The Doubt Essential to Faith

Source: Ted Talks When Lesley Hazleton was writing a biography of Muhammad, she was struck by something: The night he received the revelation of the Koran, according to early accounts, his first reaction was doubt, awe, even fear. And yet this experience became the bedrock of his belief. Hazleton calls […]

Secret US Senate report details CIA abuse

Source: BBC Related Stories CIA interrogation techniques exposedWatch CIA ‘searched US Senate computers’ CIA probes Senate staff monitoring The CIA repeatedly misled the US government over the severity and effectiveness of its interrogation methods, the Washington Post reports. A long-awaited US Senate report said that the CIA used secret “black sites” […]

Pakistan: Love withers in land of love

Source: pakobserver.net Tuesday, April 01, 2014 – Recent attacks on Hindu temples and killings of Ahmadis in interior Sindh must ring bells for Sindhi nationalists. The Province which has so far been a peaceful part of Pakistan for minorities, is now slowly falling into the hands exclusivists. Sindh has been known for its […]

Muslim Women In The Islamic World

St.LouisPublicRadio: by Camille Philips — In Western media, we hear reports that Muslim women are relegated to a second class, largely powerless status and are denied education, independence and employment. We hear stories of women brutalized and abused. But says, Professor Mehnza Afridi, that picture is painted with too wide a […]

260,000 graduates in minimum wage jobs

By Emily Jane Fox @emilyjanefox March 31, 2014: 7:06 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) If you thought paying tens of thousands of dollars for a college education guaranteed a high-paying job, think again. About 260,000 people who had a college or professional degree made at or below the federal minimum […]