Source: ET A Muslim girl has two French flags and a headband which reads “fraternity” on her headscarf during a protest defending religious headgear in 2004. PHOTO: REUTERS PARIS: A Paris appeal court on Wednesday upheld the right of a nursery to fire a female employee who insisted on wearing an […]
By Zoe Mintz on October 08 2013 4:08 PM International Business Times The origin of Ashkenazi Jews, the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe and their descendants, has remained a controversial topic in archaeogenetics. But a recent study rooted in DNA evidence may shed light on how the closed community […]
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis attacked unfettered capitalism as “a new tyranny” and beseeched global leaders to fight poverty and growing inequality, in a document on Tuesday setting out a platform […]
Source: TOI VILNIUS, LITHUANIA: After its recent posturing against US over Syria, Russia is now on a collision course with the European Union as it works towards scuttling a decisive summit in Lithuania – a Baltic nation that was under Soviet rule two decades ago. Kremlin’s iron hand has now made Ukraine haltof the process […]
David E. Cooper on Religion Without God Of Gods and Philosophers November 25th, 2013 RONALD DWORKIN DIED, aged 81, in February 2013. Published posthumously, Religion Without God, which is based […]
Empty Church Source: Huffington Post CANTERBURY, England (RNS) A former archbishop of Canterbury has warned that the Church of England faces extinction in less than 25 years unless it can […]
Source: BBC A BBC investigation into a UK-based Amazon warehouse has found conditions that a stress expert said could cause “mental and physical illness”. Prof Michael Marmot was shown secret filming of night shifts involving up to 11 miles of walking – where an undercover worker was expected to collect orders […]
A Wollongong woman has accused a local accountancy firm of sacking her for wanting to wear the Muslim headscarf. Mariam El Hassan, 23, had worked at the firm for five years. Her lawyer says she asked the firm if she could start wearing the headscarf to work for religious reasons […]
wissinfo.ch and agencies November 21, 2013 – 11:03 Swiss diplomat Pierre Krähenbühl has been appointed commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near […]
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta had participated in Malta’s Annual National Book Fair 2013. The Book Fair was officially inaugurated by Hon. Stefan Buontempo MP – Parliamentary Secretary for Research, […]
By Shahira Mahran OnIslam.net’s Staff Wednesday, 12 June 2013 00:00 Emad Abu Ar-rub Emad Abu Ar-Rub is the Head of Fatwa Committee in Ukraine, and the Imam of Al-Massar Islamic […]
LONDON: Some tutor somewhere is about to get lucky. A wealthy foreign student at Cambridge University is offering a private tutor £48,000 (about Rs 48 lakh) for just 16 weeks […]
by Mohammed Saboor Nadeem 21. November 2013 The German newspaper “Süddeutsche” and also the German television news service “Tagesschau” reported in detail how US intelligence services used interviews-protocols of asylum seekers in Germany e.g. to plan US-drone-attacks. A former Pentagon-official reported, that all these informations are recorded in the so […]
swissinfo.ch and agencies November 20, 2013 – 16:37 Cabinet has urged parliament to strike a clause in an initiative calling for the automatic deportation of foreigners found guilty of a […]
Source: The Guardian By Nicholas Watt, chief political correspondent Centre for Social Justice says poorer people ‘bearing brunt of storm’ as debt hits £1.4tn – almost as high as economic output Personal debt in Britain has reached £1.4tn – almost the same amount as Britain’s national economic output – according […]
swissinfo.ch November 20, 2013 – 12:36 Zurich has tied for fifth place in a global ranking of the top 50 cities for students. The 2013 analysis by British ranking company […]
Source: Jihad Watch Mario Joseph was born in an ordinary Muslim Indian family. His father prepared him—the third among six brothers—as a spiritual leader: thus, aged 10, Mario entered a Koranic school, and when he returned from it at the age of 18, he became an Imam-khatib in a local […]
By AIDA CERKEZ Associated Press November 19, 2013 – 11:38 am EST SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — A Bosnian court on Tuesday released 10 Bosnian Serb war crimes convicts, including six jailed […]
Russia Today: Two major military-related groups, Officers of Russia and Soldiers’ Mothers, have addressed the Nobel Committee with a request to evaluate the inhumane statements made by the US president […]