Salon.com: I first met Rasheed in 2007. As we walked into a school building, he smiled ruefully at the bricks strewn across the floor, played with his long beard, and said, “It’s under construction. We have too many students and not enough space.” Afterwards, we drank a cup of sweet milky tea […]
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Business | Sat, June 07 2014, 9:32 AM Business News Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Mari Elka Pangestu has set a target for Indonesia to […]
Source Daily Times via Nasim Malik Habib Jalib once said, Zulm rahe aur amn bhi, kia ye mumkin hai, tum hi kaho. This verse means that it is not possible for injustice and peace to prevail at the same time. More:
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Source: Belief Net By Hesham A. Hassaballa Pamella Geller has put up bus ads in Washington, D.C. that say: Islamic Jew-hatred: It’s in the Quran. Two-thirds of all US aid goes to […]
Source: Chicago Monitor By Hesham A. Hassaballa Pamella Geller has put up bus ads in Washington, D.C. that say: Islamic Jew-hatred: It’s in the Quran. Two-thirds of all US aid goes […]
Source: The Daily Star :: Lebanon News UNITED NATIONS, United States: Jordan’s ambassador to the United Nations has been nominated as UN high commissioner for human rights, to replace South […]
Global Post: Editor’s note: Saudi Arabia’s religious landscape has sometimes appeared as a monochromatic terrain of pious Muslims following an intolerant, puritanical version of Islam. If that picture was ever accurate, it is certainly not today. Saudi Arabia is in the midst of a slow but major social transformation in part […]
MAKKAH: ARAB NEWS Pilgrims from around the world are pouring into Makkah, undeterred by the spread of the MERS virus. “We have received warnings by authorities in our country about MERS and were informed of the importance of taking precautions,” 45-year-old Abdullah, a pilgrim from Malaysia, was quoted as saying […]
Daily Times: Mr Prime Minister, development is not just launching mega-projects. Development also means expansion of freedoms and enjoyment of fundamental human rights The national media was already consumed by agency-fuelled warfare when the breaking news of Altaf Hussain’s arrest by Scotland Yard over money laundering charges further shrank any space […]
Fights broke out over who would make the first speech, as Andrew North reports. Continue reading the main story in BBC and watch a movie Related Stories How Punjab’s missing are being forgotten Delhi 1984 riots still haunt India’s Congress party Delhi 1984: Memories of a massacre Several people have […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Aamir Hussain and Murali Balaji The United States is truly exceptional in the fact that it “peacefully combines a high degree of religious devotion with […]
ET: An academics and a journalist have underscored the need for establishing a democratic egalitarian society based on pluralistic values through civil discourse. They were giving lectures separately at Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU) and National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) on Thursday, organised by the Centre for Research […]
Huff Post: From the outside, the Nasir al-Mulk Mosque in Shiraz, Iran, seems like a fairly traditional house of worship — but it’s hiding a gorgeously colorful secret. See Photos
Huff Post: From the outside, the Nasir al-Mulk Mosque in Shiraz, Iran, seems like a fairly traditional house of worship — but it’s hiding a gorgeously colorful secret. See Photos
STORY SUMMARY For all the serious flaws in Syria’s election, it underscored the considerable support that President Bashar Assad still enjoys from the population, including many in the majority Sunni Muslim community. Syria’s conflict is often portrayed through one of its many prisms — that of a sectarian struggle, in […]
STORY SUMMARY For all the serious flaws in Syria’s election, it underscored the considerable support that President Bashar Assad still enjoys from the population, including many in the majority Sunni Muslim community. Syria’s conflict is often portrayed through one of its many prisms — that of a sectarian struggle, in […]
TAJ AHMAD Published — Friday 6 June 2014 Protecting consumers from malpractices of traders and commercial organizations is an important responsibility of any state. Qur’an and Hadith laid down the basic structure of consumer protection some 1,400 years ago which are as valid today as they were during the golden […]
AIJAZ ZAKA SYED Published — Friday 6 June 2014 PALESTINE. That’s the word that comes to mind to describe the eventful life and times of Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi. Born in 1944 in Nablus at the height of the Palestinian displacement or Nakba (catastrophe) as they call it, like many […]
Source: TOI Swords and sticks were openly used as scores of men from both sides chased each other outside the Akal Takht building inside the complex, which is home to the holiest of Sikh shrines — ‘Harmandar Sahib’. Many people could be seen running for cover to save themselves. […]