Story Summary Just as Leen Arbid entered the front gate of the Damascus Opera House, a potent symbol of the Assad family’s decadeslong authoritarian rule over Syria, she heard a deafening bang. Mortar attacks have become daily occurrence in the Syrian capital of some 2million, often killing more people than […]
SunSentinel: by Shani McManus — While he was there to speak about his experience as a Muslim physician treating Holocaust survivors, the two-hour discussion covered a variety of religious and political subjects, and ended with an improved mutual understanding. In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Dr. Khalid Minhas, director of […]
msnbc: by Adam Serwer — The “moment of silence” that Greece used to begin its town meetings with until 1999 would seem like the fairest compromise, and the one least offensive to the Constitution’s prohibition on government religious favoritism. With a moment of silence, every believer can pray according to […]
Blurring the line between reality and fiction, a former member of a terrorist group has made a movie slamming those in the Kingdom who recruit young Saudis to fight abroad. […]
swissinfo.ch and agencies May 5, 2014 – 13:03 Switzerland’s Federal Intelligence Service (FIS) said on Monday that its biggest concerns in 2014 include illegal intelligence operating within Swiss borders and the threat from violent extremists to the Swiss abroad. While Switzerland is not a primary target of jihadist attacks, Swiss […]
Hebron/PNN Settlers on Sunday razed agricultural lands east of West Bank city of Hebron. Local sources said that dozens of settlers from “Hafat Gal” settlement that was built on Palestinian […]
Source: thedailystar.net | Monsura Sirajee The tragedy of death is met with the gift of life. The Annual Boston Marathon turned into nightmare last year when two blasts killed three people and injured […]
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Source: daijiworld.com | Dayanand Kukkaje | Mangalore (NM) Mangalore, May 4: “The core essence of Islam is peace. There is no religion greater than peace. However, Islam has been looked upon from a ‘terrorist’ […]
Source: dawn.com Kindly click on the image to zoom it The Content: From the past pages of dawn: 1944: Seventy years ago: Membership for Ahmadiyyas QADIAN: The question whether members of […]
Source: NY Times By ADAM LIPTAK MAY 5, 2014 WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a town in upstate New York may begin its public meetings with a prayer […]
The Muslim Students Society of Nigeria (MSS), yesterday urged Nigerians to embark on fasting and prayer for the safe return of the students abducted in Chibok, Borno, on April 14. Malam Abdulazeez Folayemi, President of the society made the call in Minna during a lecture to mark the Diamond Jubilee […]
by Khetam Malkawi | May 04, 2014 | ZAATARI — Neighbours of Syria on Sunday called on the international community to help hosts of Syrian refugees shoulder the humanitarian burden […]
by Rula Samain | May 04, 2014 | 22:48 AMMAN — Muslim and Christian leaders, and intellectuals have denounced a recent Israeli move to recruit Arab Christians in its army as a “Zionist conspiracy aiming not only to divide and weaken the Arab ranks, but also to push Christians to […]
Global Post: by Patrick Winn — BANGKOK, Thailand — It’s a call center cliche, familiar to many Americans who’ve picked up phones to contest bogus bank charges or gripe about a laptop on the skids. The agent who answers goes by a common US name, perhaps Larry or Jennifer. Yet the accent […]
112. Approach not Prayer when you are not in full possession of your senses [4:44] O ye who believe! approach not Prayer when you are not in full possession of your senses, until you know what you say, nor when you are unclean, except when you are travelling along a […]
Guardian: The leadership of the Roman Catholic church faces a fresh grilling by UN human rights observers on Monday as a delegation from the Holy See makes its debut appearance […]
ET: CHICAGO: Gary Becker, whose work applying the principles of economics to a wide range of human behaviour won the Nobel Prize in 1992, has died at age 83, the University […]
Dawn: One of the most fascinating characters in the initial saga of the painful birth of Pakistan is Fatima Jinnah, the frail-looking, graceful but gritty sister of the founder of the nation, Mohammad Ali Jinnah. She was a passionate political worker, a determined activist for women’s rights and a qualified […]