I Have a Dream: President Obama will One day Comfort the Parents of Drone Victims
Epigraph: O ye people! be mindful of your duty to your Lord, Who created you from a single soul and created therefrom its mate, and from them twain spread many […]
‘Horrendous’ anti-Muslim hate crimes soar in Cambridge area – triggering calls to get tough on racists
Cambridgenews:Hate crimes against Muslims have soared in Cambridgeshire, new data reveals. : The brutal murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in a London street triggered an increase in Islamophobic crime in […]
BANGLADESH I am sorry by Faheem Younis
The daily star: I was born in Pakistan, a few months before the war which resulted in the creation of Bangladesh on December 16, 1971. And it was only after I moved to the US that I recognised the magnitude of human rights abuses the Pakistani army committed against their […]
The Bosnian Knot: Conflicts Unchanged in Birthplace of WWI
By Walter Mayr SPIEGEL.DE The 1914 assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo came in the midst of a bitter power struggle among major European powers in the Balkans. One hundred years and three devastating wars later, peace still eludes the multi-ethnic region. In a six-part series, SPIEGEL examines the modern-day […]
What purpose organised atheism?
theguardian — Zoe Williams says that if you place religious belief on the human rights agenda then you have to allow atheism equal weight (Comment, 15 January). It would be better to simply place “religious belief or non-belief” on the agenda. This is because the term “atheist” is freighted with much excess […]
Nun Gives Birth, Says She Had No Idea She Was Pregnant And then, naturally, names the baby after Pope Francis
By Samantha Grossman @sam_grossmanJan. 19, 2014 Fans of Discovery Health’s “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant” will love this: a Salvadoran nun gave birth in Italy this week, claiming she […]
Israel wants to annex 4th settlement bloc — radio
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told US Secretary of State John Kerry that he wants to annex a fourth bloc of West Bank settlements, army radio […]
Islamists reject ‘conspiracy’ to settle Palestinian issue at Jordan’s expense
AMMAN — The Muslim Brotherhood on Sunday urged Jordanians to unite against the “conspiracy to settle the Palestinian issue” that threatens Jordanian sovereignty. In a statement issued by the movement and its political arm, the Islamic Action Front, the Islamists urged the government to reveal the “truth” behind US Secretary […]
Pilgrimage is the biggest example of brotherhood
In the previous article, we discussed what God said about the message of Prophet Muhammad (May Allah’s peace and mercy be upon him). The message of Prophet Muhammad is universal […]
Driver gifted car on ‘sponsored’ big fat Saudi wedding
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR ARABNEWS In a heart-warming gesture rarely witnessed, a Saudi businessman in Buraidah celebrated the wedding of his Indonesian driver and, what is more, handed over the […]
Anthropology, not politics, rules in Egypt
STORY SUMMARY January 20, 2014 12:27 AM By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star In the past three years since the overthrow of the Hosni Mubarak’s government, on my regular visits to Cairo I have watched with fascination, pride and hope the birth of Arab citizens and the sudden emergence […]
Humanity Is Becoming Increasingly Less Violent, with One Exception — Religious Violence
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper gets a hero’s welcome in Israel
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has arrived in Israel to kick off his inaugural visit to the Middle East. The Star: JERUSALEM—Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrived in Israel to a hero’s […]
Help Build the Muslim Television (TMT)
By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor The search engines scan over 400 years of videos every day, in Youtube alone. How many life times, would it take an average viewer […]
Archbishop of Canterbury’s daughter admits she ‘can’t be bothered to pray’
Source: The Telegraph By Alice Philipson Katharine Welby revealed that church is where she feels at her ‘worst’ during her battle with depression Katharine Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s daughter, has […]
Yarmouk: A camp without hope for a people without a land. Of its 250,000 Palestinians, scarcely 18,000 now remain; up to 1,500 are dead, many of them due to hunger
by Robert Fisk, The Independent, UK Not long after the start of the Syrian civil war, from the heights of the Qasioun mountain north of Damascus, I watched with Syrian friends as the first shells exploded upon the Yarmouk Palestinian camp. The Syrian army artillery behind us fired lazily, maybe […]
eDigest: President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono says black magic haunts him & family
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono says black magic haunts him & family Rendi A. Witular, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | National | Sat, January 18 2014, 1:04 PM In his new book, published Friday, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono admits that he and… Obama bans spying on […]
Peace possible in Syria as political landscape changes. The terrible butchery could end now that the US and Russia both want to finish the war
By Patrick Cockburn, THE INDEPENDENT Gloomy predictions precede this week’s Geneva II peace talks aimed at ending the three-year-old war in Syria. US Secretary of State John Kerry says the meeting is about a mutually agreed political transition in Damascus, while the Syrian government insists it should focus on how […]
iDoctor: Could a smartphone be the future of medicine?
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Where is the Muslim Mandela?
Source: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Malta By Laiq Ahmad Atif English translation of an article published in the TORCA in Maltese language. Peace, tranquility and serenity are so valuable fruits of life that everyone wants to benefits to the utmost. Those people who have worked for peace throughout their lives are […]