The benefits and downsides of building into the sea
Source: BBC By Bianca Nogrady 1 November 2016 All around the world, cities are edging further into the sea. Plans are afoot to build huge islands and giant constructions in […]
The $100bn gold mine and the West Papuans who say they are counting the cost
Grasberg mine in the Indonesian province has been a source of untold wealth for its owners, but local communities say it has brought poverty and oppression The delta of West Papua’s Aikwa river, on Kamoro tribe land. Papuans claim tailing sediment from the mine has suffocated the fish and shrimp […]
Centuries before trying to deny it, Muslims carved Jewish link to Jerusalem into mosque.
Source: T of Israel The previously overlooked dedicatory inscription from the Mosque of Umar in Nuba, a village nearly 26 kilometers (16 miles) southwest of Jerusalem, mentions the village as an endowment for the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque. But what’s striking is that the Dome of the […]
‘Original limestone bed’ on which Jesus was buried said uncovered
Source: Times of Israel Research team claims extraordinary discovery was made as they completed first work in centuries in cave revered as Jesus’s tomb at Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre. More:
Ahmadiyah leaders demand government protection
Bambang MuryantoThe Jakarta Post Yogyakarta | Mon, October 31, 2016 | Vandalism: Books are seen scattered through the ruins in a corner of Ahmadiyah congregation’s Al Kautsar Mosque following mass rioting on Sunday in Purworejo village, Kendal, Central Java. (Courtesy of Ahmadiyah congregation/File) Leaders of Ahmadiyah Muslim communities from Indonesia […]
Diwali fireworks choke Delhi, angering Indians
Source: BBC Angry residents of the Indian capital, Delhi, are sharing images of smog, one day after Diwali celebrations saw huge quantities of fireworks set off. Levels of pollutants in […]
Iran-trained militias join U.S.-backed campaign on Mosul, flying Shi’ite flags
Reuters International OCT 31, 2016 – An armoured vehicle of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) drives south of Mosul, Iraq October 30, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer (reuters_tickers) By Babak Dehghanpisheh AIN NASIR, Iraq (Reuters) – Gun trucks and humvees streamed north on a highway heading to Mosul on Sunday flying the […]
New Appointments of COAS of Pakistan Army
Chief of Army Staff: General Qamar Javed Bajwa (Baja) Chairman Joint Chief of Staff: General Zubair Mahmood Hayat Source:
On a knife edge
Source Dawn Islamabad on Nov 2. Not in large numbers, but just enough to cause alarm.Because the government is already alarmed, even the minimum could work. A bunch of stragglers here and there chanting and marching towards police barricades, TV cameras in tow.Then, let the government do its thing and […]
No the Torah is not flawed
Source: Times of Israel Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo’s The deliberately flawed divine Torah is by far the most problematic article yet by this writer. Whereas Rabbi Cardozo has written that he did not fully observe Tisha B’Av this year, and has called for dispensing with the Codes of Jewish Law […]
At the holiest spot in Christendom, delving for Jesus’s resting place
Source: Times of Israel This Wednesday Oct. 26, 2016 photo shows the moment workers remove the top marble layer of the tomb said to be of Jesus, in the Church of Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. A restoration team has peeled away a marble layer for the first time in centuries […]
Pakistani court closes licensed liquor shops for non-Muslims
Source: Reuters By Syed Raza Hassan | KARACHI, PAKISTAN A Pakistani court on Thursday ordered the closure of all liquor shops in the southern province of Sindh, officials said, cutting […]
Jesus Christ’s ‘burial slab’ in Jerusalem uncovered for first time in centuries
Source:ET The original limestone shelf, known as a “burial bed,” was exposed during the restoration of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre after being covered by marble since at least 1555 AD. “It will be a long scientific analysis, but we will finally be able to see the original rock […]
Philippine leader: God told me to stop swearing
Source:BBC Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says he has promised God he will clean up his famously vulgar language. Arriving in his home city of Davao after a trip to Japan, […]
Muslim Girl Married With Ahmadiyya Boy
Interesting Video? Link to watch in the orginal website Zia H Shah MD’s comment: What if I say this supposed scholar is committing fornication by his mouth or at least by such divisive speech his Nikah is cancelled in the eyes of his angels and now he is living in sin […]
Hijab in profession
Source: Dawn By Sidra Khan; Rawalpindi WELL, I am new to my self-chosen hijab world but I can feel the problems hijabi girls go through every day. These five months are […]
Judiciary is the only third umpire:
Source: Dawn The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday ordered the capital administration not to place any containers or block roads during the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)’s scheduled “lockdown” of Islamabad on November 2. Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui, while hearing the case, directed the capital city administration to ensure smooth running of […]
Extremists ‘shave beards’ as pressure builds on Mosul
Source: ET “They had trimmed their beards and changed their clothes,” the former businessman said. “They must be scared… they are also probably preparing to escape the city.”Residents and military officials said many Islamic State fighters had relocated from eastern Mosul to their traditional bastions on the western bank of […]
The Swiss yogi who never returned home
INDIAN JOURNEY By Anand Chandrasekhar OCT 25, 2016 -www.swissinfo.ch Hablützel became Swami Jnanananda and spent over 60 years in India immersed in spiritual practices (Malcolm Tillis) His mother wanted him to become a banker but Hans Hablützel renounced worldly ambitions to embark on a spiritual journey from Switzerland to India, […]
Philippines’ President Duterte Says He Wants Foreign Troops Out of the Country
Source: Time By Mari Yamaguchi / AP (TOKYO) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, speaking in a country that is a staunch U.S. ally and hosts 50,000 American troops, said Wednesday that he wants his country to be free of foreign troops, possibly within two years. “I want to be friends to […]