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. […]
Source: Huffington Post The Huffington Post | By Ryan Grenoble One peace ring begets another. A group of Norwegians plans to link hands and encircle a mosque in Oslo, Norway, […]
Bill O’Reilly Also Lied About His War Experience, Mother Jones Claims Posted: 02/19/2015 8:41 pm EST Updated: 02/21/2015 12:00 pm EST http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/19/bill-oreilly-war_n_6717260.html Perhaps Fox News host Bill O’Reilly feels even more sympathy for NBC’s Brian Williams now that O’Reilly, too, has been accused of overplaying his battleground experience. On Thursday, […]
Russian tensions could escalate into all-out war, says Nato general General Sir Adrian Bradshaw, Nato’s deputy supreme allied commander in Europe, says Vladimir Putin could try to invade and seize Nato territory By Ben Farmer, Defence Correspondent 20 Feb 2015 Tensions with Russia could blow up into all-out conflict, posing […]
Turkey enters Syria to remove precious Suleyman Shah tomb Hundreds of Turkish forces in armoured vehicles have entered war-torn northern Syria to evacuate troops guarding a historic tomb, demolishing it and moving the remains to a different site. The remains of Suleyman Shah, who died in the 13th Century, […]
Magazine Monitor A collection of cultural artefacts Homeless people in the UK are getting free meals thanks to a centuries-old Sikh tradition. Why, asks Rajeev Gupta. “We come here because we get food… A hot meal. It’s a luxury for me.” John Davidson is 55 and homeless. He is one […]
The Daily Star The latest episode in the long-running U.N.-produced soap opera “peacemaking in Syria” emerged this week when envoy Staffan de Mistura informed the Security Council about the regime’s readiness to halt its attacks in Aleppo. However, the offer coincided with regime offensives in Aleppo as well as southern […]
387. Commandment – Men shall have a share of that which they have earned, and women a share of that which they have earned [4:33] And covet not that whereby Allah has made some of you excel others. Men shall have a share of that which they have earned, and […]
News courtesy: Shahid Parvez Badruddin Saheb, Sec. Dawat-il-Allah, Bangalore For the 2nd year in a row the Book Stall of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Bangalore has been awarded the Best […]
Epigraph: “Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.” — George Washington George Washington (February 22, 1732 [O.S. February 11, 1731][Note 1][Note 2] – December […]
theguardian: by Chris Gunness — Six months after international donors pledged billions after the last war, the cash has not materialised, lives remain shattered and the desperate suffering goes on Jibril, left, lost two of his four grandchildren to hypothermia in the storms last month. The family now live […]