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Stratfor: A Net Assessment of East Asia

https://bam.nr-data.net/1/b340ddc24f?a=5338336&pl=1434450494959&v=593.35a80d8&to=MV1VYUBVXRJWB0IPWAgXYkdbG1oPUwFOSEcOSA%3D%3D&ap=832&be=406&fe=11716&dc=4555&f=%5B%5D&perf=%7B%22timing%22:%7B%22of%22:1434450494959,%22n%22:0,%22dl%22:23,%22di%22:4962,%22ds%22:4962,%22de%22:5844,%22dc%22:12130,%22l%22:12132,%22le%22:12651,%22f%22:22,%22dn%22:23,%22dne%22:23,%22c%22:23,%22ce%22:23,%22rq%22:23,%22rp%22:23,%22rpe%22:112%7D,%22navigation%22:%7B%7D%7D&at=HRpWFwhPThw%3D&jsonp=NREUM.setToken Geopolitical Weekly June 16, 2015 | 08:00 GMT <!– By George Friedman When I began this series a month ago, I pointed out that the most significant feature of the global system currently is the ongoing destabilization of the Eurasian land mass, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from […]

What Has Islam Contributed to Western Culture

Some Right-Wing Europeans Say Islam Hasn’t Contributed to Western Culture. Here’s Why They’re Wrong  By Akbar Ahmed, 10 June, 2015 One of the right-wing tropes about Islam in Europe, which is making alarming inroads into the mainstream, is that it represents a “culture of backwardness, of retardedness, of barbarism” and […]

Ahmadiyya Muslims Serving elderly in Gozo

Source: ahmadiyyamalta.org by Laiq Ahmed Atif On Saturday, The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta visited Sant Anna Ward and the Geriatrics ward at the Gozo General Hospital, to show solidarity, with the elderly residents, he said. The Minister for Gozo Dr Anton Refalo, and Laiq Ahmed Atif, President Ahmadiyya Community Malta, together, […]

'Mecca has been turned into Disneyland’

    ‘Mecca has been turned into Disneyland’ A new book about Mecca will outrage the hostage-beheading fanatics of ISIL, says Michael Kerr – who talks to the author By Michael Kerr 11:39AM BST 02 Oct 2014 After his fifth pilgrimage to Mecca, Ziauddin Sardar was congratulating himself on having done […]

Religious Exemptions Shouldn't Keep Parents From Vaccinating Their Kids: American Medical Association

Huff Post: CHICAGO (AP) — The American Medical Association has adopted policies against nonmedical vaccine refusals and for transgender people in the military. The nation’s largest doctors’ group says parents should not be able to refuse to have their kids vaccinated for personal or religious reasons. That’s because of the […]

Robert Fisk: Al-Nusra is pitching for US backing. But can there be a ‘moderate’ Islamist terror group? Al-Nusra’s PR campaign began on al-Jazeera, which just happens to be funded by Qatar

It’s an obvious pitch. Just when the Americans are frothing around for something sane to say about their non-existent policy in the Middle East, along comes the al-Nusra Front – al-Qaeda beheaders and sectarian killers – to suggest that they are just the “moderates” Washington wants to fight the Assad […]

Florida USA: Ahmad Saleem – a paedophile – and the tarnished image of Islam

Tribune.com.pk Ahmad Saleem – a paedophile – and the tarnished image of Islam in the US – The Express Tribune Blog http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/wp-content/themes/tribune-v2/js/DD_belatedPNG.js try { DD_belatedPNG.fix(‘img, #header ‘); } catch(err){} ?cf_action=sync_comments&post_id=28035http://www.googletagservices.com/tag/js/gpt.js//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.jshttps://apis.google.com/_/scs/apps-static/_/js/k=oz.gapi.en_GB.sWLy6xkS8nE.O/m=auth/exm=plusone/rt=j/sv=1/d=1/ed=1/am=AQ/rs=AGLTcCPn8ZVXntX_N1_M-SMgpPURUtWw9g/t=zcms/cb=gapi.loaded_1https://apis.google.com/_/scs/apps-static/_/js/k=oz.gapi.en_GB.sWLy6xkS8nE.O/m=plusone/rt=j/sv=1/d=1/ed=1/am=AQ/rs=AGLTcCPn8ZVXntX_N1_M-SMgpPURUtWw9g/t=zcms/cb=gapi.loaded_0//platform.twitter.com/widgets.jshttps://d31qbv1cthcecs.cloudfront.net/atrk.jshttp://blogs.tribune.com.pk/application/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.8.3http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/application/wp-includes/js/json2.min.js?ver=2011-02-23http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/video-management/js/main.js?ver=1.2// http://partner.googleadservices.com/gampad/google_service.js// http://partner.googleadservices.com/gampad/google_ads.js// // // &lt;img src=”https://d5nxst8fruw4z.cloudfront.net/atrk.gif?account=lfcok1a0CM00M/&#8221; style=”display:none” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/&gt;http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/osd.js//tribunepkblogs.disqus.com/embed.js//tribunepkblogs.disqus.com/count.jshttp://tribunepkblogs.disqus.com/count-data.js?1=28035%20http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.tribune.com.pk%2F%3Fp%3D28035 Ahmad Saleem – a paedophile – and the tarnished image […]