Epigraph: O ye who believe! be steadfast in the cause of Allah, bearing witness in equity; and let not a people’s enmity incite you to act otherwise than with justice. Be always just, […]
A full 62.9 percent of respondents said they would rather the government announced a freeze on Jewish settlement construction than release prisoners AFP , Friday 16 Aug 2013 Almost 80 percent of Israeli Jews believe a peace deal with the Palestinians is impossible, an opinion poll found on Friday, two […]
Source: CNN Editor’s note: Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Among his recent books are Hegemony or Survival, Failed States, Power Systems, Occupy, and Hopes and Prospects. His web site is http://www.chomsky.info. (CNN) — The Israeli-Palestinian peace talks […]
A Karachi based Islamist tabloid ‘Daily Ummat’— through one of its most dishonest reports— has squarely levelled the residents of Gilgit-Baltistan with some serious blows of allegations that, if unattended, would bump the genuine efforts to relinquish the terror factor in the region. The news report was widely relayed by […]
Recently, we’ve been hearing that fewer and fewer Americans are tying the knot, with the U.S. marriage rate at its lowest point in more than a century. Now, a new study looks at why one group of Americans — the working class — is putting off or forgoing marriage altogether. […]
By Romy Zipken|August 16, 2013 Israel’s Justice Ministry announced on Thursday that it had extradited Aleksandar Cvetkovic, a Bosnian Serb, who has alleged ties to the Srebrenica massacre during the […]
by Mustafa Akyol I am not the greatest fan of Richard Dawkins, the famous Oxford professor, whose passionate atheism looks to me as a dogma in itself rather than freedom from dogmas. Yet I must I admit that he had point recently when he wrote the following on Twitter: “All […]
thereligiondipatches.com: The State Department’s new initiative for anoffice of religious engagement is welcome. Over in the UK, I’ve been arguing for years that there needs to be better engagement between politics, […]
Facebook: daliazada: Muslims surrounding Marie Guirguis Church in Souhag to protect it from being torched, are doing Friday Noon Prayers outside the church. That is the Egypt that we love. ook صلاة الجمعة من أمام كنيس source:
Huff Post: by Aamir Hussain. I am a devout Muslim, and personally believe in the truth of my religion; however, as the most skeptical Coach about our idea to distribute the food, I was ashamed to see that other non-Muslim student leaders were more committed to the Islamic principle […]
Mo’ money, mo’ problems? Here are the top 5 recipients of US foreign aid. They aren’t exactly poster-children for a democratic society. Kyle Kim/GlobalPost The countries receiving the most American aid aren’t exactly posterchildren for a model, peaceful society. Before Sept. 11, Egypt topped the US foreign aid list for 35 years […]
The Jakarta Globe: President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono sought on Friday to defend Indonesia against accusations that the republic was descending into greater religious intolerance. “It cannot be justified if an […]
ET: The out-of-control and rampaging terrorists are now down to attacking the Jamaat Khanasof the most peaceful, philanthropic, tax-paying, law-abiding community of Pakistan: the Ismailis. Just a day after Eid, 38-year-old Shirin and her four-year-old son Sharmil died in an attack on the Karimabad Jamaat Khana and 44 others sustained injuries, […]
thejakartaglobe: The plight of the Al-Mujahadah Foundation madrassa in southern Aceh illustrates the perils of rising religious intolerance for Indonesia’s religious minorities. The school, a private institution that instructed dozens of students 8 to 25 years of age in the principles of Sufism — devotion to more mystical interpretations of […]
How could the dead rest? Their wooden coffins banged against the iron gates of the mortuary, the families shrieked with horror, the cellophane-wrapped corpses were piled high with blocks of […]
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR ARABNEWS Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sumait, who helped thousands of Africans understand and embrace Islam, constructed 5,700 mosques and four universities in Africa, passed away on Thursday. He […]
Source: Indo American News via Wasim Sr: Guests from other faiths and Members of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Houston are listening to the presentation on Ramadan. HOUSTON: In this time and age where hatred and animosity is tearing the world apart, specially in the name of religion, any voice promoting the […]
BURAIDAH: MUHAMMAD AL-HARB ARABNEWS Published — Friday 16 August 2013 Buraidah’s date season started and the air in the area designated for the city’s annual date market was filled with […]
Submitted by Abraham Greenhouse on Thu, 08/15/2013 – 19:21 The Electronic Intifada Following Israeli media reports on a “covert” government program to pay students for spreading pro-Israel messages on social […]
By ID/Novy Lumanauw, SP/Carlos Paath & Lenny Tristia Tambun on 7:50 am August 16, 2013. JAKARTA GLOBE Just as the flow of Idul Fitri travelers is beginning to quiet down […]