CNN: Editor’s note: Ronald Deibert is a professor of political science at the University of Toronto, where he is director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs. He is author of “Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace” (Signal/McClelland & […]
Amnesty International: Criminal “defamation of religion” charges must be dropped in a number of cases across Egypt, Amnesty International said today after a teacher was convicted for insulting Islam and the Prophet Muhammad in the classroom. A Luxor court on Tuesday fined Coptic Christian teacher Dimyana Obeid Abd Al Nour […]
Aljazeera: There has been a disturbing increase in anti-Muslim attacks in the UK after the murder of a soldier in May. A number of mosques and Islamic institutions in the […]
Source: BBC The EU’s Justice Commissioner has written to the US attorney general, questioning him about America’s data surveillance programme, Prism. Viviane Reding wrote that she was concerned America’s efforts […]
Source: The Daily Beast. So, it seems there really are gay priests in the upper echelons of the Vatican hierarchy. At least that’s what Pope Francis reportedly told a group of Latin American prelates in a private audience June 6. Pope Francis presides over a meeting at the Vatican on […]
Source: ET ISLAMABAD: Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar presented the federal budget for the year 2013-2014 in the National Assembly on Wednesday, Express News reported. The first litmus test of the newly sworn-in government began when Dar presented a Rs3.5 trillion federal budget in a bid to revive the country’s ailing economy. Designed […]
Dr Ikram Malik, 75, of Nelson, Lancashire, was on his way to local mosque Clothes became entangled in Vauxhall Astra driven by Caroline Schofield He fell and hit his head […]
Source: Lost Islamic History Much like previous Muslim Empires, the Ottomans showed great toleration and acceptance of non-Muslim communities in their empire. This is based on existing Muslim laws regarding […]
Source: huffingtonpost.com By Craig Considine: Ph.D. candidate, Trinity College Dublin; Film director, ‘Journey into America’; Interfaith activist Cathie Adams, former chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, stated recently in her speech “Radical Islam […]
Source: debate.org | Asked by: IslamAhmadiyya #1: The Original Islam, Modernized: Ahmadis consider themselves to be part of the universal religion of Islam. They believe that a man, by the name of Hazrat Mirza […]
Source: beta.dawn.com | 113 Comment(s) Jadeed Qabristan (graveyard) is located near Murree Road in the heart of the garrison city of Rawalpindi. A signboard dangling outside the house of the gravedigger reads: “It’s […]
Credit: Dawn.com Syed Ali Shah QUETTA: A team from Crimes Branch Quetta reached Islamabad on Wednesday to arrest former president Pervez Musharraf in the Akbar Bugti murder case. Sources in Crimes Branch Quetta investigating the case told Dawn.com that a police team comprising senior officials had reached the federal […]
Dubai: The Ministry of Education has announced its next step towards improving the teaching of Arabic language in schools through modernising its curriculum and teaching methodology, during a seminar held on Wednesday. The ministry’s new strategy will focus on developing reading and writing Arabic as well as modernising the Arabic […]
Computerworld – Depending on whom you ask, National Security Agency (NSA) contract employee Edward Snowden is either a hero or a traitor for leaking details about top-secret U.S. surveillance programs to the media. Snowden on Sunday identified himself as the person who had provided The Guardian and other newspapers with details of a top-secret phone […]
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Successful women may be more likely to develop breast cancer – and stress at work, including prejudice, discrimination, and resistance, could be to blame. Women in professional jobs had a near 70 per cent higher risk of breast cancer than other women, according to new research. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/professional-women-more-susceptible-to-breast-cancer-8651359.html
Source: BBC Google, Facebook and Microsoft have asked the US government to allow them to disclose the security requests they receive for handing over user data. The move comes after […]
Peter Scowen, The Globe and Mail Published Wednesday, Apr. 24 2013, 1:12 PM EDT, Last updated Wednesday, Apr. 24 2013, 1:25 PM EDT President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, have further limited their two daughters’ narrow range of options for expressing garden-variety teen rebellion by telling them that, if […]
Source: ET KARACHI: A member of the Ahmedi community was shot dead while his son and another companion were injured in a targeted attack in Soldier Bazaar on Tuesday evening. The victims were identified as Hamid Sami, 45, his son, Osama, 18, and a companion, Salman Zaman, 48. They were shot […]