Bhutto son urges Pakistan military action on Taliban
Credit: BBC News USA The son of the assassinated former prime minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, has called on the country’s authorities to take […]
Wary of high divorce rates, Saudi girls wed education!
The Kingdom’s soaring divorce rates have forced young Saudi girls to opt for pursuing higher education rather than getting married at an early age. Divorce cases increased to more than […]
A Fed Policy Maker, Changing His Mind, Urges More Stimulus
MINNEAPOLIS — Narayana R. Kocherlakota, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, was once a leading opponent of the Federal Reserve’s efforts to stimulate the economy. Today, he has emerged as the only senior official arguing publicly that the Fed should do even more. The Fed’s leadership, including Janet […]
Park that will have 51 of the total 54 plants cited in the holy book.
Source: TOI DUBAI: Aiming to highlight the ‘miracles’ of the Quran, Dubai authorities are building a theme park that will have 51 of the total 54 plants cited in the holy book.The 158-acre holy Quran park, which is expected to be completed by September next year, is in the third and […]
Confessions beaten out of ‘suspects’, executions by the hundreds… How different is justice in today’s Iraq from the era of Saddam? The presumption of guilt is just one of Saddam’s creation that has outlived the dictator
by Robert Fisk, THE INDEPENDENT Saddam is Dead! Long live Saddam! And glancing through the grisly list of executions which the new, free, democratic, American-constructed Iraq has carried out – […]
Irish Constitutional Convention recommends removal of blasphemy offence
Source: BreakingNews.ie The Constitutional Convention has published its report calling for the offence of blasphemy to be removed. It recommends that blasphemy is replaced by a new general ban on […]
For the first time ever pulled up its revered Queen Elizabeth.
Source: TOI LONDON: The British parliament has for the first time ever pulled up its revered Queen for failing to control her expenses. In what is the first such report into royal finances brought out by the Committee of Public Accounts, the British monarch Queen Elizabeth II has been openly asked to […]
America’s ‘virgin births’? One in 200 mothers ‘became pregnant without having sex’
The Independent: The results of a long-term study of reproductive health, published in the British Medical Journal, have revealed that one in two hundred US women claim to have given birth without ever having had sexual intercourse. The findings were based on a study of 7,870 women and girls aged […]
The photos Saudi Arabia doesn’t want seen – and proof Islam’s most holy relics are being demolished in Mecca
The Independent: The authorities in Saudi Arabia have begun dismantling some of the oldest sections of Islam’s most important mosque as part of a highly controversial multi-billion pound expansion. Photographs obtained by The Independentreveal how workers with drills and mechanical diggers have started demolishing some Ottoman and Abbasid sections on the […]
Muslim Woman Appointed Spokesperson of German Foreign Ministry
Source: Morocco World News: Sidi Ifni- Sawsan Chebli, a 35-year-old German woman, has been appointed as a spokespersons of the German Foreign Ministry, according to media reports. Of Palestinian origin, Chebli is the first Muslim woman to represent the Ministry. She is now preparing to be deputy spokesperson under chief spokesman […]
Press Release: Global Minorities Alliance condemns death sentence to Pakistan blasphemy accused
Glasgow: A Scottish human rights organisation, Global Minorities Alliance, has expressed grave concern about the most recent events in context of Pakistan’s controversial Blasphemy Laws. Muhammad Ashgar, a 65 year […]
Canada: Interfaith symposium by Ahmadiyya Muslim Women Association
Source: meridianbooster.com An interfaith symposium is returning to Lloydminster for the fourth year in a row, organized by The Ahmadiyya Muslim Women Association and hosted by Lakeland College. Naurin Mangla, general […]
[Urdu Article] Naseehato’n ka Guldasta (5) by Shamshad A Nasir
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Limitations of religious discourse in the Arab world
Source: Morocco World News: Casablanca- Religion is at the heart of the most debated subjects around the world today. It’s extensively employed in politics, social networks and other media for almost all kinds of purposes. Freedom of speech and expression, human rights and the sanctification of a given entity to claim […]
Bibi’s Son Dating a Non-Jew
Source: The Daily Beast/Times of Israel. Oh the scandal. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son, Yair, has apparently been dating a non-Jewish Norwegian woman for two months and the Orthodox aren’t happy about it. Yair’s uncle says the 23-year-old is “spitting on the grave of his grandfather and grandmother,” by […]
Islam in Ireland
To read further about the inauguration of the mosque in Galway, click here. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Dublin Mosque Islam by country Africa[show] Asia[show] Europe[show] The Americas[show] Oceania[show] Islam portal v t e The documented history of Islam in Ireland dates to the 1950s. The number of Muslims in the Republic of Ireland has […]
By 2063 Europe in ashes?
Source: CNN (CNN) — The year is 2063. By now, all of Europe’s volcanoes have come to life and erupted, spewing out thick plumes of ash into the atmosphere. Dense black clouds of dust envelop the murky sky, plunging the entire continent into total darkness. The whole of Europe lies in […]
Here is ours choice for President?
Source: CNN (CNN) — Egypt’s military leadership council on Monday gave newly promoted Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi — the army chief who helped oust the country’s first democratically elected president — its blessing to run for the presidency, the state-run Middle East News Agency reported. El-Sisi has yet to announce whether […]
President Yudhoyono does not bring bad luck, says Indonesian official
JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Indonesia’s State Palace said that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was not to blame for natural disasters as suggested by some psychics. Cabinet Secretary […]