Give Syria Justice, Not Violence
His Holiness, the Khalifa of Islam and head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Mirza Masroor Ahmad, is the only international Muslim leader to warn world leaders that their actions […]
Have you ever met a woman in a niqab? Has one ever harmed you?
Source: Newstatesman By Aisha Gani Struggling politically? Want to fill columns? Start a debate about the niqab. It’s another opportunity to roll out the veil puns and plaster that stock image […]
Muslimah World contest to rival ‘immodest’ Miss World
JAKARTA: The Miss World beauty contest, which has attracted fierce opposition by Islamic groups in host country Indonesia, is now facing another challenge — a rival pageant exclusively for Muslims. […]
What to know before visiting Holy Land?
Source: CNN To some, the chunk of territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea is all Israel. To others, it’s all Palestine. For most — as is true so often in this region of shifting truths and manipulated historical narratives — it’s a bit of both. More:
Yum Kippur: We are most heartily sorry, not that we care anymore
Source: Haaretz: Our Father, we have sinned against you and against our own selves, not least by despising our fellow man. Our Father, please forgive us. We have sinned before […]
Gold treasure trove unearthed at base of Temple Mount
The Times of Israel: Hebrew University researchers on Monday announced the discovery of a rare trove of Byzantine-era gold and silver artifacts, the most impressive of which is a 10-centimeter […]
Prerequisites for Muslim-Jewish Reconciliation
Source: The Jewish Press By: Sevda Gözler History buffs among us know all too well that the best time for Jews over the past two millennia—ever since they were overcome […]
World’s largest nations speak out against US-led strike
RT: As leaders of countries making up half of the world’s population firmly opposed military action against Syria without a UN mandate, the US kept pushing for a strike, claiming […]
Dozens Injured in Al-Aqsa Mosque
The Middle East Monitor: Palestinian medical sources have reported that dozens of worshipers have been injured on Friday [September 6 2013] after Israeli soldiers fired gas bombs,rubber-coated metal bullets, and […]
Israel offers to leave settlements, military bases intact in West Bank
Source:The Times of Israel ‘Israel wants to hold 40% of West Bank in peace deal’ Palestinian official, in unconfirmed leak from new negotiations, says Netanyahu wants to retain dozens of […]
Senate Foreign Relations Committee approves plan to strike Syria
RT: The United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted on Wednesday to approve President Barack Obama’s plan to strike Syria in retaliation for the reported use of chemical weapons by […]
Israel offers to leave settlements, military bases intact in West Bank
Associated Press, RAMALLAH, West Bank Israel has proposed leaving intact dozens of Jewish settlements and military bases in the West Bank as part of a package to establish a Palestinian […]
‘I did not join for this’: US military men speak out against Syria strike
RT: Many US servicemen are against the looming strike on Syria, Republican Congressman Justin Amash said on Twitter, in an attempt to counter the idea that the country might be […]
Hagia Sophia to become a mosque again?
Persistent rumours suggest Hagia Sophia will be turned into a mosque Istanbul (AsiaNews) – Increasingly, rumours are circulating about the future transformation of the Cathedral of Saint Sophia into a […]
Israel to turn historic mosque into synagogue
Press TV: The Israeli army has taken full control of a historic mosque in al-Quds (Jerusalem) to turn it into a synagogue, in what has been considered the latest measures […]
A post-Christian Middle East?
Editor’s note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a director at the New America Foundation and the author of “Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden — From 9/11 to Abbottabad.” Jennifer Rowland is a program associate at the New America Foundation. (CNN) — There have been Christians in […]
Collapse near western wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque
The World Bulletin: An area collapsed near the western wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem late Tuesday. According to an eyewitness, the collapse happened near the Bab as Silsila, […]
Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a war of religion, not territory
Haaretz: The conflict is a clash of ideologies, and such a conflict can’t be solved by drawing lines on a map. Anyone who has ever suffered from a sore throat […]
Robert Fisk: Devilish compromises of fighting ‘evil’ played out on stage… and real life: Shaw’s 1907 play about a weapons manufacturer is now more relevant than ever
And so to Major Barbara at the Abbey. Every Western arms salesman I have met – usually at arms “fairs” in the Gulf – knows Andrew Undershaft, the grotesque, brilliant, intellectual weapons manufacturer in George Bernard Shaw’s 1907 play who abides by the faith of the armourer: “To give arms […]
170,000 Muslims Throng Jerusalem Al-Aqsa Compound
More than 170,000 Muslims prayed outside Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque on Friday, as the holy month of Ramadan entered its final full week, police said. The faithful turned […]