International Business Times: Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter is so concerned about the NSA spying scandal that he thinks it has essentially resulted in a suspension of American democracy. “America […]
Source: BD News 24 By Suliman Niloy, Golam Mujtaba Dhrubo, Quazi Shahreen Haq and Kamal Hossain Talukder, bdnews24.com Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed has been found guilty of five war crimes charges, including mass murder of intellectuals during the 1971 Liberation War. International Crimes Tribunal-2 said although two other incidents […]
An appeal has been filed in the Sindh High Court that Presidential elections should be stopped as the application form for candidates does not have a declaration that they are not Ahmadis or ‘Qadianis.’ This excerpt is from Jang, Karachi, Pakistan.
World Bank project to shore up basic services to households under pressure from hosting massive influx of refugees WASHINGTON, July 18, 2013 – Jordan has welcomed hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria, but the sudden increase in population has put immense pressure on both its economy […]
Nancy Kaffer, Stephen Henderson and Matt Helms, Detroit Free Press 4:41 p.m. EDT July 18, 2013 DETROIT — The city of Detroit filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection in federal […]
Source: The Guardian UK Hi-tech form of electric scalpel can identify malignant tissue in cancer patients having operations with 100% accuracy An intelligent knife that knows when it is cutting […]
Immigrants fleeing violence pay people smugglers thousands of dollars to enter Europe through Greece. The exodus includes children, alone and at risk. Their dreams are big, but the reality far different. Story, Irene Chapple. Film, Wojciech Treszczynski. Photo, Giorgos Moutafis Sisters’ tears for broken family Arazu has dressed carefully for […]
Source: Dawn.Com Despite the heightened sectarian strife that plagues Pakistan, the Darul Iman Jamia Masjid Qurtuba has no qualms in declaring its message loud and clear. A bold tag welcomes the followers to the mosque stating: “This mosque does not discriminate between any sects and welcomes all Muslims.” Considering the […]
Source: Spiegel: He’s loved by his congregation but loathed by the archbishop. Rebellious priest Wojciech Lemanski is seen as the church’s No. 1 enemy in Poland. His dismissal highlights the deep divide between church authorities and the faithful in this staunchly Catholic nation. More:
Huff Post: by Emily O’Dell. Treasure Hunting in Turkmenistan J-Lo isn’t the only one who went to Turkmenistan this summer. I was there too — but unlike J-Lo, I didn’t […]
Source: The Economist: CHINA’s communists attacked many bourgeois institutions after taking power in 1949. But marriage was not one of them. On the contrary, they enacted a marriage law in 1950, four years before they introduced a constitution. The pressure to marry remains heavy in today’s China, where almost 80% […]
IDF issues wanted posters for Palestinian kids RT: Asaf Hikmat, a West Bank Palestinian teen, can hardly concentrate on his upcoming exams, as he has been on the lookout for […]
The Jakarta Globe: Indonesia’s Religious Affairs Minister, in an apparent attempt to downplay the nation’s rising tide of religious intolerance, suggested that inter-faith strife is “human nature” before calling the […]
A one-day programme organised by ‘Islamic Courses’ held on 29th September 2012 at Birkbeck College, UK. Delivered by: Professor Jonathan A.C. Brown [University of Washington, USA] And Shaykh Dr M […]
Source: ET KARACHI: Unidentified persons gunned down the imam of a Jamia Masjid in the area of Gul Bahar, just after he had stepped out of the mosque after offering his afternoon prayers, reported Express News on Thursday. According to initial details a 9mm pistol was used and the victim, Maulana […]
The Washington Post: By David Ignatius, Hisham Melhem, a prominent Lebanese journalist, recalls an emotional visit to the Great Mosque of Cordoba in southern Spain last May. With tears in his […]
Source: Dawn.Com By Arieb Azhar: The depth of one’s spirituality is directly proportionate to one’s level of tolerance for other people’s beliefs. This means the more convinced a person is in his/her own beliefs and convictions; the less that person should be bothered by the beliefs of others. This is […]
Source: Dawn.Com Unlike most political ideologies whose adherents by and large agree with the definitional tags attributed to their respective ideologies and ideologues, Political Islam is more of an academic concoction. It works as an analytical umbrella under which political analysts lump various forces that claim to be using historical […]
Source: Conservative Papers: (CNSNews.com) – Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is planning to hold talks with jihadists, including the umbrella group known as the Pakistani Taliban, despite the failure of numerous similar initiatives over the past seven years. Campaigning ahead of the general election last May, Sharif pledged to […]