Obama’s Lists: A Dubious History of Targeted Killings in Afghanistan

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 […]

Ireland’s lack of action on blasphemy law disappoints atheists and secularists

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 […]

Qur’an lesson for today: 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

  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 […]

Terrorism is un-Islamic, says Ahmadiyya head

Kamaljit Singh Kamal  Qadian (Gurdaspur), December 30, 2014 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, said that terrorism today had become a cause of fear and anxiety for the […]