Brain Network That Gives Humans Superior Reasoning Skills
When it comes to getting out of a tricky situation, we humans have an evolutionary edge over other primates. Take, as a dramatic example, the Apollo 13 voyage in which […]
Forum: A Muslim’s reaction to torture reports — tactics are just wrong
Source: New Haven Register By Sohail Z. Husain Halloween was over a month ago — a day to revel over ghoulish characters and hideous images. And now we are supposed to be in a season of merry. These days, though, it seems like scenes reminiscent of Halloween continue to haunt […]
U.S. housing starts fall, but trend points to recovery
(Reuters) – U.S. housing starts and permits fell in November, but remained at levels consistent with a gradually improving housing market. Groundbreaking declined 1.6 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 1.028 million units, the Commerce Department said on Tuesday. October’s starts were revised up to a pace of […]
Qur’an lesson for today: 323. Commandment – Save some food for famine and difficult time
323. Commandment – Save some food for famine and difficult time [12:48] He replied, ‘You shall sow for seven years, working hard and continuously, and leave what you reap in its ear, except a little which you shall eat.[12:49] ‘Then there shall come after that seven hard years which shall consume all […]
ACCIDENTAL TOURISTS: Inside the Smuggling Networks Flooding Europe with Refugees
12.14.14 On scene at what’s becoming Italy’s makeshift Ellis Island. Will Europe learn to accept Syria’s huddled masses yearning to breathe free? AUGUSTA, Sicily—“There is a little office near the port where a broker takes your money and gives you a password,” said Ali Saed, explaining how he and his […]
Army school attacked
At least 130 people, most of them students as young as 12, have been killed and at least 122 others injured in a Taliban seizure of a military-run school in […]
India: Dehli Imam calls for Jihad, convert them and marry them
Misuse Of Mosques For Politics: Shahi Imam calls for Love Jihad in Friday Sermon; ‘convert them and marry them, this is the only reply to attempts at forcible conversion of Muslims to Hinduism’ 12 December 2014 Shahi Imam Ahmad Bukhari of Jama Masjid, Delhi […]
Live updates: Over 120 mostly children killed in attack on Peshawar school
ET: At least 120 people were killed when unidentified armed men opened fire on a private school in Peshawar on Tuesday, Express News reported. The Army Public School is located on Warsak Road near Army Housing Colony and a medical school. 5:04pm Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif assures K-P CM of complete assistance in […]
Angelina Jolie: US must lead on torture policy
Epigraph: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights For the Muslim Times’ collection of […]
Canada Apologizes to India for posters
Ottawa quietly apologized to India after Canadian soldiers appeared with posters of Sikh radicals at temple Peter O’Neil, Postmedia News | December 15, 2014 3:13 PM ET More from Postmedia News HandoutLt. Arthur Halpenny (left) accepts a ceremonial sword from Gian Singh Gill of the Dasmesh Darbar temple, during a 2011 […]
Netanyahu: European support for Palestinians ‘endangers Israel’
Rappler.com: PARIS, France – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused European governments on Monday, December 15, of siding with the Palestinians over their latest UN bid for statehood, saying their […]
In today’s Pakistan, an accusation of blasphemy can be a death sentence
HRW: Pakistan’s blasphemy law goes Bollywood Pakistan’s blasphemy law has claimed its first Bollywood victim. DECEMBER 15, 2014 Enlarge Members of the Pakistani Christian community chant slogans during demonstration to condemn the death of a Christian couple on November 6, 2014. © 2014 Reuters Enlarge Employees of Pakistan’s biggest television station, […]
Vienna may shut down controversial Saudi school
Russia Today: Vienna’s Board of Education has ordered for a school owned by the Saudi government to stop operating by the end of the year, after it failed to provide […]
Cheney: ‘No problem’ with detaining innocents
Epigraph: Golden rule: One should not treat others in ways that one would not like to be treated. Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney made no apologies on Sunday for the […]
Cops killed man at Walmart, then interrogated girlfriend
http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/crime/2014/12/16/ctn-intv-valencia-man-shot-by-police-in-walmart.cnn By Catherine E. Shoichet and Nick Valencia, CNN updated 1:44 AM EST, Tue December 16, 2014 (CNN) — After killing a man at an Ohio Walmart, police interrogated his […]
Prophet’s Mosque expansion work goes apace
Source: Arab news In a race against time, over 6,000 individuals, from engineers to construction workers, are pooling their efforts to complete the expansion of the Prophet’s Mosque. That huge […]
Spain slams move to erase Islamic past of Cordoba cathedral
MADRID: The regional government of southern Andalusia is protesting what it says are moves by the Catholic Church to downplay or eliminate references to the Islamic past of Cordoba’s ancient […]
Stop asking Muslims to condemn terrorism. It’s bigoted and Islamophobic.
There’s a certain ritual that each and every one of the world’s billion-plus Muslims, especially those living in Western countries, is expected to go through immediately following any incident of violence involving a Muslim perpetrator. It’s a ritual that is continuing now with the Sydney hostage crisis, in which a deranged self-styled sheikh […]
Map shows world’s ‘most racist’ countries (and the answers may surprise you)
Mail Online: by Hugo Gye — Jordan and India named the world’s least tolerant countries U.S., Britain, Canada and South America are among the least racist Survey asks people if they would want neighbours of a different race Britain is one of the most racially tolerant countries on the planet, […]
Can Muslim Youth Counter Extremism?
Huff Post: by Amaar Ahmad — The recent Senate Report on the use of torture by the CIA will no doubt be used by Muslim extremists to conclude that the US is indeed waging a war against Muslims. It may provide such groups further propaganda material to radicalize Muslim youth […]