Geopolitical Diary APRIL 1, 2015 | The Obama administration has slipped past self-imposed deadlines and minced words over red lines before. Although certainly an embarrassment for the White House, another missed deadline in the seemingly never-ending Iran nuclear negotiations — which stretched beyond the latest deadline of March 31 — […]
Source: NY Times: DÜSSELDORF, Germany — The co-pilot at the controls of the Germanwings airliner that crashed into the French Alps last week had been searching the Internet in the days leading up to the crash for information about how to commit suicide and the security measures for cockpit doors, […]
425. Commandment – Punishment for those who make false and defamatory statements about chaste women [24:5] And those who calumniate chaste women but bring not four witnesses — flog them with eighty stripes, and never admit their evidence thereafter, and it is they that are the transgressors, [24:6] Except those who repent thereafter […]
B PERMIT Starting over in Switzerland By Catherine McLean swissinfo.ch FEB 4, 2015 – 11:00 Jwan Othman and Media Joulak attend German classes each day, taking turns watching the children (Catherine McLean / swissinfo.ch) Jwan Othman and Media Joulak sit down on a black couch in the tidy main […]
SUFISM AND DREAMS A gypsy came to a Sufi master as he often received a small amount in charity from him. One day the gypsy told him about his dream, about which the master was very astonished. At the same time the son of an important official came to visit […]
Suggested Reading: The Muslim Times’ Collection on Islam’s Condemnation of Terrorism Story highlights Fifteen people are dead and 550 people are still unaccounted for, officials say Witness: Gunmen “proceeded to […]
Video Debate between a liberal and a conservative Christian: Did Jesus Rise? The Great Resurrection Debate – William Lane Craig vs. John Shelby Spong If we listen to both speakers […]
Source: TOI This photo of a Syrian child so scarred by war that she stared into a camera lens believing it was the barrel of a gun and raised her arms in surrender has been shared around the world.The fear in the little girl’s eyes as she bit her lip […]
Source: TOI This photo of a Syrian child so scarred by war that she stared into a camera lens believing it was the barrel of a gun and raised her arms in surrender has been shared around the world.The fear in the little girl’s eyes as she bit her lip […]
Source: ET A Bosnian Muslim did not sleep for a week after he was assigned the job of carving a special chair that Pope Francis will be sitting in during his visit to Bosnia. Hajdarovac, 61, and his 33-year-old son Edin started working on the chair on Monday in their […]
Source: ET A Bosnian Muslim did not sleep for a week after he was assigned the job of carving a special chair that Pope Francis will be sitting in during his visit to Bosnia. Hajdarovac, 61, and his 33-year-old son Edin started working on the chair on Monday in their […]
Source: Stratfor: The Obama administration has slipped past self-imposed deadlines and minced words over red lines before. Although certainly an embarrassment for the White House, another missed deadline in the seemingly never-ending Iran nuclear negotiations — which stretched beyond the latest deadline of March 31 — may not matter much […]
The Huffington Post | By Carol Kuruvilla For Christians, Easter is a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ — and arguably the most important date on the religious calendar. […]
The Huffington Post | By Carol Kuruvilla For Christians, Easter is a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ — and arguably the most important date on the religious calendar. […]
“Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their rebellion and to the descendants of Jacob their sins. For day after […]
AMMAN — Jordan on Wednesday closed its border with Syria for security reasons, according to the Jordan News Agency, Petra. The agency quoted Interior Minister Hussein Majali as saying that passenger and cargo traffic across the border was halted as a result of escalating violence in the Syrian town of […]
OnIslam & News Agencies Wednesday, 01 April 2015 MOSCOW – A leading Russian Muslim group has issued a fatwa against the so-called Islamic State (ISIL) and called it “enemy of Islam”, amid increasing threats to the faith that is mistakenly associated with the militant group. “The followers of ISIS are […]
BY STEPHEN BATTAGLIO LOS ANGELES TIMES Reza Aslan will be at the University of Toledo speaking on “Youth Revolt: The Future of the New Middle East.” CNN is looking to a higher power in its quest to get new viewers. The cable news network’s original series lineup for 2016 includes […]
End of Time Prophecies, Apocalypse & Eschatology Editor’s Note: This is from the website ‘Discovering Islam’ http://www.discoveringislam.org/end_of_time.htm Editor’s Note: As the author’s of this website expect Imam Mahdi to appear by the latest in 2016, can we tell them that if they are right, we will follow […]