Source: TOI CAIRO: Egypt’s supreme constitutional court ruled as illegal the law by which the upper house of parliament was elected but said that the chamber would not be dissolved until a new parliament is in place, judicial sources said. More:
The tiny, honey-coloured Al-Shuwaibiya Mosque is the oldest in Aleppo and one of the few that remains undamaged. Unlike many, its low minaret is protected by surrounding buildings and still […]
Source: The Local: Twenty years ago, two women of Turkish descent and three young girls were killed in their home during a far-right arson attack in Solingen, North-Rhine Westphalia. Three days earlier, on May 26th 1993, Germany’s asylum laws were drastically tightened. It appeared at the time as a bleak […]
Source: The News via Wasim Sr. The outlawed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) has backed out on its earlier offer to engage in peace negotiations with the government of Pakistan, following a missile attack by a US pilotless plane in the country’s tribal region in North Waziristan a couple of days back, […]
June 01, 2013 After almost two years of renovation, the Red Cross and Red Crescent museum has reopened in Geneva with a new permanent exhibition. Visitors embark on a journey […]
Huff Post: By Omar Sacirbey Religion News Service (RNS) When Oklahoma voters overwhelmingly approved a 2010 ballot measure that prohibits state courts from considering Islamic law, or Shariah, the Council of American-Islamic Relations filed a lawsuit within two days challenging the constitutionality of the measure, and won. But when Oklahoma […]
thegatestoneinstitute.com: The moment that the white British become a minority will symbolize a huge transfer of power — cultural political, economic and religious — an “irreversible change in British society, […]
Story Summary By Kishore Mahbubani The Daily Star However, too many American leaders are shirking this responsibility. Last year, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, two U.S. senators, one member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and a deputy national security adviser participated in a forum on the future […]
Source: Detroit Free Press BERKELEY, CALIF. — Abass Darab closes his eyes, unwraps the prayer beads from around his wrist and clutches them in his lap. A half-minute or so […]
Story Summary Influential Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi has called on Sunni Muslims to join the rebels fighting the Syrian regime, as he lashed out at Shiite group Hezbollah for sending […]
ET: Saroop Ijaz” In traditional Islamic jurisprudence, there is considerable debate on when an individual who has gone “missing” can be pronounced dead. The primary focus was when the wife can be declared a widow for the purposes of inheritance and remarriage, etc. The position in the Hanafi School varies […]
http://www.muhammadfactcheck.org: Today in the media there is an unprecedented and malacious effort to project the actions of some extremists who call themselves Muslims to sully the image of Islam and […]
World Bulletin: A song composed by Greek composer Manos Hacidakis titled “Kemal” has been banned in Athens following allegations that it serves as Islamic propaganda. Listen to the song: […]
Clinging to a dangerous oxymoron, Israel claims to be both a democracy and at the same time belong to “world Jewry.’ The consequences of this fallacy are severe. By Shlomo […]
Source: tehrantimes.com TEHRAN — The 30th International Quran Competition was inaugurated at the Summit Conference Hall in Tehran on Friday. Reciters and memorizers from over 70 countries are participating in this year’s […]
Source: amer786.hubpages.com Introduction This is the last in a series of Hubs I wrote so readers can get an opportunity to hear the ‘other side of the story’ on The […]
I want to know… Do you agree with me? Life has become a race today – a race to be the richest, the best, the famous, the greatest… The paradox of our time is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; Wider freeways but narrower viewpoints; We spend more […]
Source: alislam.org Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad meets various dignitaries and holds media conference The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad was visited by […]
Rod Such The Electronic Intifada 28 May 2013 130528-pretending-democracy.jpg Pretending Democracy: Israel, an Ethnocratic State is a collection of essays by Israeli, Palestinian and South African intellectuals dissecting the nature […]