Rami G. Khouri| The Daily Star The frightening rise and expansion of ISIS, which has now triggered yet another round of American-led foreign military attacks in the Levant, continues to confound many in the region and around the world. Many ask: Where did these killers come from and where do […]
by Rami G. Khouri, The Daily Star, Lebanon Summary The conviction in a Washington court Wednesday of four former Blackwater Worldwide security guards for their roles in a 2007 shooting in Baghdad that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead and 17 other wounded is a small, symbolic and perhaps significant act […]
Source: ET Mourners gather around the coffins of their community members killed in an attack by gunmen on a passenger mini bus in Quetta on October 23, 2014. PHOTO: BANARAS KHAN/EXPRESS Once again, there has been a mass murder of Hazaras on the outskirts of Quetta. They were all Shia […]
Huff Post — JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli archaeologists said Tuesday they have discovered a large stone with Latin engravings that lends credence to the theory that the reason Jews revolted against Roman rule nearly 2,000 ago was because of their harsh treatment. Israel’s Antiquities Authority said the stone bears the […]
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 […]
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 — […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]