Source: Asia Times: By Hossein Askari: Professor of Business and International Affairs at the George Washington University. The global media almost never questions the religious credentials of politicians and rulers around […]
Source: Huffington Post JERUSALEM, July 15 (Reuters) – Israel criticised on Monday the extension of Poland’s ban on kosher meat production, saying it damaged efforts to rehabilitate Jewish life in […]
linktv: In a roundtable discussion, host Ray Suarez interviews author Reza Aslan (No god But God; How to Win a Cosmic War) and Dalia Mogahed, Executive Director of the Gallup […]
Business Insider: by Olga Khazan. It’s hard not to get jealous when I talk to my extended family. My cousin’s husband gets 36 vacation days per year, not including holidays. If he wants, he can leave his job for a brief hiatus and come back to a guaranteed position months […]
Stateman.com: By Brad Stutzman Austin Community Newspapers Staff Spectators who lined the July 4 route through downtown were treated to a wide variety of sights and sounds, among the approximately 110 entrants in Round Rock Sertoma Club’s annual Independence Day parade. They saw soldiers in uniform, combat veterans on motorcycles and […]
The SUN: IT will take 37 YEARS to clear a new backlog of half a million immigration cases, MPs reveal today. The Home Affairs Select Committee said it is “staggering” […]
ET: CAIRO: A senior US official flew into Cairo early Monday, hours after Egypt’s prosecutor ordered the freezing of assets belonging to 14 top Islamic leaders. Under Secretary of State Bill Burns, the first US official to visit since the overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi, is scheduled to stay there until […]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Temple Mount הַר הַבַּיִת, Har haBáyith الحرم الشريف, al-Haram ash-Sharīf, Elevation 740 m (2,428 ft) Location Temple Mount Jerusalem Range Judean Coordinates 31°46′40.7″N 35°14′8.9″ECoordinates: 31°46′40.7″N 35°14′8.9″E Geology Type […]
Yogyakarta, NU Online In addition to talking about democracy, the movie entitled “Under the Flag of Democracy” also describes nine basic values of struggle propagated by KH Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus […]
Press TV: British Education Secretary Michael Gove has announced his national curriculum after revising it to include a module on the history of Islam. The changes were made after an […]
DHAKA: A Bangladeshi court on Monday found a top Jamaat-e-Islaami (JI) leader guilty of masterminding atrocities during the 1971 war of independence against Pakistan and sentenced him to life imprisonment, as violence broke out across the country between police and his supporters. The decision angered both supporters who said the […]
Dated: July 2013 Source: The Guardian UK The leader of Nigeria‘s Islamist militant group Boko Haram has called for more attacks against schools, describing western education as a “plot against Islam”, in a video released days after his fighters killed 46 students in an assault on a dorm. In the 15-minute recording released at the […]
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STORY SUMMARY Hisham Melhem, a prominent Lebanese journalist, recalls an emotional visit to the Great Mosque of Cordoba in Spain last May. That question of lost greatness has vexed Arabs […]
WASHINGTON — Iran is moving “closer and closer” to building a nuclear weapon and Israel may have to act before the United States does, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Sunday. “They’re edging up to the red line. They haven’t crossed it yet,” Netanyahu said on CBS News’s “Face the […]
CAIRO — Jordan on Sunday reaffirmed its support for Egypt in its efforts to overcome the current circumstances, safeguard its security and stability, and achieve the aspirations of the Egyptian […]
RIYADH: MD RASOOLDEEN Monday 15 July 2013 Umrah packages organized annually by travel operators have been rescheduled to Thursday instead of Wednesdays in line with the new weekend days recently introduced by the government. Due to the rush of Ramadan, local travel operators have also raised the price of weekend […]
Epigraph: And We gave knowledge to David and Solomon, and they said, ‘All praise belongs to Allah, Who has exalted us above many of His believing servants.’ (Al Quran 27:16) […]
JEDDAH: KHAMIS AL-SAADI ARABNEWS/AL-EQTISASIAH Monday 15 July 2013 A tourism official in Makkah has confirmed that the prices of hotels have undergone radical change and returned to their normal rates. […]
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