General Musharaf and Pakistan
By Munir Varraich, Sweden Let us not forget that it was a secular minded soldier President who took a bold decision after 9/11 and tried to put the Pakistani Mindset on the […]
Unemployed in Europe Stymied by Lack of Technology Skills
DUBLIN — Week after week, newspapers issue a stream of hopeful headlines: Microsoft, PayPal, Fujitsu and scores of other companies are expanding their investments in Ireland, creating thousands of jobs as unemployment hovers near record highs. There is just one hitch: Not enough people are qualified to fill all the […]
eDigest: Biblical Verses for the Week: John 17
Biblical Verses for the Week: John 17 Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD After Jesus said the following, he looked toward heaven and prayed: Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son… Auckland, New Zealand: Reception in honor of Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad A […]
Leading Scholar of Science and Religion Passes Away
Huff Post: by Karl Giberson — Ian Barbour, who almost single-handedly founded the scholarly study of science and religion, died over Christmas. He was 90 years old, and for the last half-century he towered over the developing field of science and religion. Prior to Barbour’s work the interaction of science […]
People who are religious or spiritual have ‘thicker’ brains which could protect them against depression
Mailonline: Our beliefs and our moods are reflected in our brain and with new imaging techniques we can begin to see this,’ Dr Myrna Weissman, a professor of psychiatry and epidemiology at Columbia University, told Reuters Health. ‘The brain is an extraordinary organ. It not only controls, but is controlled […]
In the name of… Allah?
ON a freezing afternoon on January 4, 2011, in the subdued hum of post-lunch traffic in a quiet Islamabad neighbourhood, 27 bullets rang loud, clear, chilling. The 66-year-old then Governor of Punjab, Salmaan Taseer’s smile froze on his face as his 26-year-old Elite Police guard Mumtaz Qadri emptied his gun […]
Addressing the subject of women in Islam
The Creator addresses women as being on an equal footing with men, their status as beings and believers is the same as men’s and the requirements of worship are absolutely […]
“Enduring Lessons from Imam al-Ghazali” by Monir Birouk
“All opinions are that of the author and not necessarily those of the website that it is published under.” Even today as we wade our way through the second decade of the twenty first century, there is still much we can learn from the staggering account of Abū Hamid al-Ghazali’s […]
The London Review of Books has a problem with Palestinians too
Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Thu, 01/02/2014 – 13:09 Last month, Rania Khalek wrote a piece for The Electronic Intifada asking, “Does The Nation have a problem with Palestinians?” Khalek demonstrated that the venerable American leftist magazine “habitually reinforces Israeli apartheid by privileging Jewish voices over Palestinian ones” in its […]
Chinese helicopter saves 52 in Antarctica
Source: China Daily All 52 passengers stranded on the Russian research ship Akademik Shokalskiy in Antarctica for nine days were rescued by a Chinese helicopter on Thursday. The helicopter from […]
Qatar, Morocco sign aid deal worth $1.25bn
RABAT: Qatar and Morocco have signed an aid deal worth $1.25bn, part of a five-year package of financial assistance extended by Gulf states to the North African kingdom to help it weather ‘Arab Spring’ protests. The aid is very welcome to King Mohamed — who signed the accord late on […]
Pakistan: Gunmen kill senior Sunni activists
ISLAMABAD: Gunmen killed two senior members of a hardline Sunni Muslim group in a rare attack in the Pakistani capital yesterday, officials said, after weeks of sectarian tensions in the country. The secretary-general of the Islamabad chapter of the Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) organisation, , and his colleague Qari Asad […]
First female Muslim police officer in Queen’s honours
Detective Constable Nikki Hubbard appointed MBE in New Year Honours list A Guildford woman has become the first female Muslim police officer to be included in the Queen’s honours. Nikki Hubbard, a detective constable with the Metropolitan Police in Westminster, was appointed MBE for her services to charity in the […]
UK: Muslim informants and agents lauded for anti terrorist efforts
By: Trevor Grundy Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ CANTERBURY, England — Britain’s domestic secret service — M15 — works hand in hand with informants who sometimes monitor sermons in mosques and tell the police about suspicious members. The former head of M15, Eliza Manningham-Buller, told the BBC there were many such Muslim agents […]
Ms Marvel: send for the Muslim supergirl!
G Willow Wilson explains why she has created a Muslim superhero, and why Kamala Khan is not a poster girl for religion Emine Saner The Guardian A classic superhero story with added tension … the cast of Ms Marvel. Photograph: Adrian Alphona In many ways, says the writer G Willow […]
83 percent German consider Islam does discrimination against women?
Source. Danielpipes.org Germany, as reported by the Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach in November 2012: 56 percent: striving for political influence 60 percent: revenge and retaliation 64 percent: violence 68 percent: intolerance toward other faiths 70 percent: fanaticism and radicalism 83 percent: discrimination against women. More: Additional Reading Book Review: Islam Without Extremes […]
President Gus Dur’s Islamic indigenization vs radicalism
The Jakarta Post: One of the central ideas proposed by Abdurrahman “Gus Dur” Wahid in the context of the cultural Islamic movement in Indonesia is what is referred to as […]
eDigest: Book Review: Islam Without Extremes by Mustafa Akyol
Epigraph: There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by those who transgress, and believes in Allah, has surely grasped a strong handle which knows no breaking. And Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (Al Quran 2:257) The Blue Mosque […]