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.
Washington (CNN) Is the Democratic party over for Israel? By Alexandra Jaffe, CNN Updated 5:59 AM ET, Fri February 27, 2015 For years, support for Israel has been one of the […]
HEATHER SAUL Friday 27 February 2015 A woman has given a powerful response to learning that she lives in the same neighbourhood as the man identified in reports as Jihadi John, insisting: “everyone lives in peace and love. The Christians live with the Muslims, the Muslims live with the Christians. […]
Huff Post: A Detroit suburb that allows a “prayer station” set up in city hall must also permit an atheist to set up a “reason station,” a federal judge ordered. […]
392. Commandment – And give the women their dowries willingly [4:5] And give the women their dowries willingly. But if they, of their own pleasure, remit to you a part thereof, then enjoy it as something pleasant and wholesome.
The Huffington Post | By Antonia Blumberg Posted: 02/26/2015 The United States has long been a majority-Christian country, but it is by no means religiously static. In 2007, Pew Research found […]