Which countries are the most and least religious? The WIN-Gallup International “Religion and Atheism Index” collected data from 57 countries in order to find out. The Religiosity Index represents the percentage of […]
Washington Post: OAK CREEK, Wis. — Six weeks after a white supremacist gunned down Pardeep Kaleka’s father and five others at a Sikh temple last year, Kaleka was skeptical when a former skinhead reached out and invited him to dinner. But Kaleka accepted, and he’s grateful he did. Since then, […]
Source: Asia Times: By Pepe Escobar So what is the “extremely disappointed” Obama administration, the Orwellian/Panopticon complex and the discredited US Congress to do? Send a Navy Seal Team 6 to snatch him or to target assassinate him – turning Moscow into Abbottabad 2.0? Drone him? Poison his borscht? Shower […]
Source: Asia Times: By M K Bhadrakumar When the Central Intelligence Agency’s “favorite Saudi prince” – which was how the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz last week described the chief of Saudi intelligence, Prince Bandar bin Sultan – landed in Moscow in his private jet on Wednesday and drove straight to Novo-Ogarevo […]
Source: Asia Times: The end of Ramadan was imminent. The jihadi chattering classes of that fuzzy entity, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), went on overdrive. It was jailbreak galore from Libya to Pakistan via Iraq. And all this in perfect synch with two successive fatwas issued by that perennial […]
Source: The Conservative Papers: Egyptian army chief in interview says Defense Secretary Hagel calls him almost every day, but Obama has not called. US President Barack Obama appears to have angered supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, as well as supporters of the army coup that toppled him on […]
Source: Hindustan Times: A 21-year-old Australian woman who was trying to buy Apple smartphones online was conned into paying $1,200 (Rs 73,000) for two edible apples! More:
Source: TOI CAIRO: International envoys visited a high-ranking member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood in jail on Monday, the state news agency reported, to press a bid to defuse the crisis ignited by President Mohamed Morsi’s downfall. The envoys met deputy Brotherhood leader Khairat El-Shater just after midnight, having received permission […]
Source: TOI ISLAMABAD: A senior Pakistani disaster management official says the death toll from heavy rain that caused flash floods and collapsed houses has risen to 53 over the past three days. The deaths reported by Brig. Kamran Zia on Monday spanned the entire country. He says 12 were in […]
Source: Dawn.Com: Pakistan has arrived at a point where ‘they’ have come for the Ahmedis, the Christians, the Hindus, and the Shias. It has come to a point where we need to speak out because at some point they will come for even those that are not part of a […]
Source: BBC By Ben Carter For many people the holiday season has arrived. Where do those travelling abroad go? UN figures suggest that France had more foreign visitors than any […]
Source: ET: PESHAWAR: Inspector General Police (IGP) Ihsan Ghani of Khyber-Paktunkhwa (K-P) in a bizarre statement compared the relationship between the Taliban and police as one between a batsman and a bowler, while speaking to the media on Monday. More:
Source: ET TOBA TEK SINGH: An explosion has taken place on the Shalimar Express train ahead of Toba Tek Singh, Express News reported on Monday. The explosion occurred in cabin number seven of the economy class. Two cabins have been damaged.According to Shalimar Express officials, first aid boxes are available within […]
Epigraph And for the moon We have appointed stages, till it becomes again like an old dry branch of a palm-tree. It is not for the sun to overtake the […]
This is the full debate in high quality between Dr. William Lane Craig and Dr. Jamal Badawi at the University of Illinois from 1997. Jamal Badawi makes a good case for unity of God and also makes a good presentation for the loving God of Islam. One easy argument that […]
DAVID ROHDE AUG 3 2013, 9:00 AM ET THE ATLANTIC As the Egyptian army continued its violent crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood this week, White House officials said that the […]
Source: Statesman.Com By Brad Stutzman Austin Community Newspapers Staff After the denial of a Fourth of July parade application led to a rocky start in their relationship, the Round Rock Sertoma Club and Bait-ul-Muqeet Mosque are vowing to work together, for the betterment of each organization and the community as a […]
The Huffington Post: “They ask thee what they shall spend. Say: ‘Whatever of good and abundant wealth you spend should be for parents and near relatives and orphans and the […]
By Dr Mercola, The terms “earthing” and “grounding” are interchangeable. It is simply the act of placing your bare feet on the earth, or walking barefoot. When you do, free […]