By Obaid Ullah Khan Tackling terrorism, and dealing with terrorists are two separate issues. On the latter our leadership is obscuring the matter, thus delaying the immediate actions. If the terrorists are not controlled, this could result in grave consequences. But if this object is somehow achieved (which is in fact not possible […]
Soruce: Arab News: KUWAIT CITY: Gulf countries and Egypt have applauded the Kingdom’s decision to reject a UN Security Council seat in protest at the world body’s failure to act on issues like Syria and Palestine. Saudi Arabia turned down a coveted two-year term on the council on Friday in […]
Source: Washington Post By Richard S. Ehrlich| Religion News Service,October 03, 2013 RNS () — A court in Muslim-majority Bangladesh sentenced an Islamist member of Parliament to death for genocide and other crimes against Hindus during the country’s 1971 war for independence. Salahuddin Chowdhury is the first opposition party member […]
Time: The Sultan of Brunei announced on Tuesday the gradual introduction of harsh Islamic punishments, such as death by stoning for adulterers, severing of limbs for theft and flogging for […]
el-baghdadi.com: A common comment I hear from Muslims is that a government based upon “real Islam” will be a just and prosperous government. While as a Muslim I do believe that Islam enjoins justice & liberty, and that Islam has something to say beyond the private realm, the main issue here […]
el-baghdadi.com: A common comment I hear from Muslims is that a government based upon “real Islam” will be a just and prosperous government. While as a Muslim I do believe that Islam enjoins justice & liberty, and that Islam has something to say beyond the private realm, the main issue here […]
indexoncensorship.org: As the Muslim festival of Eid ul Adha drew to a close last week, it left a bad taste in the mouth of several Pakistanis when they heard that those belonging to the Ahmadi community were stopped from performing the ritual of animal sacrifice because they are “non-Muslims”. According to […]
Source: ET In a situation where we see what amounts to a breakdown of the rule of law, any attempt to strengthen the writ of the state is to be welcomed. The declaration on October 20, by the federal government of all peace-disrupting elements as ‘enemies’ of the state, and the […]
Story Summary A senior rebel commander in southern Syria was killed in fighting with government troops in the town of Tafas on Monday, sources on both sides said. An activist on the ground said Abu Ammar was “one of the most effective commanders on the ground, and one of the […]
The Kingdom has won accolades from the World Health Organization for the medical services it provided to pilgrims during the Haj season. Ezz Al-Din Al-Muhsini, WHO coordinator of elimination and eradication of infectious diseases, and coordinator of the eradication of polio, said: “The well-equipped hospitals designated to serve Haj pilgrims […]
Divorce cases in Saudi Arabia increased to more than 30,000 in 2012, with a rate of 82 a day translated to almost three divorce cases every hour, found a study prepared by the economic research unit at Al-Eqtisadiah newspaper. According to the study, divorce rates in the Kingdom are 2.5 […]
October 21, 2013 – 14:44 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net – Not only do ethnic Muslims account for 21 million to 23 million of Russia’s total population of 144 million, or 15 percent, but their proportion is fast-growing, Daniel Pipes, American historian, writer, and political commentator, as well as president of the Middle […]
Major General Jamaa Jamaa was not a popular man in Beirut. One of Syria’s most senior intelligence officers in Lebanon until the withdrawal of Bashar al-Assad’s troops in 2005, he was headquartered in the run-down Beau Rivage Hotel in west Beirut and also in the Bekaa town of Anjaar, where […]
A member of the family of the first Arab honoured by Israel for risking his life to save Jews during the Holocaust says the family isn’t interested in the recognition. […]
Summary: Dozens of members of Indonesian Solidarity Anti-Oppression ( SIAP ) group hit tables in the Solo Parliament on Monday ( 21/10/2013 ) . They protested against the statement of […]
Source: NY Times: NAZARETH, Israel — Ramiz Jaraisi has been the mayor of this bustling Arab city in northern Israel for nearly 20 years. For 20 years before that, he served as deputy mayor. The local party slate he heads, the Nazareth Democratic Front, a coalition of the Communist Party […]
guardian: “Allah” means God, unless you are a non-Muslim Malaysian, in which case you have to find another word. After a recent court ruling in the country, Allah can now be used only to refer to the Muslim God, and non-Muslims (mainly the Malaysian Christian Catholic community and press) have been banned […]
guardian: “Allah” means God, unless you are a non-Muslim Malaysian, in which case you have to find another word. After a recent court ruling in the country, Allah can now be used only to refer to the Muslim God, and non-Muslims (mainly the Malaysian Christian Catholic community and press) have been banned […]
Source: Asia Times: Not to mention that the House of Saud expertly gets away with manipulating Islam as the pillar of its “legitimacy”. The House of Saud controls the Hajj – which took place this week; an enormous logistical operation that “legitimizes” its role as leader of Sunni Islam, and automatically, […]
Source: Asia Times: By Changsop Pyon Ever since the Soviet bloc crumbled in the early 1990s, the chance that North Korea might also collapse has been a subject of speculation among Korea experts. In his recent book Preparing for the Possibility of a North Korean Collapse, Bruce Bennett, a senior defense […]