UK: Apples fall from the sky over Coventry
Stunned motorists were forced to brake sharply to avoid the falling fruit, believed to be swept up by a vortex caused by freak weather conditions in Coventry. An avalanche of […]
Death Toll Rises After Grenade and Gun Attack in Belgium
Soaurce: NYTimes: LIÈGE, Belgium — Belgian police said on Wednesday that they had discovered a woman’s body at a storage facility used by the man who lobbed hand grenades and […]
NATO dreams of civil war in Syria
Source: Asia Times By Pepe Escobar Every grain of sand in the Syrian desert now knows there won’t be a “responsibility to protect”-enabled North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) “humanitarian” intervention to provoke regime change in Damascus. A protracted war like in Libya is not feasible – even though those faultless […]
No religious motive in Liege rampage: Was the killer a Muslim?
RT: ……”Well, we don’t know, but it would appear that it was an individual incident. Earlier reports that there were three or four gunmen involved have since been discredited and it equally appears that he wasn’t targeting anybody in particular… so in a sense it’s not a replica of what […]
Murdoch was sent ‘hacking is rife’ email
Source / Courtesy: The Independent Emails published today show that News International boss James Murdoch was sent details in 2008 of claims that phone-hacking was “rife” at the News of […]
Bishop’s sex education remarks criticised
The bishop of the diocese of Basel, Felix Gmür, has spoken out against a controversial statement about sex education by the bishop of Chur, Vitus Huonder. Gmür told the SonntagsZeitung newspaper that “teaching about human sexuality is the job of the school. It shouldn’t be relinquished”. Gmür, a member of […]
Pan African Dinner, 26th November 2011, Ahmadiyya Muslims celebrate African Independence
On 26 November 2011, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat celebrated the Golden Anniversary of the Independence of Cameroon, Sierra Leone and Tanzania in an event organised by the Pan-African Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
How Europe came to forget about its Arabic heritage.
BY ABDUL HAQ COMPIER Source / Courtesy: January 2011, Alislam-eGazette Summary: Traditional education about Western civilisation tells the story of how around 1500, Greek texts recovered the lost memory of Europe’s Greek […]
Now Fascism Is On The March In Europe: Is this 1914, 1939 or 201-???
Businessinsider.com: Joe Weisenthal: According to Paul Krugman, Europe is now seeing the logical next step of a continent that’s collapsed into depression: The rise of authoritarianism, fascism, and the hard right wing. One of Hungary’s major parties, Jobbik, is a nightmare out of the 1930s: it’s anti-Roma (Gypsy), it’s anti-Semitic, […]
Islamic contributions to Medieval Europe
Our favorite post: A Moonshot Moment for the Muslims: Making Covid 19 Vaccine before the West and China Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Most […]
Mulla Nasruddin (fake but funny) in London ….
Mulla Nasrudin got on a double-decker bus and climbed to the upper deck. A few minutes later, he staggered down the steps, muttering to himself. “Is anything the matter?” asked the driver. “IT AIN’T SAFE UP THERE,” said Nasrudin. “NO DRIVER.” The real Mulla Nasrudin stories are centuries old, therefore […]
PlanetSolar prepares to enter pirate waters
by Olivier Grivat, swissinfo.ch After a brief stop-off in Mumbai, Switzerland’s PlanetSolar is presently hugging the coastline of Pakistan on its 50,000-kilometre solar round-the-world voyage. Project founder and crew member […]
EU treaty: Don’t blame Britain’s veto for the eurozone’s crisis
The European Council meeting raises more questions than it answers. The biggest question is whether greater fiscal union is any more than a sticking plaster for the Euro’s woes – […]
Terrorism has no religious context
Europe’s extreme-right political parties are stoking the fires of hatred against Muslims based on paranoia There can never be Islamic, Jewish or Christian fascism, but there are plenty of fascists […]
Bosnian war victims praise Angelina Jolie’s movie
Bosnian war victims’ associations call Jolie’s movie an objective, sincere portrayal of the conflict Source: Gulf News AP Sarajevo: Bosnian war victims’ associations on Friday hailed Angelina Jolie’s directorial debut, […]
What does the term ‘sharia’ mean for Muslims in Switzerland?
In the course of debates on Islam in Switzerland a lot of ‘semi-knowledge’ circulates in Switzerland. That is why the Imam of the Mahmud Mosque invited to clarify. by […]
Switzerland: Asylum requests jump one fifth in November
The number of people applying for asylum in Switzerland in November increased by nearly 20 per cent over the previous month. According to the Federal Migration Office, 2,566 requests were […]
UK David Cameron: Tories could wreck EU debt talks
David Cameron has warned European leaders that Conservative MPs could sabotage the creation of the eurozone bail-out fund if he does not get concessions in a new European Union treaty. […]
German town divided over fate over listing tower
A German town is divided over the future of a church tower that has developed a list greater than that of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The 183-foot tower in […]
Eyeing 2012, White House Presses Europe on Debt: At Stake, Obama’s Re-election
NY Times: By HELENE COOPER and ANNIE LOWERY. Publicly, Obama administration officials talk only about the economic consequences of a potential debt conflagration in Europe. Privately, though, they are well aware that Europe’s success in dealing with the troubles — and the administration’s success in persuading them to do so […]