Reuters | Sep 17, 2013 | 00:35 LONDON — Al Qaeda leader Ayman Al Zawahiri has issued his first specific guidelines for jihad, urging restraint in attacking other Muslim sects and non-Muslims and in starting conflicts in countries where jihadis might find a safe base to promote their ideas. The […]
Even if it succeeds, Syrians will be left to kill each other as before – only without sarin BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT, UK What on earth was going on in Washington and Geneva last week? I’m not trying to cheapen the unspeakable tragedy of Syria, nor the apparent common […]
RIYADH – Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al-Sheikh condemned violence against non-Muslims living in Islamic countries as well as attacks on Muslims after labeling them as infidels. In a statement carried on Monday by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), the Grand Mufti warned against dangers of takfeeri ideology (the practice of […]
By SETH ANZISKA Published: September 16, 2012 ON the night of Sept. 16, 1982, the Israeli military allowed a right-wing Lebanese militia to enter two Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut. In the ensuing three-day rampage, the militia, linked to the Maronite Christian Phalange Party, raped, killed and dismembered at least […]
By MARGARET SULLIVAN THE NEW YORK TIMES September 16, 2013 Many Times readers have been writing to me for several days about a story The Guardian broke last week, describing how the United States routinely shares with Israel intelligence information that the National Security Agency gathers on American citizens. The […]
Washignton Post: Bishop Fulton Sheen, the earliest and perhaps best known Catholic televangelist, once famously said, “There are not a hundred people in America who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions of people who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church — which is, of course, […]
LONDON (AFP) – Rights group Amnesty International announced on Tuesday it had awarded its highest honour to Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teen shot in the head last year by the Taliban […]
Arab news: House prices in Makkah have risen 100 percent as a result of high demand. Residents whose houses were demolished to make way for expansion projects around the Grand Mosque have also called for new houses. Citizens are now eyeing the suburbs of the holy city, including Al-Nawaryeh, Al-Sharaie and […]
Published on Sep 16, 2013 What is at stake for Tehran as Washington deals with Syria? Is Obama genuinely interested in diplomacy? And could the dreadful conflict in Syria be […]
theguardian: by Victoria Coren Mitchell. But I know this much: I will never again think that a veiled woman is strange or unknowable. Whether we’re both right or both wrong, I will recognise her as very familiar – only, perhaps, having made her choices more decisively than I make mine. […]
Epigraph: They desire to extinguish the light of Allah with the breath of their mouths, but Allah will perfect His light, even if the disbelievers hate it. (Al Quran 61:9) […]
The Huffington Post | By Yasmine Hafiz Twitter erupted in a flurry of indignation as Miss New York, Nina Davuluri, was crowned as this year’s Miss America, with some of […]
by Simon Bradley, swissinfo.ch September 16, 2013 – 11:00 The Swiss government recently eased visa rules to help reunite Syrians from the war-torn state with their relatives in Switzerland. But what difference will this gesture make in practice? swissinfo.ch gauges the temperature among Syrian expats. “It’s a really good thing; […]
by Naureen Khan @naureenindc September 16, 2013 9:03AM ET Updated 2:15PM ET At least one suspect dead, two other suspects believed still at large WASHINGTON — Twelve people were killed in a shooting Monday morning, and a number of others injured, at the U.S. Navy Yard, Washington Police Chief Cathy […]
Israel continues to look for more Oslos to gain international legitimacy By Ilan Pappe, Special to Gulf News The recent attempt to revive the peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians is not likely to produce more meaningful results than that of any of the previous attempts. It comes 20 […]
1. Give up your need to always be right. There are so many of us who can’t stand the idea of being wrong – wanting to always be right – even at the risk of ending great relationships or causing a great deal of stress and pain for us and for […]
Source: nafirizaman.blogspot.in Depend on few valid Ahādīth, بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم is actually the first verse of every Sūrah. “Qutaybah ibn Sa‘īd, Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Marwazī, and Ibn as-Sarh narrated to us; from Sa‘īd ibn Jubayr, Qutaybah said; from Haḍrat Ibn ‘Abbās(ra), he said: The Holy Prophet(SAW) used to not know the separation of Sūrah until […]
Source: dailybulletin.com POMONA >> From Christian jewelry to a hand-washing booth to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Shopping Place at the L.A. County Fair has a little of everything except a […]
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Around 100 members of the hard-line group Islam Defenders Front (FPI) massed in Ketapang Port in Banyuwangi, East Java, on Saturday, seeking to cross to the island of Bali to […]