UN watchdog slams Vatican’s child abuse record
Daily Times: GENEVA: The UN denounced the Vatican on Wednesday for failing to stamp out systematic child abuse and called on the Church to remove all clergy suspected of raping […]
US warships arrive in Black Sea to keep an eye on Sochi Olympics
Global Post: Two United States warships were headed to the Black Sea just two days before the Winter Olympics were set to begin in Sochi, Russia. The USS Mount Whitney sailed into the Black Sea, and the USS Taylor was slated to arrive later on Wednesday, NBC News reported. Pentagon officials […]
Dual Citizenship: Merkel Government Ponders Who Is a German Photo Gallery: Who Is a German?
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s new government has promised to introduce dual citizenship for children born to immigrants in Germany. Now, though, the left and right are fighting over what exactly that […]
Urdu Op-Ed: Taliban are True and All Pakistanis are Wrong
طالبان سچے ہیں اور ہم جھوٹے ہیں Courtesy: Obaidullah Khan تحریر: ٹیپو یوسفزئی یہ ملک طالبان کا ہےاور انکا موقف سو فیصد درست ہے۔ وہ سچے محب وطن ہیں اور پاکستان کے مقدس آئین کے محافظ ہیں۔ پاکستان کے سچے محافظ اس وقت طالبان ہیں اور جو لوگ انکے مخالف […]
Japan Should Follow – Germany
The Diplomat — As a Jew who escaped Nazi Germany as a child in 1935, I have a lifelong interest in the ways nations deal with their pasts. I am closely following developments in Japan, in particular the moves to revise Japanese textbooks in a nationalistic direction, the debate about […]
OIC seeks rights debates based on Islamic values
Source: Arab News One of the major challenges of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is finding ways to enrich global human rights debates with Islamic values and principles, said Iyad Madani, the […]
If leaders fail, people will lead: Kofi Annan
The Times of India: by Subhabrata Guha — When leaders fail to lead, people take charge and leaders then have to follow, says Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General and Nobel laureate. In an exclusive interview to TOI, Annan expresses optimism that slowly and steadily, the world is gearing up to […]
Iraq War Critic: NSA Targeted Gerhard Schröder’s Mobile Phone
AP In this archive photo, then-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder can be seen making a mobile phone call in June 2002. It wasn’t only Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone that was on the NSA’s target list. New German media reports claim the US spy agency also tapped Gerhard Schröder’s phone calls in […]
Welcome mat ; Syrian refugees move into Swiss households
swissinfo.ch and agencies February 5, 2014 – 17:16 Syrian refugees have been welcomed into homes in cantons Basel City and Aargau for the first time, a move that could soon follow in other parts of the country, according to the Swiss Refugee Council. The council made a public appeal last […]
Jarba says rebels to receive advanced weapons
STORY SUMMARY Syrian opposition leader Ahmad Jarba said Wednesday that rebels would soon receive advanced weapons because they have been waging a two-front war against regime troops and militant extremists from the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS). In Washington, Kerry admitted that Assad was making gains […]
Pilgrims lose way in Grand Mosque
ARABNEWS.COM SIGNPOSTS NEEDED: A massive Umrah pilgrimage rush continues in Makkah as large crowds come from abroad to perform their religious rituals. JEDDAH: FOUZIA KHAN Published — Thursday 6 February 2014 The vast expansion of the Grand Mosque at Makkah has made it difficult for pilgrims to find their […]
Egypt army chief Sisi says will run for president — report
A man stands on a bridge where huge posters of Egypt’s Army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi are hanged in central Cairo on February 3, 2014. (Reuters/Asmaa Waguih) Michael Georgy | Reuters Published — Thursday 6 February 2014 Last update 6 February 2014 5:03 am CAIRO: Egyptian […]
Ukip MEP who supported Muslim code of conduct urged halal slaughter ban
Gerard Batten wrote paper sent to members of Christian group saying religious slaughter of animals should be outlawed Rajeev Syal, Rowena Mason and Daniel Foggo The Guardian, Wednesday 5 February 2014 20.16 GMT Ukip MEP Gerard Batten in action in Strasbourg. Photograph: Jean-Marc Loos/Reuters/Corbis A Ukip MEP […]
On third anniversary of a brutal attack on 3 Ahmadis in Indonesia
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Atheism is an offshoot of deism
theguardian: by Theo Hobson — In the previous article, I considered Rousseau’s political radicalism, at some speed. I want to offer a summarizing reflection on that theme, before moving on to his religious thought. Political justice, said Rousseau, depends on an understanding that state power belongs to the people, exists to […]
Lal Khan Malik: Quebec’s ‘values’ debate sows seeds of intolerance
The Muslim Times’ has slightly modified the title of the Op-Ed By: Lal Khan Malik, the National President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Canada. Source: The Star: Continued proliferation […]
How “historic” Israel-Jordan water deal leaves Palestinians high and dry
Opinion/Editorial How “historic” Israel-Jordan water deal leaves Palestinians high and dry Clemens Messerschmid and Muna Dajani The Electronic Intifada 4 February 2014 The Dead Sea’s unique ecology could be further damaged – along with Palestinian water rights – by new Israeli-Jordanian deal. (Colin Tsoi/Flickr) World media recently lauded a new […]
Cherie Blair: ‘Muslim Women: Slow But Steady Progress’
Epigraph: Surely, men who submit themselves to God and women who submit themselves to Him, and believing men and believing women, and obedient men and obedient women and truthful men and truthful […]
Bill Nye Takes On Creationist Ken Ham
It was a debate for the ages — although in this case, the ages in question are either 6,000 or several billion. Bill Nye, TV’s “Science Guy,” debated the age […]
30. Glorify the name of thy Lord, the Great
[56:75] So glorify the name of thy Lord, the Great. [87:2] Glorify the name of thy Lord, the Most High, Explanation: The Divine attribute Rabb (Lord Who make things grow and develop by stages) disposes of the objection: Why was the perfect Law not revealed in the beginning of creation? The word […]