BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT Why do we want to commemorate the centenary of the Great War? Because it marked the destruction of the “flower of English manhood”? An odd thought, since it also marked the crushing of the “flower” of French and German manhood. The war’s ultimate tragedy, of […]
BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT I first met Fatima Khan in the Syrian embassy in Beirut early this year. She was pleading for a visa so that she and her daughter Sara could visit Damascus and seek news of her missing son. I knew nothing of Abbas Khan, but – […]
TEL AVIV — Chanting slogans and calling for freedom, some 200 African migrants and Israeli activists ended a two-day march with a rally on Tuesday denouncing Israel’s policy of detaining those illegally in the country. The symbolic march began Sunday when about 150 migrants left an “open” detention facility in […]
JEDDAH: MD AL-SULAMI ARABNEWS A terror suspect who issued fatwas supporting subversive activities was jailed for 15 years on Monday after a court rejected his appeal against his sentence. Sulaiman Al-Alwan, nicknamed the “Al-Qaeda Mufti,” will only have to serve six years because he had already spent nine years in […]
JEDDAH: NADIM AL-HAMID & IRFAN MOHAMMED ARABNEWS Published — Wednesday 18 December 2013 The government has issued 211,000 Umrah visas for the new season so far, while about 12,000 pilgrims […]
by Dr Aslam Abdullah Source: islamicity.com By: Dr Aslam Abdullah Source: http://www.islamicity.com/ Living together before marriage is generally accepted as a normal practice in the USA and Europe. Pre-marital sex in American and European societies has become the norm. Though adultery is illegal in 23 U.S. states, no one has […]
Paris – A new website for Muslim travellers which includes a global directory of halal restaurants and dedicated city guides launched on Wednesday in a bid to capitalise on the growing number of Islamic tourists. Specialist Singapore-based firm Crescentrating said the site, which is called HalalTrip.com, offers a wide range […]
Epigraph: ‘And peace was on me (Jesus) the day I was born, and peace there will be on me the day I shall die, and the day I shall be […]
Source: BBC India has ordered a series of reprisals against the United States amid a worsening row over the arrest of one of its diplomats in New York. Security barricades […]
LiveScience | By Charles Q. Choi My source: The Huffington Post The discovery of a 1.4-million-year-old hand-bone fossil reveals that the modern human ability to make and use complex tools […]
by Omar Obeidat | Dec 16, 2013 | 20:02 JORDAN TIMES AMMAN –– International media showed interest in the news of His Majesty King Abdullah pushing a car stuck in […]
OnIslam & Newspapers Monday, 16 December 2013 00:00 CAIRO – A leading Maltese politician and convert to Islam has expressed his intentions to run for a seat in the European […]
FARS NEWS AGENCY TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of Iran-Iraq Parliamentary Friendship Group Nasser Soudani underlined that the Zionist regime of Israel is the common enemy of all Muslims, including Shiites and […]
Ifthekar Jaman left his home in Portsmouth to fight for Al Qaeda in Syria Details have not revealed exactly how the 23-year-old died Jaman boasted on BBC’s Newsnight he was […]
December 15, 2013 – 20:01 Foreigners seeking long-term residency in Switzerland could be issued with a so-called language passport as part of the approval process if new legislation on integration […]
By Tarek Fatah Here is only a partial list of businesses and corporations owned by or affiliated with the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. Their revenues go into billions of Takas and they employ tens of thousands of workers and students. Many who support the JI in BD are armed and operate as […]
By Tarek Fatah Here is only a partial list of businesses and corporations owned by or affiliated with the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. Their revenues go into billions of Takas and they employ tens of thousands of workers and students. Many who support the JI in BD are armed and operate as […]
Epigraph: And thou shalt assuredly find those who say, ‘We are Christians,’ to be the nearest of them in love to the believers. That is because amongst them are savants and monks and because they are not proud. (Al Quran 5:83) Lead article collected by Salma Javid Khan, India […]
British doctor, 72, is beaten up by his patients and jailed in Pakistan for ‘posing as a Muslim’ after they film him reading the Koran Masood Ahmad was beaten up by two men pretending to be patients The 72-year-old is now in a Lahore jail, accused of ‘posing as a […]
Source: BBC A US judge has ruled the National Security Agency’s mass collection of telephone data may be unconstitutional. Federal District Judge Richard Leon said the electronic spy agency’s practice […]