The thin line between self-esteem and self-obsession
Source: BBC By Maria Atanasov Self-confidence is good, but arrogance could be your downfall. Here’s how to deal with people who are just too full of themselves. Feeling brash and […]
Move Over, Trump: Polls Show Bernie Sanders Is 2016’s Most Popular Candidate
Source: Huffington Post By Ariel Edwards-Levy Staff Reporter and Polling Director, The Huffington Post No other 2016 candidate loves citing polls as much as Donald Trump, but Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders might […]
Surprising ways that a vegetarian diet is changing human genes
Source: Business Insider Produced by Delano Samuels Scientific research has proven that some vegetarians can produce omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, because of gene mutation that happened over centuries. Researchers reported that people with the gene mutation are from a lineage of ancestors whose diet consisted of mostly plants. Watch […]
Italy rescues 4,000 migrants in two days
Source: Mail Online Italy’s coastguard said Tuesday it had rescued some 4,000 migrants in the past two days, adding to fears of a fresh push to reach Europe via that […]
Corporate tax dodging costing US billions in annual income
Source: CNBC By Javier E. David Big multinational companies that shelter overseas profit from federal taxation cost the U.S. economy more than $100 billion a year by withholding more than […]
Nine more Guantánamo Bay prisoners released as population dwindles to 80
Source: The Guardian By Spencer Ackerman As Barack Obama prepares to visit Saudi Arabia, the Saudi royal family has taken custody of nine longtime Guantánamo Bay detainees, bringing Obama closer to […]
Study: Public School Textbooks in Pakistan Teach Intolerance of Non-Muslims
Source: CNS News By Lauretta Brown (CNSNews.com) – A new study released Tuesday found that Pakistan’s public school textbooks negatively portray the country’s religious minorities, including Hindus, Christians and Ahmadis, as “untrustworthy, […]
Syrian opposition threatens to quit Geneva talks
Syrian civilians and activists hold a banner reading in Arabic “Long live Syria, down with Assad” during an anti-regime demonstration. Photo: AFP Published: 17 Apr 2016 18:22 GMT+02:00 Syria’s opposition High Negotiations Committee threatened Sunday to suspend its participation in UN-backed peace talks if there is no progress on […]
Machiavellianism is dominant in Middle East: analyst
April 3, 2016 TEHRAN – South Alabama University Professor Nader Entessar believes that Machiavellianism is dominant in the Middle East. “Also, theories of imperialism will also help us better understand the current conditions in the Middle East,” Entessar tells the Tehran Times. Following is the full text of the interview: […]
Interfaith Seminar in Buffalo, NY: Mother Mary in the Holy Qur’an
Suggested Reading Muslims express love for Jesus and Mother Mary Love for Jesus can bring Christians and Muslims together
Solar Impulse 2 ready to continue world tour
Round the World flight Apr 14, 2016 – 17:47 Solar Impulse 2 during a maintenance flight over Hawaii in March 2016 (Keystone) The Swiss solar plane Solar Impulse 2 is now in ‘mission mode’ in anticipation of taking off for North America from Hawaii where it had been grounded […]
Justice minister defends asylum reforms as EU leader takes interest
Working visit Justice minister defends asylum reforms as EU leader takes interest Apr 17, 2016 – 11:45 Sommaruga, left, and Asselborn, right, toured a new asylum centre in Zurich (Keystone) Europe has taken an interest in Switzerland’s asylum reforms, with a European Union leader examining the system which will […]
I believe you are right!
The Mulla was made a magistrate. During his first case the plaintiff argued so persuasively tha’t he exclaimed: ‘I believe that you are right!’ The clerk of the Court begged him to restrain himself, for the defendant had not been heard yet. Nasrudin was so carried away by the eloquence […]
India: Prince William, Kate recreate Diana’s iconic Taj Mahal photo
AGRA, INDIA—The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge invoked nostalgia Saturday as they sat and smiled for photos on the same marble bench in front of the Taj Mahal where Prince William’s late mother, Princess Diana, had posed alone for a memorable 1992 photo. Winding down their weeklong royal tour of […]
UK: MCB has officially decided I’m not Islamic enough – but I never did anything wrong
Waqar Ahmedi Saturday 16 April 2016 424 comments independent.co.uk Have you ever identified yourself as something, lived and breathed it all your life, and then told you’re not really what you believe yourself to be? I’ve always called myself a Muslim, but recently the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) made a […]
Top expert on Islamist radicalisation is investigated by university for saying slain Muslim shopkeeper was ‘not a real Muslim’
Source. Daily Mail. Co Uk. Researcher Shiraz Maher wrote he does not ‘regard Ahmadis as Muslims’ Came days after man admitted killing Asad Shah for ‘disrespecting’ Islam Glasgow shopkeeper Mr Shah was part of the the Ahmadiyya community Maher has apologised for remarks which are being investigated by King’s […]
‘Abysmal failure’ of OIC
Apr 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MUSA KEILANI The Islamic summit that convened in Turkey last week within the context of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) registered abysmal failure. This 13th session represented a moral victory for Daesh and other radical groups. The 49 participants — heads of states […]
JORDAN: Int’l community endorses initiative to support refugees, hosts
By JT – Apr 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES In this photo taken on Thursday, Syrian families load their belongings onto a bus in the town of Palmyra in the central Homs province, Syria (AP photo) AMMAN – The World Bank Group (WBG) on Friday announced that eight nations […]
DR. AMBEDKAR DAY AT ICC, MILPITAS: PAKISTAN POST
Indian Consul Gen of San Francisco reamed up with local Indians to host a 125th Birth Day of Dr. Ambedkar the author of Indian Constitution considered the longest constitution in the world. More than 200 guests attended the event. Here are glimpses by PAKISTAN POST new segment of FIJISUN USA […]
China court refuses to allow gay marriage in landmark case
Source: The Guardian By Tom Phillips A Chinese judge has rejected a gay couple’s attempt to secure the right to marry in the country’s first same-sex marriage case. Sun Wenlin, 27, from the central province of Hunan, had sued the civil affairs bureau in the city of Changsha for the right […]