RIYADH: ABDUL HANNAN TAGO Published — Monday 11 November 2013 ARABNEWS Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz has announced that Arab Gulf Program for Development (AGFUND) would donate $100,000 in relief to the victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the central Philippines. The donation is the first from the Gulf to one […]
Source: Asia Times: Not suicide, but a mercy killing,” Daniel Somers wrote of his own death. It’s a statement at once piercingly sad and honest. War is an industry that makes humans its raw material, a public policy choice that ends lives and destroys the living. Ann Jones cuts past […]
Source: LUBP Chief teray jaan-nisar, Khudkush bambaar (O Chief Justice, Deobandi suicide bombers of TTP-ASWJ are there to sacrifice lives for you) Reading daily Jang everyday is a habit one can’t get rid of. Not because of the news covered in it but because reading it tells one how Pakistan […]
Source: LUBP On the eve of Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif’s visit to the White House last month, the New York Times published an op-ed piece, “An incomplete democracy”, by Michael Kugelman, a senior program associate for South Asia at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars. The entire Pakistani media […]
Source: Conservative Papers: It must be noted that in Traditional Shia Islamic Religion and Culture that ” All Husseins are Shia “, and Barack Hussein Obama by de facto of his Birthright Name must be a Shia Muslim, which would shed light on his Pandering and Appeasement of the Shia Iranian/ Hezbollah and […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — Two people were killed and 68 others injured in clashes between police and foreign workers following a visa crackdown in Saudi Arabia, the official news agency reported. Police arrested 561 people Saturday in the capital of Riyadh, according to the Saudi Press Agency. More:
Source: The Economist: BRITAIN IN 2003: the country hugs America tight as both prepare to go to war in Iraq. Though many of its continental neighbours disapprove of that adventure, Britain is nonetheless close to “the heart of Europe”, in the confident phrase of its internationalist prime minister, Tony Blair. […]
Source: The Economist THE swaggering leader of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP or, loosely, the Pakistani Taliban) Hakimullah Mehsud, met a violent end at his lavish home in Pakistan’s remote northern tribal areas on November 1st. Just like his predecessor and clansman, Baitullah Mehsud, he died in a missile strike from an […]
To all participants of the IREF Summit, we are happy to announce a special focus session scheduled for the morning of the 21st of November on Insurance, its importance to real estate transactions and innovative developments for the Islamic Finance real estate markets. All too often, insurance for all levels […]
Buy the book at Amazon US or UK. “Extravagantly denounced and praised.” New York Times “Perhaps books combining passion and erudition don’t change political situations, but if they did, this […]
AZRAQ — Hundreds of Syrians fled to Jordan on Saturday as officials warned that an ongoing lack of funds is causing delays to the opening of the country’s third Syrian […]
GENEVA: Talks on curbing Iran’s nuclear program ended with no deal early Sunday after France objected that proposed measures didn’t go far enough. US Secretary of State John Kerry said “significant progress” had been made on the remaining differences. Six world powers and Iran agreed to resume talks on November […]
MADINAH: ARAB NEWS Published — Sunday 10 November 2013 More than 1.44 million Haj pilgrims visited Madinah this year, recent statistics have revealed. Hani Jamaan Al-Husseini, head of the statistical reports unit at the Guides Organization in Madinah, said 755,920 pilgrims visited the city before the Haj and 482,124 after […]
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Islam Answers: Reconciling Human Suffering and Existence of God This is modified form of a speech given at an interfaith symposium in Buffalo, NY, on June 10, 2013 to some 50-70 non-Muslim guests. By Ataul Wahid Lahaye, Canada As a Muslim, we recite… The Ever Present Question of Suffering Epigraph: And when My servants […]
From embracing Islam to attending Catholic masses and plans for a “multi-faith” coronation, Prince Charles’s religious beliefs are wide-ranging When he ascends the throne, the Prince of Wales insists he should be cast not as Defender of the Faith, the title held by each monarch since 1521, but as “Defender […]
This is modified form of a speech given at an interfaith symposium in Buffalo, NY, on June 10, 2013 to some 50-70 non-Muslim guests. By Ataul Wahid Lahaye, Canada As a Muslim, we recite […]