Canadian government scientists can’t speak freely because of meddling: Survey An Environics survey suggests 86 per cent of scientists feel they could not speak out against dangerous departmental decisions without retaliation. Bruce Campion-Smith / Toronto Star Oct. 22, 2013 OTTAWA—Political meddling is compromising the federal government’s ability to craft fact-based […]
Lead post today collected by Dr. Abdul Alim, Philippines A Secular Constitution for a Pluralist People – Atheist Ireland Submission to Constitutional Convention By MICHAEL NUGENT on OCTOBER 18, 2013 Atheist Ireland has today made this submission to the Constitutional Convention. 1. Executive Summary 1.1 Atheist Ireland is an advocacy […]
Source: Huff Post ZK A man with a hatred of “non-whites” has admitted murdering a grandfather who was on his way home from a mosque. Ukranian student Pavlo Lapshyn also plotted a series of nail bomb attacks near mosques in the West Midlands. The self-confessed racist had only just arrived […]
Soruce: Arab News: KUWAIT CITY: Gulf countries and Egypt have applauded the Kingdom’s decision to reject a UN Security Council seat in protest at the world body’s failure to act on issues like Syria and Palestine. Saudi Arabia turned down a coveted two-year term on the council on Friday in […]
American employers added 148,000 jobs in September, according to a delayed report released Tuesday by the Labor Department. The pace of growth was somewhat slower than what economists had been expecting. The unemployment rate ticked down to 7.2 percent from 7.3 percent the previous month. Federal Reserve officials and economists […]
Source: Washington Post By Richard S. Ehrlich| Religion News Service,October 03, 2013 RNS () — A court in Muslim-majority Bangladesh sentenced an Islamist member of Parliament to death for genocide and other crimes against Hindus during the country’s 1971 war for independence. Salahuddin Chowdhury is the first opposition party member […]
Source: Morocco World News: Rabat- Morocco expressed understanding, on Monday, of the refusal of Saudi Arabia to sit on the UN Security Council, said a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. More:
Source: Money News: Most people know Sean Hyman from his regular appearances on Fox Business, CNBC, and Bloomberg Television, but what they don’t know is that Sean is a former pastor, and that his secret to investing is woven within the Bible. Perhaps that can explain why, despite his uncanny […]
Source: Morocco World News: During his speech on healthcare reform on Monday, U.S. President Barack Obama caught a pregnant lady beginning to faint behind him, and then joked: “That’s what happens when I talk too long.” More:
Source/Credit: X Index By Zofeen T. Ebrahim As the Muslim festival of Eid ul Adha drew to a close last week, it left a bad taste in the mouth of several Pakistanis when they heard that those belonging to the Ahmadi community were stopped from performing the ritual of animal sacrifice […]
Source: Huff Post UK Samantha Lewthwaite, the so-called ‘White Widow’, penned a dubious ditty to Osama Bin Laden, it has emerged. Kenyan police found the poem, littered with spelling errors and poor grammar, amongst downloads of fitness guides and videos, a body-building manual and instructions for making bombs and chemical […]
Source: Huff Post UK Samantha Lewthwaite, the so-called ‘White Widow’, penned a dubious ditty to Osama Bin Laden, it has emerged. Kenyan police found the poem, littered with spelling errors and poor grammar, amongst downloads of fitness guides and videos, a body-building manual and instructions for making bombs and chemical […]
Source: HUFF POST Oops. WalesOnline lifted the hopes of the entire nation today – by starting a live blog announcing David Cameron’s resignation. More:
Time: The Sultan of Brunei announced on Tuesday the gradual introduction of harsh Islamic punishments, such as death by stoning for adulterers, severing of limbs for theft and flogging for […]
By Jethro Mullen, CNN updated 6:35 AM EDT, Tue October 22, 2013 (CNN) — The villagers had congregated at the tent, as they often did at the end of the workday, to […]
Huff Post: Who would you trust more, a scientist or a member of the church? Most people see scientists as the most honest of all professionals, a survey has revealed, […]
el-baghdadi.com: A common comment I hear from Muslims is that a government based upon “real Islam” will be a just and prosperous government. While as a Muslim I do believe that Islam enjoins justice & liberty, and that Islam has something to say beyond the private realm, the main issue here […]
el-baghdadi.com: A common comment I hear from Muslims is that a government based upon “real Islam” will be a just and prosperous government. While as a Muslim I do believe that Islam enjoins justice & liberty, and that Islam has something to say beyond the private realm, the main issue here […]
Source: CNN Blue Mountains, Australia (CNN) — A swath of wildfires nearly 1,000 miles long coursed through the most populous state in Australia Tuesday, and firefighters fear the worse is yet to come. “If our strategies don’t work and weather materializes tomorrow that is forecast … it could be absolutely devastating,” […]
Telegraph: Human rights campaigners will today demand that American officials be held responsible for illegal killings carried out by drones and call for greater transparency over its secret programme. A new report by Amnesty International details how civilians have been killed in Pakistan – including a 68-year-old grandmother who died […]