Cairo restaurant firebomb attack kills 16
Source: BBC Sixteen people have been killed in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, after firebombs were thrown into a restaurant, officials say. The attack took place at the El Sayad restaurant, […]
Jailed in India Canadian Punabi journalist
Baltej Pannu was arrested in Punjab after a woman accused him of threatening to post nude photos online, but supporters here say he was framed for political reasons. are on Facebook FACEBOOK Baltej Pannu is a Punjabi-Canadian radio journalist who lived in Brampton for 25 years and has a host […]
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Says Obama Policies Could Trigger Nuclear War With Russia
Source: Huffington Post The Hawaii Democrat has been a persistent critic of Obama’s foreign policy. By Chris D’Angelo Associate Editor, HuffPost Hawaii U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) continued her harsh criticisms of […]
British Muslims oppose airstrikes in Syria – and here’s why
Source: The Guardian By Miqdaad Versi If military action were enough to destroy Isis, Sunni and Shia communities would support it. But there is no shortage of concerns – or alternatives On the fateful night when MPs voted to extend airstrikes over Syria, Shabana Mahmood, the Labour MP for Birmingham […]
Saudi Arabia carrying out ‘unprecedented wave’ of executions
Source: BBC An artist sentenced to death for apostasy. Three young Shia Muslims – arrested when they were minors – faced with beheading. And reports in the Saudi press of […]
Providing a Future for Millions of Syrian Children
Source: Huffington Post Carolyn S. Miles President & CEO, Save the Children It takes only a few hours on a beach on the Greek island of Lesbos to understand the […]
What It’s Like to be Muslim in America
Source: Cosmopolitan By Mona Chalabi Last June, Pew Research Center asked 3,217 people in the U.S. to rate members of each religion from 0 to 100; a score of 0 […]
‘Daily News’ provokes with cover on Calif. shooting: ‘God isn’t fixing this’
Source: USA Today The front cover of New York’s Daily News for Thursday takes a strong stance against how some politicians are reacting to the San Bernardino shooting with calls […]
State of liberalism / extremism in Pakistan
Interview: Dr. Prof. Pervez Hoodbhoy The renowned physicist and essayist on the state of liberalism in Pakistan. By Muhammad Akbar Notezai November 05, 2015 2.6k Shares 17 Comments Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy is a prominent Pakistani nuclear physicist, essayist and defense analyst. In 2011, he was included on the list of 100 most influential […]
France likely to close more than 100 mosques
Source: Aljazeera France is likely to close up to 160 mosques in the coming months as part of a nationwide police operation under the state of emergency which allows places […]
China pledges $60bn to develop Africa
Source: BBC China has announced $60bn (£40bn) of assistance and loans for Africa to help with the development of the continent. President Xi Jinping said the package would include zero-interest […]
San Bernardino shooting: Statistics behind US gun violence
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred. Killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Derived from Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: BBC US gun debate US gun violence in numbers […]
Koh-i-Noor diamond: Pakistan files petition for return of ‘stolen’ £100m British crown jewel
Source: The Independent ‘Grabbing and snatching it was a private, illegal act which is justified by no law,’ says lawyer Will Grice @WillGrice The Koh-i-Noor stone in the Queen Mother’s crown A petition demanding the return of the Koh-i-Noor diamond has been filed in a Pakistan court, reports say. The […]
Farmer recalls three decades of aggression against Palestinian landowners
Source: Jordan Times By Suzanna Goussous – Dec 02,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Abdelrahman Qasem speaks to activists and reporters in Amman on Wednesday (Photo by Suzanna Goussous) AMMAN — Farmer Abdelrahman Qasem has faced Israeli aggression on his land in Palestine for over 30 years, with settlers continually putting pressure […]
Obama’s silence
Dec 03,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – GEORGE S. HISHMEH All hopes were dashed last weekend when President Barrack Obama, who was in Paris at what has been described as one of the largest gatherings of world leaders in history to deal with the consequences of climate change, failed to highlight the […]
Hope for Thailand’s Pakistani Refugees
Bangkok’s little-known population of Pakistani asylum seekers uses community action to respond to the challenges facing refugees without a camp. In an unremarkable concrete apartment block on the outskirts of Bangkok, over 100 families from Pakistan wait. They are a fraction of the 8,000-strong population of refugees and asylum […]
Saudi Arabia uses terrorism as an excuse for human rights abuses
Aljazeera: Reports emerged last week that Saudi Arabia intends to imminently execute more than 50 people on a single day for alleged terrorist crimes. Although the kingdom hasn’t officially confirmed the reports, the evidence is building. Okas, the first outlet to publish the report, has close ties to the Saudi […]
How to help and support victims of the San Bernardino shooting, community
Foxnews.com: SAN BERNARDINO, Cali. — The mass shooting during a holiday party at Inland Regional Center on December 2 in San Bernardino, California, is the deadliest since the 2012 incident at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Here are some ways you can help and support victims and the San Bernardino […]
From the harem to Salomé: American Orientalism Painting as an Exploration of Changing Women’s Roles in the 19th Century
By Iram Ahmad MD In his 1580 essay, “On Presumption,” French essayist Michel de Montaigne wrote: … It is that I lower the value of the things I possess, because I possess them, and raise the value of things when they are foreign, absent, or not mine… between two similar […]
“Islam means peace”, says Imam & National President Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Greece
Source: en.protothema.gr ” The word Islam is derived from the root word “Salema” which mean peace, purity, submission and obedience which are completely opposite to the basic definition of terrorism” By […]