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 […]
Militants with suspected ties to Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram have killed 10 people in a raid on a remote village in north Cameroon, police say. Nine bus passengers and a soldier were shot dead after coming “face-to-face” with heavily armed militants in Zigague, they add. READ MORE…
Petflow.com — For as long as I can remember, hearing someone do anything “like a girl” was generally an insult, so how do you think it feels when you are an adolescent girl? Pretty insulting, right? Always is trying to change all that with their new commercial #LikeAGirl, which shines the light on […]
FP: by David Rothkope — In the end, Israel lost in large part because despite its massive military and resource and advantages and Palestinian poverty and the comparative weakness of Hamas’s fighters, the Palestinians have one secret weapon that, like the images and narrative of the past conflict, trumps the […]
Source: Reuters and Huffington Post By Derick Snyder and Daniel Flynn MONROVIA/DAKAR, Aug 6 (Reuters) – Health workers in West Africa appealed on Wednesday for urgent help in controlling the world’s worst Ebola outbreak as the death toll climbed to 932 and Liberia shut a major hospital where several staff […]
By Web Desk Published: August 6, 2014 Source: Tribune Express Saudi Arabia has imposed a new law banning Saudi men from marrying women from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Chad and Burma, Morocco World News reported. The law also imposes restrictive rules on men marrying Moroccan women. Quoting Saudi daily Makkah newspaper, the […]
TAMIM ALMOUSA ARABNEWS.COM As an international student from Saudi Arabia living in the United States, a question I’m frequently asked and find it difficult to answer is, “where do you work?” Or, a more direct way of phrasing that sentence would be, “Where do you get the money you need […]
MANUEL MOGATO | REUTERS Published — Wednesday 6 August 2014 MANILA: A historic peace settlement in the southern Philippines is at risk of breaking down as Muslim rebels accuse the […]
Epigraph: “The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.” Holy Prophet Muhammad Please email or call Dr. Karim Sharif at karimasharif@gmail.com or (646) 379-9204, for further details. Abdus Salam Science Fair at Jalsa Salana USA 2014 Epigraph: “The ink of the scholar is more […]
Some days ago I met a Pakistani “Uncle” in the Bus. So I put my earphones out to salute him, but rather than greet me back he yelled at me and blamed me for listening to music in Ramadan, followed by a pseudo-intellectual lecture on “Islamic norms” (actually he was […]
Source: Youtube.com | theguardian.com A commuter who trapped his leg between a train and the platform has been freed after 50 or so of his fellow passengers pushed the carriage back. […]
U-20 World Cup: Host Canadians blanked in tournament opener Canada gets off to disappointing start with 1-0 loss to Ghana. Chris Young / THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada’s Ashley Lawrence , right, tussles with Ghana’s Fatima Alhasan during first-half action at the Under 20 Women’s World Cup at BMO Field Tuesday […]
MOSCOW — Russia should retaliate against the economic sanctions being imposed on the country over the Kremlin’s Ukraine policy, President Vladimir V. Putin said Tuesday. His was the strongest endorsement yet for calls in Russia to ban everything from major Western accounting firms to overflights by European airlines to frozen […]
197. An example of those who spend in the way of Allah [2:262] The similitude of those who spend their wealth for the cause of Allah is like the similitude of a grain of corn which grows seven ears, in each ear a hundred grains. And Allah multiplies it further […]
Source: On Faith By Qasim Rashid and Dr. Nasim Rehmatullah After slaughtering nearly two thousand Palestinians, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu rebuked the United States “not to ever second guess [him] again […]