Source: The Daily Beast Last week’s counter-terrorism conference in Jeddah can be summed up in two words: lost opportunity. Why? None of the participants were representative of an independent, democratic or critical voice in the Middle East. Rather, the Muslim scholars who participated were voices of their inept governments, who […]
Source: Daily Beast. More than oil, Saudi Arabia’s chief export is Wahhabism, which it has promoted around the world through its embassies and mosques to eventually be cloned by jihadist groups, like ISIS. Wahhabism is the most conservative, oppressive and exclusionary form of Islam, which considers all non-Wahhabists enemies — […]
Source: The Daily Beast: Americans should support this mission against ISIS. One may well choose to do so warily, because, as I wrote in the wake of President Obama’s speech last week, it depends on a lot of uncontrollable variables (the Saudis behaving like good guys) against which odds are […]
Source: The Daily Beast: Americans should support this mission against ISIS. One may well choose to do so warily, because, as I wrote in the wake of President Obama’s speech last week, it depends on a lot of uncontrollable variables (the Saudis behaving like good guys) against which odds are […]
Summary by Rami G. Khouri I dearly wish that ISIS will be contained and then defeated by the many countries and armed groups who say they are committed to achieving that goal. I lack confidence in this aspect of the American approach because it is foolhardy to expect that such […]
Sciencedaily — Source: Rutgers University When it comes to a happy marriage, a new Rutgers study finds that the more content the wife is with the long-term union, the happier the husband is with his life no matter how he feels about their nuptials. I think it comes down to the […]
Sciencedaily — Source: Rutgers University When it comes to a happy marriage, a new Rutgers study finds that the more content the wife is with the long-term union, the happier the husband is with his life no matter how he feels about their nuptials. I think it comes down to the […]
BoredPnada: by Julija K —- To the delight (or dismay) of millions, the school season is beginning in many countries throughout the world. But it’s important not to forget that, in some parts of the world, school can be a hard-won luxury. Many children throughout the world have to take […]
by Zeeba Hashmi. DAILY TIMES While the mind remains boggled with religious onslaughts and vigilante mob tyranny, it gets even harder to understand what drove our society to excommunicate an entire community The seeds of contention lie in a misplaced sense of justice where the aggressor goes scot-free and the […]
Business Insider: An authoritative 2010 study led by former UK drug czar David Nutt found alcohol to be the most dangerous drug in the country. The research rated 20 drugs based on 16 […]
Majlis Ansarullah UK has been sponsoring Gift of Sight Project of Humanity First since2010. It has raised and donated £320000 in total for this project through Annual Charity Walks. This […]
Epigraph: O ye who believe! … And help one another in righteousness and piety; but help not one another in sin and transgression. And fear Allah; surely, Allah is severe in […]
Review of Religions: Rafi Ahmad – Ph.D – USA There is a raging yet lively debate(1,2,3,4,5,6) going on between atheists and theists over the existence of God – a sign of an […]
Israel’s failed war on Gaza has shifted the political ground on both sides of the conflict, bolstering Hamas, which Israel set out to destroy, and discrediting Israeli propaganda, which no one now believes, writes Ramzy Baroud Aside from being a major military setback, Israel’s latest war on Gaza has also […]
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR Published — Friday 12 September 2014 A simple act of kindness can do wonders. A Briton embraced Islam after he witnessed a fellow Saudi patient being bombarded with moral and financial support from two Saudi scholarship students, who had regularly visited their compatriot at a hospital […]
If No triumphs it will be despite the mainstream parties rather than because of them by George Galloway, The Independent David Cameron may lose his premiership over this and Ed […]
234. Commandment to be a beneficial to mankind [13:18] He sends down water from the sky, so that valleys flow according to their measure, and the flood bears on its surface swelling foam. And from that which they heat in the fire, seeking to make ornaments or utensils, comes out […]
234. Commandment to be a beneficial to mankind [13:18] He sends down water from the sky, so that valleys flow according to their measure, and the flood bears on its surface swelling foam. And from that which they heat in the fire, seeking to make ornaments or utensils, comes out […]
233. Verily, the righteous will be placed amid gardens and fountains. ‘Enter therein with peace, in safety.’ [15:46] Verily, the righteous will be placed amid gardens and fountains. [15:47] ‘Enter therein with peace, in safety.’ [16:31] And when it is said to the righteous, ‘What think ye of that which […]
233. Verily, the righteous will be placed amid gardens and fountains. ‘Enter therein with peace, in safety.’ [15:46] Verily, the righteous will be placed amid gardens and fountains. [15:47] ‘Enter therein with peace, in safety.’ [16:31] And when it is said to the righteous, ‘What think ye of that which […]