RIYADH: SHAJA AL-BUQAMI ARABNEWS Saturday 30 March 2013 Twitter users beware. The Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) is currently studying the possibility of linking the access to microblogging site with the personal identification of social media users, according to sources. The move is likely to create ripples in the […]
Source: The Huffington Post: By Daoud Kuttab The issue of Jerusalem has always been a hot topic at Arab summits. If there were a Guinness Book record for the number […]
Jews, Christians mark religious festivals in Holy City Haaretz: This year, Passover and Easter fall during the same week, and Jerusalem is awash with pilgrims and worshipers from both religions. […]
Hooded flagellants worship during holy week in Pampanga province, Philippines. It looks mighty painful, but for these religious worshipers flagellation is a necessary act of mortification in which they scourge themselves by whipping their own flesh. Although the bloody practice is condemned by the Catholic church and frowned upon in […]
Source: Jakarta Globe: A 30-year-old man has died after setting himself on fire in his East Jakarta office after a married co-worker rejected his affection, Cipayung Police said on Thursday. Mochamad Zikra, who worked in the finance department of Indah Cargo Logistic in Setu, East Jakarta, doused himself in some […]
Source: NY Times: The grab for influence and power in Karachi shows that the Taliban have been able to extend their reach across Pakistan, even here in the country’s most populous city, with about 20 million inhabitants. No longer can they be written off as endemic only to the country’s […]
HARUN YAHYA ARABNEWS Friday 29 March 2013 ALL Muslims must embrace the moderate, gentle, compassionate, calm and kind style Allah depicts in the Qur’an. Radicalism means supporting sudden revolutionary destructive changes in any sphere and applying a strict uncompromising policy in order to achieve them. Radicals are characterized by their […]
JEDDAH: IBRAHIM NAFFEE ARABNEWS Friday 29 March 2013 A number of Saudi and expatriate men here say they cannot afford to get married because of the rising cost of gold. […]
by Dana Al Emam | Mar 28, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — As the issue of women’s right to pass their nationality to their spouses and children remains a point of contention in Jordan, a local initiative sought to give the two sides of the conversation a platform to […]
Petra | Mar 28, 2013 | 21:37 JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Jordan on Thursday strongly denounced violations by Jewish extremists who have recently broken into the Al Aqsa Mosque under the protection of Israeli occupation forces. Government Spokesperson Samih Maaytah said the Israeli government should shoulder its responsibility in preventing […]
Brokers of Deceit Rashid Khalidi Beacon Press By most accounts, Barack Obama delivered a masterful speech to a group of Israeli youth in Jerusalem last week as part of his […]
The Huffington Post | By Meredith Bennett-Smith Posted: 03/28/2013 2:51 pm EDT | Updated: 03/28/2013 8:24 pm EDT After decades of speculation, new research suggests that the Shroud of Turin, one of the […]
By IGAL ACIMAN03/26/2013 22:33 First person: As many cheer the pending normalization process, they know it is based on strategic interests. ISTANBUL – When the news of Prime Minister Binyamin […]
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star Story Summary The fast pace of developments in and around Syria in the past week has pushed the country more quickly toward the end of Bashar Assad’s regime, a situation many of us thought was imminent last autumn. The Syrian government that ruled […]
Story Summary The moderate political and military command structure the United States has been trying to foster within the Syrian opposition appears to be fracturing, a victim of bitter Arab regional rivalries. The battle for political influence has centered around the opposition’s March 19 appointment of Ghassan Hitto as interim […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia March 28, 2013 (AP) Thai authorities and Muslim separatist leaders on Thursday started peace talks aimed at ending almost a decade of unrest in the country’s far south, as a fresh attack by suspected militants killed three Thai soldiers. Thailand’s National Security Council secretary-general Paradorn Pattanathabutr said […]
Prezi: Based on an article “The Myth of Free and Fair Elections in Pakistan” by Amjad Mahmood Khan. (Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, March 14th, 2013 Prezi transcript Non-Christians? 5% Ahmadi Muslims could only vote by disavowing their Muslim identity. They sat out National, State and local elections. The myth of […]
Source: Dissertation Reviews, by Sadia Saeed. A review of Politics of Exclusion: Muslim Nationalism, State Formation and Legal Representations of the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835-1908) founded Ahmadiyya Islam in the Indian sub-continent in the second half of the nineteenth century and found himself embroiled in controversy for […]