NY times: LONDON — Only a week ago, the Red Mosque seemed a nearly untouchable bastion of Islamist extremism in Pakistan, a notorious seminary in central Islamabad known for producing radicalized, and sometimes heavily armed, graduates. On Friday evening, though, the tables were turned when hundreds of angry protesters stood at […]
Dawn.com: by Pervez Hoodbhoy — THE gut-wrenching massacre in Peshawar’s Army Public School has left Pakistan aghast and sickened. All political leaders have called for unity against terrorism. But this is no watershed event that can bridge the deep divides within. In another few days this episode of 134 dead […]
No political actor dominated the global stage in 2014 like Vladimir Putin. He meddled in Ukraine and successfully annexed Crimea, but now Putin looks like he overplayed his hand. Tough sanctions from the West and plunging oil prices have left Moscow with a scary currency crisis. The fear is that […]
Ali Jawad, a 22-year-old business student and regular volunteer at a Muslim food bank in London, sees a constant stream of people picking up packaged goods to feed themselves over […]
Dominique Harrison-Bentzen declined his generous offer, but was so moved by the gesture that she started a campaign to raise enough money to help him get a flat. She called […]
Justin Trudeau rules out coalition with NDP, says ‘immediate action’ needed on climate change Mark Kennedy, Postmedia News | December 19, 2014 | Last Updated: Dec 19 9:51 PM ET More from Postmedia News Liberal leader Justin Trudeau ruled out a coalition government, called climate change a serious threat and promised […]
PHD POTENTIAL Switzerland’s Indian migrants as agents of change By Anand Chandrasekhar DEC 19, 2014 – 11:00 India must recognise and tap the potential of its brainy returnee migrants (Keystone) The value of India’s migrants is often judged by their ability to send remittances back home. But perhaps their worth should […]
NAHYAT AL-AYADHIYA, Iraq: Kurdish forces pressed their biggest offensive against the Islamic State group so far on Friday, buoyed by US reports that IS supremo, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi’s top aide in Iraq has been killed. Kurdish peshmerga forces were securing the surroundings of Mount Sinjar after breaking a months-old siege […]
Summary SUMMARY by Rami G. Khouri Those elites and foreign powers were caught off guard four years ago today, on Dec. 17, 2010, when Mohammad Bouazizi set himself on fire in the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid, when he became exasperated by the mistreatment he experienced at the hands […]
tulsaworld.com: Each time I see a news headline with a link between Islam and terrorism my heart sinks. As I watched and read about the hostage situation in Sydney, I […]
The Independent: The grief has given way to rage. Three days after Pakistan suffered its worst ever terrorist attack, with the massacre of 132 schoolchildren in Peshawar, the country has hit back. In the tribal areas of North Waziristan and Khyber along the Afghan border, Pakistani jets strafed militant targets […]
Patheos.com: By Qasim Rashid Today in Pakistan at least 132 sets of parents will remember this Jummah as their first Jummah without their precious child. This Jummah they will be forced to remember the crushing weight of small coffins. I left Peshawar in the 1980s, not long after Dictator Zia […]
allafrica.com: The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Nigeria is set to hold its 63rd annual conference, (Jalsa Salana), 2014. The event will be held at the Jamia Ahmadiyya (Ahmadiyya Missionary Training Center ) Ilaro- Owode road, Ilaro ,Ogun state. According to a release signed by Qasim Akinreti, Chairman National publicity committee and […]
theguardian: by Jonathan Freedland — Pope Francis: ‘When it comes to moral authority, he’s the top man in the world. Now that Mandela’s dead, who else is there?’ Stalin had quite a knack for the soundbite. “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a […]
The Washington Post — (RNS) The massacre of 145 people, nearly all of them children, at a Pakistani school on Tuesday (Dec. 16) is almost too horrible for adults to talk about, much less children. But what if your Muslim child brings it up? What if you want to open […]
By Ansa Tahira Masood, Toronto جاوید چودھری کے 18 دسمبر کے پروگرام “کل تک” میں طاہر القادری صاحب کے ایک مرید ریاض عباسی نے چیخ چیخ کر کہا ہے کہ پاکستان میں شریعت کا آئین جو ختم نبوت کی حفاظت کرتا ہےا س کو نافذ کیوں نہیں کیا جاتا […]
Peshawar attack: Anupam Kher writes open letter to terrorists Courtesy : Dawn News Devastated by the news of the recent attack on Army Public School in Peshawar, Bollywood icon Anupam Kher […]
BBC: Atheism is on the rise around the world, so does that mean spirituality will soon be a thing of the past? Rachel Nuwer discovers that the answer is far […]
Hong Kong (CNN) — Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen has called for an inquiry into a suspected mass HIV infection in a remote village in northwestern Battambang province. The infected cases […]
We have killed all of the children in the auditorium. What do we do now?’: Ismail Khan, The New York Times | December 18, 2014 10:31 AM ET More from The New York Times AP Photo/Muhammed MuheisenDamages inside the Army Public School attacked last Tuesday by Taliban gunmen, in Peshawar, […]