By Ruth Eglash and Carol Morello December 31 at 2:50 PM JERUSALEM — A day after a failed bid at the United Nations to push a Middle East peace settlement, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas signed an appeal Wednesday to join the International Criminal Court — a move that could open the way for filing war […]
The Huffington Post UK | By Jessica Elgot Jürgen Todenhöfer spent months in covert negotiations with Islamic State fighters over Skype, until he had reassurances from the very highest levels of the “Caliphate” that he would be safe in Iraq and Syria. The veteran German reporter then packed a small bag and […]
Jason Hickel Follow @@jasonhickel Dr Jason Hickel lectures at the London School of Economics and serves as an adviser to /The Rules. Poverty is created by rules that rig the economy in the interests of the rich, writes Hickel [AFP] International development is dying; people just don’t buy it anymore. […]
Blessings of Marriage in Islam Dr Bilal Rana Sadr MKA USA Jalsa West Coast USA 2014
Source: The Independent The Taliban called Jibran Nasir, a charismatic 27-year-old lawyer, on his mobile phone. “If you don’t take your actions back, and if you don’t stop harassing the […]
BERLIN: German chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday warned the country’s citizens not to participate in weekly anti-Islam rallies that have attracted growing numbers of supporters in the eastern German city of Dresden. Merkel condemned the organisers of the protests and said they were driven by prejudices and hatred against foreigners. The chancellor […]
Epigraph: Indeed, you have in the Prophet of Allah an excellent model, for him who fears Allah and the Last Day and who remembers Allah much. (Al Quran 33:22) […]
By SPIEGEL Staff AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth Combat operations in Afghanistan may be coming to an end, but a look at secret NATO documents reveals that the US and the UK were far less scrupulous in choosing targets for killing than previously believed. Drug dealers were also on the lists. http://www.facebook.com/v2.0/plugins/share_button.php?locale=en_US&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Finternational%2Fworld%2Fsecret-docs-reveal-dubious-details-of-targeted-killings-in-afghanistan-a-1010358.html&type=button&width=110&font=verdana&colorscheme=light&height=21 http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?locale=en_US&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Finternational%2Fworld%2Fsecret-docs-reveal-dubious-details-of-targeted-killings-in-afghanistan-a-1010358.html&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=140&action=recommend&font=verdana&colorscheme=light&height=21 […]
theguardian: by Henry McDonald — Atheists have called the Irish government’s failure to put the controversial blasphemy laws up for a vote a betrayal. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Irish atheists and secularists have accused their government of breaking a promise to call a referendum over the Republic’s controversial blasphemy laws […]
The Kingdom has decided to allow Syrians to stay in the country without iqamas as long as their visit, Haj, or Umrah visas are valid, but they would have to correct their status later. According to the Minister of Justice Mohammed Al-Issa, the ministry would allow Syrians holding these visas […]
Huff Post: by Tim Suttle —- The hostility we feel toward those who are not like us is acceptable in almost every other part of our society, but it is distinctly out of place in Christian worship. Any hostility toward “the other” offends God, and it offends the community. As […]
Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour, left, goes to shake hands with members after a meeting of the UN Security Council on Tuesday at the United Nations headquarters. The UNSC has rejected a Palestinian resolution demanding an end to Israeli occupation within three years. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) […]
IAN JOHNSTON Sunday 28 December 2014 Millions of the poorest people in Britain are struggling to get enough food to maintain their body weight, according to official figures published this month. The Government’s Family Food report reveals that the poorest 10 per cent of the population – some 6.4 million […]
331. Commandment – Eat, then, of that over which the name of Allah has been pronounced and eat not of that on which the name of Allah has not been pronounced [6:119] Eat, then, of that over which the name of Allah has been pronounced, if you are believers […]
338. Commandment – Priests and monks are not suppose to devour the wealth of men by false means [9:34] O ye who believe! surely, many of the priests and monks devour the wealth of men by false means and turn men away from the way of Allah. And those who hoard […]
Source: Dawn By Nadeem F. Paracha Former Minister of Religious Affairs in the Z.A. Bhutto government (1971-77), Kausar Niazi, has been mistreated by history. Many local historians have charged him for […]
By Sanjoy Majumder, BBC News, Chennai The Panama-registered M V Modern Peak steams into the newly commissioned Ennore Port, just north of Chennai on India’s south-eastern coast. It is a Korean […]
Hundustan Times: The 123rd international annual convention of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community concluded at its headquarters here on Sunday night. Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the fifth Caliph, while addressing the convention, […]
Continue reading the main story in BBC Somalia: Failed State Poet jihadist ‘Mosquito militants’ Al-Shabab profile Who are al-Shabab?Watch A leader of the al-Shabab Islamist group was killed by a […]
Source: Dawn Com KARACHI: Following a nation-wide uproar against controversial anti-Ahmadi remarks made during religious host Amir Liaquat Hussain’s morning show, Geo on Tuesday apologised for the editorial lapse. A […]