EU and China reach deal in solar panel dispute
Source: BBC The European Commission says it has reached “an amicable solution” with Beijing in a row over imports of Chinese solar panels. Both sides have agreed a minimum price […]
The Prophet’s Mosque: One of the world’s most amazing structures
Source: arabnews.com The Prophet’s Mosque is known the world over as the second largest mosque with its most beautiful state of the art structure. This foundation of this mosque was laid […]
“DISCUSSABLE OR UNDISCUSSABLE?”
Source: msbh58.wordpress.com Lecture continues unfolding basic introduction towards physics. In last few minutes teacher provides students with information about few renowned researchers and theologists. Among them comes the name of a […]
Tehran during Ramadan: ‘nobody is really in the spirit’
theguardian: Ali, a 45-year-old live-in janitor at a commercial building, isn’t fasting for Ramadan, and the reason is evident even before he explains. “Man, I’m ill,” he says. “I have to smoke [opium] several times a day just to stay on my feet and take care of this building. I […]
Pakistan: A President, Despite Lack of Beard?
ET: ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) presidential candidate Mamnoon Hussain’s nomination papers were accepted by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) despite objections raised during scrutiny, reported Express News on Friday. Two presidential candidates had raised three objections over Mamnoon Hussain’s nomination papers. Zahoor Hussain, who is also contesting the presidential election, raised […]
Church should consider pulling money out of Google, government adviser says
Telegraph: Accounts published later this year will show that the Church’s pension fund has a £5.7 million stake in the internet search giant, alongside significant investments in a number of […]
Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received Double the Defense Industry Cash
wired.com: The numbers tell the story — in votes and dollars. On Wednesday, the house voted 217 to 205 not to rein in the NSA’s phone-spying dragnet. It turns out that those 217 “no” voters received twice as much campaign financing from the defense and intelligence industry as the 205 […]
Who will end the anti-Muslim discrimination: The White House or the “Right” House?
ET: Faheem Younas: This is the story of two Washington Iftar dinners. First, the Israeli Ambassador, Michael Oren, invited Muslim leaders to a diplomatic Iftar dinner last week and Imam Antepli of Duke University wondered aloud if the event was meaningful. Then the Obama administration invited Muslim leaders to the White House Iftar dinner and Omid […]
Chomsky shares Middle East pessimism in Geneva
by Simon Bradley in Geneva, swissinfo.ch July 26, 2013 – 17:33 New Israel-Palestine peace talks and diplomatic efforts to hold an international conference in Geneva aimed at ending the conflict […]
Grand Mosque provides 12,000 wheelchairs
MAKKAH: ARAB NEWS Saturday 27 July 2013 Amid efforts to make pilgrimage easier for the disabled, the Presidency of the Two Holy Mosques has provided 12,000 standard wheelchairs and 110 electric wheelchairs free of charge for their movement inside the mosque. The standard wheelchairs are available at offices at the […]
Robert Fisk on Egypt: As impoverished crowds gather in support of Mohamed Morsi, the well-heeled march behind their images of the General
Hundreds of thousands support the coup – just as many do not. And the future for Egypt is looking increasingly bloody. Robert Fisk reports from Cairo Hundreds of thousands of people turned out outside Cairo’s Rabaa mosque yesterday to protest against the coup d’état in Egypt, while hundreds of thousands […]
Saudi with a golden heart spends savings on cancer-hit worker
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Saturday 27 July 2013 A Saudi spent all his savings and even borrowed money to have his illegal Bangladeshi guard treated for a brain tumor. The worker, Mahboob, has been working for Abdullah Saad Al-Rouqi for seven years. He came for Umrah and overstayed at Huda Al-Sham […]
Ramadan Reflection Day 18: Adoption, Foster Care and the World’s Forgotten Children
Source: The Huffington Post By Imam Khalid Latif, Executive Director and Chaplain, Islamic Center at New York University My wife Priya and I are blessed to have a beautiful, baby girl named Madina. She is a little more than seven months old now and every day with her has been more amazing […]
Tawaf made easy for disabled, elderly
MAKKAH: ARAB NEWS Saturday 27 July 2013 At the orders of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah, President of the Two Holy Mosques Affairs Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais […]
A Verse Revealed to the Promised Messiah Two Thousand Times
Several verses of the Holy Quran were revealed again to the Promised Messiah, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani, the Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, as he was an ardent devotee […]
French jobless claims in June reach record high
France 24: By News Wires (text) More people were jobless in France in June than ever before, data showed on Wednesday in a fresh blow to President Francois Hollande’s pledge to reverse the rising unemployment trend by year-end. The latest worsening of the job market, which came despite signs this month of […]
Evolutionary support for Fasting
By Sazzad Khandakar July 26, 2013 It is the holy month of Ramadhan. Muslims all across the world engage themselves in dawn to dusk fasting as it was prescribed by God in the Holy Quran. In chapter 2, vs 184, God commands men to fast and mentions that it was prescribed for […]
Displaced NTB Ahmadis to get ID cards, but with no religious preference
The Jakarta Globe: After spending years living in Wisma Transito displacement camp without ID cards, dozens of West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Ahmadis may finally be seeing the light at the […]
Women and Islam in the middle ages
Source: ahranonline Beyond the stereo-typing of women and the misconception of Islamic beliefs, comes an enlightening study that puts women and Islam in one proper sentence What do we know […]