News storyExtremism has no place in ‘open and tolerant’ Britain Organisation: Home Office Published: 14 June 2013 Minister: The Rt Hon Theresa May MP The Home Secretary has praised the […]
OccupyBawlStreet.com: By Grizzly Joe. The mere fact that “most Muslims say Ahmadis are not Muslim” makes these folks our friends. Your humble blogger knows that all Muslims are not evil, despite what one might conclude from the violent acts of Islamic Jihadists and Islamic apologists’ attempts to cover up the […]
Youtube: The beginning of President Kennedy’s “Peace” speech given at American University, June 10, 1963. Noteworthy are his comments that the US was seeking a goal of “complete disarmament” of […]
Daily Times: COMMENT : Ataturk and Taksim Square — Yasser Latif Hamdani Now the religiously inspired government of Reccep Tayyip Erdogan seeks to undo Ataturk’s legacy completely by banning alcohol and […]
ET: Hassan Askar Rizvi: The patterns of human behaviour have undergone major changes in Pakistan with a growing emphasis on the public display of religiosity, religious intolerance and extremism, and a tacit or open admiration of religious militancy. Those who have experienced Pakistan of the early 1970s know how much […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Islamic militants blew up a bus carrying female university students in Baluchistan Province in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday and then attacked a hospital complex where the wounded had been taken and local officials had gathered to comfort them, leaving at least 23 people dead. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/world/asia/attacks-in-baluchistan-province-shake-pakistan.html?ref=world&_r=0 Militants first […]
Source: The Economist: From the football pitch to politics to the economy, Germany has become Europe’s most powerful country. Described by this newspaper as the sick man of Europe in 1999, Germany now appears to have the continent’s strongest as well as its biggest economy. It accounts for a fifth […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent, UK World Exclusive: US urges UK and France to join in supplying arms to Syrian rebels as MPs fear that UK will be drawn into growing conflict Washington’s decision to arm Syria’s Sunni Muslim rebels has plunged America into the great Sunni-Shia conflict of the […]
Tosh! That’s the only sane reaction to the White House’s announcement that America the Brave is to arm the Syrian rebels. The US doesn’t plan to send weapons to the horrid rebels, mark you – not to the al-Qa’ida-inspired al-Nusra Front whose chaps film themselves eating Alawites for YouTube videos, […]
Source: almanar.com.lb Syrian army restored security and stability to the town of Ahmadiyya in East Ghouta of Damascus countryside and the villages of Ein Asan and Tallat al-Teen in the southern […]
June 16, 2013 – 12:32 In response to an American whistleblower’s revelations of US spies operating in Geneva, Swiss president Ueli Maurer has called for a broadening of legislation to allow for investigations into foreign spy activity in Switzerland. “We have known for a long time that foreign information-gathering activities […]
Now that moderate Iranian cleric Hassan Rouhani is set to assume the presidency, the West will have to get to the negotiating table to talk to Tehran in a serious […]
A former French foreign minister says Britain had been planning a war against Syria some two years before to the unrest broke out in the Arab country. The statement by […]
By Joby Warrick, Sunday, June 16, 2013 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Syrian tanks were closing in on the rebel-held town of Qusair last month when a Kuwaiti sheik named […]
Source: yourlocalguardian.co.uk More than 70 parliamentarians celebrated the centenary of Ahmadiyya Muslims in the UK and their contribution to British life. The occasion was marked at a reception in honour of […]
By Dean Obeidallah, Special to CNN updated 8:44 AM EDT, Sat June 15, 2013 Editor’s note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is a political comedian and frequent commentator on various TV networks […]
Epigraph: And if thy Lord had enforced His Will, surely, all those on the earth would have believed, without exception. Will thou, then, take it upon thyself to force people to become […]
rohrabacher.house.gov: Today, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher’s (R-CA) amendment tying the Defense Department’s ability to give monetary aid to Pakistan’s military to its treatment of ethnic and religious minority groups was included in final passage of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014 by the House of Representatives. The amendment requires the […]
ET: by Faheem Younas Teacher to Akram and Aslam: You both failed the test because you were late for class. Why were you late? Akram: Sir, I was busy looking for my atthani which I lost on my way to school today. Teacher: What is your reason Aslam? Aslam: (Sheepishly): Sorry sir, but […]