BY Mahmoud MouradAli Abdelaty| Reuters CAIRO: Arab foreign ministers agreed at a meeting in Egypt on Thursday on a draft resolution to form a unified Arab military force, Egyptian state TV said. The agreement came after warplanes from Saudi Arabia and Arab allies struck Shiite Muslim rebels fighting to oust […]
Haaretz.com: Teenagers in an alternative school program were surprised this week to discover the following question on a worksheet on “Nazi ideology and policy”: “From your acquaintance with the peoples that live in Israel, which is the superior race and which is the inferior race?” The students were part of […]
Haaretz.com: Teenagers in an alternative school program were surprised this week to discover the following question on a worksheet on “Nazi ideology and policy”: “From your acquaintance with the peoples that live in Israel, which is the superior race and which is the inferior race?” The students were part of […]
An Essay By Georg Diez spiegel.de Islamic State is making headlines by destroying historical artifacts in Iraq. But far from being an expression of medieval nihilism, the campaign on culture is a strategy aimed at drawing the West into battle. The destruction is reminiscent of that wrought by the US. […]
Petra | Mar 24, 2015 | 22:44 DUBAI — Wherever refugees are, they need education and they seek to get it, and “we have to empower them by providing the […]
Rami G. Khouri| The Daily Star What should Israel, the Palestinians and the world make of the statement by White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough that the United States expects the next Israeli government to end nearly 50 years of occupation and clear the way for a Palestinian state? […]
416. Commandment – Let those fear God who, if they should leave behind them their own weak offspring, would be anxious for them. Let them, therefore, fear Allah and let them say the right word [4:10] And let those fear God who, if they should leave behind them their own […]
Reuters BAGHDAD: Iraq’s request to the U.S.-led coalition for airstrikes in the campaign to retake Tikrit from ISIS insurgents is “imminent,” a senior diplomat from a Western nation that is part of the coalition told Reuters Tuesday. There was no immediate confirmation from the Iraq government. The coalition has been […]
Reuters BAGHDAD: Iraq’s request to the U.S.-led coalition for airstrikes in the campaign to retake Tikrit from ISIS insurgents is “imminent,” a senior diplomat from a Western nation that is part of the coalition told Reuters Tuesday. There was no immediate confirmation from the Iraq government. The coalition has been […]
415. Commandment – Kill not your children for fear of poverty [17:32] Kill not your children for fear of poverty. It is We Who provide for them and for you. Surely, the killing of them is a great sin. [6:152] Say, ‘Come, I will rehearse to you what your Lord […]
Summary by Rami G. Khouri, The Daily Star, Lebanon Other than the occasional, momentary and superficial rap on Israel’s knuckles by Secretary of State James Baker or President Ronald Reagan, or an unsuccessful push by President Barack Obama to freeze Israeli settlements, the United States has supported or acquiesced in […]
by JORDAN TIMES | Mar 21, 2015 | 23:42 AMMAN — Jordan and Palestine organised a conference in Ankara on Saturday to highlight the importance of Jerusalem and the Muslim world’s role in protecting the holy city from Israeli attempts to Judaise it. Titled “Jerusalem: the City of Peace”, the […]
414. Commandment – Let not your wealth and your children divert you from the remembrance of Allah. And whoever does so — it is they who are the losers [63:10] O ye who believe! let not your wealth and your children divert you from the remembrance of Allah. And whoever […]
Guardian: The result was not the worst of it. Indeed, buried in the detailed numbers of this week’s Israeli election were odd crumbs of consolation. No, what made Binyamin Netanyahu’s emphatic win so dispiriting were the depths he plumbed to secure victory. He made two moves in his desperate, and […]
The New Statesman: The leader of a small military force – perhaps 500 strong – is determined to subdue a province, and to do so quickly. Terror is his explicit policy. Every inroad he makes into enemy territory is followed by indiscriminate slaughter and destruction. Every man, woman and child […]
The cousin of Yassine al-Abidi, who gunned down 20 foreign tourists at Tunisia’s Bardo museum, shows a photo of Yassine during an interview with Reuters in Tunis March 20, 2015. (Reuters) Reuters, Omrane Superieur, Tunisia Saturday, 21 March 2015 Shortly before he and a friend gunned down 20 foreign tourists […]
413. Commandment – To pray for children [25:75] And those who say, ‘Our Lord, grant us of our wives and children the delight of our eyes, and make us a model for the righteous. [37:101] ‘My Lord, grant me a righteous son.’ [46:16] And We have enjoined on man to be good to his parents. […]
Source: The Independent YARA HAWARI Tuesday 17 March 2015 A state that ignores the rights of its indigenous non-Jewish people is not a democracy Today Israeli citizens are going to vote for their next government in a country often labeled as “the only democracy in the Middle East”. Ironically, they […]
Source: The Independent YARA HAWARI Tuesday 17 March 2015 A state that ignores the rights of its indigenous non-Jewish people is not a democracy Today Israeli citizens are going to vote for their next government in a country often labeled as “the only democracy in the Middle East”. Ironically, they […]
412. Commandment – Continuously encourage children to observe prayer, enjoin good and forbid evil [31:18] ‘O my dear son! observe Prayer, and enjoin good, and forbid evil, and endure patiently whatever may befall thee. Surely this is of those matters which require firm resolve.