Aaron Alexis: The Washington DC shooter, who killed at least 12 and injured 8 Lead Post collected by Mirza Ghulam Rabbi Buddhism not blamed for Shooting by Aaron Alexis, but what if he was a Muslim? The Title has been modified by the Muslim Times, from the original: Friends Say […]
Global Post: BANGKOK, Thailand — The ragtag militants who stormed one of thePhilippines’ major cities to carve out a new nation — an imagined state they call “Bangsamoro Republik” — must have known they were on a suicide mission. Following their initial Sept. 9 assault, armed rebels from the Moro National Liberation […]
Source: The Local Germany sold tonnes of chemicals to Syria which were capable of being put to military use. A question from the Left Party to the government showed that the chemicals were exported to Syria from 2002 to 2006, the Süddeutsche newspaper reported on Wednesday. The chemicals were […]
The latest shooting spree at the US Navy Yard Complex in Washington DC is one of the many terror attacks witnessed on the soil of the world superpower during the last two decades, where non-Muslim Native Americans have either been found involved or have been suspected of their involvement. In […]
Huff Post. As the violence in Myanmar continues, the Dalai Lama urged monks to act according to the peaceful principles of their religion and told them to “remember the Buddhist faith.” The Dalai Lama made his remarks to reporters at an annual human rights conference in Prague, capital of the Czech Republic. […]
Huff Post. Cairo’s Al-Azhar University, considered one of the most important centers of learning in Sunni Islam, announced yesterday that Pope Francis has sent a personal messageto the Grand Imam of […]
JAKARTA: A Nigerian woman tearfully prayed and recited Qur’anic verses as she won a beauty pageant exclusively for Muslim women in the Indonesian capital Wednesday, a riposte to the Miss […]
Dispatch from Damascus: The killing fields remain, and truth is as rare as hope by Robert Fisk, The Independent And so the war goes on. Missile alerts may be over […]
RICHARD HALL Author Biography WEDNESDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2013 THE INDEPENDENT Syrian rebels have turned their guns on each other in the border city of Azaz, where fault lines between moderate Western-backed rebels and extremist groups descended into open conflict today. Heavy clashes were reported in and around the city between […]
By IAN S. LUSTICK OPINION THE NEW YORK TIMES September 14, 2013 THE last three decades are littered with the carcasses of failed negotiating projects billed as the last chance […]
Daily Times: Clerics suggest amendment to blasphemy laws ISLAMABAD: Top religious clerics Wednesday suggested amendments to the country’s blasphemy laws, proposing the death penalty for people convicted of making false accusations. The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) suggested the government should bring in the death penalty for people convicted of […]
daily times: COMMENT : The Pakistani state on its knees — Dr Mohammad Taqi Without setting the parameters for what exactly is the state willing to concede to the TTP in exchange for peace, the prime minister and his APC have left the door wide open for the terrorists to keep […]
yahoonews: JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel wants to see Syrian President Bashar al-Assad toppled, its ambassador to the United States said on Tuesday, in a shift from its non-committal public stance on its neighbor’s civil war. Even Assad’s defeat by al Qaeda-aligned rebels would be preferable to Damascus’s current alliance with […]
Washington Post: WASHINGTON — Atheists and humanists hope to increase their influence in politics with the launch of the Freethought Equality Fund, a new political action committee for nonbelievers. “When people see respected ethical humanists and atheists serve in public office, this will begin to dispel many myths about nonbelievers,” said […]
BBC: A man who threw bacon into an Edinburgh mosque has been jailed for 10 months. Wayne Stilwell, 25, was caught on security cameras attaching the bacon to the handles […]
Source: Time magazine By Hannah Beech / Meikhtila, Burma, And Pattani, Thailand Monday, July 01, 2013 It’s a faith famous for its pacifism and tolerance. But in several of Asia’s Buddhist-majority […]
By Muzaffar K. Awan, MD; Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA Just half a century ago, my parents gave me permission to transfer from a close-by government college (near my native Pakistani village) near the city of Chakwal to enroll at a Talim-ul-Islam (Ahmadiyya) College in Rabwah (several hundred miles) away from […]
Source: Fox Nation Author: Todd Starnes A Tennessee high school has decided to revise its field trip policy after a group of freshmen were taken to an Islamic mosque where they were given copies of the Koran and while a student who opted out of the trip was given a […]
http://www.jang.com.pk Jang London September 15, 2013 Asif Dar reporter Following report was published in Jang London on the wretched practice of Halalaa. A women whose husband had uttered divorce 3 times contacted a local Maulvi sahib who had her Halalaa done with several persons. Finally she got fed up and […]
The Times of India: JAKARTA: A Nigerian woman tearfully prayed and recited Koranic verses as she won a beauty pageant exclusively for Muslim women in the Indonesian capital on Wednesday, […]