Haifa Israel is the City of Peaceful Coexistence.
Mahmood Mosque on Mount Caramel in Haifa Source: Gather By Earl Shugerman The recent round of fighting between Israel and Gaza was depressing to most Israelis and Palestinians. This tragically […]
‘Mehr,’ Iran’s Version Of YouTube, Hits The Web
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran says it has launched a video-sharing website in the latest move to create government-sanctioned alternatives to Internet powerhouses such as YouTube. The Web page of Iranian state TV says the new site – Mehr, or affection in Farsi – seeks to promote Iranian and Islamic culture […]
Graveyard of tolerance When graves become a target of the wrath of ideologues, one is forced to ask “what happened to the state?”
Source. The News International via Nasim Malik of Sweden By Waqar Gillani The armed men tied the caretakers with ropes and locked them up in the living quarters of the graveyard before they moved on to the graves. The destruction of tombstones went on for about 40 minutes. It was […]
Saudi Arabia aims high in solar power generation
(MENAFN – Arab News) The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has announced an ambitious goal of reaching 41GW of solar power generation capacity by 2032 (25GW of concentrated solar power (CSP) and 16GW of Photovoltaic (PV). A 9GW wind energy capacity is also being envisaged. Building up energy generation capacity will […]
Trapped by Traffickers: Fleeing Rohingya Held Captive on the Thai Border
Source: Phuket Wan PHUKET: Rohingya fleeing ethnic cleansing and starvation in Burma are driving a surge in business for people traffickers on the Thai border with Malaysia. The would-be refugees, who arrive by boat, are imprisoned in primitive conditions until someone pays for their passage across the border into Malaysia. […]
Iran seizes 11 tonnes of drug in ‘biggest’ bust
TEHRAN: Iran’s border patrol police said it seized more than 11 tonnes of drugs, killing one smuggler, in the “biggest” bust since the 1979 Islamic revolution, media reported on Sunday. […]
Muslim conflicts
Dawn.com: By Munir Akram, former Pakistan ambassador to the UN FROM the desert of the Sahel to the islands of the Pacific, Muslim peoples and states are today afflicted by conflicts and violence of varying dimensions and intensity. The malicious myth propagated by Islam’s adversaries is that Muslims are prone […]
Correction: Historical Photo of Emir Abdur Rahman Khan in Pindi: Invited to Ahmadiyya By Promised Messiah Islam
The Friday Times: Eidtors Note: A short article and photo of Emir Abdur Rahman Khan of Afghanistan, who was addressed by Hazrat Masih Moud (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). In April 1896, Hadhrat Masih-e-Maud(as) wrote a letter to the Amir, inviting him into the fold of true […]
Congratulations on your inhumanity
Source: ET It sends a shiver down my spine when I hear about how inhumane people are and how much frustration and hatred is brewing in this nation of the pure. PHOTO: REUTERS Congrats on this morose day to you, Where the sky is a shade of gloomy blue, And […]
Teaching human rights in schools
Source: The Express Tribune (ET) In a welcome development recently, the Sindh High Court directed provincial law officers to comment on a petition that seeks to include a human rights […]
Bangladesh witnesses widespread violence as opposition enforces blockade
Source: TOI DHAKA: Violence broke out here on Sunday after main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its rightwing allies enforced a nationwide eight-hour road blockade protesting scrapping of non-party caretaker government system for election oversight. Witnesses said several people were injured in sporadic incidents of violence as the activists […]
No Rest in Hell
Source: ET One can go on — however, not convincingly. This is not their land, not anymore. This is where mediocre bureaucrats decide to mutilate the tombstone of our first and only Nobel laureate from, “Abdus Salam, the First Muslim Nobel Laureate” to the ridiculous, factually incorrect, “Abdus Salam, the […]
Saving Malala to save Islam
by Jonathan M.A. Ghaffar There are times when the miraculous occurs for all to see. But when the next grisly or sensationalist event in the news shoves aside the novelty […]
Six jihadists arrested near Syrian border
by Taylor Luck | Dec 08, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Authorities have arrested six jihadists along the northern border over the past 48 hours, officials said on Saturday, amid a reported rise in attempts by Islamic militants to infiltrate Syria. According to a security source, authorities arrested four […]
Mataf expansion to double current capacity
MAKKAH: ARAB NEWS A vast expansion project for the mataf, (the circumambulation space around the Kaaba), is currently under way. The new mataf when completed, after three years, will accommodate […]
Bashar al-Assad, Syria, and the truth about chemical weapons
Bashar’s father Hafez al-Assad was brutal but never used chemical arms. And do you know which was the first army to use gas in the Middle East? by Robert Fisk, The Independent The bigger the lie the more people will believe it. We all know who said that – but […]
Rebels may use chemical weapons: Syria (Video of the ‘Free Syrian Army’ threatening the use of chemical weapons on the Alawite community)
THE Syrian government has warned that rebels could use chemical weapons in their fight against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, and insists that the regime would never unleash such arms on its own people. British Foreign Secretary William Hague, however, said there was evidence the Damascus government could actually employ chemical […]
The case of a country being mortgaged in the name of religion
Three alleged incidents in the past few days have gone relatively unnoticed: the desecration of over 120 Ahmadi community graves in close neighbourhood of the Sharifs’ mansions in Model Town, […]
Turkey to exempt 50 countries from visa restrictions
RIYADH: ABDUL HANNAN TAGO Saturday 8 December 2012 Turkey is planning to exempt 50 countries from visa entry, which is already applied to many Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, as […]
Muslim Brotherhood Ready for More Active Role in Jordan
The Muslim Brotherhood is one of the largest Islamic groups in the Arab world. For years, the Brotherhood has been banned in a number of Middle Eastern countries. Yet the […]