Henna business gets an Eid boost
Eid is not only a time for happy celebrations, but also the chance for enterprising women to boost their henna businesses. These enterprises have evolved to such an extent that […]
Eight hundred dead Palestinians. But Israel has impunity There’s something very odd about our reactions to these two outrageous death tolls
by Robert Fisk, The Independent Impunity is the word that comes to mind. Eight hundred dead Palestinians. Eight hundred. That’s infinitely more than twice the total dead of flight MH17 […]
If we can have just war, why not just terrorism?
theguardian: by Giles Fraser — For decades now the United Nations has been unable to agree a definition of terrorism. Even our own supreme court recently concluded that there is no internationally agreed definition. The stumbling block has been that western governments want states and state agents to be exempt […]
On arrogance and war: How and why is Israel weakening Abbas, strengthening Hamas, and destroying Gaza?
Marwan Bishara ALJAZEERA Only a few weeks ago, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed to get away with it all. He rebuffed the Obama administration’s peace overtures, expanded illegal settlements in the West Bank, and reneged on his agreement with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas by refusing to release the last […]
Mecca: Fire at Grand Mosque in Mecca leaves 14 injured
Fire at Grand Mosque in Mecca leaves 14 injured Three were hospitalized after a fire broke out in scaffolding. World Bulletin / News Desk muslimworld/141273 A fire broke out on Wednesday night at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam’s holiest site, leaving 14 people injured. The Saudi Red Crescent Authority […]
Whose God Is the One True God?
The Huffington Post: By Ronald Tiersky, Eastman professor of political science, Amherst College As ISIS/Islamic State takes over Mosul and other parts of Syria and Iraq it is imposing an […]
ISIS jihadists order genital mutilation of all women in Iraq
Source: TOI GENEVA: Jihadists in Iraq have ordered that all women between the ages of 11 and 46 must undergo female genital mutilation, which could affect up to four million women and girls in the war-ravaged country, a UN official said Thursday.The UN’s second most senior official in Iraq, Jacqueline […]
Laylat Al Qadr 2014: What Is The 'Night Of Power?'
Epigraph: The Night of Destiny is better than a thousand months. Therein descend angels and the Spirit by the command of their Lord — with every matter. (Al Quran 97:4-5) […]
Laylat Al Qadr 2014: What Is The ‘Night Of Power?’
Epigraph: The Night of Destiny is better than a thousand months. Therein descend angels and the Spirit by the command of their Lord — with every matter. (Al Quran 97:4-5) […]
Prepare for the Middle East’s version of the Thirty Years’ War
Summary It is a region wracked by religious struggle between competing traditions of the faith. Conflicts take place within and between states; civil wars and proxy wars become impossible to distinguish. That could be a description of today’s Middle East. In the Middle East in 2011, change came after a […]
Ex-Israeli Security Chief Diskin: 'All the Conditions Are There for an Explosion'
Interview Conducted by Julia Amalia Heyer REUTERS SPIEGEL.DE In an interview with SPIEGEL, Yuval Diskin, former director of Israel’s internal security service Shin Bet, speaks of the current clash between Israel and the Palestinians, what must be done to achieve peace and the lack of leadership in the Middle East. […]
Ex-Israeli Security Chief Diskin: ‘All the Conditions Are There for an Explosion’
Interview Conducted by Julia Amalia Heyer REUTERS SPIEGEL.DE In an interview with SPIEGEL, Yuval Diskin, former director of Israel’s internal security service Shin Bet, speaks of the current clash between Israel and the Palestinians, what must be done to achieve peace and the lack of leadership in the Middle East. […]
Jeremy Bowen's Gaza notebook: I saw no evidence of Hamas using Palestinians as human shields
Newstateman: Trouble has been brewing between Israel and Hamas for months. The signs were there before the Israeli and Palestinian teenagers were kidnapped and murdered, and before Israel’s crackdown on Hamas in the West Bank. It’s all horribly familiar. Missiles, rockets and threats, and another Israeli prime minister saying that […]
Jeremy Bowen’s Gaza notebook: I saw no evidence of Hamas using Palestinians as human shields
Newstateman: Trouble has been brewing between Israel and Hamas for months. The signs were there before the Israeli and Palestinian teenagers were kidnapped and murdered, and before Israel’s crackdown on Hamas in the West Bank. It’s all horribly familiar. Missiles, rockets and threats, and another Israeli prime minister saying that […]
Islamic scholars condemn expulsion of Iraq’s ‘Christian brothers’
Yahoo News: DOHA (Reuters) – An influential group of Islamic scholars has denounced the forced expulsion of Christians from northern Iraq by Islamist hardliners, saying it paves the way for fighting between the country’s ethnic and religious groups. The Christian community of Mosul fled to the Kurdish autonomous region last […]
Islamic scholars condemn expulsion of Iraq's 'Christian brothers'
Yahoo News: DOHA (Reuters) – An influential group of Islamic scholars has denounced the forced expulsion of Christians from northern Iraq by Islamist hardliners, saying it paves the way for fighting between the country’s ethnic and religious groups. The Christian community of Mosul fled to the Kurdish autonomous region last […]
Religious leaders call for returning to religion as means of dialogue
AMMAN — HRH Prince Hassan has joined Christian and Jewish leaders in a joint appeal to “the leaders and brokers of power” in the Middle East and the world to turn holy spaces into venues for dialogue and conversation. Instead of devolving “into venues that separate us from each other”, […]
Today’s Beautiful Hadith is about Religion
Reported by Abu Huraira (RA): The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, ‘Religion is very easy and whoever overburdens himself in his religion will not be able to continue in that way. So you should not be extremists, but try to be near to perfection and receive the good tidings […]
The Muslim who gave up his life for Mosul’s Christians
Chaldean website ankawa.com says a university professor was killed after speaking out against anti-Christian persecution. Meanwhile, the Islamic State has set the jizyah at 450 dollars GIORGIO BERNARDELLI He refused to keep silent about the violence agaist Mosul’s Christians who are forced to choose between converting to the Muslim faith, […]
Captain Haris Suleman: Tribute to a young hero
Credit: Dawn.com By Fatema Imani KARACHI: Young pilot Haris Suleman was undertaking a historic 30-day journey around the world to raise funds for education in Pakistan when his life was […]