WHAT IS A GRANDPARENT? Taken from papers written by a class of 8-year-olds. Grandparents are a lady and a man who have no little children of their own. They like other peoples. A grandfather is a man & a grandmother is a lady! Grandparents don’t have to do anything […]
STORY HIGHLIGHTS The Spy Cables are one of the most wide-ranging leaks of intelligence papers ever, taking us into the world of espionage Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit, in collaboration with The Guardian newspaper, is publishing a selection of “top-secret” documents, and exploring the stories within them The documents come from […]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History The cover of the 1992 edition. Author Michael H. Hart Country United States Language English Series 1st Edition (1978) 2nd Edition (1992) Subject History Genre Non-Fiction Published 1978 (Hart Publishing company) Media type Print ISBN […]
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Religion News Service | By Cathy Lynn Grossman WASHINGTON (RNS) After taking heat from the religious right for saying Christians and Muslims have all committed horrors in God’s name, President […]
YASMIN ALIBHAI BROWN Sunday 22 February 2015 As I write this, the three Muslim teenage girls from East London are still missing. Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16 and […]
The Daily Star, Lebanon The horrific mass murder of Egyptian Copts Sunday by ISIS in Libya and the weekend attacks in Denmark – presumably inspired by a similar mentality – show us once again that this evil menace is not confined to any one area, and as such, the response […]
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Summary The public rift between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the Iranian nuclear issue is often described as a personality dispute. But a senior Israeli official argued that the break has been building for more than two years and reflects a deep disagreement about how best […]
MAKKAH: NADIM AL-HAMID Published — Monday 23 February 2015 Emphasizing the need to map out a strategic plan to combat terrorism, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman stated on Sunday that Saudi Arabia will not wait idly by while extremists tarnish the image of Islam. “Saudi Arabia […]
AFP | Feb 22, 2015 | JORDAN TIMES Abase Hussen, father of 15-year old British girl Amira Abase, holds a bear that Amira gave to her mother, during an interview at New Scotland Yard, central London, on Sunday (AFP photo) LONDON — Britain debated Sunday how to stop teenage girls […]
by Mohammad Ghazal | Feb 22, 2015 | 21:08 Updated: Feb 22, 2015 | 21:08 AMMAN — Jordan will soon launch a plan to fight extremist ideologies and raise awareness among all segments of society of their dangerous impact, according to an Awqaf Ministry official. Under the projected plan, several […]
BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT David Gosling was for four years principal of Edwardes College in Peshawar, trying to keep the Taliban from his academy in the old British North-West Frontier Province of what is now Pakistan. But he could scarcely imagine receiving a letter from MI5 confirming that his […]
BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT The 13th-century fall of an obscure king into the river Euphrates, the pride of the Ottoman empire and modern Turkey and a humiliating French retreat after the 1914-18 war provide the truly Byzantine origins of Turkey’s little military operation to remove a long-dead body from […]
Dawn: POST-Peshawar the need to rethink our national security policy and terminate the state’s patronage of jihadists has been under focus. Also under spotlight has been the state’s capacity deficit that partly explains the gap between law and its implementation (obsession with military courts being a misconceived response to this […]
Alislam-egazette: Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community: “True Khilafat is Spiritual Leadership and Has No Interest in Power or Government” On Saturday 13 June 2014, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya […]
Daily News Egypt: Nader Soliman, founder and head of the Christian Youth Movement, is calling for President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to be awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize, Soliman told Daily News Egypt Wednesday. Soliman supported his request to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, who give out the award, […]
Rappler.com: OSLO, Norway – Norwegian Muslims organized a peace vigil in Oslo Saturday, February 21, in a show of solidarity with Jews a week after fatal shootings in Denmark targeted […]
Salon.com: What does President Obama think about Islam and terrorism? Many Republicans think he’s unable to see, or unwilling to acknowledge, that the vast majority of terrorism in recent years has been perpetrated by Muslims. This view of Obama is mistaken. There’s a difference between what he says about Islam […]
Telegraph: The cameras are still rolling at Byker Grove. These days, though, they are set high above the security fence at the edge of the grounds, next to signs warning off intruders. When the children’s soap finished its run, in 2006, producers abandoned the Victorian mansion where it was filmed. […]