By Jakarta Globe on 12:50 am Oct 31, 2014 President Joko Widodo’s decision to retain Lukman Hakim Saifuddin as minister of religious affairs may have been a concession to the minister’s party, as some have argued, but it appears to be paying off in a big way for the people. Lukman has […]
Livescience.com: Pope Francis recently expressed his approval of a group of exorcists meeting at the Vatican this week. While exorcisms, in which demonic spirits are driven out of a supposedly […]
Source: Pakistan Observer Evidently, those who followed these rules of right conduct thrived and prospered, and were saved from the tyranny and injustice of the wrong-doers; and on the contrary, those who violated these principles, committing sin and straying from the right path, came to grief, pain and sorrow. These […]
280. Commandment to not call one another by nicknames [49:12] O ye who believe! let not one people deride another people, who may be better than they, nor let women deride other women, who may be better than they. And defame not your own people, nor call one another by […]
Source: Pakistan Observer: According to their assessment this also raises the risk that the Pakistani Taliban, even if it cannot seize the commanding heights of state institutions, could seize either by force or through infiltration a nuclear warhead at an individual installation and use it to hold the country — […]
The U.S. military is fighting more wars on covert battlefields and with armies shrouded in mystery. This board examines the Special Operation Forces, which are deployed on every continent to fight terrorism and intervene in civil wars. Curated By Jacob Wheeler READ MORE HERE: http://learni.st/boards/68500/learnings/604766-special-operations-forces-worldwide Special Operations Forces Worldwide They’re […]
Source:BBC Members of the BJP Youth Group, the ruling political party in India, vandalised a cafe were they say immoral acts were taking place.The event sparked a debate on moral policing in the country and a campaign supporting kissing in public went viral. More than 5,000 people have clicked the […]
David Ignatius| The Daily Star A glimpse of the anxiety sweeping the Arab world surfaced last week when an Arab woman complained during a talk in Amman at the Columbia Global Center for the Middle East. She said my speech’s title about the “crisis” in the region wasn’t accurate. The […]
Source: BBC My name is Sophie Coulombeau. But a year from now, after the fuss from my wedding has died down, it could be something rather different. For me, to adopt the surname of my partner and relinquish my own would profoundly affect how I think about my own identity. […]
Source BBC A split has emerged within Burkina Faso’s armed forces over who is leading the country following the resignation of President Blaise Compaore after 27 years in power. The presidential guard’s second in command, Colonel Isaac Zida, says he has assumed power as head of state. Earlier, army chief […]
What on earth has descended upon the Middle East? BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT Why such an epic explosion of violence? It feels strange to ask these questions of Dr Bouthaina Shaaban, one of President Bashar al-Assad’s close advisers and former translator to his father, Hafez. Her office is spotless, […]
Miko Morelos Thursday, October 30 2014 The government of newly-elected Indonesian President Joko Widodo says it has begun the groundwork for ensuring protection of minorities in the country. Indonesia’s religious […]
Sourc: The Guardian By Michael Safi Australians believe Muslims make up 18% of the country’s population, when their actual proportion is just 2%. Australians believe the proportion of Muslims in […]
Huff Post: by Noor Tagouri — When people ask me about the town I grew up in, I always start with a story of one of my earliest memories in […]
Epigraph: “The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is Reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.” Thomas Paine, one of the Founding […]
Source: CNN An officer with Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department came under an unprovoked attack Friday from a man wielding an ax, police said, the second such attack in two weeks that is prompting warnings and new protocols to officers on the job. The attack, and another last week in which […]
Source: CNN – The first sign there was a problem with Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo came at about 45,000 feet, just two minutes after the spaceplane separated from the jet-powered aircraft that carried it aloft. It wasn’t something overt with SpaceShipTwo, said Stuart Witt, the chief executive of Mojave Air & Space Port […]
WSJ: ‘Muslim communities in the West,” wrote Graham Fuller and Ian Lesser in 1995 (“The Geopolitics of Islam and the West”), “are more likely to exert influence on their countries and cultures of origin rather than receive influences from them; over time they may have a substantive effect on the perceptions […]
Despite the fact that the child Algerian Abdul Rahman; which did not exceed three years old, could not read a single word written, but he was able – through listening to the verses of the Quran – to preserve the Book of Allah by heart; to enter encyclopedia Guinness Book […]