At least 154 Dutch nationals were on board the Malaysian Airlines plane thought to have been brought down by a rocket over Ukraine. Malaysian Airways spokesman Huib Gorter told a press conference at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport on Thursday evening 154 Dutch nationals, 27 Australians, 23 Malaysian, 11 Indonesians, six British […]
Forum 18 News Service: by Mushfiq Bayram — On 10 July Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal against two lower courts’ support of the State Commission for Religious Affairs’ (SCRA) refusal to give state registration to the Ahmadi Muslim community. Asel Bayastanova, the Ahmadi’s defence lawyer, told Forum 18 News […]
Forum 18 News Service: by Mushfiq Bayram — On 10 July Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal against two lower courts’ support of the State Commission for Religious Affairs’ (SCRA) refusal to give state registration to the Ahmadi Muslim community. Asel Bayastanova, the Ahmadi’s defence lawyer, told Forum 18 News […]
BAGHDAD — An explosion claimed as a suicide bombing by the Islamic State killed three people on Thursday in the heart of Baghdad and another suicide bomber killed six people just outside the Iraqi capital, police and medics said. Three people were killed in central Baghdad when a roadside bomb […]
Gregg Carlstrom ALJAZEERA Israeli tanks entered Gaza on Thursday night after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a ground invasion, a major escalation in a ten-day offensive that has already killed more than 230 Palestinians. Witnesses in Gaza reported heavy bombing from jets, warships and artillery stationed along the border, with […]
Gregg Carlstrom ALJAZEERA Israeli tanks entered Gaza on Thursday night after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a ground invasion, a major escalation in a ten-day offensive that has already killed more than 230 Palestinians. Witnesses in Gaza reported heavy bombing from jets, warships and artillery stationed along the border, with […]
Converting to Islam: British women on prayer, peace and prejudice Around 5,000 British people convert to Islam every year – and most of them are women. Six of them talk […]
Source: dawn.com CHINIOT: An Ahmadi businessman who was shot dead in Shaheed Benazir-abad (Nawabshah) was laid to rest in a graveyard in Chiniot on Wednesday. His funeral was attended by a large number of Ahmadiyya community’s members. Unidentified people opened fire on Imtiaz Ahmed outside his furniture shop in the Shaheed […]
Source: dawn.com CHINIOT: An Ahmadi businessman who was shot dead in Shaheed Benazir-abad (Nawabshah) was laid to rest in a graveyard in Chiniot on Wednesday. His funeral was attended by a large number of Ahmadiyya community’s members. Unidentified people opened fire on Imtiaz Ahmed outside his furniture shop in the Shaheed […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent In an unprecedented criticism of the Israeli siege of Gaza, a senior official in the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) humanitarian charity has described his organisation’s work among the 1.8 million besieged Palestinian refugees as akin to being “in an open-air prison to patch up prisoners […]
Credit: USA Today A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 295 people aboard crashed Thursday in Ukraine near the Russian border after reportedly being hit by a missile, according to an adviser to Ukraine’s interior ministry. Malaysia […]
http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/world/2014/07/17/ath-malaysia-plane-crash-in-ukraine.cnn (CNN) — A Malaysia Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, has crashed in eastern Ukraine, Russian news agency Interfax reported Thursday. Malaysia Airlines confirmed that it lost […]
Source: NY Times: MOSCOW — Malaysia Airlines reported Thursday it had lost contact with a flight bound from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur over Ukraine. More:
Source: Mondoweiss By Leila Abu-Orf on July 16, 2014 Last week I saw that my white American uncle posted something on Facebook. It was an article from some obscure far right-wing news source and it was called “Support the Civilized Man: Defeat the Jihadists.” Lo and behold, the article was a […]
Epigraph: If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and outstanding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in modern history with […]
Before we begin, let’s get one thing straight: Muslim and Arab are two different things. Arab is an ethnic group and as such Arabs can be Christian, Jewish, atheist, Muslim or any other religion. Islam is a religion. People often forget that the largest Muslim country in the world is […]
Toronto terror plot: FBI wiretap reveals suspect was trained by man in touch with Al Qaeda Chiheb Esseghaier lived with and was trained by “Al-Masul, who allegedly was “in direct contact” with terror leader known as “the Doctor,” Ayman Al-Zawahiri. The Toronto Star, 2014/07/16 Chris Young / THE CANADIAN PRESS […]
Geopolitical Diary STRATFOR Tuesday, July 15, 2014 Hamas and affiliate militant factions out of the Gaza Strip are so far rejecting an Egyptian-proposed cease-fire, having launched far more than 100 rockets since the cease-fire proposal. In exposing Israel’s inability to stem the rocket flow, Hamas is trying to claim a […]
Geopolitical Diary STRATFOR Tuesday, July 15, 2014 Hamas and affiliate militant factions out of the Gaza Strip are so far rejecting an Egyptian-proposed cease-fire, having launched far more than 100 rockets since the cease-fire proposal. In exposing Israel’s inability to stem the rocket flow, Hamas is trying to claim a […]
Western governments are sending millions of pounds of aid to areas held by the radical Islamic group Isis in northern Syria, The Independent can reveal. The aid, which is paid […]