Rape and Terror on the streets of Pakistan By Rafia Zakaria 25 Feb, 2015 In the Lahore Children’s Hospital, a seven-year-old girl from Sargodha who was raped lies in critical condition. According to the doctors, the injuries sustained by the child on the lower part of her body […]
Source: BBC A knife-wielding mob has hacked to death a US-Bangladeshi blogger whose writing on religion had brought threats from Islamist hardliners. Avijit Roy, an atheist who advocated secularism, was attacked in Dhaka as he walked back from a book fair with his wife, who was hurt in the attack. […]
Washington (CNN) Is the Democratic party over for Israel? By Alexandra Jaffe, CNN Updated 5:59 AM ET, Fri February 27, 2015 For years, support for Israel has been one of the […]
392. Commandment – And give the women their dowries willingly [4:5] And give the women their dowries willingly. But if they, of their own pleasure, remit to you a part thereof, then enjoy it as something pleasant and wholesome.
HARUN YAHYA ARABNEWS.COM One of the important characteristics of a Muslim is that he remains in a positive state of mind, whatever the circumstances. He tries for the best and […]
Published — Friday 27 February 2015 Last update 26 February 2015 11:53 pm The Glorious Qur’an, the Muslims’ religious Scripture, was revealed in Arabic to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) through the Angel Gabriel (peace be upon him). The revelation occurred piecemeal, over a period of 23 years, […]
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has called on Muslims to shun intolerance and extremism, work to unify their ranks and seek international cooperation. King Salman made these […]
Banksy has not held back on his views about Gaza For one of his most provocative political projects to date, graffiti artist Banksy headed to Gaza. Accompanied by a short video documentary (above), the anonymous artist posted photographs of his stencils on concrete and rubble, including an image of a […]
After escape from Pakistan, Christian family hides in BANGKOK: They were a middle-class family in Pakistan, living in a comfortable three-bedroom apartment with a modern kitchen and a PlayStation for the three kids. Fluent in English, the father ran his own moving company while the mother taught art. A death […]
Washington Post: Mother Teresa, the Roman Catholic missionary who became an international icon for her charitable work, has been dropped into modern India’s religious debate after the head of the Hindu nationalist group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) criticized the intentions behind her work. “It’s good to work for a cause with selfless intentions. […]
376. Commandment – And those who find no means of marriage should keep themselves chaste [24:34] And those who find no means of marriage should keep themselves chaste, until Allah grants them means out of His bounty. And such as desire a deed of manumission in writing from among those whom your right hands possess, write it […]
389. Commandment – Your wives are a tilth for you; so approach your tilth when and how you like and send ahead some good for yourselves [2:224] Your wives are a tilth for you; so approach your tilth when and how you like and send ahead some good for yourselves; and fear Allah and know […]
390. Commandment – And they ask thee concerning menstruation. Say: ‘It is a harmful thing, so keep away from women during menstruation, and go not in unto them until they are clean [2:223] And they ask thee concerning menstruation. Say: ‘It is a harmful thing, so keep away from women during […]
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman held wide-ranging talks here Wednesday with King Abdallah of Jordan on a range of key regional issues with special reference to the […]
HRW: “Islam is evil” is just one of many anti-Muslim slurs uttered by retired Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin, executive vice-president of the Washington-based Family Research Council (FRC) and former undersecretary of defense for intelligence under US President George W. Bush. So one might assume that Malaysia, a predominantly Muslim […]
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AFP | Feb 24, 2015 | Jordan Times In this November 2, 2011 file photo, a worker stands by construction material to unload at a new housing unit in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Har Homa (AP photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — The number of new settler housing units under […]
Aljazeera.com: Alleged comments by one of India’s Hindu leaders, questioning the intentions of Mother Teresa’s charitable work in India have prompted debate on Twitter. On Monday, Mohan Bhagwat, leader of the pro-Hindu group, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), reportedly questioned the work of the Catholic nun, stating, “Here, the service isn’t […]
Guardian: In Dadun village, in China’s southern Hainan province, some residents are more equal than others: the men. When inhabitants were told to make way for a tourism development, they learned that only men would receive compensation. Now, 92 angry female residents are suing the village committee. “The money used […]
By Dr Abdus Salam, Nobel Laureate in Physics A semi-quantitative measure of this is given by George Sarton in his monumental History of Science. Sarton divides his story of the […]