By Richard Wike, Special to CNN Editor’s note: Richard Wike is Director of Global Attitudes Research at the Pew Research Center. You can follow him @RichardWike. The views expressed are his own. The recent news from Fallujah and elsewhere in the Middle East and Africa must be pretty encouraging for al Qaeda […]
World War I may have ended in 1918, but the violence it triggered in the Middle East still hasn’t come to an end. Arbitrary borders drawn by self-interested imperial powers […]
MOENJODARO, Pakistan: Hundreds of people swarmed the ancient ruined city of Saturday to attend an inaugural festival commemorating Pakistan’s cultural heritage, days after experts warned the event endangered the UNESCO […]
BEIRUT: Al-Qaeda fighters killed the leader of a rival Islamic brigade in a twin car bombing near Syria’s northern city of Aleppo, an attack likely to further exacerbate rebel infighting […]
Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social, and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and […]
This picture is haunting and it’s been floating around the internet with the sentence: The last sentence a 3-year-old Syrian said before he died: “I’m gonna tell God everything” And […]
STORY SUMMARY Israeli soldiers shot and wounded 10 Palestinians near the West Bank town of Ramallah Friday during a protest over the killing of a teenager, Palestinian medics and security […]
WikiLeaks: Saudi-Financed Madrassas More Widespread in Pakistan Than Thought Islamabad’s inaction on extremism is a recurring theme in many of the WikiLeaked cables emanating from the U.S. embassy in Pakistan. By Michael Busch, May 26, 2011. Share Print We’re honored to have Michael Busch dissecting the latest WikiLeaks document dump for Focal […]
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Myanmar joined the Myanmar National Book Fair from 25th to 28th January 2014. More than one thousand individuals accepted pamphlets, purchased books and glanced through the Jama’at’s presentation. Courtesy: Muhammad Zafir, Myanmar.
BY Peter Popham in THE INDEPENDENT His call has gone down very well far beyond the family stronghold The Afghan Taliban and the Pakistani Taliban are two very different things. The Afghan Taliban, who have stubbornly resisted the worst that the US and Britain could throw at them for the […]
Abu Bakr was a man of shrewd judgment. He was able to discern the truth. Thus, he found it very easy to see the truth in Islam but realized that […]
GENEVA: The ice is slowly breaking in peace talks between Syria’s warring sides, UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said Wednesday, warning though that no substantive results were expected during this round. […]
Source: Kasmir Life: The use of adjectives like, valley of saints, peer wair, the land of pious etc to describe Kashmir shows how we, as citizens of this beautiful land, take pride in something that has no association whatsoever with reality. How we live in a fool’s paradise! No doubt, […]
Source: Asia Times: Arvind Kejriwal’s past behavior of abruptly jettisoning of his alliance with Anna raised no eyebrows. He then started a movement that metamorphosesd into the AAP. Kejriwal graduated as a mechanical engineer from one of the India’s elite schools, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), and then decided […]
CHITTAGONG: A Bangladesh court on Thursday sentenced 14 people to death, including the leader of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), over a massive arms smuggling racket ten years ago. JI leader Motiur Rahman Nizami, 70, was sentenced to hang after being convicted over the racket involving 10 truckloads of arms seized by police […]
By: John Roberts (Scroll down for video) Many people were surprised to learn that the woman, who is cleaning their street, is a millionaire. Yu Youzhen, 54, is worth 10 million yuan ($1.6 million). However, she lives a simple lifestyle and she works hard. Yu works for the sanitation department […]
The International Islamic Relief Organization (IIROSA) distributed winter aid through its relief campaign to the less fortunate in Al-Kharkhir in Najran. IIROSA volunteers distributed food baskets containing rice, sugar, oil, milk, tea and many other products worth over SR200,000 to hundreds of families in Al-Kharkhir. The organization facilitated distribution and […]
Source: Aljazeera.com via Wasim Sr. It was a quick call from my editor’s office in Karachi informing me not to bother writing anymore about the Tehreek Taliban Pakistan (TTP) or any other militant outfit, religious party or even the cricketer-turned-politician’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI). I was told I couldn’t even mention […]
Source: China Daily By CHEN JIA (San Francisco Journal) In the Year of Horse, the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley are both showing their particular affinity and openness […]
Dawn.com ISLAMABAD: In the wake of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s announcement to formulate a four-member committee to hold negotiations with the Pakistan Taliban, the decision attracted mixed reactions from the major political […]