By Veronica DeVore swissinfo.ch Language learning in Switzerland is linked to wider political debates over immigration and education. An online poll shows strong support for giving priority to national languages in school and in the workplace. Recently, several cantons have been embroiled in disputes over whether to introduce the teaching […]
Those who are calling for a ‘Muslim Martin Luther’ should be careful what they wish for Sunday 17 May 2015 In recent months, cliched calls for reform of Islam, a 1,400-year-old faith, have intensified. “We need a Muslim reformation,” announced Newsweek. “Islam needs reformation from within,” said the Huffington Post. […]
More Lethal than RAW: Imagine That an Enemy Has Perfected a Super Weapon That Destroys Reasoning Power By Pervez Hoodbhoy May 16th, 2015, DAWN.COM Our generals say India’s spy agency RAW is up to its nasty tricks again. No evidence provided but, okay, we’ll buy the story for now. There […]
Epigraph: Allah likes not the uttering of unseemly speech in public, except on the part of one who is being wronged. Indeed, Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (Al Quran 4:149) […]
http://www.cbc.ca/i/caffeine/syndicate/?clipId=2667067310 Many immigrants come to Canada and bring their religion with them When the sad time came to say good-bye to her late husband, Marie Diane Dodd knew a traditional […]
A French mayor, who claimed on Twitter that Islam will be banned in France by 2027, is facing expulsion from the country’s main opposition conservative party after rightists termed his […]
The Supreme Court today dismissed the plea of a bank employee, who had challenged framing of charges against him for publishing an allegedly “vulgar and obscene” poem on Mahatma Gandhi […]
The Supreme Court today dismissed the plea of a bank employee, who had challenged framing of charges against him for publishing an allegedly “vulgar and obscene” poem on Mahatma Gandhi […]
the daily mail: Satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has been accused of hypocrisy after it suspended a journalist who has received death threats for her articles attacking Islamic extremism. Zineb El […]
the Hindu: Around 1,000 Shia citizens killed in two years. Pakistan is a country of ghosts. They are everywhere, the victims and the perpetrators both. On Wednesday morning, six gunmen wearing police uniforms stopped an Al Azhar Garden bus carrying 60 Ismaili Muslims in Karachi. The bus picked up Ismailies […]
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By Saeed Qureshi Amazingly since last year (starting from Dharnas (sit-in) in the federal capital of Pakistan, the chairman of PTI Imran Khan has at least graduated, with flying colors, […]
By Ben Brumfield, CNN Updated 6:17 AM ET, Sun May 17, 2015 (CNN) U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez would seem the perfect picture of an ethnically diverse Democrat. But a brief gesture […]
Standardisation is critical to creating the transparency and clarity that would remove doubts from the minds of people PUBLISHED: 13:56 MAY 17, 2015 BY HUSSAIN AL QEMZI, SPECIAL TO GULF NEWS The word “innovation” is extremely malleable: it means different things to different people and within the banking fraternity […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Published — Sunday 17 May 2015 Last update 17 May 2015 12:28 am The Islamic Fiqh Council of the Muslim World League has recommended the establishment of an international committee to coordinate with the authorities concerned in other countries to educate Muslims about myths and heresies. The […]
by Khetam Malkawi | May 16, 2015 | 23:53 AMMAN — The unemployment rate among Jordanians has increased from 14.5 per cent prior to the Syrian crisis in 2011 to 22.1 per cent at present, according to a recent report by international organisations. Conducted by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) […]
Amid regional uncertainty Beirut has the chance to revive its steam-age role as a key transit hub ROBERT FISK Sunday 17 May 2015 Lebanon as a rail powerhouse for the rebuilding of post-war Syria, high-speed double-track trains running in tunnels through the Lebanese mountains above Beirut, sidings for the building-blocks […]
Jibran Nasir on Reclaiming Pakistan references killing of Ahmadis A TALK4PAK EVENT at Fremont Mehran Restaurant By Dr. H. Koya, San Francisco Bay Area. https://fbcdn-vthumb-a.akamaihd.net/hvthumb-ak-xaf1/v/t15.0-10/s480x480/11095245_10207029298151275_706616605_n.jpg?oh=ab4755689b33b51d2ddf83803b542411&oe=55C2B9CC&__gda__=1439360669_b6d55f40a9f3b584bfb3b0f9526f7c70 (Also see attached word doc) FREMONT (Mehran Restaurant) More 200 people attended a hurriedly organized lunch by TALK4PAK group here today featuring visiting public speaker […]
By: Express News Service | New Delhi | Updated: May 15, 2015 7:03 am Freedom of speech and expression has to be given a broad canvas, but it has to […]
A ‘bulletproof’ cross rises in Karachi Source: Washington Post By Tim Craig May 15 KARACHI, PAKISTAN — Pakistani businessman Parvez Henry Gill says he was sleeping when God crashed into one of his […]
