Credit: Appen Newspapers via Wasim Saroya of Selvenia: JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – The women’s auxiliary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community held a free public health fair on Saturday, March 3, at the Ocee Library in order to educate the community on how to live a healthy life. Saima Ahmad, one […]
In 1966, nearly 180 million people in the US received Miranda rights – the right to remain silent to avoid self-incrimination. Half a century later, a religious community in Pakistan, another country […]
HONG KONG — Whenever her Chinese employer is displeased with her work, a Filipina working in one of the high-rise apartments here is ordered to sit in a corner all day long, her back pressed hard against the cold steel frame of the dining table. Then comes the battery of […]
Source: The Local Germans generally agree that Joachim Gauck is a good choice for president. But can the ex-pastor be the nation’s moral authority while staying married to one woman […]
Shakila was only eight-years-old when she and her cousin were abducted from their home. One night, men armed with AK-47s barged into her house and dragged her out as recompense for dishonoring an influential man in the district. You may wonder how a girl of such tender age could have […]
Source: Dawn.com By Murtaza Razvi We want our madressahs and hijabs and missionaries preaching in the UK, which readily obliges because it respects your right to practise your faith (France […]
Between 1948 and 1967 a border separated Arabs living in East Jerusalem from Jews living in the rest of the city. Today, much of the city’s Arab population remains in the east, while the majority of its Jewish population lives in the west. Although they are free to do so, few residents […]
KARACHI: Five foetuses were found from a garbage dump in Akhtar Colony on Tuesday. Two of them were found in plastic jars while the remaining three were wrapped in plastic shopping bags. The police was informed about the bodies after scavengers in the area found them, said SHO Rao Muqeem. […]
Source: The Local Tens of thousands of people demonstrated on the streets of Germany over the weekend to voice their opposition to a copyright law which they fear the government […]
Source / Courtesy: The Express Tribune Express Tribune: Things in our country are really moving from the absurd, to even more absurd. And most frightening of all is the hatred […]
Barred: Lawyers ban drink on court complex The Express Tribune: By Rana Yasif The Lahore Bar Association (LBA) has banned Shezan drinks from subordinate court complexes and vowed tough action […]
Daily Dawn: ISLAMABAD: Sex scandals have rocked the International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI) in recent months, with several faculty and staff members accused of preying upon the vulnerable female students or […]
Source: Qantara.de At a recent conference in Germany looking at radical critics of Islam, there was consensus that it was about time that politicians and society looked more seriously at the growing defamation of Muslims. By Claudia Mende For a long time, nobody took hate propaganda against Muslims very seriously […]
Source: The Local Family Minister Kristina Schröder has called on Germany’s high schools to teach the dangers of social networks on the internet. As part of a “Safer Internet Day […]
Dadang Kahmad West Java has long been known for the tolerant nature of its society and culture. ‘Siger tengah’, or ‘the middle road’, is an underlying principle of Sundanese culture that promotes moderation and the avoidance of extremes of both right and left. ………….. Nevertheless, in recent times, it is […]
Russian TV: The Islamic fundamentalist group Shariah4Belgium has been criticized for its aggressive stance and lack of inter-religious tolerance. Belgian Muslims say they feel threatened by the group’s ideology, which they fear scares people away from Islam. Shariah4Belgium came under the spotlight after it opened the country’s first Sharia court, […]
Despite the growing demand for Sharia law in Britain, there is also increasing opposition by some groups who argue that the practice discriminates against women. The Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation (IKWRO) is campaigning to bring an end to the practice. ”We have spoken to many women and all […]
[This post is published with permission from the personal blog of SEC Senior Policy Advisor Rick Bookstaber.] Conspicuous leisure, conspicuous waste, conspicuous consumption. Veblen coins these terms in Theory of the Leisure Class to describe the strategies the noble and priestly classes employ to assert their status. Veblen observes that a life of leisure is the readiest evidence […]