Epigraph: Do they seek a religion other than Allah’s, while to Him submits whosoever is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, and to Him shall they be returned? (Al Quran 3:84) Lead article today written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times […]
ART The Wonders of the Islamic Worlds of Art and Science, Illuminated Laura Leon/Associated Press The illustrated ‘‘Kitab suwar al-kawakib al-thabita’’ (Treatise on the fixed stars) was produced in 1010. By RAPHAEL MINDER Published: November 7, 2013 SEVILLE, Spain — Four years ago, when the curator Sabiha Al Khemir started preparing […]
Washington Post: PARIS — American influence in culture, science and education around the world took a high-profile blow Friday after the U.S. automatically lost voting rights at UNESCO, after missing a crucial deadline to repay its debt to the world’s cultural agency. The U.S. hasn’t paid its dues to […]
Source: Spiegel: Thilo Rothacker/ DER SPIEGEL Turks make up Germany’s largest ethnic minority, and SPIEGEL reporter Özlem Gezer grew up in the port city of Hamburg as a part of this community. She describes herself as a “model immigrant,” but explains how Germans have made her feel she could never be one […]
COPENHAGEN – Yahya Hassan was about 10 years old when cartoonistKurt Westergaardattracted passionate criticism from Muslims world-wide with his cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb as his turban. It ran […]
Washignton Post: DALLAS September 29, 2013 – In a lecture entitled “Human Dignity and the Constitution” at Alparslan University, Turkish Chief Justice Haşim Kılıç touched on the violence being perpetrated in […]
Source: Spiegel: The German government refuses to grant Edward Snowden political asylum, with authorities instead seeking to establish contact with him in Moscow. The strategy is unlikely to benefit either side. More:
Huff Post: A U.S. federal appeals court right now is considering whether for-profit businesses can be exempted from a contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act — a mandate that is tantamount to a “war on Christianity” by the Obama administration, according to at least one elected official. A Christian […]
Source: Spiegel: The Southeast Asian island nation of Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim population, which practices an open-minded, gentle version of Islam in urban areas. But elsewhere Islamists are […]
Source: CNN Pope Francis, pausing for a moment to pray and lay his hands on a man with a disfiguring disease. The man gently burying his head in the Pope’s chest, his many facial tumors visible. His encounter with the ailing man occurred in Vatican City on Wednesday at the […]
Source: CNN.Com But while many airlines have been slimming down their seats over the last few decades, we’ve been bulking up. According to the World Health Organization the global prevalence of obesity has doubled since 1980. “Seats are getting smaller and smaller as airlines look to squeeze revenue from their […]
ROBERT FISK Thursday 7 November 2013 THE INDEPENDENT On the briefest of visits to London, I was appalled to notice that our television presenters and politicians and dignitaries have almost all resorted to stereotype by wearing those bloody poppies again – even though I suspect most of them would not […]
STORY SUMMARY by By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star I was struck a few days ago when I read U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s statement in Riyadh, after talks with the Saudi Arabian leadership, that the U.S. had neither “the legal authority nor desire” to intervene in Syria. […]
GHAITH SHENNIB AND ULF LAESSING | REUTERS Published — Friday 8 November 2013 ARABNEWS TRIPOLI: Anti-aircraft gunfire and grenade blasts erupted in several parts of Tripoli late on Thursday, the […]
FAROUK LUQMAN ARABNEWS It is a five-and-a-half hours flight from Jeddah to Casablanca, the largest city of Morocco — one of the most beautiful countries in the world and the […]
November 8, 2013 – 07:06 By Saud Mehsud DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) – The Pakistani Taliban announced on Friday they would orchestrate a wave of revenge attacks against the government after naming hardline commander Mullah Fazlullah as their new leader. The rise of Fazlullah, known for his fierce Islamist […]
The weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) issue has been the excuse of choice for the US administrations in order to threaten some countries, such as Syria or Iran, or invade others, such as Iraq. The common point of all these allegations is their falsehood. Nowadays, everybody knows that Iraq did […]
By Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel 9:28 pm, November 7, 2013 As a little girl, Johanna Neumann witnessed the brutality of the Nazis and the kindness of a group whose role was less known in the Holocaust: Albanian Muslims. Neumann’s family fled to Albania after Kristallnacht, a series of attacks in […]
(AFP) – 16 hours ago Strasbourg — Civil unions should not be reserved for heterosexual couples, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday, condemning Greece for creating a “life partner” legal category that excludes gays. Judges in Strasbourg said that authorities in Orthodox Christian Greece had not offered […]