Even if it succeeds, Syrians will be left to kill each other as before – only without sarin BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT, UK What on earth was going on in Washington and Geneva last week? I’m not trying to cheapen the unspeakable tragedy of Syria, nor the apparent common […]
By SETH ANZISKA Published: September 16, 2012 ON the night of Sept. 16, 1982, the Israeli military allowed a right-wing Lebanese militia to enter two Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut. In the ensuing three-day rampage, the militia, linked to the Maronite Christian Phalange Party, raped, killed and dismembered at least […]
By MARGARET SULLIVAN THE NEW YORK TIMES September 16, 2013 Many Times readers have been writing to me for several days about a story The Guardian broke last week, describing how the United States routinely shares with Israel intelligence information that the National Security Agency gathers on American citizens. The […]
Washignton Post: Bishop Fulton Sheen, the earliest and perhaps best known Catholic televangelist, once famously said, “There are not a hundred people in America who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions of people who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church — which is, of course, […]
The Huffington Post | By Yasmine Hafiz Twitter erupted in a flurry of indignation as Miss New York, Nina Davuluri, was crowned as this year’s Miss America, with some of […]
by Naureen Khan @naureenindc September 16, 2013 9:03AM ET Updated 2:15PM ET At least one suspect dead, two other suspects believed still at large WASHINGTON — Twelve people were killed in a shooting Monday morning, and a number of others injured, at the U.S. Navy Yard, Washington Police Chief Cathy […]
Source: dailybulletin.com POMONA >> From Christian jewelry to a hand-washing booth to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Shopping Place at the L.A. County Fair has a little of everything except a […]
Story Summary By Fareed Zakaria The Daily Star Whatever the twisted path, whether by design or accident, the Obama administration has ended up in a better place on Syria than looked possible even days ago. The president was wise to take up and begin to test the Russian offer to […]
By Saeed Qureshi While searching through Texas Tourism Department’s website for finding the sight-seeing places around Dallas/Fort Worth, we came across a curious name: “Mount Vernon”. Although there were quite a few other scenic locations, yet we decided to visit this place. It is one of those unique towns that […]
Vijay Prashad / Jadaliyya Dear Friend: You are in Syria, somewhere in Damascus. You have been involved in various protests to fight for more democratic space in Syria, and then, after the early months of 2011, to overthrow the regime of Bashar al-Asad. I have learned a great deal from […]
Source Twitter: Harris Zafar (@Harris_Zafar) tweeted at 5:02 AM on Sun, Sep 15, 2013: We did it!! @MuslimYouthUSA created 600 food relief bags for the poor in less than 3 minutes, shattering @Walmart’s Guinness record. #AsOne What happens when @MuslimYouthUSA gathers hundreds of #Muslim youth @ annual retreat? They set […]
The Muslim Times’ has added a question mark at the end of the title. Source: CNN There he goes again — Russian President Vladimir Putin, portraying himself as the world’s champion of peace and democracy. And, of course, doing it at America’s expense. This time, Putin’s PR machine managed to […]
Source: calgaryherald.com It’s highly ironic that the federal government recently established the Office of Religious Freedom and yet religious rights are divided in our own country. The federal government used the headquarters of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, a minority Islamic sect, to launch the Office of Religious Freedom. And yet Quebec […]
URI AVNERY Published — Saturday 14 September 2013 Here is another Jewish joke: A hungry young Jew sees an announcement outside a local circus: Anyone who climbs to the top of a 50 meter pole and jumps onto a tarpaulin below will win a prize of a thousand rubles. […]
Source: broadwayworld.com In the pages of Muhammad: The Story of a Prophet and Reformer, young readers will encounter a man very different from the figure often presented in Western popular culture. […]
HAMBURG, N.Y. — A Muslim advocacy group is asking Wal-Mart to rehire a New York worker who posted derogatory comments about Muslim customers on Facebook and was fired last week. The Council on American-Islamic Relations said Friday that employee Terry Earsing has offered a sincere apology. Earsing was the assistant […]
On the 12th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, American people are questioning the government’s version of the tragic event. In New York City, where […]
Source: rochesterhomepage.net http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/embed/iframe?aspect_ratio=3×2&auto_start=0&pf_id=12173&rel=3&show_title=0&va_id=4318177&volume=8&windows=1 In Rochester, some marked this 9/11 anniversary with the gift of life. Rochester’s Ahmadiyya Muslim Community hosted a blood drive. The local effort is part of a larger […]
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A Plea for Caution From Russia: What Putin Has to Say to Americans About Syria Source: New York Times By VLADIMIR V. PUTIN Relations between us have passed through different stages. […]