ET: Dear Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, I hope this letter finds you well. I am sure you are busy; so let me cut to the chase. You know well that Pakistan’s Ahmadi community has long faced the wrath of extremist religious clerics. Despite succeeding in hijacking Jinnah’s vision, and pressurising the state […]
deansreport.com: On Sunday night, I received a frantic email from a friend who lives on the West Coast. She wrote in her email that as she was walking out of her local grocery store and her caught sight of an attaractive newspaper titled, “Good News Northwest.” Out of interest, she […]
By Muntasir Zaman Among the various specialties of the Hanafī school of thought, one outstanding speciality is the rigorous manner in which it was developed. Imām Abū Hanīfah had a council of forty prominent scholars with whom he would consult prior to documenting a legal ruling. Often they images 1would […]
Judge rules trial at Liverpool Crown Court could not proceed after blunder Christians swear on the Bible in court, while Muslims swear on the Koran By DAILY MAIL REPORTER A […]
Published time: February 28, 2015 Fewer than 300 people turned up in Newcastle for the first-ever rally of anti-Islamist group Pegida in the UK, while at least 1,500 gathered to protest the demo, just hundreds of yards away. “We are here because nobody else who should be talking about the […]
Pakistani author Rafia Zakaria laments troubled state of her native country In her book The Upstairs Wife, lawyer, writer and human rights activist Rafia Zakaria bemoans lack of rights for women in her native Pakistan. Rafia Zakaria By: Jennifer Hunter The Reader, Published on Fri Feb 27 2015 thestar.com Since […]
Open letter to Parliament: Amend C-51 or kill it, demand 100 professors Republish Reprint National Post | February 27, 2015 | Last Updated: Feb 27 10:37 AM ET More from National Post Adrian Wyld/THE CANADIAN PRESS Nationalpost.com The following is an open letter addressed to all members of Parliament and signed […]
American writer hacked to death in Bangladesh spoke out against extremists (CNN) In his writings, author Avijit Roy yearned for reason and humanism guided by science. He had no place for […]
GAZA CITY: With the war-battered Gaza Strip’s borders closed, thousands of people have been shut out of a Haj because they cannot leave the sealed territory. Some 7,500 Gazans have sought to travel to Saudi Arabia, for Umrah but have been turned away. Egypt restricts movement in and out of […]
Summary Libya’s internationally recognized Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani said his government would stop dealing with Turkey because it was sending weapons to a rival group in Tripoli so “the Libyan […]
Summary President Barack Obama should provide Egypt with economic, political and, yes, military support. If Obama has indeed decided that a strong Egypt is essential, he shouldn’t try to play both sides of the street. Criticism of human-rights abuses should continue, but Washington should make clear that they come from […]
The common notion about Muslims in this day and age is not any good. The West has already labeled them as the extremists, and a constant danger to the safety […]
A Quebec court judge has told a woman appearing in her Montreal courtroom she would not hear her case unless the woman removed her hijab. In an audio recording of […]
Source:NewsGeeks From an outsider’s point of view, Germany is the land of perfect streets and flawless infrastructure. With a population of more than 82 million people, the residents are extremely patriotic, too. Not many people would leave Germany to work or live someplace else. More:
Source: CNN (CNN)A man is believed to have killed seven people and injured another in a four-home shooting spree in southern Missouri before fatally shooting himself one county away, police said Friday morning. A girl who fled one of the homes in the small community of Tyrone alerted police Thursday […]
Source: The Independent The internet has been divided into two warring tribes by a picture of a dress functioning as an accidental colour perception experiment. #TheDress, as it has become […]
Rape and Terror on the streets of Pakistan By Rafia Zakaria 25 Feb, 2015 In the Lahore Children’s Hospital, a seven-year-old girl from Sargodha who was raped lies in critical condition. According to the doctors, the injuries sustained by the child on the lower part of her body […]
(Reuters) – U.S. economic growth braked more sharply than initially thought in the fourth quarter amid a slow pace of stock accumulation by businesses and a wider trade deficit, but the underlying fundamentals remained solid. Gross domestic product expanded at a 2.2 percent annual pace, revised down from the 2.6 […]
Source: BBC A knife-wielding mob has hacked to death a US-Bangladeshi blogger whose writing on religion had brought threats from Islamist hardliners. Avijit Roy, an atheist who advocated secularism, was attacked in Dhaka as he walked back from a book fair with his wife, who was hurt in the attack. […]
Mohammed Emwazi, who became ‘Jihadi John’, pictured grinning left, aged 11, and in another class photo, right, a world away from the ‘evil killer’ he would become. THIS is Islamic State monster Jihadi John as a baby-faced primary school pupil Mohammad Emwazi with a cheeky grin.