Eyewitness says Israeli army lying, judge did not try to seize soldier’s gun
by Omar Obeidat | Mar 11, 2014 | 15:16 Updated: Mar 11, 2014 | 23:01 10 inShare1 Judges, lawyers and activists demonstrate inside the Justice Palace in Amman on Tuesday […]
Western dilemma: giving Putin Crimea to save Ukraine
Daily Times: KIEV: It is the ugly solution to the Ukrainian crisis world leaders will never acknowledge but grudgingly may have to accept. Give Russian President Vladimir Putin Crimea — […]
Malaysia: Man With Stolen Passport on Missing Jet Was Asylum Seeker
AP / Chris Brummitt and Minh V. Tranh (KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia) — A man traveling with a stolen passport on a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner was an Iranian teenager trying to migrate to Germany, and is not believed to have any terrorist links, police said Tuesday. The announcement is likely […]
Report: Cancer will be No. 1 killer in U.S.
http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/world/2014/02/04/who-cancer-report-acs-otis-brawley-intv.cnn By Jacque Wilson, updated 9:11 AM EDT, Tue March 11, 2014 (CNN) — In 16 years, cancer will become the leading cause of death in the United States, surpassing heart disease, according to a new report from the American Society of Clinical Oncology. The number of new cancer cases is expected to increase […]
Arrest of a Salafi imam
Source: Aljazeera Religious officials in Tunisia are divided over the recent arrest of a Salafi imam, who was detained earlier this week amidst what critics say is a government effort to control local mosques. Khamis El Mejri was arrested on Monday in a city north of the capital Tunis for […]
The intelligent citizen
Source: Aljazeera Political crises around the world are casting doubt on representative democracy and the Western model of government. A quarter century after the demise of the Soviet Union, and declarations about the inevitability of liberal democracies, that paradigm is under serious threat. From the economic crises in Europe, to […]
Wall Street’s new mantra: Meditate
Source: CNN Money Firms want to offer a $1,000 course on Transcendental Meditation to employees. Stocks are near all-time highs, the IPO market is hot, and for the most part, […]
Qur’an quotation for today: Tell My servants that I am surely the One Most Forgiving, the Merciful
64. Tell My servants that I am surely the One Most Forgiving, the Merciful [15:50] Tell My servants that I am surely the One Most Forgiving, the Merciful; [39:54] Say, “O My servants who have committed excesses against their own souls! despair not of the mercy of Allah, surely Allah forgives […]
eDigest: The Islamic Solution to Stop Domestic Violence
Epigraph Men are guardians over women because Allah has made some of them excel others, and because they (men) spend of their wealth. So virtuous women are those who are […]
British women are the queens of leisure? Give me a break
theguardian: bu Brigid Schulte — Real leisure can’t be measured in leftover scraps. It’s something you choose – and it’s never been part of women’s culture British women are “queens of leisure”, luxuriating for five and a half hours a day in the soul-refreshing time that ancient Greeks said was the point […]
The quest to build an ‘early warning system’ to stop Nigeria’s Muslim-Christian violence
Global Post: KADUNA, Nigeria — The waters of the River Kaduna swirl forward under a bridge that spans the long, turbulent divide between this city’s Christian neighborhoods to the south and its Muslim communities to the north. Kaduna, which literally means “the land of crocodiles,” lies in the Middle Belt of Nigeria, […]
Astonishing figures indicate that the world loses or wastes about one-quarter to one-third of the food it produces for consumption.
Worldbank: This issue of the Food Price Watch also explores food losses and food waste across the globe, using key estimates from the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Resources Institute. […]
Demystifying Islam: Tackling the Tough Questions by Harris Zafar
Amazon.com: Despite heightened interest in the study of the Muslim faith, for many people Islam remains shrouded in mystery and confusion. What really is Shariah law? How is a Muslim […]
Message to Mankind from Allah, the Almighty: The Holy Qur’an – In simple Spoken Arabic Language
Source: alislam.org | new.islamahmadiyya.net Email: info@islamahmadiyya.net MUST WATCH VIDEO – يجب مشاهدة الفيديو Qur’an-e-Majeed in Simple Spoken ArabicContinue reading @ http://new.islamahmadiyya.net/ الرئيسية الجماعة الإسلامية الأحمدية عقائد ومفاهيم تفسيرات الخلافة المكتبة شبهات وردود الأخبار […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Pittsburg to hold conference on Islam
Source: mercurynews.com PITTSBURG — A local chapter of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community will hold a conference on the teachings of Islam on March 19. The event willl take place from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Community Presbyterian Church, 200 East Leland Road, Pittsburg. For more information, go to www.muslimsforpeace.org/event or call […]
What happened to Flight 370?
Source: CNN (CNN) — A Boeing 777, one of the world’s most reliable types of airliners, is missing, and no one knows why. Was it a bomb? Mechanical failure? A hijacking gone awry? Pilots and others in the aviation community are deeply disturbed by the mystery surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight […]
Confrontation in Ukraine
Source TOI A pro-Russian force opened fire in seizing a Ukrainian military base in Crimea on Monday and NATO announced reconnaissance flights along its eastern frontiers as confrontation around the Black Sea peninsula showed no sign of easing. Ukrainian activists trying to cross into Crimea to show solidarity with opponents […]
‘Immoral activities’
Source: ET ISLAMABAD: Evidence provided by Member of National Assembly (MNA) Jamshed Dasti was not enough, declared the committee formed to ascertain the accuracy of allegations made by Dasti against parliamentarians, Express News reported on Tuesday. Dasti had stunned fellow parliamentarians on February 27 when he had said that liquor worth millions […]
Japanese family structure: Ideal vs. modern reality
Lingua lift: Gregg Moragishi — Sushi. Ninja. Anime. Sake. These are some of the words that people immediately associate with Japan. However, as we all know, not every Japanese person eats sushi, watches anime, or drinks sake (they are all ninjas though…) photo by uzaigaijin More realistically, there is equilibrium between […]