Seekers, Nones and the Age of Doubt?
Epigraph: And most of them follow nothing but conjecture. Surely, conjecture avails nothing against truth. (Al Quran 10:37) Will they not, then, meditate upon the Qur’an? Had it been from […]
Some Parents Want Their Child to Redeem Their Broken Dreams
Source: Science Daily Some parents desire for their children to fulfill their own unrealized ambitions, just as psychologists have long theorized, according to a new first-of-its-kind study. Researchers found the more that parents see their child as part of themselves, the more likely they are to want their child to […]
Heart attacks can happen at any age
Source: CNN Heart attack risk goes up in men older than 45 and women older than 55, but it can happen even earlier. While lifestyle modifications help reduce risk — eating a healthy diet, maintaining good blood pressure and normal weight, not smoking — sometimes it’s not enough. Family history […]
Sir Zafrulla Khan, a Polymath: Introducing Islam to the West
Promoted post: Quran: Is This God Speaking or Muhammad? Encylopaedia Britannica states about Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, also spelled as Zafrulla: “Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan was a Pakistani politician, diplomat, and […]
Housing, regional factory data show economy’s stamina
(Reuters) – Home resales hit a 3-1/2-year high in May and factory activity in the Mid-Atlantic region rebounded this month, backing the Federal Reserve’s view that risks to the economy have diminished. While other data on Thursday showed more Americans than expected filed new claims for unemployment benefits last week, […]
Study: Arab Spring Adds To Religious Restrictions, Intolerance
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – A new data analysis finds that the onset of the Arab Spring in late 2010 did not spark new freedoms for people of the region, but instead, has led to more global restrictions on religion. A Pew Research Center study finds that in the years since […]
Israeli police raid home of country’s chief rabbi amid bribery investigation
Associated Press in Jerusalem The Guardian, Thursday 20 June 2013 Israeli police say they have questioned the country’s chief rabbi and raided his home and office over his alleged involvement […]
Atheist seeking US citizenship told to join church or be denied
A 65-year-old British atheist who has lived in the US for 30 years has been denied US citizenship, unless she joins a church by Friday. During her application process to become a naturalized US citizen, Texas resident Margaret Doughty did not agree to bear arms to defend the country, claiming […]
Arab Islamist rebels, Kurds clash in northern Syria
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN | Thu Jun 20, 2013 12:18pm EDT (Reuters) – Islamist rebels have cut access to a Kurdish area in northern Syria and clashed with Kurdish nationalist PKK fighters whom they accuse of backing President Bashar al-Assad, sources on both sides said on Thursday. The confrontation […]
Obama makes ‘alarming call for end to Catholic education’…
Source: The Conservative Papers. The mainstream media in the United States have ignored comments made by President Barack Obama during his a speech in Northern Ireland this week in which he described religious education as a source of conflict. The president’s comments have sparked widespread controversy and criticism in the […]
Polish driving Too many road deaths
Source: The Economist THE headline stories on one of the Polish papers on June 13th made typical reading. Four people killed when their car ploughed into a shop near Poznan; five dead after their car rolled off the tarmac and into a ditch along a rural road in the northwest. Nine […]
Disunited Kingdom
Source: Spiegel The economic crisis has caused the United Kingdom to drift apart, creating ever-widening rifts between rich and poor, native and immigrant, English and Scot. With the anti-Europe UKIP party on the rise, Great Britain stands at a crossroads. More:
In CM Shahbaz Sharif’s Lahore, three Christian women forced to parade naked and Ahmadi man killed
Source: LUBP Religious minorities in Pakistan, are facing an increase in persecution at the hands of Takfiri Deobandi militants of Sipah-e-Sahaba (ASWJ-LeJ) Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its other affiliate groups who believe the country is only made for Muslims and all other religious and sectarian minorities are Kafirs and wajabul […]
Violence against women worldwide is ‘epidemic’
Epigraph: And when people are brought together, as if they are a part of a family. And when the girl-child buried alive is questioned about, ‘For what crime was she killed?’ And when […]
Deobandi and Wahhabi radicalism is a larger issue than terrorism
Source: LUBP by Ayesha Siddiqa The writer is an independent social scientist and author of Military Inc. and was a media consultant for NAB from 2011 to 2012 The terrorist attack on the residency in Ziarat, Balochistan, where Muhammad Ali Jinnah spent the last days of his life has created […]
Child labor jars with Islamic tradition
Source: Asia Times: By Ramzy Baroud In the hotel lobby of an Arab Gulf country, a family walks in aiming for the Westernized cafe that sells everything but Arabic coffee. The mother seems distant as she presses buttons on her smartphone. The father looks tired as he puffs away on […]
Taliban hints at Afghan power-sharing
Source: Asia Times By Abubakar Siddique The Taliban have expressed their readiness to share power in Afghanistan a day after the hardline Islamic group opened a political office in Qatar. Mohammad Naeem, the spokesman for the Qatar office, told RFE/RL that the Taliban want to have an inclusive Afghan government. […]
THE TERROR DIASPORA US spreads blowback nightmare
Source: Asia Times: By Nick Turse The Gulf of Guinea. He said it without a hint of irony or embarrassment. This was one of US Africa Command’s big success stories. The Gulf … of Guinea. Never mind that most Americans couldn’t find it on a map and haven’t heard of […]
The journey to documenting Abdus Salam
Source: ET Film-makers Zakir Thaver and Omar Vandal express their love for science through a documentary on Mohammad Abdus Salam. DESIGN: ABEERA KHAN / FAHAD NAVEED LAHORE: It was during a casual conversation over a meal that film-makers Zakir Thaver and Omar Vandal came up with the idea of making a […]
Read the Holy Qur’an – Message to Mankind from the Lord Almighty – In German
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