by Rami G. Khouri, Daily Star, Lebanon Summary There is neither symmetry nor equivalence in the capabilities or the suffering of Palestinians and Israelis who have battled each other nonstop since 1947-48 . The almost equal number of attacks by each side against the other was not matched by the […]
“Apocalyptic.” “End-of-days strategic vision.” “Beyond anything we have ever seen.” “An imminent threat to every interest we have.” “Beyond just a terrorist group.” “We must prepare for everything.” So are they Martians? Alien invaders from Planet X? Destroyer spacecraft from the movie Independence Day? The word movie is the clue. […]
The President came the nearest he has come yet to rivalling George W Bush’s gormless reaction to 9/11 by Robert Fisk, The Indepedent The “caliphate” has some pretty tough theatrical producers. They write a bleak and savage script. Our job is now to respond to each line, and they understand […]
LONDON — A few years ago, I was a guest on “Start the Week,” a BBC radio discussion show. Among the other guests was the novelist Eva Figes, a Jewish refugee […]
Press Ahmadiyya: The UK’s longest standing and largest Muslim convention, Jalsa Salana, returns to Hampshire for its 48th edition from Friday the 29th to Sunday the 31st of August 2014. […]
Epigraph: O ye who believe! wine and the game of hazard and idols and divining arrows are only an abomination of Satan’s handiwork. So shun each one of them that you […]
Reuters | By Belinda Goldsmith & Olivia Harris Posted: 08/22/2014 10:13 am EDT (Reuters) – When youth worker Sumreen Farooq was abused in a London street, the 18-year-old decided it was […]
Compiled by Anees Ahmad “The best of gatherings are those that are most open.” Abu Daud “The best of all charity is that you give it while you are healthy and desirous (of that money), hoping to become wealthy but fearing poverty. Don’t delay until you are about to […]
Telegraph: Bedford has been named the most generous town in the UK based on donations given through charity site JustGiving. Big-hearted residents in the Bedfordshire county town have been recognised with […]
Daily Mail: Saudi Arabia has officially identified atheists as terrorists in sweeping new laws that threaten up to 20 years in prison for almost any criticism of the government or Islam. The regulations place secular citizens who commit thought crimes in the same category as violent terrorist groups such as […]
Christine Fair, a security affairs professor at Washington’s Georgetown University, has written extensively on Pakistan’s powerful army. Her new book, “Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War,” analyzes the ideological culture of the country’s security establishment. In an interview with RFE/RL correspondent Malali Bashir, Fair said Pakistan’s […]
Epigraph: At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” He called a little child to him, and placed […]
Source: Daily Star ………………. despite a common view that young Muslim women are forced to wear veils by men or their families, studies and interviews point to the opposite in […]
The Netherlands is sending 1,000 helmets and 1,000 bullet-proof vests to help the Kurds in Iraq who are fighting against Islamic State militants in the north. The donation is aimed at helping the Kurds better defend themselves, foreign affairs minister Frans Timmermans and defence minister Jeanine Hennis said in a […]
Source: Stratfor: Their 35-year-old mutual enmity notwithstanding, the United States and Iran have cooperated against a common jihadist enemy in the past, such as when they worked together to topple the Taliban regime following the 9/11 attacks. Relations quickly soured again when U.S. President George W. Bush’s administration declared the […]
BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT Now President Obama has seen the next US reporter to be threatened with beheading, will he blink? For centuries, governments told their soldiers and their […]
IAN JOHNSTON Friday 22 August 2014 Kurdish-born Mama Kurda is fighting with the Peshmerga forces who have been pushing back Isis, also known as Islamic State, in northern Iraq with […]
BBC News: Two tour buses have collided near Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, leaving 33 people dead and 41 injured, officials say. One of the vehicles overturned in the crash which happened early in the morning about 50km (31 miles) from the popular holiday destination. READ MORE…
BBC News: Northern Nigeria’s riot police training academy has been overrun by Boko Haram Islamist militants, a witness in Borno state has told the BBC. Shots were heard after the militants arrived in three armoured vehicles and on dozens of motorcycles, he said. A police spokesman confirmed the attack while […]
Sky News: The threat posed by Islamic State militants, who have seized control of large parts of Syria and Iraq, is “beyond anything we’ve seen”, according to US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. READ MORE…