This is in reference to Aries Musnandar’s letter titled “Why do you defend Ahmadiyah?” (the Post, May 4). Protestantism and Catholicism are not two different religions. They are two different strains of the same faith (Christianity), in the same way that Shia, Sunni, Alawi, Sufi and Ahmadiyah Islam are all […]
RAMALLAH (Agencies) – The Palestinian Authority said on Monday it had not been able to pay public sector salaries for the first time since 2007 because of Israel’s decision to halt the transfer of tax funds, Reuters reported. Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said Israel’s decision, taken in protest at a […]
By ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah on Monday approved the designs of new housing units he ordered to construct in different provinces of the […]
By MUNIR AHMED, Associated Press ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s prime minister defended his nation’s military and intelligence services on Monday and said Pakistan was not solely to blame for the failure to detect Osama bin Laden’s presence in a garrison town close to the capital. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, in […]
By ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: An anonymous Saudi man has offered to pay for the costs to repatriate stranded Filipinos who have been camping outside the Philippine Consulate in Jeddah for the past two weeks. According to Migrante-Middle East, an alliance of Filipino migrants group providing assistance to overseas Filipino workers […]
BEIRUT — Syrian security forces arrested hundreds of activists and anti-government protesters in house-to-house raids across the country Monday, part of an escalating government crackdown aimed at stamping out the nationwide revolt engulfing the country. President Bashar Assad has dispatched army troops and tanks to crush the seven-week uprising that […]
HASSAN BIN YOUSSEF YASSIN | ARAB NEWS Stability of monarchies is in sharp contrast to the failure of Arab republics Napoleon Bonaparte once said that monarchy was the most sensible and effective form of government. In any history or course on political theory in the West, it is taken for […]
By Khetam Malkawi AMMAN – Amidst a period of regional unrest, Petra has emerged as a top travel destination for 2011, according to a leading tourism website. TripAdvisor.com has ranked the UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the New Seven Wonders of the World as one of the 25 […]
By CHRISTIAN C. SAHNER It’s Friday and the weekly congregational prayer has just ended at the Umayyad Mosque, Syria’s most famous monument. As the faithful exit, they walk past an unassuming bit of masonry on the mosque’s southern wall: a Greek inscription above a blocked doorway, with a most […]
By Selim Saheb Ettaba Agence France-Presse OCCUPIED JERUSALEM – Even as Israel slammed the door on any dialogue with the Palestinians after a unity deal with Hamas, the Islamic group has been slowly inching its way towards a tacit acceptance of Israel. Despite being officially dedicated to “liberating all of […]
By BADEA ABU AL-NAJA | ARAB NEWS Published: May 7, 2011 23:34 Updated: May 7, 2011 23:35 JEDDAH: Saudi authorities have refuted a BBC report claiming that the Zamzam well in Makkah is polluted and that drinking the holy water could cause diseases such as cancer. Zuhair Nawab, president of […]
and: “In case two parties of the believers fight against each other, bring about reconciliation between them. If, however, one of them persists in belligerence and transgresses against the other, bring your collective might to bear upon the one that transgresses to force him until he agrees that his dispute […]
remarks on website: Full analysis of the WikiLeaks’ Iraq War Logs may add 15,000 civilian deaths. This web-site shows only the fully documented Civilian deaths. Other websites speak of up to one million death. The truth will be somewhere in between. Of course in the chaotic situation not all death […]
BEIJING – With an annual growth rate of “20 to 30 percent”, outbound direct investment (ODI) will overtake foreign direct investment (FDI) “within three years”, a senior Ministry of Commerce official said. The United States, the European Union and Latin America are set to see “a rapid” increase in ODI from China, […]
HRC is deeply concerned by the escalating situation in Syria, including the deaths of protestors and security personnel, and the deepening social polarisation. Syria has been at the forefront of forging an independent bloc in the region, that has stood by the Palestinian cause and repelled foreign intervention in the […]
By SAEED AL-BATATI | ARAB NEWS SANAA: A tirade from Yemen’s embattled president on Friday threatened to scupper the Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) efforts to end the political deadlock in the country. Ali Abdullah Saleh told a mass rally of supporters on Friday that he would resist calls to quit, […]
BASSEM MROUE Associated Press= BEIRUT (AP) — A human rights group says Syrian security forces have killed 16 people during widespread protests. Thousands of protesters held rallies Friday in major areas across the country, including the capital, Damascus, and its suburbs. Ammar Qurabi is the head of the National Organization […]
(The Syrian Government version): May 06, 2011 Damascus, (SANA)-A military source said that an armed criminal group attacked on Friday a military checkpoint, the police and security forces west of Baba Amr near al-Sultaniyeh Bridge in Homs. The terrorist group fired at the checkpoint members, killing Officer Ahmad Hallaq and […]
The account of the killing of the world’s most wanted man has changed dramatically over the course of just three days. From whether Osama bin Laden was armed when he was shot dead to whether he used his own wife as a human shield, the official narrative seems to change […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times With the election of a son of a Kenyan man to the highest office in USA we see gradual perfection of the vision expressed in the words, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” […]