken of, except in mocking, derisive tones. It is acceptable to cite the latest academic study on, say, happiness or, even better, whip out a brain scan, […]