Islamic Art: In Paradise There Is Always Water
Huff Post: Michael Wolfe When I first traveled in Spain, the Alhambra Palace and its summer gardens were not yet tourist magnets attracting millions every year. Their beauty is indescribable, […]
More MPs leave the PVV as the election candidate list is published
Three MPs for the anti-immigration PVV are being forced out of parliament and one has already quit the party – the fourth to leave in under a week. Jhim van Bemmel stood down as a PVV supporter on Friday after being told he would not be returning to parliament after […]
French Muslim footballers cannot wear headscarves, says sporting authority
France’s soccer federation said it would not allow women to wear Muslim headscarves. Source: THE TELEGRAPH By Devorah Lauter, Paris The decision, announced on Friday night, was despite a ruling on Thursday that they could, by the FIFA umbrella organization which sets the rules of the game. The French Football […]
30,000 illegal Pakistanis ‘missing’ in United Kingdom
Source: PakTribune LONDON: The Pakistan High Commission in London said it knew nothing about more than 30,000 Pakistanis who had been refused permission to stay in Britain and whose whereabouts were unknown to the British authorities. According to official documents obtained by the our sources, the chief immigration inspector of […]
Tracking jihadists in Switzerland
by Samuel Jaberg, swissinfo.ch Swiss intelligence services have observed an increase in the number of trips made out of Europe for jihadist purposes, with the internet playing a central role […]
Switzerland defies US, EU ban on Iran oil
Switzerland will continue to purchase Iranian oil in defiance of the European Union sanctions on the Islamic Republic that came into effect on July 1. The Swiss Federal Department of […]
The crime of circumcision: Militant Atheism
Washington Post: A district judge in Cologne, Germany, recently ruled that ritual circumcision is a crime, violating “the fundamental right of the child to bodily integrity,” which outweighs other parental and […]
Former PVV councillor found dead in woods near Utrecht
The body of a man found in woods near Utrecht has been identified as that of a former provincial councillor for the anti-immigration PVV, according to media reports on Wednesday afternoon. Jos van Hal Scheffer left the party last month after his wife became a suspect in a million euro […]
Former PVV councillor active on nazi group Stormfront website
A former councillor for the anti-immigration PVV in Noord Holland has close ties to the neo-nazi group Stormfront and submitted 2,200 items to the organisation’s website, the Noord-Hollands Dagblad reported on Friday. Monica Nunes is one of three provincial councillors who left the PVV earlier this year to go it […]
Germany: Jews, Muslims increase calls for circumcision law
Germany is coming under increasing pressure over the court decision that ruled circumcision was bodily harm and thus a crime – with the Wiesenthal Centre quoting Hitler, and a Muslim group saying it was a blow against integration. The Los-Angeles-based Jewish group called on German lawmakers to provide legal safety […]
Higgs boson: Pakistan’s contribution to a major breakthrough
At least some in Pakistan have the good grace to recognise Dr. Salam’s contribution in the field of science. Few Pakistanis know what the Higgs boson is and even fewer […]
Swiss stop short of ban on trading Iranian oil
The government has decided to tighten economic sanctions against Tehran, but stopped short of implementing a ban on trading Iranian oil to match an embargo by the European Union or […]
FIFA approves goal line technology, Islamic headscarf
AGENCIES ARABNEWS Friday 6 July 2012 ZURICH: Goal-line technology to confirm whether or not a goal has been scored and the use of the Islamic headscarf were approved by soccer’s […]
Can Islamic banking help boost Czech exports
A good deal of the ongoing economic and financial turmoil on world markets has been blamed on the unscrupulous practices of the international banking and financial sector. Islamic banking, on the other hand, is seen as a fairer and more balanced alternative which has been much less affected by the […]
Big Ben’s tower to be renamed in honour of Queen Elizabeth II
MPs back proposal to change name of east tower at the Palace of Westminster despite republican A parliamentary proposal for the tower housing Big Ben to be renamed in honour […]
British medical worker among four rescued from cave by special forces in Afghanistan
A British medical worker kidnapped in Afghanistan has been dramatically freed in a special forces raid. The SAS are understood to have carried out the helicopter raid on the cave […]
The New Evangelization: Quo Vadis
Written by: Mr. Paul Kokoski Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae states that every person has a “right” to religious freedom and that they are not to be “coerced” in any way to act contrary to their own beliefs. In seemingly contradictory fashion the same document exhorts Catholics to use the coercive […]
“Love for All, Hatred for None” – 30,000 Muslims meet in convention center Karlsruhe / Germany
“Love for All, Hatred for None ‘: 30,000 Muslims meet in convention center in Karlsruhe, Germany – For the second time since Friday the Muslim Community Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat (AMJ) […]
Global economy: The darkness returns: Have you Stored some Food?
Remember those dark days of 2008 and 2009? When doom and gloom were the norm? When economic catastrophe seemed imminent? When hope turned to fear, and then fear turned to panic? Well, folks, if you haven’t been closely following events recently then I’ve got some bad news for you: It […]
Deeper recession looms as factory output slumps
Britain and Europe share bleak economic outlook as report shows manufacturing dropping at biggest rate for three years. Britain and the rest of Europe are heading for a deeper recession […]