Washington Post: Which intoxicating substance is associated with the most lethal violence? Devotees of the Wire might presume that cocaine or maybe heroin would top the list, especially if you asked the […]
215. Help not one another in sin and transgression. [5:3] O ye who believe! profane not the Signs of Allah, nor the Sacred Month, nor the animals brought as an offering, nor the animals of sacrifice wearing collars, nor those repairing to the Sacred House, seeking grace from their Lord, […]
Source: ET All is well now. The natural order of things has been restored in the Fatherland. The interruption is over, the armistice has ended. Power completely returned to where it belonged, the journey of few miles from Islamabad to Rawalpindi has been made. Boys will be boys. And the […]
Source: ET A Canadian imam known for his pacifist sermons warned Friday that militant group IS was actively recruiting in Canada and said one member issued him a death threat. Syed Soharwardy, founder of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada (ISCC), called on Canadian and Western authorities to intensify the […]
Fareed Zakaria| The Daily Star Hillary Clinton was expressing what has become Washington’s new conventional wisdom when she implied, in her interview with Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic, “moderates” might have prevented the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS). In fact, America has provided massive […]
By Zubair Khan During the current year,utilising the name of Islam, so called ISIS and BO KO Ha ram, hoisting the flags with writing, there is no God except Allah and Muhammad (saw) is His Messenger, committed extremely brutal atrocities against humanity and crossed all the limits recorded in recent […]
Source: Huff Post Amidst the ongoing violence in the region, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia prodded Muslims “to stand in the face of those trying to hijack Islam,” alluding to the advance of the extremist group, the Islamic State (IS/ISIS). A debate on Islam, however, is exactly what the Muslim […]
Watch the video in CNN Additional Reading Charles Darwin: An Epiphany for the Muslims, A Catastrophe for the Christians Darwinian Evolution: Islam or Christianity? Exposing Creationism of Zakir Naik, Tahir ul Qadari, Yusuf Estes and Harun Yahya Pope John Paul II and Me: ‘Truth Cannot Contradict Truth!’
Source: The Atlantic In early April, as the first reports of Ebola began to emerge from Western Guinea, I was invited to attend the first meeting of the Kono District Ebola Response Task Force. Kono is a remote and impoverished diamond-mining district in Sierra Leone, bordering the then-epicenter of […]
Watch the video in CNN Source: The Huffington Post A group of dinosaurs roamed across a patch of ground in southeastern Utah around 125 million years ago, leaving behind more […]
Epigraph: “So go on reminding; surely, reminding is profitable.” (Al Quran 87:10) Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times In the Sermon on […]
Interpol seeks clues to Thai ‘baby factory’ Associated Press Thai police display pictures of surrogate babies born to a Japanese man who is at the center of a surrogacy scandal during a press conference at the police headquarters in Chonburi, Thailand. By Jocelyn Gecker and Thanyarat Doksone, The Associated Press […]
Epigraph: “And thou shalt assuredly find those who say, ‘We are Christians,’ to be the nearest of them in love to the believers. That is because amongst them are savants […]
A profile of the top students from around Greater Toronto. Toronto Star 2014/08/23 PHOTO COURTESY OF NATISA JEYAKANTHAN Natisa Jeyakanthan is a top student in the Durham District School Board. By: Kristin Rushowy Education Reporter, Published on Sat Aug 23 2014 Meet the brainy bunch. The top graduating students […]
http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/us/2014/08/23/ctn-pkg-valencia-suspended-officer-video-comments.cnn By Greg Botelho, CNN updated 5:56 AM EDT, Sat August 23, 2014 (CNN) — A Missouri police officer involved in maintaining security in troubled Ferguson was put on administrative […]
The Daily Star, Lebanon Palestinian officials and negotiators who have been shuttling around in Cairo recently have for the most part focused on a demand championed by people in Gaza, namely ending the Israeli blockade. But the latest round of military hostilities between Israel and Palestinian factions in Gaza has […]
214. Help one another in righteousness and piety [5:3] O ye who believe! profane not the Signs of Allah, nor the Sacred Month, nor the animals brought as an offering, nor the animals of sacrifice wearing collars, nor those repairing to the Sacred House, seeking grace from their Lord, and […]
213. Repel evil with that which is best [23:97] Repel evil with that which is best. We are well acquainted with the things they allege. [13:23] And those who persevere in seeking the favour of their Lord, and observe Prayer, and spend out of that with which We have provided […]
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 […]