Huff Post: by Ron Kronish. As we Jews begin the month of Elul, the month before our “High Holidays” of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Muslims in Israel and around the world celebrate the holiday of Eid Al-Fitr. Our calendars, which are both lunar, often run in a parallel way, so […]
Forbes India: In 1999, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance honoured the scholar, economist, and philosopher Amartya Sen with India’s highest honour, the Bharat Ratna, a year after his Nobel Prize. One of Sen’s more interesting books is The Argumentative Indian (2006), celebrating our propensity to challenge views we disagree with. […]
ET-Rueters: A Tennessee judge has ordered a baby’s first name changed from “Messiah” to Martin, saying that the only true messiah is Jesus Christ, a ruling the boy’s mother promises to appeal, a Tennessee television station has reported. The parents of Messiah DeShawn Martin went before Tennessee Child Support Magistrate […]
ET: ISLAMABAD: Offering Eid prayers: Not a given for everyone Just a day before Eidul Fitr, the streets leading to Aiwan-e-Tawheed— the central place of worship of Ahmadis residing in Rawalpindi — in Satellite Town was once again filled with banners cautioning residents about ‘unconstitutional activities’ of members of the […]
Source: Press Release Hindus have commended His Holiness Pope Francis for his call to Christians and Muslims to work together to promote mutual respect at the end of his Angelus address on August 11 in Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square, greeting Muslims as “our brothers”. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a […]
Source: BBC India has unveiled its first home-built aircraft carrier from a shipyard in southern Kerala state. The 37,500 tonne INS Vikrant is expected to go for extensive trials in […]
And so to Major Barbara at the Abbey. Every Western arms salesman I have met – usually at arms “fairs” in the Gulf – knows Andrew Undershaft, the grotesque, brilliant, intellectual weapons manufacturer in George Bernard Shaw’s 1907 play who abides by the faith of the armourer: “To give arms […]
By Camelia Pasandaran on 8:55 am August 12, 2013 JAKARTA GLOBE As millions of Muslims flocked to mosques across Indonesia on the morning of Idul Fitri last Thursday, a small […]
ISLAMABAD: THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, PAKISTAN President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday sent out their separate messages on the occasion of “Minorities Day”. President Zardari stressed […]
KIM SENGUPTA Author Biography SUNDAY 11 AUGUST 2013 The holy month of Ramadan is over and both sides in Syria’s civil war are preparing for a new round of attrition. […]
Source:Worldpress.Com via Wasim Sr: I’d always been a bit sceptical about the Kalash people’s claim to be descended from the invading armies of Alexander the Great. The famous Macedonian leader passed through what is now northern Pakistan more than 2000 years ago. Nice idea, that some of his soldiers, had […]
The Huffington Post: OSLO, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Norway’s prime minister worked secretly as a taxi driver in central Oslo for a day in June, leaving his passengers wondering whether […]
The Jakarta Post: Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali has again come under fire for allegedly supporting the forced conversion of Shia followers to Sunni Islam in a reconciliation program the […]
The Jakarta Post: ………………….. Separately, in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), Ahmadiyah followers celebrated Idul Fitri on Thursday in their displaced persons camp at Wisma Transito. This was the eighth […]
Tribute to a great scientist – Prof Dr Louis Johnson Salam I just returned from leave to hear the sad news that former Life Sciences Director Professor Dame Louise Johnson has passed away (sep 2012). Even though it is business as usual, it is clear that such loss is affecting […]
August 09, 2013 Charles Recknagel Radio Free Europe (US sponsored) It’s no secret that Saudi Arabia wants to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. But just how much Riyadh is willing to use its money to reach that goal can be surprising. One measure was a meeting on July 31 in […]
She is the youngest person to be called to the bar in 600 years and at just 18, Gabrielle Turnquest has already become used to questions about her age. By […]
It was some six months ago that Syrian rebel commanders met US intelligence officers in Jordan to discuss the status of the war and, the rebels hoped, to secure supplies of the sophisticated weapons they need to overthrow President Bashar Al Assad. But according to one of the commanders present […]
Additional reading: Eid Mubarak and What is the Muslim Times doing for You? and: Rumi: The Quran is Like a Shy Bride! Suggested reading: Bringing the Muslims to the Same Day Eid […]
Epigraph “Is he, then, who knows that what has been revealed to thee (Muhammad) from thy Lord is the truth, like one who is blind? But only those gifted with understanding will reflect.” (Al Quran 13:20) Prof. Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins’ tweets on Islam are as rational as the rants of an […]