Abdus Salam, the Muslim Newton
By Asif Arif Huff Post: The day throughout Pakistan should celebrate with pride and joy the 88th anniversary of the first Muslim Nobel prize in physics, how not to write a […]
5 reasons there aren’t more women in atheism
Salon.com: In a Salon piece last week called “Where are the women of new atheism?”, Katie Englehardt described what looks like diminishing participation of women in atheist life. She also encouraged atheist women to more openly embrace their beliefs. But atheist women are very active. These women aren’t visible — […]
How 1,000 years of Arabic scholarship advanced scientific debate – in pictures
Guardian: From the 9th to the 19th centuries, scholars and scribes used Arabic as a lingua franca to debate scientific ideas. Arabic-speaking scholars translated classical Greek, Persian and even Sanskrit […]
Cold Lake mosque vandalized with words ‘Go Home’ – Restored by Canadians
Edmontonsun.com: COLD LAKE – COLD LAKE, AB — Non-Muslim Cold Lake citizens are rallying around their Muslim neighbours after the local mosque was vandalized in this northern military town. Both front windows of the Cold Lake Mosque were broken and the words “go home” and “Canada” were spray-painted in red on […]
Modi’s Idea of India
Source: New York Times OCT. 24, 2014 By Pankaj Mishra, who is the author of “From the Ruins of Empire,” among other books. India, V.S. Naipaul declared in 1976, is “a wounded […]
Homosexuality: Nature or Choice? A Review of Scientific and Moral Facts
Epigraph: Do they seek a religion other than Allah’s, while to Him submits whosoever is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, and to Him shall they be […]
Danish health director: No reason to ban circumcision
Haaretz: Denmark’s national health authority does not think non-medical circumcision is risky enough to justify a ban on it, the body’s director said in parliament. The Danish Health and Medicines […]
USA: Christians & Muslims join to speak against gambling
Source: mercurynews.com Mark Tumney, a senior pastor at Christ Community Church of Milpitas and Zaki Agha of Islam Ahmadiyya Movement Inc. in Milpitas, agreed that religion strictly prohibits gambling. Milpitas religious leaders gathered last […]
Islamist head says ‘Tunisia model’ way to defeat IS
TUNIS — Tunisia’s transition to democracy serves as an example of how to defeat extremists such as the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, the leader of the country’s powerful Islamist movement said. “The success of the Tunisian experience is in the international interest, especially in the fight against extremism and […]
Artistry of Allah in the spider’s web
HARUN YAHYA ARABNEWS.COM Published — Friday 24 October 2014 The best-known things about spiders are their webs. However, there are miraculous details hidden both in the web and in the […]
Kaaba key keeper dies
Sheikh Abdul Qadir Taha Al-Sheibi, who held the traditional key to the Kaaba, died in Makkah on Thursday. He was 74. The Al-Sheibi family has been holding the position of […]
IS now ‘richest terror group’
WASHINGTON: The Islamic State has become the world’s wealthiest terror group, generating tens of millions of dollars a month from black market oil sales, ransoms and extortion, officials said Thursday. […]
Calgary: Muslim groups speak out against recent attacks in Canada
Ahmadi & Shia Muslims in Calgary strongly condemn the “detestable killings”. Source: 660news.com They want answers, they want an end to the radicalization of Canadian youth and they’re offering condolences to the […]
China’s future growth: “Even dragons tire”
economist.com: THE announcement this week that China’s economy had grown by 7.3% in the third quarter year-on-year was widely seen as marking the country’s “new normal” of slower growth. It was well below the roughly 10% pace China had averaged from 1980 until two years ago. Yet according to a […]
The Middle East problem: Boots on the ground or peace in their hearts?
theage.com.au: There are two stories, both compelling narratives, competing for attention here in the Middle East. The first is tactical and simple. It revolves around the dominance of airpower and the slowing of the advance of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. So far, the 1999 air campaign against Slobodan […]
Kurdish women who have given up everything to fight ISIS militants
‘We want everyone to know that a woman is no different to a man when it comes to defending her country.’ That is the message from a group of incredibly brave women who have signed up to fight for the Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Unit (YPG) against the self-proclaimed Islamic State […]
Science chief warns on acid oceans
The UK’s chief scientist says the oceans face a serious and growing risk from man-made carbon emissions. The oceans absorb about a third of the CO2 that’s being produced by industrial society, and this is changing the chemistry of seawater. Sir Mark Walport warns that the acidity of the oceans […]
Ebola crisis: Dozens monitored after first Mali case
Dozens of people are being monitored in Mali after the country confirmed its first case of Ebola. The patient is a two-year-old girl who recently arrived from Guinea, which along with Liberia and Sierra Leone has seen most of the 4,800 deaths. However, the Malian health ministry says her condition […]
Tunisia forces storm ‘militant hideout’ killing six
Tunisian security forces have stormed a house in a Tunis suburb to end a stand-off with armed militants, killing six people, officials said. One gunman and five women were killed in the raid on the house in the Oued Ellil area, officials said. READ MORE…
Studying the Holy Prophet Muhammad Pragmatically
Epigraph: We (Allah) prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land — it shall be […]