Jihadist violence ‘killed 5,000 in November’
A closer look at the BBC’s investigation on the global cost of jihadist violence More than 5,000 people worldwide died in November as a result of jihadist violence, a BBC […]
Pakistan’s Malala moment
Source: ET Malala Yousufzai on December 10 made history as she became the world’s youngest winner of the Nobel peace prize award. Aged only 17, the teenager from Swat collected the peace prize in Oslo alongside Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi, 60, who has worked tirelessly to rescue children […]
Amnesty: Death of Palestinian Minister Highlights Excessive Force By Israeli Army
The death of a Palestinian minister during a protest against land confiscations in the West Bank may have resulted from arbitrary and abusive force by Israeli forces against demonstrators, said […]
The Muslim father behind the Pakistani Nobel Prize winner
BY MANSURA BASHIR MINHASMANSURAB@YAHOO.COM This is the opening line of I am Malala, the compelling memoir that chronicles the struggles of Malala Yousafzai, who at 17 has become the youngest […]
Malala Yousafzai, Kailash Satyarthi win Nobel Peace Prize
Kailash Satyarthi (L), Indian anti-child labour activist and head of the South Asian Coalition Against Child Servitude,and Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai (r). — File photo by Reuters The […]
Urdu Videos: Blasphemy and then Apology by Junaid Jamshed?
Junaid Jamshed (Urdu: جنید جمشید), is a Pakistani recording artist, television personality, fashion designer, occasional actor, and singer-songwriter. After graduating with a degree in engineering from the UET Lahore, Jamshed briefly worked as a civilian contractor […]
Qur’an lesson for today: 317. Commandment – Eat of that which Allah has provided for you of what is lawful and good
317. Commandment – Eat of that which Allah has provided for you of what is lawful and good [5:89] And eat of that which Allah has provided for you of what is lawful and good. And fear Allah in Whom you believe. [20:82] ‘Eat of the good things that We […]
Iraqi Kurd urges regional rule for Iraqi Sunnis
Summary Iraq’s central government in Baghdad must give up much of its authority to local power centers — and potentially permit the creation of an autonomous Sunni Muslim region — […]
Qur’an lesson for today: 316. Commandment – Eat and drink of what Allah has provided
316. Commandment – Eat and drink of what Allah has provided [2:61] And remember the time when Moses prayed for water for his people, and We said: ‘Strike the rock with thy rod,’ and there gushed forth from it twelve springs, so that every tribe knew their drinking place. ‘Eat […]
Activists to meet with Indonesian president over displaced Ahmadiyya – Say the minority Muslim group’s rights have been routinely violated
Ryan Dagur, Jakarta Indonesia December 8, 2014 Human rights activists said Monday they will be pushing President Joko Widodo to find a solution to the Ahmadiyya refugee situation during a […]
Muhammad Never Tortured Prisoners of War
Epigraph: Now, when you meet in war those who are bent on denying the truth, smite their necks until you overcome them fully, and then tighten their bonds; but thereafter […]
The 390-Euro Man: A Pakistani Slave’s Path to Freedom
By Hasnain Kazim spiegel.de On the day Hanif Masih is to be freed after spending half of his life as a slave, the 28 year old rubs olive oil into […]
The only constitution the world needs is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Epigraph: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of […]
ISIS‘rules’ laid out in an awful new list of dos and don’ts, from treatment of virgins to reasons for beating.
Source: The Daily Beast: Question 5: Is it permissible to have intercourse with a female captive immediately after taking possession [of her]? If she is a virgin, he [her master] can have intercourse with her immediately after taking possession of her. However, is she isn’t, her uterus must be purified […]
Malaysians must stand for rationality in discourse on race and religion
Source. UCA News It might be a little, but not too late, to finally see some prominent Malays speak up against the national discourse on race and religion that has been going pear-shaped recently. Twenty-five of them, retired top civil servants and personalities that helped Malaysia to punch above its […]
Learning to govern religion democratically in Indonesia
Source: UCA News.Com While some activists feel that the best regulation of religion is the least regulation of religion, this is not the policy of most states. Most states, including most democracies, are heavily involved in the management of religion. These democracies manage to synthesize their commitments to individual human […]
Syrian Hebrew Bibles Could Spark Ownership Dispute
Huff Post: JERUSALEM (AP) — Two decades after Israeli spies helped Syrian Jews whisk ancient Hebrew bibles from Damascus to Jerusalem, Israel’s national library asked an Israeli court on Monday to grant it custodianship over the manuscripts — a move that could spark an ownership battle over some of the […]
Bold Modi tackles Muslim Kashmir head on
Epigraph: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of […]
Israel’s parliament dissolves amid political upheaval
By Michael Schwartz and Catherine E. Shoichet Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli lawmakers voted to dissolve the nation’s parliament Monday amid mounting political upheaval. The bill dissolving the 120-seat Knesset passed […]
Pakistan: A Slave’s Path to Freedom
Pakistan needs a Lincoln to abolish slavery By Hasnain Kazim, Der Spiegel Dec 8, 2014 Diego Ibarra Sanchez/ DER SPIEGEL For more than 16 years, Hanif Masih worked as an indentured servant in a brick factory in Pakistan. Then, an aid organization purchased his freedom. Though he remains extremely poor, […]