Oil. By Catherine Shakdam | April 2, 2015 SANAA, Yemen — On March 25, King Salman decided to engage the Saudi military against the Houthis of Yemen, after the latter marched on Aden, the capital of the former South Yemen, where former President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi had sought refuge after […]
428. Commandment – Punishment for Gay people [4:17] And if two men from among you are guilty of it, punish them both. And if they repent and amend, then leave them alone; surely, Allah is Oft-Returning with compassion and is Merciful.
By Dieter Bednarz, Christoph Reuter and Bernhard Zand REUTERS A Saudi Arabia-led coalition continues to bombard Yemen in an effort to stop the advance of an Iran-backed Shiite militia there. The conflict is becoming a proxy war for regional supremacy. The risks to the House of Saud are great. On […]
The Persian Paradox: Iran Is Much More Modern Than You Think An Essay by Erich Follath DPA People in the West tend to have a monolithic view of Iran. But there’s a lot more to the country than the mullah-led theocracy, and it often gets ignored. And national pride is alive […]
EPIDEMIC Ebola vaccine passes safety test in Geneva trial By Simon Bradley in Geneva APR 1, 2015 – 23:00 A health worker injecting a man with an Ebola vaccine in Conakry, Guinea, in March (Keystone) The experimental Ebola vaccine partially tested at Geneva University Hospital (HUG) is safe and effective, […]
By Robert Fisk, The Independent One summer’s day in 1990, I walked into a beautiful Crusader chapel in Keserwan, a gentle mountainside north of Beirut, where an old Catholic Maronite priest pointed to a Byzantine mosaic of – I think – Saint John. What he wanted to show me […]
Source: BBC By Nuno Ferreira, University of Liverpool Germany’s highest court has overturned a 2004 ban on headscarves for state school teachers, saying that it violated religious freedom. The case […]
Source: BBC By Nuno Ferreira, University of Liverpool Germany’s highest court has overturned a 2004 ban on headscarves for state school teachers, saying that it violated religious freedom. The case […]
Epigraph: And whoso honors the sacred things of Allah, it will be good for him with his Lord. … Shun therefore the abomination of idols, and shun all words of […]
Source: The Russia Today RT: France is witnessing a surge in people buying books on Islam. Interest in the religion has seen three times as many volumes sold in the first […]
Source: ET I have always been aware of the injustices British Muslims face, but I have sometimes doubted the narrative of the “Muslim victim”. Why is it such a big deal if you are singled-out every now and then because of your appearance? If you have nothing to hide, there […]
Source: ET SAINT PETERSBURG: Lyudmila Savchuk says it was money that wooed her into the ranks of the Kremlin’s online army, where she bombarded website comment pages with eulogies of President Vladimir Putin, while mocking his adversaries. “Putin is great,” “Ukrainians are Fascists,” “Europe is decadent”: Savchuk, 34, listed the main […]
Source: ET SAINT PETERSBURG: Lyudmila Savchuk says it was money that wooed her into the ranks of the Kremlin’s online army, where she bombarded website comment pages with eulogies of President Vladimir Putin, while mocking his adversaries. “Putin is great,” “Ukrainians are Fascists,” “Europe is decadent”: Savchuk, 34, listed the main […]
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:ET VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis condemned indifference and “complicit silence” to attacks on Christians as he presided over Easter ceremonies in the wake of a massacre of nearly 150 people at a Kenyan university by Shebab militants. The leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics brought up the extremist persecution of […]
Source: Reliable sources indicate that in an ongoing case, when members of Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan arrived for a scheduled hearing in the court, they were arrested. More details emerging and will be uploaded. Tahir Mehdi, Alfazal Publisher and others arrested.
Source: The Guardian Abdul Sattar Edhi runs a sprawling health charity from a Karachi slum, but that doesn’t stop the religious right condemning him for not saying his prayers Even […]
Source: The Guardian Abdul Sattar Edhi runs a sprawling health charity from a Karachi slum, but that doesn’t stop the religious right condemning him for not saying his prayers Even […]
Rosie Edser accompanies Croydon’s Ahmadiyya Muslims to the 12th London Peace Symposium Asking whether Ahmadiyya Muslims are Sunni or Shia is like asking whether Jehovah’s Witnesses are Catholic or Protestant. They’re neither, they’re entirely different. There are approximately seventy-three different sects of Islam There are approximately seventy-three different sects […]
Huff Post: A few years back I attended the annual Robbi Burns supper on Parliament Hill. The event was a welcome opportunity for all MPs to do something collegial while celebrating Scottish heritage. To make the event memorable I decided to go in full Highland dress, a kilt and all. […]