Smithsonian.com – Your genes define your starting point in life: nature versus nurture comes after, building on top. But as Carl Zimmer writes in the New York Times, the idea of this singular genetic “you,” that’s built up of cells carrying “your genes” is, upon closer inspection, kind of wooly. Especially if […]
Ahmadiyya Times: By Imran Jattala – Three Ahmadiyya mosques in Sialkot, a town about 80 miles north of Lahore in the Punjab province in Pakistan, were vandalized by the police personnel themselves – not a mob, it is clarified by several sources in Pakistan. The rumors in the social media that […]
By Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam, The anti-Muslim riots in Muzaffarnagar and adjoining areas are already being compared to Gujarat 2002. As many as 50,000 people have been officially reckoned to have become internal refugees. According to official records, 85 people have died, but unofficial estimates put it at a much […]
By DANNY DANON September 20, 2013 JERUSALEM — THIS month marks 20 years since the signing of the first of the Oslo Accords between the State of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Two decades after Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat stood on the White House lawn with President Bill […]
My family was forced to flee Iraq in 1991. Now Syrian refugees face similar hardships and are at the mercy of other nations Aseel Machi theguardian.com, Wednesday 11 September 2013 13.45 BST As world powers debate the fate of Syria, there is much less discussion surrounding the status of Syrian […]
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN September 17, 2013 I was at a conference in Bern, Switzerland, last week and struggling with my column. News of Russia’s proposal for Syria to surrender its poison gas was just breaking and changing every hour, forcing me to rewrite my column every hour. To clear […]
Source: zainullabiddin.com The Holy Prophet Muhammad (saw) had to face many hardships during his lifetime. One aspect of all the different things that he had to face was the allegations raised […]
Source: pakistantoday.com.pk Taking notice of an electronic and social media campaign against one of the most prominent private schools in Lahore for introducing ‘Comparative Religion’ as a subject in its syllabus, […]
Source: crossmap.christianpost.com In a recent article, Pope Francis opened up about his thoughts on the Roman Catholic Church’s focus on abortion and gay marriage — two issues that the Pope has sparingly discussed in the […]
Source: crossmap.christianpost.com KARACHI, PAKISTAN (ANS) — A Muslim in Karachi slit a Christian’s throat shouting that he was killing “an infidel who blasphemed against Muhammad,” on Saturday (Sept. 14) as police and others looked on, […]
Epigraph: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King, Jr. “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.” President Thomas Jefferson United Nations General Assembly International Day of Peace, 21 September Epigraph: “On this International Day […]
(CNN) — Gunmen attacked an upscale shopping mall in the Kenyan capital on Saturday, leading to a fierce gunbattle with police and leaving at least 20 people dead, the Kenyan […]
Ynetnews: Some 30,000 Arab Israelis took part Friday in a rally titled “Al-Aqsa Mosque in Danger,” in the northern ton of Umm al-Fahm. The event was organized by the northern […]
The Huffington Post: A recent study by LifeWay Research has found that a “third of Americans – and nearly half of evangelical, fundamentalist, or born-again Christians – believe prayer and […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — Gunmen ambushed an upscale shopping mall in the Kenyan capital on Saturday, leading to a fierce gunbattle with police and at least 20 people killed, the Kenyan Red Cross said. Fifty more people were wounded in the attack at the mall in Nairobi, said Abbas Gullet, head […]
One of the most enduring (and incorrect) accusations made about the Ottoman Empire is that it was intellectually stagnant. Orientalist historians claim that the Ottomans saw science and religion as […]
Source: jconline.com As part of a national initiative, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Indiana has organized a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday in the parking lot of Stewart Center, 128 […]
Source: theworld.org My daughter is a blessing not a curse. If you have to state that, there might be something wrong. And yes, there is something wrong in Pakistan with daughters. […]
Epigraph: “On this International Day of Peace, let us pledge to teach our children the value of tolerance and mutual respect. Let us invest in the schools and teachers that […]
Reuters , Saturday 21 Sep 2013 (Photo: Reuters) Russia’s senior Islamic clerics warned the country’s leaders on Friday unrest could erupt in Muslim communities in Russia and beyond if […]