Why Won’t the West Defend Middle Eastern Christians?
by Diarmaid MacCulloch Oct 27, 2013 5:45 AM EDT Why has the suffering of the Middle Eastern Christian communities not ignited outrage and support from Western Christians? The answer has […]
Marvel Introduces Muslim Teen Superhero, Destroys Bad Guys And Stereotypes
Marvel Comics is bringing back Ms. Marvel as Kamala Khan, the 16-year-old daughter of Pakistani immigrants living in Jersey City, and the first-ever Muslim title character from Marvel Comics. Khan, […]
Thousands of British Muslims Honour the Fallen
PRNewswire — LONDON, November 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — More than ten thousand Ahmadi Muslims will this week stand united with the country in remembering the brave members of the Armed Forces who sacrificed their lives for Great Britain. Thousands of worshippers will congregate at Mosques across the country, including the UK’s largest Mosque […]
Huawei has eye on 5G
Source: China Daily By SHEN JINGTING (China Daily) Chinese telecom equipment vendor Huawei Technologies Co Ltd announced on Wednesday that it will invest at least $600 million in research and development of fifth-generation mobile technology by 2018. Huawei’s move is part of a global trend that involves major telecom companies […]
Yasser Arafat ‘may have been poisoned with polonium’
Source: BBC The late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat may have been poisoned with radioactive polonium, says a Swiss forensic report obtained by al-Jazeera. Arafat’s official medical records say he died in 2004 from a stroke resulting from a blood disorder. But his body was exhumed last year amid continuing claims […]
GLOBAL ISLAMIC LEADER ARRIVES IN JAPAN
Source: press@amjinternational.org. The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, arrived safely in Japan on 5 November 2013. His Holiness flew into Tokyo Narita International Airport from Auckland, New Zealand and arrived at 5pm local time. Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad spent his first […]
Killing Arafat – Swiss study: Polonium found in Arafat’s bones Scientists find at least 18 times the normal levels of radioactive element in late Palestinian leader’s remains.
Paris, France – Swiss scientists who conducted tests on samples taken from Yasser Arafat’s body have found at least 18 times the normal levels of radioactive polonium in his remains. The scientists said that they were confident up to an 83 percent level that the late Palestinian leader was poisoned […]
A Large Number of Asians and Africans want Bible Law or the Shariah Law
Create Your Own Visualization on the site, linked here Sources: The World’s Muslims: Unity and Diversity, Tolerance and Tension: Islam and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa Question Wording: And do you favor or oppose the following? [ASK IF CHRISTIAN:] Making the Bible the official law of the land in our country? […]
In the lucky country of Australia apartheid is alive and kicking
Source: Guardian UK Aboriginal elders playing cards in their camp near Alice Springs. ‘A typical, dilapidated house in an outback Indigenous community must accommodate as many as 25 people. Families, the elderly and disabled people wait years for sanitation that works.’ Photograph: Anoek De Groot/AFP/Getty Images The corridors of the […]
eDigest: US Supreme Court to Revisit Public Prayer
Epigraph: Say, ‘O People of the Book! come to a word equal between us and you — that we worship none but Allah, and that we associate no partner with Him, and that some of us take not others for Lords beside Allah.’ But if they turn away, then say, […]
Guiding Jewish/Muslim Relations Through the Life of a Jewish Scholar
The Huffington Post: Despite the current state of tension that exists between them, Muslims and Jews have a long history of tolerance and mutual admiration. Perhaps this is no more […]
Poland must respect religious freedom, Polish president told on visit to Israel
The issue of kosher slaughter in Poland ‘’is currently being examined by the constitutional court,” ………… “I hope the verdict will protect religious rights, so that no one in our […]
The Future of the Global Muslim Population
View Data on more than 200 countries: by clicking here The world’s Muslim population is expected to increase by about 35% in the next 20 years, rising from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.2 billion by 2030, according to new population projections by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & […]
First Computer Was Built 240 Years Ago
Collosal — This Programmable 6,000-Part Drawing Boy Automata is Arguably the First Computer and It Was Built 240 Years Ago Designed in the late 1770s this incredible little robot called simply The Writer, was designed and built by Swiss-born watchmaker Pierre Jaquet-Droz with help from his son Henri-Louis, and Jean-Frédéric Leschot. Jaquet-Droz was […]
‘Bin Laden has won, they confiscated my honey’: Outspoken academic Richard Dawkins in airline security Twitter row over jar of honey. – Academic wrote: ‘Bin Laden has won, in airports of the world every day
World famous English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and unrelenting critic of religion and the religious, Richard Dawkins, has turned his anger on airport security rules after he had a jar of […]
Is The Hague making a mockery of justice so the CIA and MI6 can save face?
Robert Fisk investigates an alleged double standard over two prominent Libyans accused of crimes against humanity There’s a spot of skulduggery going on in the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague. Not to put too fine a point upon it, a lot of questions are being asked about why […]
Muslims remember Imam Hussain with promotional campaign
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 – The American Muslim by Rahat Husain WASHINGTON, November 5, 2013 — An international campaign is garnering attention with an effort centered around the slogan “Who […]
CNN Exclusive: Inside Syrian town living under al Qaeda reign of fear
CNN: by Nick Paton Walsh, Raja Razek, Gul Tuysuz – Gaziantep, Turkey (CNN) — Raqqa was, a matter of months ago, one of Syria’s most liberal cities. Now locals call it Tora Bora. They say it’s as if the Taliban of Afghanistan have taken over. After months of bombardment by the […]
Israel orders more demolitions of Palestinian flats in Jerusalem
Move to demolish hundreds of Arab apartments ‘destroying every chance of peace’, says Fatah Ben Lynfield Jerusalem Israel is planning to destroy hundreds of Palestinian apartments in occupied East Jerusalem […]
Saudis round up thousands of illegal immigrants
Reuters | 06-Nov-2013 08:34 AM Dubai: Saudi authorities rounded up thousands of illegal foreign workers at the start of a nationwide crackdown ultimately aimed at creating more jobs for locals, media reported on Tuesday. Hundreds of thousands of workers have already left the kingdom following a grace period of seven […]