Caliphate of Fear: The Curse of the Islamic State By SPIEGEL Staff 2014/08/19 REUTERS Images of Yazidis fleeing parts of Iraq and Syria have shocked the world and the battle against the jihadists with the Islamic State has united Americans, Europeans, Kurds and Iranians. Can the Islamists be stopped? In […]
211. And eschew open sins as well as secret ones [6:121] And eschew open sins as well as secret ones. Surely, those who earn sin will be rewarded for that which they have earned. [7:34] Say, ‘My Lord has only forbidden foul deeds, whether open or secret, and sin and […]
By: Mohammed Abboud Published Tuesday, August 19, 2014 Female doctors in the Iraqi city of Mosul are witnessing the practices of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) firsthand, since they have to maintain a closer contact with them compared to school teachers and government employees who opted to […]
Published Wednesday, August 20, 2014 Fighting in the Gaza Strip continued for a second day after the collapse of truce talks, as Israeli forces killed a woman and a toddler in an assassination attempt targeting a Hamas military leader. Charging that Israel had “opened a gateway to hell,” Hamas’s armed […]
By ALI KHEDERY AUG. 15, 2014 NEW YORK TIMES “THE country is in your hands,” whispered Iraq’s president, Fuad Masum, on Aug. 11 as he charged the newly designated prime […]
by Daniel George TNN CHENNAI: The Indian consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia has introduced several high-tech measures for the 1,36,000 Haj pilgrims from India, including 3,330 from Tamil Nadu. Chief among them is an Internet-based, user-friendly smartphone application to address the issue of missing pilgrims, consul general of India B […]
Israel’s military says it has carried out air strikes in the Gaza Strip in response to fresh rocket fire, hours before a ceasefire was set to expire. A child is reported to have died, and eyewitnesses say thousands of Gazans have been heading for UN shelters. Talks in Cairo to […]
[22:78] O ye who believe! bow down and prostrate yourselves in Prayer, and worship your Lord, and do good deeds that you may prosper. [2:185] The prescribed fasting is for a fixed number of days, but whoso among you is sick or is on a journey shall fast the same […]
BBC News: Four far-right Jewish protesters have been arrested at the wedding of a Jewish-born woman who converted to Islam and an Arab Muslim man in Israel. READ MORE…
Source: RT Thousands of people gathered in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square over the weekend to encourage an end to hostilities through peace negotiations between Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and […]
209. The example of hypocrite [2:18] Their case is like the case of a person who kindled a fire, and when it lighted up all around him, Allah took away their light and left them in thick darkness; they see not. [2:19] They are deaf, dumb and blind; so they […]
ET: The Iranians, as much as the Americans, have, alongside the Iraqis, breathed a sigh of relief, as rendered bereft of international and regional allies and perhaps, most importantly under pressure from Ayatollah Uzma Sistani, Prime Minister Maliki has agreed to step down and has endorsed the nomination of Haider […]
Source: Haaretz In 2014, 63 Israelis converted from Judaism and 19 from Islam to other religions. An Israeli who wants to convert to Islam must appear before the Muslim religious […]
Summary by Rami G. Khouri One of the fascinating dimensions of the battle between Israel and Palestine is how Israeli leaders and their American apologists keep changing their propaganda message aimed at generally ignorant Western audiences. This strategy has actually worked for some time, as many Western powers have shunned […]
HARUN YAHYA Published — Friday 15 August 2014 Billions of people have lived on this earth since the time of the Prophets Adam, Moses, Abraham, Lot, Jonah, Joseph and the Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon them all). They were both of deep faith and sincere devotion to Allah who obeyed […]
By Mohamed Cherif swissinfo.ch (Reuters) The World Council of Churches (WCC) says dialogue is not possible with Iraq’s Islamic extremists, who have forced about one million Iraqis – including Christians […]
Alarabiya: by Hisham Melham — Most people are averse to introspection, and rarely engage in self-criticism. Arabs are no different. However, the political culture that developed in the Arab World in the last 60 years, particularly in countries ruled by autocratic regimes, shifted blame from their catastrophic failures in governance […]
by Hilmi Gashi Should the state remain neutral with regard to religious matters? Should Muslims have the right to religious freedom – including the right to disbelief? How significant are the Turkish and Indonesian models of secular democratic governance to the transitional states of the Muslim world and Middle East? […]
203. And Allah sets forth for those who disbelieve the example of the wife of Noah and the wife of Lot [66:11] Allah sets forth for those who disbelieve the example of the wife of Noah and the wife of Lot. They were under two righteous servants of Ours, but […]
204. The case of the people who disbelieve in Our Signs [7:177] And if We had pleased, We could have exalted him thereby; but he inclined to the earth and followed his evil inclination. His case therefore is like the case of a thirsty dog; if thou drive him away, […]