Source: Arab News Several Saudi writers and intellectuals have called on the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Call and Guidance to monitor its summer camps held to propagate religious teachings, to root out extremists advocating subversive ideologies. They say the dawa camps are organized under the banner of the ministry […]
Epigraph: And thou (Muhammad) shalt assuredly find those who say, ‘We are Christians,’ to be the nearest of them in love to the believers. That is because amongst them are […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — ISIS militants claim to have captured a Jordanian pilot after shooting down a coalition warplane over Syria on Wednesday, according to a statement posted on an ISIS-affiliated Twitter account. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights had reported earlier Wednesday that ISIS had shot down an […]
The Daily Star The presidential election in Tunisia should be taken as a sign that not everything in this part of the world is generating violence, tension, anger and despair. A competitive […]
ALGIERS — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned on Tuesday that his administration would “no longer deal” with Israel if a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a final peace […]
Source: The Guardian By Bim Adewunmi The Malala award Nominees: Malala Yousafzai, Mindy Kaling (who was briefly mistaken for her at a New York party). Winner: Malala, by a landslide – for being awarded the Nobel peace prize at the age of 17 (the youngest ever recipient) but also crucially for the fact that she had […]
SpyGhana —- Over 40,000 Ahmadi Muslims are billed to converge at Pomadze near the Winneba Junction in the Central Region for their 83rd National Jalsa Convention. Muslims Delegates are expected from Africa and Europe, according to a press release signed by Ahmad N. Twumasi, Public Relations Officer of the Mission. […]
Upworthy Malala Yousafzai has inspired people all over the world with her activism and advocacy for girls, education, human rights, and peace. But as the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner ever, there’s something special about the impact her story has on teens her own age. When U.S. teens watched a news […]
Source: The Times December, 2014 By Eric Yoffie, he was President of the Union for Reform Judaism from 1996 to 2012. We Americans need to teach about Islam in our […]
libsyn.com: CJ Werleman and Kashif N. Chaudhry discuss fundamentalism of all stripes: Islamic, Christian, and Atheist. Chaudhry is a Pakistani-American physician, journalist, former chairman of the Muslim Writer’s Guild, and recipient of the Presidential Service Award. Listen:
328. Commandment – Milk is a Halal (allowed to use for drink etc) [16:67] And surely in the cattle too there is a lesson for you. We give you to drink of what is in their bellies, from betwixt the faeces and the blood, milk pure and pleasant for those who drink it. [23:22] And in the […]
330. Commandment – So eat of that which they catch for you, and pronounce thereon the name of Allah [5:5] They ask thee what is made lawful for them. Say, ‘All good things have been made lawful for you; and what you have taught the beasts and birds of prey to […]
329. Commandment – The game of the sea and the eating thereof have been made lawful for you as a provision for you and the travellers [5:97] The game of the sea and the eating thereof have been made lawful for you as a provision for you and the travellers; […]
Disenchanted German citizens and right-wing extremists are joining forces to form a protest movement to fight what they see as the Islamization of the West. Is this the end of […]
Source: LUBP Back to its tactics of chamak, PMLN is using is lawyers wing aka Lahore High Court to resuce LeJ-ASWJ-TTP takfiri Deobandi terrorists. Lahore High Court has suspended death sentence of 5 LeJ convicts because THEY DIDN’T APPEAL AGAINST THE SENTENCE YET! Bear in mind that an LeJ convict […]
Source: N Y Times: LOS ANGELES — Sony Pictures said on Tuesday that it had secured a limited theatrical release for “The Interview” on Christmas Day. Last week, about 80 percent of the theaters in the United States and Canada refused to show “The Interview” in the face of a […]
Source:Arab News The tourism sector in the Kingdom has high expectations for a big boost in the market next year, after the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA) approved provisions to issue tourism visas and regulate the system, in order to revive local tourism. If the proposals are finally […]
France Orders Troop Reinforcements After Attacks By AURELIEN BREEDEN and ALAN COWELLDEC. 23, 2014 NYTimes.com PARIS — After a string of attacks across France that have heightened concerns about Islamic militancy, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Tuesday that hundreds of additional military personnel would be ordered onto the streets […]
Source: Arab News The frightening absence of sincerity in the whole procedure is hardly edifying to the vast majority of Hindus who have not engaged in this practice of shepherding people into their fold until now. I just find it cruel to those it is being imposed upon and unfair […]