Sacred Geometry of Islamic Mosques
By Hwaa Irfan Friday, 22 November 2013 00:00 Cairo, Egypt The main precept of Islam is the unity and oneness of Allah and the importance of worshipping only Allah and […]
Riyadh killing Iraq democratization process: Expert
Saudi Arabia is sparing no effort to derail the process of democratization in Iraq, a Middle East expert tells Press TV in an interview. “Saudi Arabia has sought, since day one, to destabilize, discredit, [and] derail the fledgling democracy in Iraq with the ultimate goal of dismantling the entire democratic […]
The Wahhabi – Likudnik war on terror
By Pepe Escobar ASIA TIMES The double suicide bombing targeting the Iranian embassy in Beirut – with at least 23 people killed and 170 wounded – was a de facto terror attack happening on 11/19. Numerology-wise, naturally 9/11 comes to mind; and so the case of the Washington-declared war on […]
To clear tests, student offers tutor £48,000 for 16 weeks
LONDON: Some tutor somewhere is about to get lucky. A wealthy foreign student at Cambridge University is offering a private tutor £48,000 (about Rs 48 lakh) for just 16 weeks […]
Struggles of Muslim Immigrants in the USA Explored in New Anthology
Maine (PRWEB) November 22, 2013 Immigrants have played a crucial role in the historical narrative of America. The nation itself was founded by people who voyaged across the oceans in search of the proverbial American Dream, and who gave their all to realize it. Their story, the story of the […]
The 1974 ouster of the ‘heretics’: What really happened?
Source: Dawn.com By Nadeem F Paracha The sole culprit? The legacy of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, is a mixed bag of praise, platitudes and panning. Where, on […]
An Apolitical Virus: Strife Fuels Polio’s Return to Middle East
Polio is making a comeback in a decimated part of Syria, but the delicate politics of the war are making vaccination campaigns difficult. As an epidemic looms over the region, […]
The Saudis, Iran and the spreading Islamic Cold War in the Middle East
Source: worldtribune.com In 632 the Prophet Mohammad died, leaving behind a struggle between Shi’ites and Sunnis over the true line of succession. Today this rivalry is still alive and well in […]
The 1974 ouster of the ‘heretics’: What really happened? Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: The sole culprit?
Source: dawn.com The legacy of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, is a mixed bag of praise, platitudes and panning. Where, on the one hand, he is hailed as being […]
House of Commons presented study on Islamophobic attacks on Muslim women in UK
World Bulletin / News Desk A study conducted by Dr Chris Allen, a social policy lecturer at the University of Birmingham, has detailed the feelings of British Muslim women about […]
‘Manly’ jobs aren’t coming back
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The recovery needs to man up already. Women have regained all the jobs they lost during the financial crisis, but men are still lagging behind. After losing more than 6 million jobs, men have gained only about 70% of them back, according to the Bureau of Labor […]
Displaced for Seven Years , Ahmadiyah members would be given ID cards
A total of 32 families (KK ) Ahmadis in Dormitory Transito , Mataram , and eight families in hospitals Praya , Central Lombok , will soon get legal residence . […]
Women Bishops for Church of England Proposals Approved
The Huffington Post: The Church of England’s governing body has approved new proposals that would allow women bishops to be ordained by this time next year. Meeting in London on […]
The role of asylum seekers in Germany in the secret war
by Mohammed Saboor Nadeem 21. November 2013 The German newspaper “Süddeutsche” and also the German television news service “Tagesschau” reported in detail how US intelligence services used interviews-protocols of asylum seekers in Germany e.g. to plan US-drone-attacks. A former Pentagon-official reported, that all these informations are recorded in the so […]
Turkey: How Conscription Reform Will Change the Military
Summary A large, conscripted military may no longer be the most appropriate way for Turkey to protect its interests and defend against external threats. Ankara appears to have acknowledged as […]
eDigest: The Queen is to appoint aristocrat who converted to Islam as her High Sheriff
Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states, known as the Commonwealth realms, and their territories and dependencies, and head of the 53-member Commonwealth of Nations. She is Supreme Governor of the Church of England and, in some of […]
A tribute to Dr Abdus Salam — Syeda Sultana Rizvi
Daily Times: COMMENT : A tribute to Dr Abdus Salam — Syeda Sultana Rizvi Salam preferred to retain his Pakistani nationality and green passport over the knighthood that was offered to him On November 21, 1996, with the death of Dr Abdus Salam, not only did we lose Pakistan’s only Nobel […]
Switzerland: KICKING OUT CRIMINALS: Deportation initiative raises more legal questions
swissinfo.ch and agencies November 20, 2013 – 16:37 Cabinet has urged parliament to strike a clause in an initiative calling for the automatic deportation of foreigners found guilty of a […]
A book helps us navigate the Syria mess
November 20, 2013 12:11 AM By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star SUMMARY Four simultaneous trends seem to define the war in Syria these days, which only becomes more complicated and difficult to resolve with every passing week. Every aspect of Syria today is frightening and tragic but also consequential […]