Ahmadiyya Muslims worship freely here, but persecuted elsewhere
Source: jsonline.com Inside the Bait-ul Qadir mosque on Fond du Lac Ave., a small group of men gather before the midday prayer. They speak of the weather and their families, […]
Pakistani Christian Sentenced to Life in Prison Over Accusation of Sending ‘Blasphemous’ Texts
Source: christiannews.net LAHORE, Pakistan – A Christian man was recently sentenced to life in prison by a Pakistani court for allegedly sending blasphemous text messages, even though the prosecution’s evidence was said to be highly questionable. Earlier this month, Additional District and Sessions Judge Mian Shahzad Raza of Pakistan’s Toba Tek Singh district ruled that […]
Horse in McDonald’s: Rider fined after ‘drive-thru’ refusal
Source: BBC A woman has been fined for taking her horse into a McDonald’s restaurant in Greater Manchester. Police said the woman, who has not been named, was in the saddle when she was initially turned away from the drive-through kiosk on Bury New Road. The woman then led the […]
Iraq jailbreaks: Hundreds escape in Taji and Abu Ghraib
Source: BBC Fighting raged for several hours after the jails – Abu Ghraib to the west of the capital and Taji to the north – came under attack. Mortar fire and suicide bombs were used to gain access to the jails, whose inmates include al-Qaeda prisoners. At least 20 members […]
You Say Shalom, I say Salam
Source:Examinor.COM Under the “Meet Your Neighbor, An Interfaith Adventure” program organized by the Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta (FAMA), the Congregation Or Hadash opened their doors to a group of about thirty guests belonging to different local Christian and Muslim denominations to their Sabaath Service in Sandy Springs on July 20. The Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
A Shuffle of Aluminum, but to Banks, Pure Gold
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. — Hundreds of millions of times a day, thirsty Americans open a can of soda, beer or juice. And every time they do it, they pay a fraction of a penny more because of a shrewd maneuver by Goldman Sachs and other financial players that ultimately costs […]
Boot on the other foot
Source: Friday Times: A number of legal interventions are threatening to unleash unforeseen consequences for state and society in Pakistan. The Supreme Court has ordered the PMLN government to register a case of treason against General (retd) Pervez Musharraf and prosecute him on a fast track basis. But it is […]
Australia shutting a door on asylum
Source: CNN.Com (CNN) — A riot on a tiny island in the Pacific that killed no one would usually go unnoticed by the world. But when some 100 asylum seekers burned down their shelters in an Australian refugee processing center Friday on Nauru Island, it did not. Instead, it drew […]
Royal baby on the way: Kate in labor
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Islam in Hong Kong
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Islam is practiced in Hong Kong by about 250,000 Muslims.[1] About 10,000 of the Muslim families in Hong Kong are ‘local boy’ families, Muslims of mixed Chinese and South Asian ancestry descended from […]
Depleted uranium used by US forces blamed for birth defects and cancer in Iraq
Cancer is more common than flu in the Iraqi city of Najaf, about 160 km south of Baghdad, one local doctor told RT. After the start of the war rates […]
‘Vampire Cemetery’ Found in Poland
Source: The Spiegel: DPA A chilling find has been made in Poland: at least 17 skeletons buried with the skulls severed and placed between the knees or hands. That, say archaeologists, is how vampires used to be interred, to stop them rising from the dead. More:
The Secret Link Between Germany and the NSA
Source: The Spiegel: Chancellor Angela Merkel has repeatedly said she knew nothing about American surveillance activities in Germany. But documents seen by SPIEGEL show that German intelligence cooperates closely with the NSA and even uses spy software provided by the US. By SPIEGEL. More:
3 Psychological Factors That Can Trigger Male Suicide
Business Insider: by Jed Diamond. Recently I received a review copy of the book, Lonely at the Top: The High Cost of Men’s Success by Thomas Joiner, Ph.D. I was happy to offer a review. Dr. Joiner is one of the world’s leading experts on suicide and has published two previous books, Myths […]
Peace talks offer rare opportunity
Source: Asia Tiems: By Victor Kotsev The anticipated renewal of direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Washington, DC, this week has the potential to reshape not only the Israeli-Palestinian political scene but the entire region, and with it the narrative of the Arab Spring. Whether this potential will be realized is […]
A world where everything is for sale
Source: Asia Times: By Hossein Askari While growing up, I thought certain things in life were not for sale – that no amount of money could buy them. These included a democratic country? its national interest and its highest offices, the reputation of internationally admired men and women, Nobel laureates, […]
Reviving Islamic Eminence in Spain Through A Message of Peace
Review of Religions: Islam and Spain: Spanish land; lost by the sword; Spanish hearts won by the message of peace In 1946, Mirza Bashir-Ud-Din Mahmud Ahmadra, Second worldwide Head of […]
The government’s silence over attacks on Muslims is worrying, and divisive
Guardian: Last week, a nail bomb partially exploded at a mosque in the West Midlands – the fourth attack in two months on mosques in Britain during Friday prayers. A suspect in […]
Labor’s new asylum seeker policy ‘inhuman’, say Pakistan’s Hazaras
Guardian: Community leaders, campaigners and students from the Hazara community in Pakistan have reacted angrily to the announcement from the prime minister, Kevin Rudd, that all asylum seekers who arrive inAustralia by boat will be sent to Papua New Guinea for processing and resettlement, and none will be allowed to stay in Australia. Calling the […]
Perfect Job for me
My first job was working in an Orange Juice factory, but I got canned. Couldn’t concentrate. 2. Then I worked in the woods as a Lumberjack, but just couldn’t hack it, so they gave me the axe. 3. After that, I tried being a Tailor, but wasn’t suited for it […]