Israel’s military says it has carried out air strikes in the Gaza Strip in response to fresh rocket fire, hours before a ceasefire was set to expire. A child is reported to have died, and eyewitnesses say thousands of Gazans have been heading for UN shelters. Talks in Cairo to […]
Source: Spiegel Images of Yazidis fleeing parts of Iraq and Syria have shocked the world and the battle against the jihadists with the Islamic State has united Americans, Europeans, Kurds and Iranians. Can the Islamists be stopped? More:
ibrahim Kalın 19 August 2014, Tuesday The coverage of Turkey by European and American media outlets is becoming increasingly hysterical, and is far from the established rules of critical and objective journalism. Since the Gezi protests broke out in June 2013, Western journalists have faced a barrage of criticism. When […]
[22:78] O ye who believe! bow down and prostrate yourselves in Prayer, and worship your Lord, and do good deeds that you may prosper. [2:185] The prescribed fasting is for a fixed number of days, but whoso among you is sick or is on a journey shall fast the same […]
BBC News: Four far-right Jewish protesters have been arrested at the wedding of a Jewish-born woman who converted to Islam and an Arab Muslim man in Israel. READ MORE…
The Diplomat: by Hamza Mannan — Pakistan’s last election brought Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to power with a sweeping mandate. That was supposed to consolidate the democratic process for the country. This was the first time one civilian government had passed power onto another democratically elected government. The oft-repeated claim […]
Source: RT Thousands of people gathered in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square over the weekend to encourage an end to hostilities through peace negotiations between Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and […]
209. The example of hypocrite [2:18] Their case is like the case of a person who kindled a fire, and when it lighted up all around him, Allah took away their light and left them in thick darkness; they see not. [2:19] They are deaf, dumb and blind; so they […]
If the demand for Pakistan was firm and etched in stone, acceptance of the Cabinet Mission Plan indicated a clear and equally irrevocable departure from it Last week, The Hindu carried an excerpt from a book by Assistant Professor Venkat Dhulipala of a US university provocatively titled Creating a New […]
ET: The Iranians, as much as the Americans, have, alongside the Iraqis, breathed a sigh of relief, as rendered bereft of international and regional allies and perhaps, most importantly under pressure from Ayatollah Uzma Sistani, Prime Minister Maliki has agreed to step down and has endorsed the nomination of Haider […]
Source: dawn.com GUJRANWALA: A pall of fear hangs thick over Gujranwala’s now eerily silent People’s Colony. It has been weeks since an enraged mob set fire to five homes belonging to […]
Source: Haaretz In 2014, 63 Israelis converted from Judaism and 19 from Islam to other religions. An Israeli who wants to convert to Islam must appear before the Muslim religious […]
Epigraph: This day all good things have been made lawful for you. And the food of the People of the Book is lawful for you, and your food is lawful […]
Summary by Rami G. Khouri One of the fascinating dimensions of the battle between Israel and Palestine is how Israeli leaders and their American apologists keep changing their propaganda message aimed at generally ignorant Western audiences. This strategy has actually worked for some time, as many Western powers have shunned […]
HARUN YAHYA Published — Friday 15 August 2014 Billions of people have lived on this earth since the time of the Prophets Adam, Moses, Abraham, Lot, Jonah, Joseph and the Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon them all). They were both of deep faith and sincere devotion to Allah who obeyed […]
JEDDAH: NADIM AL-HAMID Published — Monday 18 August 2014 Hundreds of couples are to tie the knot in congregation at the Jeddah Center for Forums & Events on Aug. 21. […]
By Mohamed Cherif swissinfo.ch (Reuters) The World Council of Churches (WCC) says dialogue is not possible with Iraq’s Islamic extremists, who have forced about one million Iraqis – including Christians […]
Interview Conducted by Julia Amalia Heyer SPIEGEL.DE Israel pulled out of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, but left behind death and destruction. Israeli sociologist Eva Illouz tells SPIEGEL that her […]
Alarabiya: by Hisham Melham — Most people are averse to introspection, and rarely engage in self-criticism. Arabs are no different. However, the political culture that developed in the Arab World in the last 60 years, particularly in countries ruled by autocratic regimes, shifted blame from their catastrophic failures in governance […]
ANKARA – Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç announced that Turkey may switch to a presidential system after the 2015 election, on Saturday. Speaking to Northern Iraq’s Rudaw TV, Arınç pointed out that Turkey has already adopted a semi-presidential system, since Erdoğan has been elected with 52% of the public’s […]