The Defense Ministry on Friday voiced “strong dissatisfaction” and “firm opposition” to a newly-released annual report by the Pentagon on China’s military. “China has lodged solemn representations with the U.S. side,” said Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun in a statement on the report. Read More…
Warren Buffett comes to the rescue, again. On Thursday, Berkshire Hathaway, run by Mr. Buffett, announced plans to invest $5 billion in Bank of America, a vote of confidence for the beleaguered financial firm. The conglomerate has agreed to buy 50,000 preferred shares that will pay a 6 percent annual […]
BY John Doyle AND Helen Kennedy Source: DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Wednesday, August 24th 2011, 2:56 PM Source Bebeto Matthews/AP NYPD security camera, upper left, situated above a mosque on Fulton St., in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. The NYPD has been spying on New Yorkers with the help of the CIA, […]
Seven weeks after it was put on sale, Hewlett-Packard killed its TouchPad tablet, the company’s competitor to Apple’s iPad. Last year, Microsoft pulled the plug on its Kin mobile phonesonly 48 days after they went on sale. In recent years, technology companies have been cutting their losses with increasing speed. […]
Citigroup Inc. (C) and Bank of America Corp. (BAC) were the reigning champions of finance in 2006 as home prices peaked, leading the 10 biggest U.S. banks and brokerage firms to their best year ever with $104 billion of profits. By 2008, the housing market’s collapse forced those companies to […]
Source / Courtesy: Milpitas Patch Once a year during Ramadan, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community opens its doors to the mosque and invites the non-Muslim community to participate in the meal. … Leaders from different religions, including Jewish, Sikh, and the Buddhist temple next door, spoke of the similarities between their faiths. […]
DEARBORN, Mich. — Ford Motor Company and Toyota Motorsaid on Monday that they would jointly develop a gas-electric hybrid fuel system for pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles aimed at keeping larger models affordable as the automakers work to meet stricter fuel-economy standards. The companies said they did not plan […]
Source/Credit: Mysuburbanlife.com Glen Ellyn, IL — Today was the kickoff for the “Muslims for Life” campaign at the Baet-ul-Jaamay Mosque in Glen Ellyn. The campaign is a nationwide initiative created by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community to bring a message of peace and sanctity of all human life. “Terrorists have painted […]
United States Vice President Joe Biden delivers a speech at Sichuan University in Chengdu City, capital of southwest China’s Sichuan Province, on Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011. [Photo: Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing] Visiting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday called China’s rise a “positive development” that will bring more opportunities for bilateral […]
By WALAA HAWARI | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Saudi detainees at Guantanamo Bay have expressed appreciation for the efforts of the Saudi Red Crescent (SRC) to connect them with their families. In a letter of appreciation to the Saudi Red Crescent Association in the Kingdom, detainee Ahmad Al-Darbi said his fellow […]
And create not disorder in the earth after it has been set in order, and call upon Him in fear and hope. Surely, the mercy of Allah is near unto those who do good. (Al Quran 7:57) Source/Credit: Frederick News Post Originally published on August 8, 2011 By Aamna Bhatti I […]
Source/Credit: Deseret News “Riba means interest in Islam, and it has been forbidden,” says Husain, whose debt-free family is an anomaly in America, where the average household has, by some estimates, more than $15,000 in credit card debt and a mortgage of more than $150,000. “Several times it has been […]
Source/Credit: Herald Citizen COOKEVILLE — A crowd of more than 100 peaceful protestors gathered outside the courthouse last night with signs saying “We love Muslims” and “All religions believe in justice,” among many others, showing their opposition to the Tennessee Freedom Coalition’s showing of what they call a highly […]
Source/Credit: The Washington Post KARACHI, Pakistan — In a nation that often appears engulfed by religious radicalism, a hit Pakistani film endorses ideas that are by local measures boldly liberal — inter-sectarian marriage, women’s rights and population control. Yet the movie has what might seem an unlikely distributor: Pakistan’s largest […]
Source/Credit: WBEZ 91.5 By Maham Khan As Chicagoans turn their gaze to the sky this weekend they’ll be greeted by the following message: “Give Blood Save Lives Muslims for Life.” The message will be on a banner trailing from a plane, with over a million people watching Chicago’s 53rd annual […]
Source: Michael Berg, Member, St. Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee and Jewish Voice for Peace Huffington Post Congressman Russ Carnahan joined nearly 20 percent of the United States House of Representatives in a trip to Israel this month. Paid for by an affiliate of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, these […]
Are you ready for another war? Now that Barack Obama and most of the other major leaders of the western world are publicly calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, we are getting dangerously close to war with Syria. It is not going to happen next week, and […]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s is being investigated by the U.S. Justice Department for allegedly overrating mortgage-backed securities, whose meltdown led to the 2008 financial crisis, according to two sources with knowledge of the investigation. The sources confirmed to CNN that Justice Department attorneys interviewed current […]