Mauritius – Model of democracy?
Port Louis, Mauritius — The poem Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge reads, “Water, water everywhere. Nor any drop to drink.” These words ring all too true […]
Cameron is warned ‘no possibility’ of UK reducing immigration and that bid to bring in quota on migrant workers would be illegal
Andy McSmith Sunday 19 October 2014 David Cameron’s plan to restrict the amount of time that EU migrants can spend working in Britain will never be accepted by the other EU governments, Europe’s highest ranking official, Jose Manuel Barroso, has warned. He insisted that the right of EU citizens to […]
Ebola: There is nothing to fear but panic itself
Summary by David Ignatius, Daily Star, Lebanon You could feel a shiver of panic coursing through the American body politic this week as the country struggled with a metastatic set of crises: the spread of the Ebola virus, the surge of ISIS terrorists, and the buckling global economy. President Barack […]
Why the first mission to Mars should only have female astronauts
National Post: by Kate greene Slate — Courtesy of Sian ProctorAuthor Kate Greene seen during the fake mission to Mars. In February of 1960, the American magazine Look ran a cover story that asked, “Should a Girl Be First in Space?” It was a sensational headline representing an audacious idea […]
Burka segregation in Parliament reversed by Speaker Bronwyn Bishop
abc.net: by Emma Griffiths — PHOTO Senate President Stephen Parry faced a grilling during a committee hearing this morning. A move to force Muslim women who cover their faces to sit in a separate enclosed public gallery at Parliament House has been reversed. Earlier this month, Speaker Bronwyn Bishop […]
Montreal: Radicalized Man Runs His Vehicle into Two Soldiers
Driver who ran over two Canadian soldiers near Montreal ‘had become radicalized,’ PMO says Postmedia News and Jake Edmiston | October 20, 2014 | Last Updated: Oct 20 7:45 PM ET Nationalpost.com Allen McInnis/Postmedia NewsSurete du Quebec police investigators at the scene of a police shooting following a hit and run […]
What Can We Learn From the Treaty of Hudaibiyya: Flexibility of Thought?
Epigraph: Indeed, you have in the Prophet of Allah an excellent model, for him who fears Allah and the Last Day and who remembers Allah much. (Al Quran 33:21/22) Written […]
Ghana: Ameer calls for discipline & cooperation to build progressive society
…without discipline, it is difficult for any community to succeed in its transformation process. Source: gbcghana.com The Ameer and Missionary in Charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in Ghana, Maulvi Alhaji […]
A Message of Compassion and Love from the Holy Quran and the Holy Bible
Epigraph: And good and evil are not alike. Repel evil with kindness. And lo, he between whom and thyself was enmity will become as though he were a warm friend. (Al Quran 41:35) And […]
Reza Aslan: If ISIS Says It’s Muslim, Then It’s Muslim
Source: The Huffington Post Many critics of the Islamic State — President Obama included — have argued that the militant group cannot claim to be Muslim in the way it has wreaked havoc on Iraq and Syria. Religion scholar Reza Aslan takes issue with this argument. Aslan joined HuffPost Live’s Marc Lamont Hill to discuss […]
Half-Million Iraqis Died in the War, New Study Says
By Dan Vergano National Geographic PUBLISHED OCTOBER 15, 2013 War and occupation directly and indirectly claimed the lives of about a half-million Iraqis from 2003 to 2011, according to a […]
Neither a Burqa nor a Bikini
Source: The Huffington Post By Zehra Mehdi-Barlas, Media Relations Manager, Communications Specialist and certified news-junkie Yes, I was fortunate enough to be born in a country and into a family […]
My father was an Ahmadi serving the Pakistan Air Force
ET: Mr Butt may just be another random killing for some, but for Ahmadis, it’s the gradual destruction of the country they’ve given their best heroes to protect. On October 14, 62-year-old Mr Latif Alam Butt, an Ahmadi retired Pakistan Air Force (PAF) serviceman was gunned down at Kamra Air base, Attock […]
Pakistan Charity Boss Abdul Sattar Edhi ‘heartbroken’ after robbery
One of Pakistan’s top charity leaders has told the BBC he is heartbroken after being robbed at gunpoint. Abdul Sattar Edhi, 86, was asleep when a gang of armed men […]
Paris opera ejects woman in Muslim veil after cast refuses to sing
Russia Today: A woman in niqab, a traditional Muslim veil, was asked to leave the opera in Paris after the cast said they wouldn’t perform if a solution wasn’t found. […]
Hey, Bill Maher: There Is No Such Thing as “Islamic Extremism.”
the new republic: During a recent episode of HBO’s “Real Time” on HBO, host Bill Maher mocked President Obama’s insistence that the Islamic State does not represent Islam, and lambasted […]
Australia lifts parliament ban on face coverings
Source: BBC Critics of the rule said women wearing niqabs or burkas were not an additional security threat Related Stories Australia PM urges burka ban rethink Australia’s home-grown terror threat […]
America needs to know its enemies – and its friends
With the US engaged in air strikes against ISIL in Iraq and Syria and with voices calling for deeper engagement in both conflict zones, the American public is being bombarded with commentary and analysis about ISIL, Syria, Iraq – and Muslims. Unfortunately, too much of it is a stringing together […]
Second massacre in days leaves 20 dead in east DR Congo
Militants have killed at least 20 people, said to be mostly women and children, in the second massacre in two days near the DR Congo town of Beni. A local pastor told BBC News they had been killed with guns, machetes and axes in the village of Eringeti. READ MORE… […]
Kobane: US drops arms and aid to Kurds battling IS
US military aircraft have dropped weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to Kurdish fighters battling Islamic State (IS) militants in the key Syrian town of Kobane. US Central Command said C-130 transport aircraft had made “multiple” drops of supplies provided by Kurdish authorities in Iraq. US air strikes have helped push […]