Newton's Views on God from the book: Essays on the Context, Nature, and Influence of Isaac Newton’s Theology
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What the NSA Can Learn From Prophet Muhammad
Source: Time By Qasim Rashid Islam places immense emphasis on privacy in ways that Western governments today have only begun to match with privacy laws. Whether it’s a legal scholar […]
Ghana World Cup fans in Brazil draw scepticism after asylum request ‘Black Stars’ supporters’ asylum bids receive mixed reactions online.
Two hundred Ghanaian World Cup fans in Brazil are asking for asylum, a move that has drawn scepticism and ridicule. The asylum-seekers argue they are fleeing from “violent conflicts between different Muslim groups” in Ghana. These fans entered Brazil on tourist visas and their requests are being prepared by the […]
Ghana World Cup fans in Brazil draw scepticism after asylum request 'Black Stars' supporters' asylum bids receive mixed reactions online.
Two hundred Ghanaian World Cup fans in Brazil are asking for asylum, a move that has drawn scepticism and ridicule. The asylum-seekers argue they are fleeing from “violent conflicts between different Muslim groups” in Ghana. These fans entered Brazil on tourist visas and their requests are being prepared by the […]
Colonialism never ended in Palestine
Summary Without the explanatory lens of colonial behavior, I can think of only two ways to understand how Israel can repeat every few years what it is doing now in Gaza, unleashing the power of its advanced military machines against an essentially helpless civilian population that has neither a means […]
Sistani: Fighters must respect all people’s rights
Reuters DAILY STAR LEBANON BAGHDAD: Iraq’s top Shiite religious authority Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani urged fighters Friday to respect the rights of all Iraqis, regardless of sect or politics, after […]
Sistani: Fighters must respect all people's rights
Reuters DAILY STAR LEBANON BAGHDAD: Iraq’s top Shiite religious authority Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani urged fighters Friday to respect the rights of all Iraqis, regardless of sect or politics, after […]
Kurds seize Iraq northern oil fields, ministers pull out of government
Reuters BAGHDAD/KIRKUK, Iraq: Kurdish forces seized two oil fields in northern Iraq and took over operations from a state-run oil firm Friday, while Kurdish politicians suspended their participation in Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government. The moves escalated a feud between the Shiite-led central government and the autonomous Kurdish region against […]
War in South Sudan: The World’s Youngest State Faces Failure
By Bartholomäus Grill in Juba, South Sudan SPIEGEL.DE The lucky ones manage to make it to the quarantine ward. Lying on cots under a tarp with vomit-buckets at their sides, […]
War in South Sudan: The World's Youngest State Faces Failure
By Bartholomäus Grill in Juba, South Sudan SPIEGEL.DE The lucky ones manage to make it to the quarantine ward. Lying on cots under a tarp with vomit-buckets at their sides, […]
Retaliation for Spying: Germany Asks CIA Official to Leave Country
In what amounts to a diplomatic earthquake, Berlin has asked the country’s top CIA official to leave Germany. The measures comes in response to the second allegation in a week […]
This mother who left her baby on the subway is not some Bad Black Mom. She’s part of a mental-health stigma
theguardian: by Kirsten West Savali — When 20-year-old Frankea Dabbs abandoned her 10-month-old baby girl on a New York City subway platform on 7 July, it was a piercing cry for help that has long echoed throughout homes, neighborhoods and cities across the United States – a cry that is often ignored […]
This mother who left her baby on the subway is not some Bad Black Mom. She's part of a mental-health stigma
theguardian: by Kirsten West Savali — When 20-year-old Frankea Dabbs abandoned her 10-month-old baby girl on a New York City subway platform on 7 July, it was a piercing cry for help that has long echoed throughout homes, neighborhoods and cities across the United States – a cry that is often ignored […]
Gender discrimination shadows women, from cradle to grave
The Independent: by Caroline Lucas — Parliament is a peculiar sort of place. Upon standing to speak there earlier this year, wearing a white t-shirt emblazoned with the words ‘No More Page Three’ – in support of the namesake campaign – I was metaphorically plonked into the naughty corner. No one batted […]
The myth of the caliphate and the Islamic State
by Afzal Ashraf ALJAZEERA Afzal Ashraf is a Consultant fellow at Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies (RUSI) and served in the UK Armed Forces. He was […]
China Xinjiang: Muslim students ‘made to eat’ at Ramadan
By Martin Patience BBC News, Beijing Several university students from China’s western region of Xinjiang have told the BBC that they are being banned from fasting during the month of […]
China Xinjiang: Muslim students 'made to eat' at Ramadan
By Martin Patience BBC News, Beijing Several university students from China’s western region of Xinjiang have told the BBC that they are being banned from fasting during the month of […]
Can I Give Charity to a Thief, a Prostitute or a Non-deserving Person During Ramadan?
Source: The Huffington Post By Farahnaz Zahidi: Writer, editor and teacher Pakistan is internationally known for many things. For the surge of extremism. For the footballs we supplied to the World Cup. For an often exaggerated emphasis on the “miseries” of its people. But it is lesser known for being one of […]
eDigest: OIC demands action against Israeli atrocities
Epigraph: When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of […]
Is it a school’s duty to ensure students’ moral and spiritual well-being?
“The average anxiety level of a western teenager today is equivalent to a level which would have denoted a clinical anxiety disorder in the 1950s,” reveals Alastair McConville in this […]