the News: ISLAMABAD: HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) is a subsidiary of London-based HSBC Holdings Plc, a British multinational banking and financial services company which is the world’s second largest banking entity. According to The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), 130 journalists “from 45 countries have unearthed secret bank account […]
NY Times: Early in the summer of 2007, a doctoral student named Mehnaz M. Afridi traveled from her California home to a conference in southern Germany. Her official role was […]
Source: Huffington Post SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A group of Chilean priests on Thursday demanded the resignation of a bishop, accusing him of covering up for a prominent priest who […]
USA Today / Religion News Service | By David Jackson Posted: 02/20/2015 WASHINGTON (RNS) President Obama said Thursday (Feb. 19) that governments across the globe are obligated to confront the […]
Source: Dawn by Pervez Hoodbhoy SHIKARPUR on Jan 30, Peshawar on Feb 13, Rawalpindi on Feb 18. In less than three weeks, suicide bombers have targeted three imambargahs packed with worshippers. Outside of Syria and Iraq, Pakistan is the world’s deadliest country for Shia Muslims. Hazara are fleeing Balochistan, and […]
BY JACK MOORE 2/20/15 AT 6:36 PM The agreement between the United States and Turkey to arm moderate Syrian rebels in the fight against the Islamic State [ISIS] is a “disaster in the making”, according to experts who say that Washington and Ankara have different motives for doing so. After […]
The Swiss People’s Party has launched a popular initiative calling for a ban on religious headgear in schools in canton Valais. It follows a successful initiative in 2013 that banned […]
BY HARUN YAHYA, ARABNEWS.COM OUR world is unraveling. From east to west, from south to north, no part of the world can escape unscathed the destructive storm that sweeps across […]
USE NEW MEDIA: Sheikh Saleh Bin-Humaid delivers the Friday sermon at the Grand Mosque in Makkah. (SPA) MAKKAH: ARAB NEWS Published — Saturday 21 February 2015 Last update 21 February 2015 12:06 am Imam and Khateeb at the Grand Mosque Sheikh Saleh Bin-Humaid called on the believers to employ the […]
Petra-born archaeologist wants to restore spirituality, simplicity of new world wonder by Saeb Rawashdeh | Feb 19, 2015 | 16:31 A sketch of a projected eco-village that archaeologist Shaaban Nyazi plans to establish in Petra, 235km south of Amman (Photo courtesy of Shaaban Nyazi) AMMAN — In a bid to […]
What Stephen Hawking has to say about humanity’s ‘biggest failing’ Posted 13 hours ago by Nick Clark (edited by i100 staff) in people Stephen Hawking has said that aggression is the human race’s biggest failing and it “threatens to destroy us all”, urging people to be more empathetic. Speaking at the Science Museum […]
Source: Arab News JERUSALEM: For someone who was educated in the United States, speaks fluent American-accented English and worked as a management consultant in Boston, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sure knows how to rub his closest ally up the wrong way. In surprisingly critical and unvarnished comments on Wednesday, […]
Source: NY Times The deal, reached at an emergency meeting of eurozone finance ministers here, paves the way for Greece to unlock further financial aid from a 240 billion euro, or $273 billion, bailout deal, provided the country meets certain commitments laid out by its creditors. More:
Islam and Social Justice (Part 1/2) February 20, 2015 4:31 pm by: ali Category: Jewels of Islam Leave a comment A+ / A- By Dr. Ali Al-Halawani The famous slogan of the Jan. 25th Revolution (Egypt, 2011) was – and still is –`Iish, Hurriyyah, `Adalah Ijtima`iyyah(literally, Bread, Freedom, and Social […]
26 Sep 2014 09:22 GMT+02:00 A foundation fronted by Conservative Party politician Aamir Sheikh wants to build a Muslim art centre on the current site of the Munch Museum in Tøyen, Oslo after the museum moves to Bjørvika in 2019. Aamir Sheikh unveiled his plans which included building a small […]
Burkhalter and John Kerry at a meeting last year. Photo: Sebastien Bozon/AFP Burkhalter: anti-terror measures a ‘priority’ Published: 20 Feb 2015 12:24 GMT+01:00 Combating violent extremism is a “priority” in Switzerland, Swiss foreign minister and former president Didier Burkhalter has said, telling a counter-terrorism summit in Washington this week that […]
By SPIEGEL Staff DPA Banks across Europe, including the European Central Bank, are preparing for the possibility of Greece leaving the euro zone. With Athens and Brussels still at odds, such an eventuality seems more realistic than ever. But how disruptive would a Grexit really be? On Wednesday of this […]
385. Commandment – And they (the women) have rights similar to those (of men) over them in equity [2:229] And the divorced women shall wait concerning themselves for three courses; and it is not lawful for them that they conceal what Allah has created in their wombs, if they believe in […]
Huffington Post: A federal Judge has turned down former Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s Niqab Ban in Citizenship Oath ceremony. …… If wearing the veil was a faith-oriented right, every Muslim […]
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is taking issue with Stephen Harper’s rationale for the decision to defend a federal ban on the wearing of face coverings at citizenship ceremonies. Earlier this […]