SEPTEMBER 02, 2013 LATEST UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 02, 2013 04:15 PM Does Islam, 15 years after the fall of the New Order, remain a powerful force in Indonesian politics? It is safe to say that political Islam is weakening, but the faith itself, as it appears, still plays an influential role […]
by Muath Freij | Sep 01, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Several Syrians in Jordan expressed their support for the likely military action led by Washington against the Syrian regime over alleged chemical weapon attacks. Syrians interviewed by The Jordan Times said that despite being against any Western intervention […]
JEDDAH: ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS STAFF Published — Monday 2 September 2013 Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has approved a $200 million (SR750 million) program for the resistance of Palestinian cities, Municipal and Rural Affairs Minister Prince Mansour bin Miteb announced Sunday. Prince Mansour made this […]
MAKKAH: SULTAN AL-TAMIMI | ARAB NEWS STAFF Published — Monday 2 September 2013 MAKKAH: Immediate deportation to imprisonment for at least a year await violators of Haj regulations, the authorities said on Sunday at the launch of a campaign to keep the number of pilgrims to a minimum level in […]
Source: ET ISLAMABAD: The ministry of information technology was upbeat about lifting the ban on video sharing website YouTube after having finally acquired the ‘missing’ filters to block blasphemous content within days but it seems that the matter will consume more time. On August 22, State Minister for Information Technology Anusha […]
The Tribune: Anti-Ahmadi groups are planning to hold up to 10 conferences in the first week of September to mark the passage of the Second Amendment to the Constitution on […]
August 31, 2013 Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack by Dale Gavlak and Yahya Abaneh http://original.antiwar.com/Dale-Gavlak/2013/08/30/syrians-in-ghouta-claim-saudi-supplied-rebels-behind-chemical-attack/. GHOUTA, Syria – As the machinery for a U.S.-led military intervention in Syria gathers pace following last week’s chemical weapons attack, the U.S. and its allies may be targeting the wrong culprit. Interviews with people […]
Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, says Israel may have conducted ‘false flag’ operation. Describes its government as inept and Netanyahu as ‘clueless.’ West of Eden by Chemi Shalev HAARETZ ISRAEL Retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who once served as Secretary of State […]
In Islamic sciences, all knowledge of the religion comes back to two sources: the Quran and the sayings and doings of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ – the hadith. The Quran […]
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis and Jordan’s King Abdullah II reaffirmed that dialogue is the “only option” to end the conflict in Syria, just as the United States and its […]
Source: Ch.Maqbool Ahmad | Journalist Qadian Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Qadian presented the Holy Quran with Punjabi translation to the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in Qadian, at the headquarters of Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya here. Chief […]
By Ch.Maqbool Ahmad, India On the second day of the annual convention (Jalsa Salana UK) Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad Khalifatul Masih V, addressed the first session of women. He said […]
PATRICK COCKBURN Sunday 1 September 2013 The discredited justifications that preceded the invasion of Iraq still dominate British and American perception of military intervention in Syria. In a similar way in the 1930s, popular revulsion at the lies and exaggerations of First World War propaganda meant that the first accounts […]
Lisa Kaaki, ARABNEWS Islam with a 1.5 billion Muslims, constituting one-fifth of humanity, is poised to exert an enduring influence during this century. Unlike other religions, Islam does not […]
Source: ET Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said on Friday that Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government is a game for another month or two, Express News reported. He further stated that if Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) continued to rule K-P for another month or two, the province might not be a […]
By Sharmine Narwani The recent acts of political violence in the Middle East’s Levant are not unrelated. Car bombings in the predominantly Shia southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh; twin bombings […]
Bowed to the royal following private audience with her and her husband It runs counter to centuries of Catholic tradition Comes after he posed for a selfie with teenage pilgrims […]
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Steve Lonegan addressed hundreds of the local Bangladesh-American community Tuesday with a vow to fight to preserve liberty. The former Bogota mayor spoke at Atlantic City’s third-annual festival sponsored by the Bangladesh Association of Atlantic County at Bader Field. “I remember when Bangladesh fought for its […]
Source: The daughter of a Jamaat-e-Islami leader has alleged her father, an expatriate in the Middle East, was involved in financing the recent countrywide mayhem including the one unleashed at Fatikchharhi’s Bhujpur in April. Sayma Akhtar organised a news conference at the Press Club in Chittagong on Monday to demand […]
Bangladesh and India are neighbouring countries with a shared history and common cultural and linguistic ties. Although all countries in the world have some inter-state problems at one level or another, the enclave problem between Bangladesh and India is unique in its complex and unresolved nature. read more : http://www.dhakatribune.com/op-ed/2013/aug/24/enclave-populations-humanitarian-angle