Umrah pilgrims bring cheers to merchants
The shopping boom has begun in Jeddah, the gateway to the Two Holy Mosques, with the arrival of thousands of Umrah pilgrims in the city. Thanks to the electronic system […]
Occupation belies the Hollywood mind
February 01, 2014 12:05 AM By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star STORY SUMMARY If you think the controversy of actress Scarlett Johansson’s relationships with Oxfam and the Israeli company SodaStream is a minor side story about Hollywood celebrities, think again. This is the latest signal of a major direction […]
Palestinian indignity makes peace an elusive goal
February 03, 2014 12:15 AM By David Ignatius The Daily Star STORY SUMMARY Hoping to understand the current Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in human terms, I made a visit last week to a Palestinian farmer named Hammadeh Kashkeesh, whom I first met 32 years ago. First, try to imagine the landscape, and […]
World Muslim Leader Condemns Violence and Warfare in Muslim Countries
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad prays for peace and an end to atrocities The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, lamented the “pitiful […]
I left the US because of their hatred towards Muslims… this is my story
ET: I was born in 1982, in the beautiful American city of San Jose, California. A proud patriotic Muslim American, my dad would decorate our house with lights every Fourth of July. Fast forward to the year 2001, when I got admitted to one of America’s top medical schools – the Harvard […]
County’s first domed mosque set to open: Nasir Mosque Gillingham Kent
Kentnews: THERE are dozens of mosques well established in the county, but for the first time the traditional dome and minaret familiar with the building will pierce the county’s skyline. […]
A White Trail: How not to run an Ideological State!!
http://odysseuslahori.blogspot.co.uk: If we did not know that the lives of minorities are under immense threat in Pakistan, Haroon Khalid’s A White Trail, gobsmacks, nay, sucker punches us with the reality. The language is unpretentious; there is no mincing of words, no melodrama, no harangue or pontification. There is page after page of […]
The limited allure of extremism
By Richard Wike, Special to CNN Editor’s note: Richard Wike is Director of Global Attitudes Research at the Pew Research Center. You can follow him @RichardWike. The views expressed are his own. The recent news from Fallujah and elsewhere in the Middle East and Africa must be pretty encouraging for al Qaeda […]
eDigest: ‘Dear Einstein, Do Scientists Pray?’ Asks Sixth Grader
Epigraph: And when My servants ask thee (Muhammad) about Me, say: ‘I am near. I answer the prayer of the supplicant when he prays to Me. So they should hearken to Me and believe in Me, that they may follow the right way.’ (Al Quran 2:187) Albert Einstein in 1921. the […]
Ohio man buried riding his 1967 Harley-Davidson motorcycle in extra-large grave
Credit: NYDailyNews.com/us Billy Standley was spectacularly laid to rest in a Mechanicsburg cemetery on Friday while seated on the back of his 1967 Electra Glide cruiser thanks to the handiwork of […]
Century of Violence: What World War I Did to the Middle East
World War I may have ended in 1918, but the violence it triggered in the Middle East still hasn’t come to an end. Arbitrary borders drawn by self-interested imperial powers […]
Hundreds swarm ancient Pakistan ruins for grand cultural gala
MOENJODARO, Pakistan: Hundreds of people swarmed the ancient ruined city of Saturday to attend an inaugural festival commemorating Pakistan’s cultural heritage, days after experts warned the event endangered the UNESCO […]
Al-Qaeda fighters in Syria kill rival rebel leader
BEIRUT: Al-Qaeda fighters killed the leader of a rival Islamic brigade in a twin car bombing near Syria’s northern city of Aleppo, an attack likely to further exacerbate rebel infighting […]
Women Hold up Half the Sky
Additional Reading Gender Equality in the Holy Qur’an – In the Beginning Man and Woman Were Equal Cherie Blair: ‘Muslim Women: Slow But Steady Progress’
Vaughan’s Ahmadiyya Muslim youth raise $60K for Typhoon Haiyan victims
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Canadian Orlando Franklin playing at Superbowl
Starting role on Denver Broncos offensive line long way from troubled childhood in Toronto suburbs. Jim Rogash / GETTY IMAGES FILE Less than eight years after Broncos tackle Orlando Franklin signed his contract with his mother — “I, Orlando Franklin, promise . . .” — he agreed to a four-year, […]
why E is an important letter in E language
E” is the most Eminent letter of the alphabet. > Men or Women don’t exist without “E”. > House or Home can’t be made without “E”. > Bread or Butter can’t be found without “E”. > “E” is the beginning of “existence” and the end of “trouble.” > It’s not […]
Op-Ed: The convert’s path
How did Damian Clairmont become Mustafa al-Gharib? Source: Ottawa Citizen: Clairmont came from an Acadian family living in Calgary. News sources showed that he went from an up-and-coming athlete to […]
Study: Solar system full of ‘rogue’ asteroids
(CNN) — If you want to find an asteroid, the region between Mars and Jupiter is a great place to look. That area where asteroids hang out is called the […]
‘Dear Einstein, Do Scientists Pray?’ Asks Sixth Grader
Source: The Huffington Post “Do scientists pray?” That’s the question that occupied the thoughts of a sixth-grade Sunday school class at The Riverside Church, and who better to pose it […]