Huff Post: Superman is Jesus. More precisely, in the new movie, Superman: Man of Steel, we are meant to draw very distinct parallels between Superman and Jesus. Arguably, the movie goes a step further making Superman the modern-day, Americanized Jesus. [If you have not seen the movie and do not want […]
Huff Post: This week in Geneva, the United Nation’s Committee on the Rights of the Child is hearing closed-door testimony about official Catholicism’s compliance with the 1989 Convention on the […]
Dawn: It’s reminiscent of George Orwell’s novel ‘1984’, but it’s real life – the US government’s extensive surveillance programme also applied to foreign citizens, and Pakistan is no exception. As a result of the US government’s PRISM and Boundless Informant programme, nearly 13.5 billion pieces of “intelligence” were collected in […]
ET: LAHORE: A division bench of the Lahore High Court dismissed bail applications on Wednesday of two Ahmadi men with blasphemy cases registered against them at Islampur police station. Presided by Justice Tariq Masood, the bench dismissed bail applications of Khalid Asfhaq and Tahir Mahmood after listening to cases presented by […]
Source: alislam.org/quran Click the above link to browse the website’s main page on Quran and menu for translations in different languages. Suggested Reading The Holy Quran in the eyes of non-Muslim […]
Huffington Post UK | By Sara C Nelson Posted: 19/06/2013 1 A pregnant Muslim woman has miscarried her baby after she was reportedly attacked in Paris for wearing a veil. The unnamed 21-year-old was four months pregnant when she claims she was attacked by “skinheads” in the suburb of Argenteuil. […]
There’s no reason to waste more words on the necessity of the two-state solution. What’s important to stress is that this pessimism, which feeds on the feeling that we’ve missed the deadline, stems from shortsightedness and impatience. By Avi Shilon | Jun.19, 2013 | HAARETZ ISRAEL Economy Minister Naftali Bennett’s […]
The US will keep Patriot missiles and F-16 fighter jets in Jordan after a military exercise, angering Russia. Pentagon spokesman George Little said the US enjoyed “a long-standing partnership with […]
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Quote of the Day, by David Hume: When anyone tells me, that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether it be more probable, […]
Huff Post: by Weston Pew. In a country and world that is addicted to war, consumption, incarceration, inequality and the pillaging of Earth’s precious resources (which are on loan to us by future generations) it is simply not enough to speak every Sunday about loving thy neighbor. Sermons, lectures, and […]
Ynetnews: The promised land must become a land of promise, President Shimon Peres said Tuesday night at his 90th birthday celebration “I know you have come to Jerusalem from around […]
Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN) — At least 14 people died and 15 others were wounded in an attack on the U.N. headquarters in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Wednesday. Seven militants, four U.N. employees and three female civilians were killed, said Abdikarim Hussein Guled, the country’s interior and national security minister. […]
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By SEYED HOSSEIN MOUSAVIAN and MOHAMMAD ALI SHABANI The New York Times THE stunning election of a pragmatic former Iranian nuclear negotiator, Hassan Rowhani, has offered the Obama administration a once-in-a-lifetime chance to end the atomic stalemate with Iran. In the West, Mr. Rowhani is widely seen as a turbaned […]
More and more, members of Israel’s ruling parties are matching their public statements to the reality they are implementing every minute on the ground: Israel’s opposition to the establishment of a viable Palestinian state and a negotiated two-state solution to the conflict. By Mairav Zonszein 972mag.com Economy Minister and Jewish […]
REUTERS By Jessica Donati, Ghaith Shennib and Firas Bosalum BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Abdul Basit Haroun says he is behind some of the biggest shipments of weapons from Libya to Syria, which he delivers on chartered flights to neighboring countries and then smuggles over the border. After fleeing Libya in […]
By Jana El Hassan The Daily Star STORY SUMMARY “Human beings are destroying themselves,” said luminary Noam Chomsky, warning that unrest in Syria could turn into a Sunni-Shiite conflict that […]
April Flowers for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online It is one of the oldest stories in the human pantheon, and one of the first any child learns at church. Noah […]