currenttrends.org: by Farahnaz Ispahani: Pakistan’s religious minorities are widely viewed as embattled or under attack. This paper undertakes a comprehensive analysis of Pakistan’s policies towards its religious minority populations, both Muslim as well as non-Muslim. It is not only Pakistan where Muslim as well as non-Muslim minorities are under attack. Rather, this […]
Salon.com: An idea’s been floating around for some time that whales more than chewed people — that they swallowed them, and people might have survived in the stomach. Jonah’s story came first, and then there were rumors from the 19th century Yankee Whale Fishery — whaling ships leaving New York […]
More than 170,000 Muslims prayed outside Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque on Friday, as the holy month of Ramadan entered its final full week, police said. The faithful turned […]
Women who choose to dress in Western style say it does not compromise their commitment to religion By Habib Toumi, Bureau Chief Published: 15:12 August 2, 2013 GULF NEWS Manama: […]
Late Mian Abdul Sami Noon narrates: In 1978 General Yahya Khan (then President of Pakistan) came to USA for treatment when he fell sick. He arrived straight at Hazrat Mirza Muzaffar Ahmad Sahib’s house along with his wife and son. His family stayed at M. M. Ahmad Sahib’s house and M. M. Ahmad Sahib got General Yahya Khan Sahib admitted in the […]
To Muslims throughout the World It gives me great pleasure to greet you as you celebrate ‘Id al-Fitr’, so concluding the month of Ramadan, dedicated mainly to fasting, prayer and […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Tyler Kingkade Ball State University president Jo Ann Gora announced that the school would no longer teach intelligent design in science classes following a complaint about the curriculum at the public university. In a statement released Wednesday, Gora said “intelligent design and creation science do […]
Clarionproject.org The Council on American Islamic Relations-Canada (CAIR-CAN) has changed its name to the National Council of Canadian Muslims, hoping to distance itself from the reputation of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity. It actually wants you to believe that CAIR-Canada isn’t connected to CAIR. http://secure.clarionproject.org/analysis/cair-canada-alters-name-to-dodge-islamist-links CAIR-CA made the announcement on […]
Healthy Living: by Lisa Arends. If you’re anything like me, you find that your life’s to-do list grows longer each year while your available time seems to grow shorter. Perhaps you make the same resolutions each season (lose weight, eat better, stress less… sound familiar?) only to find that you […]
‘Scoop’ World: Friday, 2 August 2013, 2:11 pm Press Release: Palestinian Centre For Human Rights Israeli Forces Continue Systematic Attacks Against Palestinian Civilians and Property In the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) · Israeli forces continued to fire at Palestinian civilians in border areas in the Gaza Strip. – 2 Palestinian […]
by Josh Dougherty 2 August 2013 On October 22, 2010, the group WikiLeaks released the Iraq War Logs, a series of nearly 400,000 classified military records, also known as “SIGACTs”. These documents have remained publicly available on the internet in various forms since the original release, and IBC has been […]
iflac.wordpress.com: As the first woman, Ada was invited to speak in the Ahmedim Mosque in Haifa. Ada speaking in the Ahmedim Mosque in Kababir Ada writes: “A wonderful thing happened […]
loonwatch: BY MARWAN MUHAMMAD, ELSA RAY AND MICHAËL PRIVOT BRUSSELS – A police check of a Muslim woman wearing the full-face veil recently sparked riots in a Paris suburb, and […]
Wall street Journal By SYED ZAIN AL-MAHMOOD Jamaat-e-Islami Styles Itself After Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood DHAKA—A court in Bangladesh struck down the electoral registration of the country’s largest Islamist party, leading to fears of further political instability ahead of elections due early next year. The three-member high court panel on Thursday […]
Friday, 2 August 2013, 3:05 pm Press Release: Amnesty International Indonesia: Human Rights Committee Makes Recommendations On Civil and Political Rights Amnesty International urges the Indonesian government to take concrete and immediate steps to implement recommendations made by the UN Human Rights Committee to ensure that civil and political rights are […]
The Frontier Post: PESHAWAR (INP): Shahbaz Taseer, son of slain Governor of Punjab Salman Taseer was killed in a drone attack in Shawal valley of the North Waziristan tribal area, in 2012, claimed Taliban […]
Source: CNN By Farid Ahmed and Saeed Ahmed, CNN Dhaka, Bangladesh (CNN) — Bangladesh’s high court has declared the registration of the country’s largest Islamist party, the Jamaat-e-Islami, illegal. Jamaat is one of two […]
Introduction For the Zionists the Palestinian Christians represent an obstacle to their plan to create a Jewish State in Palestine that would be 100% Jewish. In 1948, the Zionists expelled […]
What is Catherine Ashton for? She couldn’t even tell us what Mohamed Morsi said to her. Or even if she called him “President Morsi” or “Mr Morsi”. Or maybe just “Sir”. And why, by the way, is she called a “High” Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security […]