Arabic makes debut at papal audience with eye on region
Reuters | Oct 10, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES VATICAN CITY — Arabic made its debut as one of the official languages at Pope Benedict’s weekly general audiences on Wednesday as […]
Europe’s first hijab-wearing mayor to take office in Bosnia
Express Tribune: VISOKO: A new woman mayor in Bosnia who is the first in her country and the continent to wear the hijab, said Tuesday her election was “a model for […]
Heathrow arrests: are Islamists training in Syria for attacks in UK?
Terror arrests reflect a new mood of apprehension over the fallout from the Arab Spring by Robert Fox THE WEEK http://www.theweek.co.uk/uk-news/49488/heathrow-arrests-are-islamists-training-syria-attacks-uk THE ARREST at Heathrow airport last night of a man and woman off a flight from Egypt has underscored fears that militant Islamists are going to fight in Syria, […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Holds Open Forum on Anti-Islam Movie
Source: Matawan-Aberdeen Patch via Wasim Sroya: The local Ahmadiyya Muslim Community held an open forum Sunday on the anti-Islam film and the violent protests that it sparked across the Muslim world. A trailer for the film was posted on Youtube by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula under the username “sam bacile” in July but did […]
The quiet Muslim revolution in Europe
I have found that Muslims throughout Europe are engaged in significant and sincere efforts to integrate into European society, while at the same time remaining faithful to Islam – and […]
Ireland ‘close to oil billions’
Source: BBC Ireland is on the verge of securing revenue from oil that could run into billions of pounds. Providence Resources Plc, an Irish and UK company, has confirmed its Barryroe site, 30 miles off the Cork coast, should yield 280m barrels of oil. The money generated will depend on […]
All Western Women should Know Machiavelli’s Judgment for Them
Written and Collected by Zia H Shah MD The Western civilization is as much based on The Prince, by Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, published in 1532, as Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, […]
Cabinet agrees new circumcision bill
Source: The Local If the government has its way, religious circumcision will remain legal in Germany providing it is carried out to medical standards. Angela Merkel’s cabinet agreed re-drafted legislation on Wednesday. More:
Turkey shows double duplicity on Syria
Source: Asiatimes: With the blessing of the US and its other North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) partners, as well as its own national legislature if not the entire Turkish population, some of whom have been holding mass rallies in opposition to Ankara’s war policy vis-a-vis Syria, the Turkish government has […]
NATO ‘will defend’ Turkey against Syria as Ankara moves F-16s to border
Russian TV: NATO has promised to back Ankara in its escalating conflict with Syria, as Turkey adds 25 new F-16 fighter jets to its border protection force. It follows days […]
Can Arabs and Chinese save the (Swiss) tourist industry?
by Sophie Douez, swissinfo.ch For decades, Swiss hotels and mountain resorts have been able to rely on Swiss and visiting Germans to fill their coffers. But each year there are […]
The Inflation Monster How Monetary Policy Threatens Savings
Source: Spiegel DPA Central banks are currently flooding cash-strapped industrialized nations with money. This may help governments reduce their debt load, but it also erodes the value of people’s savings. A massive redistribution of wealth is threatening to take place in Germany and Europe — from the bottom to the […]
Europe and Britain sinking under weight of welfare costs
Daily Telegraph: So how did Mr Nasty – aka George Osborne – do? I give the Chancellor a qualified thumbs-up for his party conference speech, even if the word “growth” was […]
Woman who claimed to be world’s oldest dies at 132
Source: TOI: LONDON: A Georgian woman, who claimed to be the world’s oldest living person surviving through two World Wars and the Russian Revolution, has died at the age of 132. Antisa Khvichava, who lived in the remote mountain village of Sachino in Georgia, held Soviet-era documents which said she […]
Trial by ordeal or the Shariah Law?
Epigraph: “And as for the man who steals and the woman who steals, cut off their hands in retribution of their offence as an exemplary punishment from Allah. And Allah […]
Members of Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya Germany donating Blood-A very short video shown in prime news of German TV
Source: Zafarullah Khan of Germany Click HERE to watch the video: Newscaster explaining the blood donation campaign, which Majlis Khuddamul Ahmaddiyya, an auxiliary organization of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Germany organized with the cooperation of Red Cross Germany. About 100 Khuddams donated the blood.
Gurdon and Yamanaka share Nobel prize for stem cell work
Source: BBC Two pioneers of stem cell research have shared the Nobel prize for medicine or physiology. John Gurdon from the UK and Shinya Yamanaka from Japan were awarded the prize for changing adult cells into stem cells, which can become any other type of cell in the body. Prof […]
Turkey’s parliament authorises military operations against Syria
Guardian: Turkish military fires into Syria for second day after five civilians are killed by shelling in border town Turkey’s parliament has authorised military operations against Syria and its military […]
The wonder in the desert
by Christian Walther in Petra, swissinfo.ch Exactly 200 years ago, the remarkable cliff city of Petra in present-day Jordan was rediscovered by Basel native Johann Ludwig Burckhardt. To mark the […]
Polish Hardware on Mars
Source: The Warsaw Voice: NASA’s Curiosity rover, which successfully landed on Mars Aug. 6, is fitted with infrared detectors developed and manufactured by Poland’s Vigo System company. The Curiosity mission was one of the most important NASA projects in recent years. Curiosity, which weighs almost a ton, touched down on […]