Sep 05,2015 – JORDAN TIMES It has been a tough year for Nigeria. In the last 12 months, the country has suffered attacks by child suicide bombers and brutal massacres by Boko Haram. The vast majority of the 276 schoolgirls abducted in Chibok last year are still missing. And […]
By JT – Sep 05,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Migrants wait to board a train after crossing the border between the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Greece near Gevgelija on Saturday (Reuters photo) AMMAN — Jordan has said that the world community’s failure to aptly address the refugee plight has led […]
………… It’s a common refrain at Japan’s more than 80,000 shrines and temples. Yet evidence of an instinctive spirituality that infuses daily life can be spotted across the country, from […]
Source: RT Pope Francis has called on every European parish to host one refugee family each in a goodwill gesture that will begin in the Vatican state. It comes as […]
Source: Morocco World News: After its decision to ban the practice of Islamic religion and the shutting down of its places of worship in the whole country, Angola became the […]
Source: NY Times By David Brooks Just once I’d like to have a college student come up to me and say, “I really wanted to major in accounting, but my parents […]
Migrant crisis: Journey through Austria to Germany resumes Hundreds of migrants have resumed their journey through Austria to Germany after Hungary’s decision on Friday to let them through. Several trains […]
Sarfarosh to Phantom – Educating Indians About Pakistani Jihad By Tufail Ahmad, 03-09-2015 (A version of this article appeared in Hindi daily, Dainik Jagran on September 2, 2015.) It is in the nature of human beings to live in hope and rosy utopias, which was evident when Indians sat through […]
CBC: Canada has resettled nearly 2,500 Syrian refugees, but municipal and provincial leaders say more can be done The plight of Syrian refugees and calls for the federal government to […]
SPIEGEL ONLINE For months, the Islamic State visited its reign of terror on the city of Derna, Libya — until it was stopped by an al-Qaida offshoot. Farrah Schennib describes the horrors of daily life under the IS in his diary. Only 300 kilometers (186 miles) separate dream from […]
Source: Huffington Post By Sarah Sayeed, Ph.D. Director of Community Partnerships, Interfaith Center of New Growing up Muslim in America, I learned that there were many rules about speech. At home, […]
SEP 5, 2015 – 05:00 By Krisztina Than HEGYESHALOM, Hungary (Reuters) – Hundreds of exhausted migrants streamed into Austria on Saturday, reaching the border on buses provided by an overwhelmed Hungarian government that gave up trying to hold back crowds that had set out on foot for western Europe. After […]
Haj Minister Bandar Hajjar visits the headquarters of the pilgrim establishment for Arab states in Makkah on Thursday. (AN photo Ahmad Hashad) ARAB NEWS Published — Saturday 5 September 2015 JEDDAH: A total of 172,000 pilgrims have arrived via 861 flights from around the world at King Abdulaziz International Airport […]
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Sex, flies and videotape: the secret lives of Harun Yahya Source: New Humanist Muslim creationist, cult leader, Dawkins’ nemesis, messiah. Halil Ardatracks down the real Harun Yahya – by Halil […]
http://i.cdn.turner.com/money/.element/script/7.0/players/embed.js?videoid=/video/news/2015/09/04/billionaire-refugees-island.cnnmoney Source: CNN Money An Egyptian billionaire is offering to buy an island for people fleeing to Europe from war-torn countries in the Middle East and Africa. Naguib Sawiris, one […]
Epigraph: Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. (Matthew 5:7) Merkel the bold Source: Economist ANGELA MERKEL may be the most powerful politician in Europe, but she […]
Hundreds begin walking along highway heading for Austria as one person dies in standoff at suburban train station Police attempt to stop migrants as they march along the highway near […]
578. Commandment – Rules and regulations for the division of spoils [59:8] Whatever Allah has given to His Messenger as spoils from the people of the towns is for Allah and for the Messenger and for the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer, that […]
Here is the excerpt of the questions put up by students and how PM answered to their queries: Q: Your fashion sense is talked about a lot, how did the idea of promoting Indian clothes come to you? PM: I don’t know why people think I have a fashion designer […]