by Robert Fisk, The Independent In 1993, walking across the Qasr el-Nil bridge in Cairo, I was stopped by a young man. Was I a reporter, he asked? Had I […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent In 1993, walking across the Qasr el-Nil bridge in Cairo, I was stopped by a young man. Was I a reporter, he asked? Had I […]
By Uri Avnery Al-Jazeerah, CCUN, September 8, 2014 God Wills It! FOR SIX decades my friends and I have warned our people: if we don’t make peace with the nationalist […]
by Jordan Times | Sep 06, 2014 AMMAN — HH Prince Zeid on Thursday took the oath before UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as the UN high commissioner for human rights. The swearing-in ceremony was held at the UN headquarters in New York, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. Prince […]
Clashes between protesters and the police and military have broken out in the West Bank after the biggest Israeli land grab in 30 years. The Palestinian village of Wadi Fukin, […]
OPINION FOREIGN AFFAIRS ISIS Is Not Just Un-Islamic, It Is Anti-Islamic Nihad Awad @NihadAwad Sept. 5, 2014 ISIS Militants Raqqa Syria Militant Islamist fighters take part in a military parade along the streets of the northern Raqqa province in Syria, June 30, 2014. Reuters If we want to stop ISIS, […]
The Daily Star BEIRUT: The conspiracy to divide the Middle East into sectarian states is still alive, Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai warned Saturday, saying it was being used to justify Israel’s presence as a Jewish state. “The project of the new Middle East is not dead, but it is in play in light of […]
228. Cast not yourselves into ruin with your own hands [2:196] And spend for the cause of Allah, and cast not yourselves into ruin with your own hands, and do good; surely, Allah loves those who do good.
228. Cast not yourselves into ruin with your own hands [2:196] And spend for the cause of Allah, and cast not yourselves into ruin with your own hands, and do good; surely, Allah loves those who do good.
Epigraph: Say, ‘O People of the Book! come to a word equal between us and you — that we worship none but Allah, and that we associate no partner with […]
JEDDAH: FOUZIA KHAN Published — Saturday 6 September 2014 A technical committee tasked with ensuring safety inside the Grand Mosque held a meeting with the Ministry of Higher Education to […]
Telegraph: The Islamic State is challenging the Taliban and al-Qaeda in its Afghanistan and Pakistan heartlands and claiming both countries as part of its ‘caliphate’. Islamic Slate leaflets proclaiming the group’s intention to bring its barbaric form of Islam to Pakistan and Afghanistan were posted throughout Peshawar, the capital of […]
Telegraph: The Islamic State is challenging the Taliban and al-Qaeda in its Afghanistan and Pakistan heartlands and claiming both countries as part of its ‘caliphate’. Islamic Slate leaflets proclaiming the group’s intention to bring its barbaric form of Islam to Pakistan and Afghanistan were posted throughout Peshawar, the capital of […]
Rise of Islamist extremism fails to stir progressives Canada is brimming with liberal voices that have a long record of activism but seem to have a blind spot when it comes to Mideast extremists. This file image posted on a militant website on June 14, 2014, appears to show militants […]
AFP | Sep 04, 2014 | JORDAN TIMES Ragheda, the wife of Lebanese soldier Sgt. Ali Sayid who was beheaded by Islamic militants, mourns as she carries their 10- month-old daughter, Rahaf, during his funeral at his hometown in Fnaydek, Akkar north Lebanon, Wednesday. Sayid went missing around the […]
Re-opening this airport, closed since 2001, and ending Gaza’s isolation is a key demand of the Islamist Hamas movement and was at the heart of the 50-day Gaza-Israel conflict […]
The Haj Ministry has embarked on a unique program to welcome pilgrims once they are through passports and customs procedures and leave the airport’s lounges at Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz […]
The Presidency of the Two Holy Mosques has strongly denied reports that surfaced in Western media outlets claiming that the tomb of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) […]
By Ludovica Iaccino The insurgence of the Islamic State, previously known as Isis, is causing hundreds of deaths in Iraq and Syria. The killings perpetrated by the militants, who recently posted online videos in which they beheaded two American journalists, have prompted many people worldwide – including several Muslim institutions – to publicly condemn […]
Review of Religions: August 2014 Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad – Khalifatul Masih II(ra) Hazrat Mirza Bashir-Ud-Din Mahmud Ahmadra (1889–1965) was the second Successor of the Promised Messiahas and he was the […]