Jordanian diplomat tapped to be new UN rights chief
Source: The Daily Star :: Lebanon News UNITED NATIONS, United States: Jordan’s ambassador to the United Nations has been nominated as UN high commissioner for human rights, to replace South […]
Saudi reformers challenge Islamic movement linked to extremism
Global Post: Editor’s note: Saudi Arabia’s religious landscape has sometimes appeared as a monochromatic terrain of pious Muslims following an intolerant, puritanical version of Islam. If that picture was ever accurate, it is certainly not today. Saudi Arabia is in the midst of a slow but major social transformation in part […]
Traces of another world found on the Moon
By Pallab Ghosh: Science correspondent, BBC News Dr Caroline Smith of the Natural History Museum in London explains the indications of the planet believed to have formed the Moon Related Stories […]
Muslim faithful unfazed by MERS threat
MAKKAH: ARAB NEWS Pilgrims from around the world are pouring into Makkah, undeterred by the spread of the MERS virus. “We have received warnings by authorities in our country about MERS and were informed of the importance of taking precautions,” 45-year-old Abdullah, a pilgrim from Malaysia, was quoted as saying […]
AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION MAKES IT OFFICIAL: ‘SELFIE’ A MENTAL DISORDER
The Adobo Chronicles — Chicago, Illinois – The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has officially confirmed what many people thought all along: taking ‘selfies’ is a mental disorder. This is unwelcome news for Makati City in the Philippines, especially for its mayor, Junjun Binay, son of the incumbent vice president. Makati was […]
Richard Dawkins’s lack of sympathy for those who cling to religion is a shame
theguardian: by Deborah Orr — Not content with being a mere anti-Christ, Richard Dawkins has now declared himself to be the anti-Santa. (As Dougal from Father Ted would put it.) Dawkins has also informed an audience at the Cheltenham literary festival that a frog couldn’t become a prince, not in a million years. Sometimes I wonder […]
Richard Dawkins's lack of sympathy for those who cling to religion is a shame
theguardian: by Deborah Orr — Not content with being a mere anti-Christ, Richard Dawkins has now declared himself to be the anti-Santa. (As Dougal from Father Ted would put it.) Dawkins has also informed an audience at the Cheltenham literary festival that a frog couldn’t become a prince, not in a million years. Sometimes I wonder […]
Woman Unleashes Racist Attack While Her Children Watch (UPDATE)
Huff Post: by Inae Oh — Earlier this morning, a video was posted onto Reddit showing a woman spewing incredibly racist statements towards a black man. The video shows the woman’s two children witnessing her rant, while the man sits calmly in his car recording her comments. Note: This article contains explicit […]
Al Qaeda seizes the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority?
Daily Times: Mr Prime Minister, development is not just launching mega-projects. Development also means expansion of freedoms and enjoyment of fundamental human rights The national media was already consumed by agency-fuelled warfare when the breaking news of Altaf Hussain’s arrest by Scotland Yard over money laundering charges further shrank any space […]
Book Review: The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession
Epigraph: And those who call not on any other God along with Allah, nor kill a person that Allah has forbidden except for just cause, nor commit adultery (or fornication), […]
An 8 year old lays a foundation brick of Bait ul Mubarak along with Hazrat Khalifa tul Masih V
Report: Mohammad Haroon, UK Adnan Ahmad Chaudhary is one of the lucky children who had an opportunity to lay one of the foundation bricks of Bait ul Mubarak in Wiesbaden […]
Are India’s Muslims a minority?
Minister in Hindu nationalist BJP government says Muslims are not minority causing controversy on status of community. Only a day after the Indian government led by the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party leader Narendra Modi took oath of office, Najma Heptullah, the new minister of minority affairs made an unusual statement. […]
Are India's Muslims a minority?
Minister in Hindu nationalist BJP government says Muslims are not minority causing controversy on status of community. Only a day after the Indian government led by the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party leader Narendra Modi took oath of office, Najma Heptullah, the new minister of minority affairs made an unusual statement. […]
Meet the Muslim cyclists riding for peace – and to combat Islamophobia
A group of Muslims are riding from Glasgow to London to raise money for charity – and offset the negative attitudes and stereotypes of Islam, visiting mosques and war memorials along the way. One of the cyclists, heart specialist Dr Tauseef Khan, describes the humbling kindness the group have encountered […]
Islam and Apostasy: Show Who’s Boss
Source: The Economist A death sentence issued by a Sudanese court has stirred up controversy THE Koran is categorical. “There is no compulsion in religion,” it says (in the 256th verse of the second sura, or chapter). In another passage of the Muslim holy book, in the tenth sura, we find God […]
Islam and Apostasy: Show Who's Boss
Source: The Economist A death sentence issued by a Sudanese court has stirred up controversy THE Koran is categorical. “There is no compulsion in religion,” it says (in the 256th verse of the second sura, or chapter). In another passage of the Muslim holy book, in the tenth sura, we find God […]
eDigest: Foundation Stone for New Mosque laid by Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Epigraph: O children of Adam! look to your adornment at every time and place of worship, and eat and drink but exceed not the bounds; surely, He does not love those who exceed the bounds. (Al Quran 7:32) Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad lays foundation stone for Mubarak Mosque in Wiesbaden […]
India Sikh groups clash at Golden Temple
Fights broke out over who would make the first speech, as Andrew North reports. Continue reading the main story in BBC and watch a movie Related Stories How Punjab’s missing are being forgotten Delhi 1984 riots still haunt India’s Congress party Delhi 1984: Memories of a massacre Several people have […]
Leading Pakistani Geo TV channel is ordered off air
Pakistan’s Electronic Media Regularity Authority has suspended the licence of the country’s largest and most influential TV station for 15 days. Related Stories Divisions hit Pakistani TV regulator Pakistan TV […]
The Spirit of Shanti and Salaam: Transforming Hindu-Muslim Dialogue Into Action
Source: The Huffington Post By Aamir Hussain and Murali Balaji The United States is truly exceptional in the fact that it “peacefully combines a high degree of religious devotion with […]