Dawn.com By Hasan Zaidi THE brutal murder of Farzana Parveen in broad daylight in Lahore and in front of a crowd of apathetic or complicit spectators has justifiably outraged decent folk in Pakistan and around the world. That the murder was carried out because Farzana had dared to marry against […]
Epigraph: Gabriel kept recommending treating neighbors with kindness until I thought he would assign a share in inheritance, for them. The Prophet Muhammad Celebrating 125 years of the Ahmadiyya […]
On Thursday the 8th of December 2011, University College London Union Atheist Secularist and Humanist Society (UCLU ASHS) hosted a debate, the motion of which was “Sharia Law Negates Human […]
Woman, 18, shot in face, thrown in canal by her father for marrying against family’s wishes. The Toronto Star, 2014/06/07 Frame grab from Sky News Saba Maqsood, of Hafizabad, Pakistan, 18, has survived an ˜honour killing” in which her father shot her twice in the face and threw her into […]
Source: TOI The evacuation was ordered about 1.30pm on Saturday. A Capitol Police spokeswoman says the pilot of the aircraft did not immediately communicate after it flew into restricted space, and that’s what led to the evacuation. More:
Source: Telegraph Downing Street will say that, on the contrary, Fiona Cunningham had to go because she behaved improperly when she released private correspondence between the Home Secretary and Michael Gove to the Times on Tuesday night, a fact confirmed by the Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood after his investigation […]
Source: ET ISLAMABAD: The current stalemate in the peace negotiations with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) could have been avoided if the military was leading the initiative instead of the civilian government’s nominated interlocutors, according to ex-military chief Gen (retd) Mirza Aslam Beg. In an exclusive interview with The Express Tribune, Beg, […]
Dawn.com: by Mehreen Zahra-Malik — Courtroom No One’s marble-and-wood panelled walls, three-storey-high ceiling, skylights and subdued tone have always reminded me of libraries of old, where murmurings are the only language permitted. On Thursday morning, the courtroom felt more austere than usual, lawyers nervously listening to the proceedings, the modern […]
Dawn.com: by Mehreen Zahra-Malik — Courtroom No One’s marble-and-wood panelled walls, three-storey-high ceiling, skylights and subdued tone have always reminded me of libraries of old, where murmurings are the only language permitted. On Thursday morning, the courtroom felt more austere than usual, lawyers nervously listening to the proceedings, the modern […]
global post: by Maria Hinojosa — NEW YORK — The demographic transformation of the United States of America is one of the greatest untold stories of our time. That is thanks in part to widespread underreporting in our mainstream media. Already, more than half of the babies born today are non-white and […]
CAIRO — Egypt has banned unauthorised preachers from giving sermons or teaching Islam in mosques and other public places, according to a decree on Saturday marking a further step in […]
BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT Al-Qaeda City was an industrial zone, a vast plain of concrete and stone factories and cattle sheds and homes 10 miles north east of Aleppo, […]
BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT Al-Qaeda City was an industrial zone, a vast plain of concrete and stone factories and cattle sheds and homes 10 miles north east of Aleppo, […]
Telegraph: “I’m engaged,” she shouted down the phone. Here I was, first year at university, sitting on a dirty wall outside my flat, being told by my best friend that […]
Telegraph: “I’m engaged,” she shouted down the phone. Here I was, first year at university, sitting on a dirty wall outside my flat, being told by my best friend that […]
ibtimes.co.uk: 25 Muslims who started cycling in Glasgow last Sunday have reached London, where they were escorted by 200 local cyclists and welcomed by Justine Greening MP and local leaders […]
ibtimes.co.uk: 25 Muslims who started cycling in Glasgow last Sunday have reached London, where they were escorted by 200 local cyclists and welcomed by Justine Greening MP and local leaders […]
Salon.com: Men’s rights activists have raised $25,000 to provide additional security for an upcoming conference because, “We’ve had ongoing problems with the feminist establishment, which is a multibillion-dollar hate industry, for years,” according to men’s rights blogger Dean Esmay. The money will be used to hire seven off-duty police officers […]
Salon.com: I first met Rasheed in 2007. As we walked into a school building, he smiled ruefully at the bricks strewn across the floor, played with his long beard, and said, “It’s under construction. We have too many students and not enough space.” Afterwards, we drank a cup of sweet milky tea […]
theguardian: by Toby Helm, Daniel Boffey and Warwick Mansell — Adviser resigns and education secretary apologises as bishop and MPs urge respect for Muslim pupils David Cameron dramatically asserted his authority over two warring cabinet ministers on Saturday when he ordered Michael Gove to issue humiliating apologies and told Theresa May to […]