5 Lessons From Prophet Muhammad to Stop Torture
Source: The Huffington Post By Qasim Rashid, Lawyer, Speaker, Best-Selling Author of “EXTREMIST” This week, America and the world were let in on the secret that everyone knew but no one would […]
Ex-Guantanamo inmate David Hicks heckles Australia minister
BBC News: Ex-Guantanamo inmate David Hicks has heckled an Australian minister, accusing the government of knowing about his alleged torture by the US. Hicks, who spent five-and-a-half years in the US prison, called Attorney General George Brandis a “coward” when he refused to answer questions. His outburst came as Mr […]
Superbugs to kill ‘more than cancer’ by 2050
BBC News: Drug resistant infections will kill an extra 10 million people a year worldwide – more than currently die from cancer – by 2050 unless action is taken, a study says. They are currently implicated in 700,000 deaths each year. The analysis, presented by the economist Jim O’Neill, said the […]
Ebola vaccine trial ‘interrupted’ due to joint pains
BBC News: The clinical trial of an Ebola vaccine in Switzerland has been interrupted after some patients complained of joint pains in their hands and feet. READ MORE…
Nigeria: Dozens killed in double bombing in Jos
BBC News: A twin bomb attack has taken place in a busy area of the Nigerian city of Jos, killing at least 30 people, witnesses say. The two bombs exploded in quick succession, close to the scene of a major bombing in May. READ MORE…
Ebola crisis: Sierra Leone bodies found piled up in Kono
BBC News: Health officials in Sierra Leone have discovered scores of bodies in a remote diamond-mining area, raising fears that the scale of the Ebola outbreak may have been underreported. The World Health Organization said they uncovered a “grim scene” in the eastern district of Kono. A WHO response team […]
The Other Islamic State
Source: NY Times: While much of the world has been focused on the rise of the Islamic State, another proto-Islamic state has been waging a campaign of terror while dreaming of a caliphate in Nigeria. Since the public execution of Boko Haram’s founder in 2009 by Nigerian security forces, a hard-line […]
Toronto: U of T researcher’s spray-on solar cells could transform devices
U of T researcher’s spray-on solar cells could transform our devices By Gilbert Ngabo Metro News.ca Share this Article David Van Dyke/Metro Illan Kramer, the researcher behind sprayLD, displaying an example of a film that would contain spray-on solar cells. A University of Toronto researcher is reinventing solar cell production […]
Gitmo inmate: My treatment shames American flag
Source: CNN Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (CNN) — I’ve heard that the Senate report on CIA torture is 6,000 pages long. My story, though, takes place elsewhere: in Guantanamo, away from the CIA program that the report covers. The 6,000 pages of the Senate report are just the start of what Americans […]
Torture and the U.S. Intelligence Failure
Source: Stratfor By George Friedman The Obama administration published a series of memoranda on torture issued under the Bush administration. The memoranda, most of which dated from the period after 9/11, authorized measures including depriving prisoners of solid food, having them stand shackled and in uncomfortable positions, leaving them in […]
Secularism: A Word with Unlimited Potential
December 2014 Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times If the Muslims had understood this one word, “Secularism,” the Taliban would not have had audacity […]
Missionary in Charge Basharat Naweed of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community met the Prime Miniter of Madagascar
The Missionary in charge of Mauritius Jama’at was in Madagascar for three weeks. During his stay he met the Prime Minister of Madagascar M.Roger Kolo where he gifted a copy of the Holy Qur’an in Malagasy language. He also offered the booklet […]
Chinese Province Bans Islamic Veil, Sparking Rights Concerns
Source: Dawn BEIJING: The capital of China’s far western Xinjiang has banned the wearing of Islamic veils in public, the regional government said on Thursday, in a move experts worry […]
Jihadist violence ‘killed 5,000 in November’
A closer look at the BBC’s investigation on the global cost of jihadist violence More than 5,000 people worldwide died in November as a result of jihadist violence, a BBC […]
Pakistan’s Malala moment
Source: ET Malala Yousufzai on December 10 made history as she became the world’s youngest winner of the Nobel peace prize award. Aged only 17, the teenager from Swat collected the peace prize in Oslo alongside Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi, 60, who has worked tirelessly to rescue children […]
Swiss jihadist avoids prison sentence
A 30-year-old man from canton Vaud has been given a suspended sentence of 600 hours of community service for attempting to join the Islamic State terror group in Syria. This […]
UNICEF: ‘Never in recent memory have so many children been subjected to such unspeakable brutality’
The Washington Post: by Nick Kirkpatrick — Esther Tokpah, an 11-year-old orphan in Monrovia, Liberia, who lost both parents to Ebola. A new report released on Monday by UNICEF declares 2014 a “devastating” year for children. “Never in recent memory have so many children been subjected to such unspeakable brutality,” UNICEF Executive Director Anthony […]
Amnesty: Death of Palestinian Minister Highlights Excessive Force By Israeli Army
The death of a Palestinian minister during a protest against land confiscations in the West Bank may have resulted from arbitrary and abusive force by Israeli forces against demonstrators, said […]
It is our indignation, not that of the Arab world, that torturers fear. We are the bad guys too The Muslim world has been enraged about these crimes for years
by Robert Fisk, The Independent Up to the end, they wanted to keep it secret. And the vicious psychopaths and sadists that ran the CIA’s torture centres “on our behalf” […]
The Muslim father behind the Pakistani Nobel Prize winner
BY MANSURA BASHIR MINHASMANSURAB@YAHOO.COM This is the opening line of I am Malala, the compelling memoir that chronicles the struggles of Malala Yousafzai, who at 17 has become the youngest […]