And for the first time in 53 years?
Source: Fiji Times: And for the first time in 53 years, members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Fiji were humbled to receive State representative President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau. More:
61% of Pakistanis say women should dress as they wish:
Source: ET The questions in the online poll were based on a survey by University of Michigan. Earlier this month, University of Michigan’s Population Studies Center had published the results of a survey in which it had asked respondents from seven Muslim countries to identify an ‘appropriate’ dress for women […]
Atheist Afghan granted religious asylum in UK
Source: BBC An Afghan citizen has been granted asylum in the UK for religious reasons – because he is an atheist. The man fled to the UK from a conflict involving his family in Afghanistan in 2007, aged 16, and was allowed to stay in the UK until 2013. He […]
Bangladesh’s Radical Islamists Get U.S. Backing
The Daily Beast: by Kapil Komireddi — In 1971, the U.S. abetted a genocide in Bangladesh—and it’s now siding with the radical Islamist culprits, who are fomenting the country’s latest political crisis. In 1971, the United States abetted a genocide in what is today Bangladesh. President Richard Nixon and his Secretary of […]
Saudi Arabia to raze Prophet Mohammed’s tomb to build larger mosque
WORLD OBSERVER: JANUARY 13, 2014 The key Islamic heritage site, including Prophet Mohammed’s shrine, is to be bulldozed, as Saudi Arabia plans a $ 6 billion expansion of Medina’s holy Masjid an-Nabawi Mosque. However, Muslims remain silent on the possible destruction. Work on the Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina, is planned to […]
U.S. profits could bounce in 2014 if economy gains steam
(Reuters) – A more robust U.S. economy could lift 2014 profits and boost corporate spending, giving some comfort to investors worried about bloated stock prices. Faster economic growth should translate into better sales growth for the Standard & Poor’s 500 index, and that has investors watching the coming fourth-quarter earnings […]
‘Am I guilty?’ AK-47 maker’s near-death torment
RT: In the last years of his life, Mikhail Kalashnikov, the famous Russian weapon designer, anguished over his responsibility for the millions of deaths his inventions caused, his published letter […]
eDigest: 5 Muslim Inventions That Changed The World
Epigraph: You are the best people raised for the good of mankind; you enjoin what is good and forbid evil and believe in Allah. And if the People of the Book had believed, it would have surely been better for them. Some of them are believers, but most of them […]
Getting Older
Subject: GETTING OLDER A distraught senior citizen phoned her doctor’s office. “Is it true,” she wanted to know, “that the medication you prescribed has to be taken for the rest of my life?” “‘Yes, I’m afraid so,”‘ the doctor told her. There was a moment of silence before the senior […]
Orya Maqbool Jan’s attack on Jinnah
Daily Times: Jinnah’s idea of Islam was of social justice and equality and never of narrow-minded interpretations by the orthodoxy Yasser Latif Hamdani January 13, 2014 Comment Famous civil-servant columnist Orya Maqbool Jan continues to claim — like a broken record — in column after column that Jinnah’s August 11 […]
Caffeine pill ‘could boost memory’
Source: BBC A US study has raised the possibility that we may one day rely on caffeine to boost memory as well as to wake up. The research, published in Nature Neuroscience, tested the memories of 160 people over 24 hours. It found those who took caffeine tablets, rather than dummy pills, […]
Up to 24 injured in school blast
Inquirer.net: by Edwin Fernandez, Williamor Magbanua — KIDAPAWAN CITY, North Cotabato – Twenty-four persons were wounded, 17 of them in critical condition, when an improvised explosive device went off inside a state-run college in Arakan, North Cotabato on Sunday night. Senior Inspector Rolly Oranza, police chief of Arakan, said the […]
French first lady in hospital after reports of Hollande affair
Source: Reuters: * Media say Trierweiler shaken by news of Hollande affair * Elysee source says “the president is at work” * Poll shows French public care little about the […]
Everything was political
Source: The Economist: ALWAYS keep an eye on the quiet ones. Robert Gates, a Washington veteran who served as George W. Bush’s final defence secretary and stayed on as Barack Obama’s first, has written an incendiary memoir that belies his reputation as an inscrutable, unflappable team player (Team Obama […]
Religion on campus
Source: The Economist: Theology is losing ground in higher education across western Europe. But in certain specific ways, religion and religious culture have become a very hot campus topic, at British universities in particular. We’re not talking here about religion as a subject for academic study, but about faith as […]
Switzerland: University courses : English a fact of life for many Swiss students
by Geraldine Wong Sak Hoi, swissinfo.ch January 12, 2014 – 11:00 More than ever before, students attending universities in Switzerland are able to do some or all of their degree […]
President acknowledges contribution of Muslim community
The President of Fiji Ratu Epeli Nailatikau has acknowledged the contribution of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Association to the country. During his keynote address of the Prophet Muhammad’s Celebration in Samabula, Ratu Epeli said the hard work of the members has seen them over the years establish several primary and […]
Putin’s preening aside, it’s not clear what Russia hopes to become
January 13, 2014 12:48 AM By Nina L. Khrushcheva The Daily Star Story Summary For more than two decades, August has been the cruelest month for Russian leaders. The August 1998 debt default and ruble collapse laid waste to President Boris Yeltsin’s free market reforms and resulted in the sacking […]
Only Obama can fix a broken U.S. foreign policy process
Story Summary January 13, 2014 12:48 AM By David Ignatius The Daily Star Reading the devastating memoir by former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, people are likely to ask the same troubling questions that emerge from the morning newspapers these days: How did the Obama administration’s foreign-policy process get so broken, […]