OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israeli authorities gave final approval on Wednesday to the construction of 380 new settler housing units in two areas of annexed East Jerusalem, a local official said. “The municipal commission has given construction permits for 307 homes in Ramot and 73 in Har Homa,” Yosef Pepe Alalu, […]
The Washington Post: by Abby Phillip — Anna Stoehr, 114, uses her iPad at her retirement home in Plainview, Minn. Stoehr made headlines for needing to lie about her age to set up an account on Facebook. Anna Stoehr was 113 years young when she decided it was time for […]
Source. ET The MQM chief argued that if a non-democratic way has to be adopted in the country, it is better that martial law is imposed. More:
The New York Times — Despite the grief and rage that followed the massacre of 148 students and their teachers by Taliban militants at an army-run school in Peshawar last week, Pakistan persists in its duplicitous and self-defeating response to the extremism that is threatening the country. Immediately after the attack, Prime […]
Epigraph: And thou 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 savants […]
Scientists at the University of Cambridge working with the Weizmann Institute have created primordial germ cells – cells that will go on to become egg and sperm – using human […]
Source: BBC By Michelle Roberts, Health editor, BBC News online Our brains are adapting to touchscreen smartphone technology say researchers who have carried out a study on human volunteers. The scientists […]
Source: Graphic On Line: LINK “Irrespective of their political and religious affiliations, the rich and well-to-do will be contributing to peaceful co-existence if they support the poor and weak in society,’’ the Ameer and Missionary in charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in Ghana, Alhaji Mohammed Bin Salih, said this […]
Source: Arab News It is highly unfortunate that so many feel at ease to kill innocent and defenseless civilians all in the name of revenge and of a great religion that should not have to suffer such indignities in its name. It is long overdue for all of us fair-minded […]
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: