Huff Post: dys·to·pia [ dis-ˈtō-pē-ə] noun: an imaginary place where people are unhappy and usually afraid because they are not treated fairly; an unpleasant future where people are often dehumanized; a nightmare world characterized by human misery, squalor, oppression, disease and overcrowding. ______ Typically, dystopian societies are depicted through the […]
Haretz.com: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked United States legislators to assist Israel in fending off charges that Israel committed war crimes during its month-long operation in Gaza, the New York Post reported on Wednesday. “The prime minister asked us to work together to ensure that this strategy of going […]
The Diplomat: While South Asian human rights discourse, including both Indian and Pakistani, is obsessed by the issue of Palestine, a cause that has little real relevance to the region, numerous violent incidents closer to home get scant attention, such as the violence in Xinjiang, China, just over the border […]
Indian express: Barely 14 months after convincingly winning a general election, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s government is being asked to resign amid threats of street protests. Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan and Canada-based Sunni cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri plan separate marches on Islamabad on August 14, Pakistan’s Independence Day. Several politicians and parties known […]
http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/world/2014/08/07/tsr-sot-us-humanitarian-air-drops-iraq.cnn (CNN) — [Breaking news update at 9:45 p.m. ET Thursday] U.S. President Barack Obama said Thursday he’d authorized targeted airstrikes in Iraq to protect American personnel. “We do whatever […]
They Made Them Do It…. BY ROBERT BONOMO Let’s do a thought experiment and imagine that the Arabs had gotten the better of the Israelis in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War […]
Epigraph: Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be […]
Source: FMT By Dr. I. Lourdesamy The MH17 tragedy brought out the common humanity in all of us as people of all races, religions and nationalities stood united in sorrow […]
By NickC from money.co.uk On 18th September millions of Scottish citizens will cast their vote, either in favour of independence, or of staying with the UK. Scotland breaking from the Union could have a huge impact on your finances – we explain how. The debate about whether Scotland should split from the United […]
Samina Malik travels about eight months out of the year, meeting with translators around the world in an effort to help publish the Quran, the sacred book of Islam, in […]
| By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Our source Huffington Post Posted: 08/07/2014 MOSCOW (AP) — Russia banned most food imports from the West on Thursday in retaliation for sanctions over Ukraine, an […]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The Obama administration is looking at how it could act on its own to stop companies that want to slash their tax bills by moving overseas. President Obama said officials are “reviewing all of our options” to act without congressional approval to stem the wave of so-called […]
Qadian 7th August (Ch.Maqbool Ahmad): Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat preacher Mr. Akil Ahmad Saharnpuri met the President of India Mr. Parnab Mukharji in New Delhi at his office. He introduced him […]
Source: The Daily Best: Reuters Militants from the so-called Islamic State have taken over the largest Christian town in Iraq, Qaraqosh, and sent tens of thousands fleeing as a result. The militants took it overnight after Kurdish troops withdrew because they are stretched too thin. Qaraqosh, which is nearly […]
Source: Spiegel: In the Middle Ages, pilgrimages were neither a quest for meaning, nor an opportunity for contemplation, nor an event. People had real worries and pilgrimages were part of a deal. On the one hand was the willingness of the faithful to suffer, on the other was God’s capacity […]
Watch the video in CNN Ishmael’s Oranges by Claire Hajaj Book review by Amy Norman “Why does history only ever repeat its sorrows and not its joys?,” asks Claire Hajaj […]
Telegraph: Dr Justin Barrett, a senior researcher at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Anthropology and Mind, claims that young people have a predisposition to believe in a supreme being […]
Slate.com: What were you allowed to do when you were a kid? In July, South Carolina mother Debra Harrell was arrested for allowing her 9-year-old daughter to play in the park unattended while she was at work. Harrell’s arrest prompted outrage, but also an outpouring of nostalgia, as indignant readers remembered activities […]
Popularity of Labour Party is escalating fast in the UK; particularly among the Muslim and the Asian Community here but all their efforts were tried to ruin in the Eid Milan arranged by the Labour Party. The other day an Eid Milan party was being held under the auspices of […]
It just gets worse. The unfolding disaster in the Middle East is so much bigger than the Israel-Palestine morass, now ongoing for 66 years. This is starting to look containable compared with the deepening, widening, bloody schism between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, which has cost more than 200,000 lives in […]