Source: Fox News NEW DELHI – A court in Bangladesh has sentenced five alleged radical Islamists to 10 years in jail after finding them guilty of carrying out a series of explosions in 2005 to demand Shariah law in the Muslim-majority nation. Police Inspector Mominul Islam said the court sentenced […]
Source: BBC You might not know their official name, but you’ve no doubt seen eye floaters. The perception of these floating apparitions, sometimes also called vitreous floaters or Muscae volitantes(Latin […]
Source: The Economist THIS weekend, some Americans, at least, have been pondering the meaning of religious liberty. January 16th has been designated Religious Freedom Day because it is the anniversary […]
Source: BBC Iran has denounced new sanctions imposed by the US over its ballistic missile programme. The sanctions had “no legal or moral legitimacy”, a foreign ministry spokesman said. In […]
Source: BBC UK doctors in Sheffield say patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) are showing “remarkable” improvements after receiving a treatment usually used for cancer. About 20 patients have received bone […]
Source: BBC The richest 1% now has as much wealth as the rest of the world combined, according to Oxfam. It uses data from Credit Suisse from October for the […]
Source: China Daily This holiday season was a little hectic for me as I was hosting three family friends from China. Entrepreneurs, scholars and physicians, no matter what the parents do for a living, they share something in common: They’ve sent their teenagers to boarding schools in the US. It […]
Source: China Daily China’s first educational institute of its kind focusing on counterterrorism law has been created at a university in Northwest China, which aims to build a pool of legal experts to help China combat terrorism.The institute was set up by the Northwest University of Political Science and Law […]
Source: Los Angeles Times By Cindy Carcamo; Contact Reporter A replica of the Montgomery, Ala., bus that Rosa Parks was riding in when she was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give […]
Guardian: Contrary to Nick Cohen’s assertion that “civilisation came from the battering that religion took from the Enlightenment”, the initial spin-off of the latter was the horror of the French Revolution. A more positive development of the time was England’s free press, praised by Voltaire. In fact, Christianity has a […]
http://kashifmd.com: Mullahs (clergy) from all sects have been opposing the Ahmadi Muslims since the inception of the community by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as) in 1889. Many leading clerics of United India called for a complete boycott of Ahmadis and incited attacks on them. They boasted that Ahmadiyyat would die in a […]
Source: Daily Times By Yasser Latif Hamdani As a Congressman, Jinnah viewed with suspicion the creation of the All India Muslim League in 1906 and was trenchantly opposed to the […]
Source: Dawn.Com PRAGUE: Czech President Milos Zeman, known for his fiery anti-migrant comments, said on Sunday that it was almost impossible to integrate the Muslim community into European society. “The experience of Western European countries which have ghettos and excluded localities shows that the integration of the Muslim community is […]
By Reuters – Jan 18,2016 – JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel bristled on Sunday at the lifting of international sanctions on Iran and vowed to flag up any violations of its archfoe’s nuclear restrictions while drawing on US defence aid to prepare for a possible military face-off in […]
. View photo A general view taken from a helicopter shows the Baghdad clock tower in Harthiya Sqaure in the west of the Iraqi capital on September 10, 2014 (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski) Baghdad (AFP) – US and local authorities are searching for three American citizens who were reportedly kidnapped in […]
Jan 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Nidhal Guessoum The Muslim world’s past contributions to science and education were extraordinary. The Islamic “golden age” — during which scholarship and learning flourished across the Muslim world — lasted many centuries and included the establishment of the world’s first universities. Today, however, Muslim-majority countries […]
Jan 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL The sight of hungry, emaciated Syrians drew attention to the fact that the warring parties in this Arab country resort to starvation as a weapon of war. The UN Security Council acted against this, at last, recently adopting a resolution calling on all […]
Analysis: Iran has escaped years of isolation and the threat of war without sustaining much damage Patrick Cockburn @indyworld Sunday 17 January 2016 21:03 BST The war in Syria may end up weakening Iran’s regional rivals more than Iran itself Reuters Iran is politically and economically stronger because of the agreement […]
The world’s richest are getting richer while the wealth of the poorest is being spread more thinly Jon Stone @joncstone Sunday 17 January 2016 Slums in Colombia, one of the world’s most unequal countries Rex features Wealth inequality has grown to the stage where 62 of the world’s richest people […]
Source: CBC Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Peterborough, Ont., today, where he spoke at a mosque that was damaged by arson last November. He toured Masjid al-Salaam, the city’s […]