theguardian: by Andrew Brown — It’s always amusing for an outsider to see the way in which Americans treat their constitutional documents as a sacred text, and then the knots into which they get tied when said sacred text seems to forbid taking any text as sacred. The separation of […]
Gulf News: The two were jailed in May 2012, three months after joining the Ahmadiyya Dubai: Human Rights Watch on Thursday urged Saudi Arabia to free two citizens held without trial for two years after converting to an offshoot of Islam banned in the kingdom. Sultan Al Anzi, aged 33, […]
NY Times: Most geneticists agree that Native Americans are descended from Siberians who crossed into America 26,000 to 18,000 years ago via a land bridge over the Bering Strait. But […]
Editor’s note: Sunny Hundal is a British-Asian journalist and blogger who has written about Asian issues for a range of publications including The Guardian and The New Statesman. He’s founder and editor of left-leaning blog, Liberal Conspiracy. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. (CNN) — It appears […]
When university educated Pakistanis who are social media savvy have this need to kill in order to homogenise and fit everyone into their personally preferred lifestyle, religion or sect, it is no wonder we are where we are Understanding has its own benefits and gratification. For years, in various newspaper columns […]
Huff Post: by Lorna Byrne — I keep being shown crowds of children, thousands and thousands of them walking around clinging to each other, bewildered, not understanding how their parents have been killed, how their homes have been destroyed and how their very lives are in danger. I am shown […]
THE HAGUE, 03/04/14 Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders has called on everyone to make a police report against Labour (PvdA) leader Diederik Samsom for discrimination against Moroccans.Against Wilders himself, 5,000 reports have already been made calling for his prosecution for his plea for less Moroccans. The PVV leader […]
THE HAGUE, 03/04/14 Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders has called on everyone to make a police report against Labour (PvdA) leader Diederik Samsom for discrimination against Moroccans.Against Wilders himself, 5,000 reports have already been made calling for his prosecution for his plea for less Moroccans. The PVV leader […]
Epigraph: Those who believe, then disbelieve, then again believe, then disbelieve, and then increase in disbelief, Allah will never forgive them nor will He guide them to the way. (Al […]
Epigraph: It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to […]
Source: CNN Yusuf Yerkel, an aide to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, kicks a person who is being wrestled to the ground by two police officers during protests in Soma, Turkey, on Wednesday, May 14. Hundreds have taken to the streets across the country since nearly 300 miners […]
Source:World Observer on’t be surprised, but the daughter of the King of Saudi Arabia is a beautiful, modern woman, who doesn’t mind going out in public wearing only a scarf on her head and showing a bit of her hair! Adlah bint Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz Al Saoud, is a […]
122. Commandment that if you are in a state of fear, then say your Prayer on foot or riding; but when you are safe, remember Allah as He has taught you that which you did not know. [2:240] If you are in a state of fear, then say your Prayer […]
Telegraph: Christian woman sentenced to death for refusing to convert to Islam after being raised as a Christian. A heavily pregnant Christian woman in Sudan has been sentenced to hang for not being raised as a Muslim. Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, 27, was convicted on charges of apostasy, or the abandonment […]
Telegraph: More than 60 passengers had to be flown back to London City Airport after part of the plane’s wing fell off shortly after it took off. A plane carrying more than 60 people had to turn back after take-off because part of its wing fell off mid-flight. The pilot […]
Source:HRW (Beirut) – Saudi authorities should immediately release two citizens held without charge for two years because of their religious beliefs, Human Rights Watch said today. Officials arrested Sultan al-`Anzi, 33, and Sa`ud al-`Anzi, 35, on May 14, 2012, and have not responded to multiple requests from Human Rights Watch […]
Lanka Web: by A. Abdul Aziz. Pakistan made history in 1974 by becoming the first country in the world to amend its constitution to declare Ahmadi Muslims as non-Muslim. Thirty years […]
Source: Hindustan Times: It’s a long way from the Bernabeu, but on a dusty pitch in a Karachi slum, a group of scrawny Pakistani boys in the famous white shirt of Real Madrid tear around after a football.An academy backed by the Real Madrid Foundation opened in March in one […]
Welcome to the last days of the unregulated Internet Add to … NAVNEET ALANG Special to The Globe and Mail Published Thursday, May. 15 2014, 7:00 AM EDT Last updated Wednesday, May. 14 2014, 1:50 PM EDT Would you trust an unregulated banking industry to look after your money? After […]
Source: ET The Senate recently passed a bill that seeks to punish anyone desecrating a grave with a life sentence. The news came as a great relief because with all the good friends, acquaintances and committed people around dying at quite a fast pace, one is, at least, relieved that the state […]