Non-Muslim Writers About the Holy Quran compiled by Zia H Shah, MD Source: alislam.org/apps A’ouzo billahi min-aash-shaitan-ir-rajeem…(I seek refuge with Allah from Satan, the accursed…) Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem (In the […]
RAMZY BAROUD Published — Tuesday 22 April 2014 To understand how thoughtless the US latest “peace process” drive has been, one only needs to consider some of the characters involved in this political theater. One particular character who stands out as a testament to the inherently futile exercise is Martin […]
AMMONNEWS – Minister of State for Media Affairs and Communications Mohammed Al-Momani on Monday said that Jordan, in coordination with the State of Palestine, will adopt the necessary measures to safeguard Islamic and Christian sites in the holy city of Jerusalem and defend Muslim worshippers in Al-Aqsa Mosque. Intensive efforts […]
AFP ARABNEWS.COM Published — Tuesday 22 April 2014 JERUSALEM: Palestinian negotiators have warned they may pass responsibility for their territory back to occupying power Israel if peace talks remain stalled, a senior Palestinian official said Sunday. The official said the Palestinians told US peace envoy Martin Indyk on Friday that […]
DAMASCUS — Syria said Monday it will hold a presidential election expected to return President Bashar Assad to office on June 3, despite a civil war that has killed tens of thousands. Underlining the ongoing violence, mortar fire hit near the parliament building shortly before the election was announced, killing […]
AMMAN — Fifteen deputies on Monday requested that Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour and the parliaments of Arab and Muslim countries denounce two US congressmen’s participation in breaking into Al Aqsa Mosque. Deputy Khalil Atiyeh submitted a petition to Lower House Speaker Atef Tarawneh in this regard. US congressmen Bill Johnson […]
French President Francois Hollande and Deputy Foreign Minister Prince Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah will open a Haj exhibition in Paris on Tuesday Source: The Arab News, April 21, 2014 King […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent Saudi Arabia is giving $3bn – yes, £2bn, and now let’s have done with exchange rates – to the Pakistani government of Nawaz Sharif. But what is it for? Pakistani journalists have been told not to ask this question. Then, when they persisted, they were […]
By Tony Cartalucci Global Research, April 19, 2014 New Eastern Outlook The bombshell report by Pulitzer Prize-winning veteran journalist Seymour Hersh titled, “The Red Line and the Rat Line,” contains many shocking revelations for those following the West’s version of reality regarding the Syrian conflict. It particularly sheds new light […]
IDRIS TAWFIQ Published — Friday 18 April 2014 When young Muslims meet others for the first time and find out that they are Muslim, often one of the very first […]
RASHEED ABOU-ALSAMH Published — Sunday 20 April 2014 A series of recent interviews given by Syrian authorities to foreign journalists visiting Damascus at the invitation of the government, have given the erroneous impression that the forces of President Bashar Assad are winning the civil war, which entered its fourth […]
By Daisy Carrington, for CNN (CNN) — Dubai, long champion of all things biggest, longest and most expensive, will soon have some competition from neighboring Saudi Arabia. Dubai’s iconic […]
BY RAMI G. KHOURI Patient, serious diplomacy appears to be bearing fruit in many places simultaneously this week, except in the Israel-Palestine talks that have gone on for two decades since the 1993 Oslo peace accords. It is worth exploring why this is so. Two agreements announced Thursday comprised an American-Russian-Ukrainian-European […]
One of the primary distinguishing features between unbelievers and believers is that believers frequently perform the religious obligation of repentance; since unbelievers try to regard themselves as free of sin, they feel no need to repent. Believers, on the other hand, are unwilling to commit any sin that will displease […]
98. He alone can keep the Mosques of Allah in a good and flourishing condition who believes in Allah, and the Last Day, and observes Prayer, and pays the Zakat, and fears none but Allah [9:18] He alone can keep the Mosques of Allah in a good and flourishing condition […]
April 17, 2014 08:40 AM By Roueida Mabardi Story Summary In the Bab Touma district of Syria’s capital Damascus, Fadi Mayal dreams of returning home to the ancient Christian town […]
Aerial view of the Zaatari refugee camp near the Jordanian city of Mafraq, some 8 kilometers from the Jordanian-Syrian border. Jordan is home to a large Syrian refugee population. (AP) Agence France Presse Published — Wednesday 16 April 2014 Last update 17 April 2014 12:52 am AMMAN: Jordanian air force […]
97. Sanctity of churches, synagogues, mosques and other places of worship [22:41] Those who have been driven out from their homes unjustly only because they said, ‘Our Lord is Allah’ — And if Allah did not repel some men by means of others, there would surely have been pulled […]
Online videos show Syrian rebels using what appear to be U.S. anti-tank rockets, weapons experts say, the first significant American-built armaments in the country’s civil war. The rebel faction shown […]
92. So leave them (non-believers) until they meet that day of theirs [52:46] So leave them until they meet that day of theirs, on which they will be overtaken by a thunderbolt, [19:85] So be not thou in haste with regard to them; We are keeping full account of their doings. […]