The Washington Post: by Terence McCoy — In 2005, Pusanidevi Manjhi was branded a witch and tortured for four days by a powerful landowning family in the village Palani, in the Jharkhand state of India. (Rama Lakshmi/The Washington Post) If it began like the others, the first sign that Saraswati Devi would […]
By Erin Evers BAGHDAD, Iraq – Militiamen saunter unchallenged along Baghdad streets with rocket-propelled grenade launchers slung across their shoulders. Neighborhood after neighborhood is being ghettoized and sealed off by checkpoints manned by fighters in civilian clothes carrying machine guns. On Iraqiyya, the state TV channel, the war propaganda is […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—As the bodies of those killed on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 decompose, some stricken families of those on board look set to suffer more frustration if religious burial rites are passed over. Islam typically has strict requirements for burial of the deceased. Rites include bathing corpses, dressing them in white […]
At least five people have been killed and 70 injured by an Israeli strike on a hospital in Gaza, Palestinians say. The Israeli military said it had targeted a cache of anti-tank missiles in the hospital’s “immediate vicinity”. Overnight, more than 30 members of two Palestinian families died in Israeli […]
The Huffington Post: By Ro Waseem, Blogger, http://quranalyzeit.wordpress.com Amidst the tragic situation in Palestine these days, a few Muslims seem to have found a way to express their anger and […]
Source: Ch.Maqbool Ahmad, Journalist Qadian Qadian 20th July: M.P Abhijeet Mukherjee son of The President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee visited Holy Places of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community today in Qadian. He […]
BAGHDAD — He’s like a ghost from the nightmare world of Saddam Hussein. Izzat Ibrahim al Douri was for decades one of the Iraqi tyrant’s blood-covered right-hand men and—this is what’s important now—Saddam’s liaison with radical jihadists the world over. If Saddam and Osama bin Laden never had a meeting […]
By Mahatma Gandhi (26-11-1938). PNN Several letters have been received by me, asking me to declare my views about the Arab-Jew question in Palestine and the persecution of the Jews […]
theguardian: by Owen Jones — As CNN’s Diana Magnay reported on the bombs falling on Palestinian heads from Sderot on the Israel-Gaza border last week, a crowd of Israelis whooped and cheered. Watching the missiles and explosions light up the sky was, Magnay declared on-air, “an astonishing, macabre and awful thing”, […]
181. Safeguard the sign of Allah (she-camel) and do not harm her [26:156] He said, ‘Here is a she-camel: she has her turn of drinking, and you have your turn of drinking on an appointed day. [26:157] ‘And touch her not with evil lest there overtake you the punishment of […]
181. Safeguard the sign of Allah (she-camel) and do not harm her [26:156] He said, ‘Here is a she-camel: she has her turn of drinking, and you have your turn of drinking on an appointed day. [26:157] ‘And touch her not with evil lest there overtake you the punishment of […]
Summary Political and religious leaders expressed outrage and demanded action Sunday after ISIS militants drove Mosul’s Christians from the northern Iraqi city, effectively ending a presence there dating back to Christianity’s earliest years. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki condemned the actions of ISIS and said it showed “the extreme criminality […]
Summary Israeli warplanes and tanks Sunday battered a crowded neighborhood of Gaza City, killing at least 65 Palestinians in the deadliest single incident of an onslaught that has claimed well […]
Huff Post : by Sophia Jones — JERUSALEM — Undeterred by the relentless rounds of cross-border hostilities between Israel and Hamas, hundreds of French Jewish immigrants gleefully accepted their Israeli identity cards at a ceremony here on Thursday afternoon. “I came because of anti-Semitism,” said teary-eyed Veronique Rivka Buzaglo, one […]
The NewYork Times: by Anne Barnard and Isabel Kershner — GAZA CITY — After weeks of escalating conflict in Gaza, both sides reported death tolls that made clear Sunday was the deadliest day so far in the war. The Palestinian Health Ministry reported that 87 Palestinians had died, and the […]
Robert Fisk Sunday 20 July 2014 To die is one thing – to be turned into a blob quite another matter. The blob is the weird, mystical “cloud” which weak-kneed […]
Israel must strive for a cease-fire that would allow Gazans to live honorably and prevent another violent round in the near future. Haaretz Editorial | Jul. 19, 2014 | By Zvi Bar’el | Jul. 19, 2014 | 11:25 PM Israel’s ground operation in the Gaza Strip, which is the second […]
AFP Published: 16:18 July 17, 2014 Gulf News Bannu, Pakistan: Pakistan’s ongoing military operation may be making headway in clearing militant hideouts, but it has shattered the dream of one […]
In today’s globalized world, people and cultures are mixing. cities used to host one religion gathering people together, and now many religions are separating the cities in different groups. in […]
When they came out of their poor peninsula, the early Muslim Arabs when compared with the more sophisticated and advanced Byzantines of Asia Minor and the Eastern Mediterranean, or the Persians to the East, looked like haggard upstarts. But the tribes of Arabia, who were catapulted to a stagnant region by a […]