Source: The Spiegel: Pope Francis has sparked enthusiasm with his call for greater tolerance toward gays. But it’s too soon to celebrate, says theologian David Berger. The pope’s warning not to engage in gay propaganda puts him on par with homophobes like Russian President Vladimir Putin, he contends. More:
Source: The Speigel: We are sitting in a room on the sixth floor of the building occupied by the leftist-liberal Warsaw newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. There are stacks of newspapers and books everywhere, and on the walls are certificates from American and German universities next to photos of Adam Michnik with […]
Source: Dawn.Com The influential co-founder of a Sipah-e-Sahaba breakaway group now linked with al Qaeda and the Taliban received a stipend from the Punjab government while he was in jail, and like other key terror suspects, was allowed to use a mobile phone. Malik Ishaq had told an Urdu daily […]
Source: Dawn.Com DHAKA: The High Court in Dhaka on Thursday declared the registration of the Jamaat-i-Islami, the country’s biggest Islamic party, as a political party with the Bangladeshi election commission […]
Source: Asia Times: In a statement issued on July 27, 2013, US Secretary of State John Kerry grasped the fact that the revolution has not yet run its course. “Its final verdict is not yet decided,” he said, “but it will be forever impacted by what happens right now.” He […]
Source: Asia Times: By Victor Kotsev For many Syrian rebels, the unthinkable happened this week, when a key neighborhood of the centrally located city of Homs was recaptured by the army of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The fall of Homs, dubbed the rebel “capital,” seems inevitable, and while that will […]
Source: BBC By Simon Redfern Reporter, BBC News A completely new and unusual antibiotic compound has been extracted from a marine microorganism found in sediments off the coast of California. The discovery of genuinely novel antibiotics is rare, and experts say resistance to the drugs poses a grave threat to […]
Dawn.com: by Nadeem F. Paracha. In 1973, my paternal grandparents visited Makkah to perform the first of their two Hajj pilgrimages. With them were two of my grandmother’s sisters and their respective husbands. Upon reaching Jeddah, they hailed a taxi from the airport and headed for their designated hotel. The driver […]
by Christian Raaflaub, swissinfo.ch July 31, 2013 – A few months ago it was announced that Swiss universities would start training imams. Antonio Loprieno, leader of a working group on the issue, tells swissinfo.ch he hopes such a course will contribute to the debate about Islam in Switzerland. Muslims around […]
The trend of people sleeping in the Grand Mosque has been increasing each year, despite religious scholars declaring such an occurrence as a violation of Shariah. It is not merely […]
• XKeyscore gives ‘widest-reaching’ collection of online data • NSA analysts require no prior authorization for searches • Sweeps up emails, social media activity and browsing history • NSA’s XKeyscore […]
Asif Haroon Raja PAKISTAN OBSERVER Thursday, August 01, 2013 – The unholy practice of Muslims fighting among each other is in vogue in many Muslim countries. Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Algeria, Bahrain, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait had got infected by the Arab Spring in 2011, possibly triggered by CIA and […]
KEN MCGREGOR From: Weekly Times Inner City August 01, 2013 THE AUSTRALIAN NEWS ONE of the west’s best known Italian clubs will be turned into a mosque under a plan […]
Source: The Guardian, UK BY Julien Bouissou July 30, 2013 Passersby cast wary looks at a bunch of men lurking outside the entrance to the Hathazari madrasa. They stand out, having neither beards nor traditional dress. Indeed, one of them has had the bright idea of wearing a flowered shirt. For […]
Britain’s first Muslim MP, Mohammed Sarwar, has renounced his British citizenship to become the governor of Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province. Sarwar, a close aide of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz […]
Source: papers.ssrn.com Singapore is a secular state with a Muslim minority (about 15 per cent, mostly ethnic Malay). However, the Administration of Muslim Law Act (AMLA), which governs personal status, does […]
Source: onislam.net Malawi (southeast Africa): Reaching out to the Muslim community, Malawi President Joyce Banda has hosted a special iftar for Muslim women to celebrate the holy month of Ramadan, urging Malawi […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Cavan Sieczkowski Televangelist Pat Robertson is not a fan of demons, so much so that he says if one of those ungodly creatures was haunting […]
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_embed_2x_container.swf?site=cnn&profile=desktop&context=embedwww&videoId=world/2013/04/05/pkg-jamjoom-saudi-blogger-family.cnn&contentId=world/2013/04/05/pkg-jamjoom-saudi-blogger-family.cnn By Ed Payne and Mohammed Jamjoom, CNN (CNN) — A Saudi court has sentenced a activist to seven years in prison and 600 lashes for violating the nation’s anti-cybercrime law, Human Rights Watch reported Wednesday. A Jeddah Criminal Court found Raif Badawi, who has been in prison since June […]
(Reuters) – U.S. economic growth unexpectedly accelerated in the second quarter, laying a firmer foundation for the rest of the year that could bring the Federal Reserve a step closer to cutting back its monetary stimulus. Gross domestic product grew at a 1.7 percent annual rate, the Commerce Department said […]