Iraq conflict: Iran’s Rouhani ‘ready to help’
Source: BBC Iran is ready to assist the Iraqi government in its battle against extremist Sunni Islamists, President Hassan Rouhani has said. But he denied Iran had sent troops into […]
Iraq conflict: Iran's Rouhani 'ready to help'
Source: BBC Iran is ready to assist the Iraqi government in its battle against extremist Sunni Islamists, President Hassan Rouhani has said. But he denied Iran had sent troops into […]
Haramain train trial run in 6 months
Testing of the first line of the multibillion-riyal high-speed Haramain railway system will start in six months, according to local media on Friday. The testing will take place on the line between Madinah and King Abdullah Economic City in Rabigh. Khalid Al-Suwaiket, president of the Saudi Railways Organization (SRO), said: […]
Iraq crisis: Sunni caliphate has been bankrolled by Saudi Arabia Bush and Blair said Iraq was a war on Islamic fascism. They lost
by Robert Fisk, The Independent So after the grotesquerie of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden and 15 of the 19 suicide killers of 9/11, meet Saudi Arabia’s latest monstrous contribution to world history: the Islamist Sunni caliphate of Iraq and the Levant, conquerors of Mosul and Tikrit – and […]
Robert Fisk: The old partition of the Middle East is dead. I dread to think what will follow
Sykes-Picot is dead,” Walid Jumblatt roared at me last night – and he may well be right. The Lebanese Druze leader – who fought in a 15-year civil war that […]
(Saudi)-Bankrolling Jihadist march in Iraq
Dawn: So after the grotesquerie of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden and 15 of the 19 suicide killers of 9/11, meet Saudi Arabia’s latest contribution to world history: the Islamist Sunni caliphate of Iraq and the Levant, conquerors of Mosul and Tikrit – and Raqqa in Syria – and […]
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad visits Alps
Alislam Press: Khalifa visited Falkenstein before returning to Frankfurt. On Tuesday, 10 June 2014, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor […]
How 5 Countries Could Become 14: Middle East
NY Times: THE map of the modern Middle East, a political and economic pivot in the international order, is in tatters. Syria’s ruinous war is the turning point. But the centrifugal forces of rival beliefs, tribes and ethnicities — empowered by unintended consequences of the Arab Spring — are also […]
US Congresswoman Johnson Expressing Heartfelt Condolences to Widow of Martyr Mehdi Ali Qamar
Eddie Bernice Johnson (born December 3, 1935) is a politician from the state of Texas, currently representing the state’s 30th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. An […]
What is Shariah law?
The al-Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) announced Friday that a Shariah-based system of governance will be imposed in Mosul and other cities and towns in Iraq that have been overtaken by militants. It is already forbidden in Iraq to enact legislation that is antithetical to Islam, but the imposition of Shariah […]
Nigeria: How to Achieve Unity Among Nigerian Muslims – Clerics
Islamic clerics have said one of the means of ensuring unity, particularly among Muslims in Nigeria, is by returning to the guidance of the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of the Prophet (PBUH) as understood and practiced by the pious Muslim predecessors. They have also urged security agents in […]
The World Cup tackles Ramadan: Will the Holy Muslim month be teaming with fasting footballers?
Over the next four weeks, 32 nations will battle it out on football fields across Brazil during the FIFA 2014 World Cup football tournament – but only two teams will represent the Middle East. Proud props to Algeria and Iran – (and mabruk for a winning outcome!) – but while MENA […]
Why are there no Muslim philosophers?
“Why are there no Muslim philosophers?” Sudipta Kaviraj posed this question to me while I was studying some critical Western texts of philosophy in the fall of 2009 with him. Although this is a complicated question – which I do not take at face value, given that Kaviraj is himself […]
[Updated] Germany: Inspection of Jalsa Salana Preparations 2014 by Huzoor (aba)
Source: alislam.org 13th June 2014 PRESS RELEASE On the evening of 12 June 2014, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad […]
Iraq in paralysis after Sunni militants’ blitz
STORY SUMMARY The Shiite-led government of Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki remained in paralysis Friday, unable to form a coherent response after al-Qaida-inspired militants blitzed and captured entire chunks of the nation’s Sunni heartland this week, including major cities, towns, military and police bases as Iraqi forces melted away or […]
Iraq in paralysis after Sunni militants' blitz
STORY SUMMARY The Shiite-led government of Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki remained in paralysis Friday, unable to form a coherent response after al-Qaida-inspired militants blitzed and captured entire chunks of the nation’s Sunni heartland this week, including major cities, towns, military and police bases as Iraqi forces melted away or […]
Dinosaurs ‘neither warm nor cold blooded’
By Jonathan Webb: Science reporter, BBC News Related Stories Dinosaurs’ cold blood in doubt ‘Biggest dinosaur ever’ discovered New Tyrannosaur named ‘Pinocchio’ Dinosaurs fit in an intermediate class between warm and […]
Dinosaurs 'neither warm nor cold blooded'
By Jonathan Webb: Science reporter, BBC News Related Stories Dinosaurs’ cold blood in doubt ‘Biggest dinosaur ever’ discovered New Tyrannosaur named ‘Pinocchio’ Dinosaurs fit in an intermediate class between warm and […]