STORY SUMMARY Watching Saudi Arabia and other wealthy Gulf states line up behind the bloody counter-revolution in Egypt, you can’t help suspect that these conservative monarchies are ready to fight to the last Egyptian against the Muslim Brotherhood – waging what amounts to a proxy war against the regional threat […]
Data-gathering operation is part of a £1bn web project still being assembled by GCHQ DUNCAN CAMPBELL , OLIVER WRIGHT , JAMES CUSICK , KIM SENGUPTA FRIDAY 23 AUGUST 2013 Britain runs a secret internet-monitoring station in the Middle East to intercept and process vast quantities of emails, telephone calls and […]
August 23, 2013 – 02:26 By Phil Stewart CARLISLE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – Unlike today’s ubiquitous images of General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in crisp uniform decorated with medals, the U.S. Army […]
by Mohammad Ghazal | Aug 22, 2013 | 22:59 AMMAN — A leading Muslim scholar said His Majesty King Abdullah’s address at a meeting with Muslim scholars on Tuesday carried […]
A recent article in the Detroit News contrasted the lives of two ordinary persons from Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Two persons joined by faith and circumstances, yet separated by […]
ISLAMABAD: ARAB NEWS Published — Friday 23 August 2013 Pakistan is not alone in facing the menace of radicalism and extremism, as several other countries too face similar problems, and […]
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE ARABNEWS Published — Friday 23 August 2013 DAMASCUS: The use of chemical weapons in Syria would constitute a “crime against humanity,” UN chief Ban Ki-moon said on […]
Source: in.lifestyle.yahoo.com Asha Mandela, the woman with the world’s longest dreadlocks, credits her hair for helping her pull through two heart attacks, cancer, and two strokes. ‘Cutting it would be equivalent […]
Source: businessghana.com A 13-member Governing Board for the Fomena T I Ahmadiyya Senior High School has been inaugurated with a call to it to make sure that there is transparency in the financial administration of the school. The school, established in 1968 with 15 students, now has a student population of […]
Source: dailytimes.com.pk KARACHI: At least eight people were shot dead in separate incidents of violence across the city, while four dead bodies were found here on Wednesday. In the first incident, a man belonging to the Ahmadiyya community along with his neighbour was shot dead in Mujahid Colony within the jurisdiction […]
Source: tribune.com.pk LAHORE: A man was forced to abandon his woodworking business and flee Gujranwala with his family after his erstwhile friends and neighbours discovered that he was an Ahmadi, The Express Tribune has […]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “Thoreau” redirects here. For other uses, see Thoreau (disambiguation). Henry David Thoreau Portrait by Benjamin D. Maxham (daguerreotype) of Henry David Thoreau in June 1856. Born July 12, 1817 Concord, Massachusetts, U.S. Died May 6, 1862 (aged 44) Concord, Massachusetts, U.S. Era 19th century philosophy Region Western Philosophy School Transcendental […]
Source: The Huffington Post By JAMAL HALABY 08/20/13 09:25 AM ET EDT AP AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan’s king warned Tuesday that ethnic and sectarian violence sweeping across several Arab countries […]
Editor’s note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a director at the New America Foundation and the author of “Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden — From 9/11 to Abbottabad.” Jennifer Rowland is a program associate at the New America Foundation. (CNN) — There have been Christians in […]
By: Alex Nino Gheciu Toronto Star News reporter, Published on Wed Aug 21 2013 More than 1,100 people are trying to stop a Punjabi rapper whose lyrics they deem violent and misogynistic from performing at Canada’s Wonderland this weekend. Yo! Yo! Honey Singh, one of India’s most popular artists, is […]
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Web Desk Published: August 22, 2013 The LoC, that serves as a de-facto border between India and Pakistan. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE ISLAMABAD: The […]
Source: The daily Beast Suffragists march in New York in March 1913. (AP) Social Change “Redefining Rape”: A Brief History of Rape In America 10 hours ago – by Sarah Begley Stanford professor Estelle Freedman’s new book examines how sex crimes oppressed women and blacks in the age of suffrage […]
Source: updatednews.ca The broadcasting watchdog Ofcom has fined an Islamic TV channel £85,000, for inciting violence. It ruled in December that Noor TV had breached broadcasting codes after a host said […]
Source: carbonated.tv PBS has a new series on the life of Muslim Prophet Muhammad with narrator and acclaimed journalist Rageh Omaar. The project also aims to provide a ‘balanced’ narrative of Islam with facts that may not be known to many people, especially Americans. It is a three part series that […]