Did Noah Take Kangaroos with Him in the Ark?
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Imam converts to Christianity, father holds knife to him and threatens to kill him, builds gravestone for him in Muslim cemetery
Source: Jihad Watch Mario Joseph was born in an ordinary Muslim Indian family. His father prepared him—the third among six brothers—as a spiritual leader: thus, aged 10, Mario entered a Koranic school, and when he returned from it at the age of 18, he became an Imam-khatib in a local […]
Israel said to be working with Saudi Arabia on Iran strike plan
Riyadh reported to give Jerusalem okay to use Saudi airspace and to cooperate on other tactical support, according to Sunday Times israel is working on coordinating plans for a possible military strike with Saudi Arabia, with Riyadh prepared to provide tactical support to Jerusalem, a British newspaper reported early Sunday. […]
Glitzy Dubai eyes profit in setting Islamic standards
By Bernardo Vizcaino and Mirna Sleiman DUBAI (Reuters) – From cosmetics to accommodation, travel to toothpaste, complying with religious principles is becoming big business in the Muslim world, and Dubai, […]
Mullah and military
by Babar Sattar, DAWN GETTING mad at Munawar Hasan for attempting to subvert the resolve of our soldiers to fight the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan by challenging the moral legitimacy of their mission is one thing. Learning lessons from the Jamaat-i-Islami’s hostile response to Hakeemullah’s death and taking corrective action is quite […]
The Stream: AlJazeera: Bridging the Jewish-Muslim divide
Wednesday, November 20 at 7:30pm ET: Israel and Palestine. Misinterpretations of holy scriptures. These are two of the overarching issues Rabbi Marc Schneier and Imam Shamsi Ali believe drive a wedge between Jewish and Muslim communities. The authors of ‘Sons of Abraham’ join us to talk about what unites and […]
Pakistanis pushing back against killing in God’s name
By Michael Kugleman Thursday, November 14, 2013 Hope. It’s certainly not the first word that comes to mind when contemplating present-day Pakistan. This is, after all, a nation convulsed by […]
A Sunni Muslim Scholar Acknowledging Ahmadiyya Publications
By Ansar Raza Missionary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at, Canada Syed Suleman Nadvi, an eminent non-Ahmadi Muslim scholar was the editor of a monthly magazine “Al-Ma`araf.” In its May 1932 issue an article titled: اسلامی دنیا کے اخبار و رسائل Islami Dunya key Akhbar-o-Rasa`el” (Newspapers and Magazines of Islamic world), was published written by […]
Stone-Tipped Spears Were In Use 85,000 Years Before Modern Humans Appeared, Scientists Say
Source: Huffington Post Our early ancestors may have been cleverer than we once thought. An international team of researchers said last week they had found evidence that sophisticated weapons once thought to be unique to early humans were in use tens of thousands of years before Homo sapiens first walked […]
Endless Afghanistan? US-Afghan agreement would keep troops in place and funds flowing, perhaps indefinitely
By Richard Engel, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent KABUL – While many Americans have been led to believe the war in Afghanistan will soon be over, a draft of a […]
Bosnian court releases Serbs convicted of genocide over procedural mistakes during trial
By AIDA CERKEZ Associated Press November 19, 2013 – 11:38 am EST SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — A Bosnian court on Tuesday released 10 Bosnian Serb war crimes convicts, including six jailed […]
Lew says big budget deal unlikely without revenues
(Reuters) – The Obama administration said on Tuesday that budget negotiators in Congress would probably fail to strike a far-reaching deal unless Republicans agree to raise revenues and overhaul the tax code. A 29-member congressional committee is trying to set spending levels for the fiscal year that began last month, […]
eDigest: Letter by Sharif Odeh to President François Hollande about Hijab or Veil
President François Hollande of France Muhammad Sharif Odeh: Leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the Holy Land Source of the lead post, Abdul Ghany Jahangeer Khan: Central French Desk, United Kingdom Letter by Sharif Odeh to President François Hollande about Hijab or Veil Source: Abdul Ghany Jahangeer Khan: Central French Desk, United Kingdom […]
Arab, Muslim women athletes could break sports boundaries – Moutawakel
By Jehan Al-Shatti KUWAIT NEWS AGENCY KUWAIT, Nov 19 (KUNA) — Arab and Muslim women have the strength and determination to break boundaries within sports, said the Vice President of […]
Letter from Tangier – Stratfor Geopolitical Weekly
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2013 Stratfor By Reva Bhalla Morocco rarely figures into international news headlines these days, something of a virtue in this restive part of the world. The term Maghreb, which translates as “land of the setting sun,” eventually came to denote a stretch of land starting in the […]
U.S. spy agencies mounted 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, documents show
By Barton Gellman and Ellen Nakashima, Published: August 31 washington Post U.S. intelligence services carried out 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, the leading edge of a clandestine campaign that embraces the Internet as a theater of spying, sabotage and war, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Washington Post. That […]
Behind the Pentagon’s doctored ledgers, a running tally of epic waste
Part 2: For two decades, the U.S. military has been unable to submit to an audit, flouting federal law and concealing waste and fraud totaling billions of dollars LETTERKENNY ARMY DEPOT, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania – Linda Woodford spent the last 15 years of her career inserting phony numbers in the U.S. […]
Islam for Humanity: Humanity First in The Philippines
By Brian Wilson (Humanity First Canada) — Monday, Nov 19, 2013 Humanity First (HF) teams from Canada, Indonesia and Philippines, conducted assessments in conjunction with the Canadian Armed Forces of […]
Dr Salam remembered
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