The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
Epigraph: Blessed is He (Allah) in Whose hand is the kingdom, and He has power over all things; … Who has created seven heavens in harmony. No incongruity canst thou see […]
Pakistani Wahhabi Deobandi militants celebrating the Woolwich beheading
Source: LUBP Here is a translation of Wahhabi Deobandi Jihadists of Pakistan eulogizing the horrible beheading of a British soldier in Woolwich, London. More:
A warning shot for Turkey-Qatar axis
Source: Asia Times. By Alper Birdal and Yigit Gunay A bombing in the Turkish town of Reyhanli on May 11 killed 51 people but was largely ignored by Turkish media. Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed the Syrian government – with no evidence. Turkish hacker collective RedHack claims here that […]
UK pays price for MI5 courting terror
Source: Asia Times. By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed The brutal murder of an off-duty British soldier in broad daylight in the southeast London district of Woolwich raises new questions about the British government’s national security strategy, at home and abroad. Officials have highlighted the danger of “self-radicalizing” cells inspired by Internet […]
Russian missiles have arrived in Syria
Source: TOI BEIRUT: The Syrian president has told Lebanon’s Hezbollah-owned TV station that Damascus received the first shipment of Russian air defense missiles, according to remarks released on Thursday. Bashar Assad’s comment on the arrival of the long-range S-300 air defense missiles in Syria will further ratchet up tensions in […]
Hit-Squads Coming
Source: The Conservative Papers. UPDATE: The source informed media sources hours after this story was posted that the Islamic regime ruling Iran is in preparation for a major cyber attack very soon on major U.S. facilities – to send a warning to the U.S. that the regime is capable of […]
Muslim Introduces Bill That Will Ban Cartoons of Muhammad in Israel
Source: The Conversative Papers. Muslim MK Ibrahim Sarsour (Ra’am-Ta’al) has reintroduced legislation that would lower the threshold for what is considered a racist offense and would ban the publication of materials that disparage the prophet Muhammad through a “cartoon, defamation and insult,” the Yisrael Hayom newspaper reported on Tuesday. Sarsour […]
Daredevil makes record-breaking leap from Mount Everest
Russian extreme sports star Valery Rozov successfully carries out the world’s highest base jump, leaping off the north face of Mount Everest. The extreme sports enthusiast leaped off Mount Everest to mark 60 years since Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay conquered the world’s highest mountain. Valery Rozov, 48, spent more […]
Wasting time
Source:The Economist. ONE of India’s bigger private-sector employers can be found in Patna, the capital of Bihar, a poor, populous state in the east of the country. Narendra Kumar Singh, the boss, has three gold rings on his right hand and arms big enough to crush rocks. His firm, Frontline, […]
Halal business Consuming passions
Source: The Economist. Trends used to be set by majority-Muslim countries in the Middle East and South-East Asia. Now they come as much from the Muslim minorities in the West. Nestlé, which decades ago was one of the first Western firms to spy the potential, has since the 1980s made […]
Report on Syria – Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire: “The Syrian State is Under a Proxy War Led by Foreign Countries”
Report and Appeal to the International community to support a process of dialogue and reconciliation in Syria between its people and Syrian government and reject outside intervention and war. After […]
Moderate Muslims key for future of Islam: scholars
By Samir Salama, Associate EditorPublished: 19:10 May 27, 2013 Abu Dhabi: Islam and secularism have much in common as both cherish human rights and justice, a regional conference on the […]
Afghan attacks soldier Robert Bales to plead guilty
A US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians in two rampages last year will plead guilty to avoid the death penalty, his lawyers say. Staff Sgt Robert Bales will […]
If Iran wins in Syria, danger threatens the Gulf
After regional and international stances became clear, the struggle in Syria and over Syria has become clear. This is a war that will alter the region’s map. If Bashar al-Assad’s regime survives, Hezbollah and Iran win as well. Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that this is crucial […]
Switzerland: JUNE 9 VOTE: Asylum and cabinet reforms set for clear verdict
by Urs Geiser, swissinfo.ch May 29, 2013 – 17:01 A reform aimed at tightening asylum laws is poised for approval at the ballot box next month, but a rightwing proposal […]
Syria crisis: Geneva talks offer last chance for peace, says Turkish minister
Foreign affairs chief Omer Celik states June meeting is only chance for nations to salvage credibility after 80,000 deaths Julian Borger in Ankara, Ian Traynor Brussels guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 29 May 2013 If the planned Geneva peace talks on Syria fail, it will mark the end of the road for attempts […]
Afghanistan war has cost Britain more than £37bn, new book claims
Frank Ledwidge, author of damning study Investment in Blood, says failing, bloody campaign has cost £2,000 per UK household by Richard Norton-Taylor The Guardian, Thursday 30 May 2013 The war […]
World’s oldest Torah scroll found mislabeled in college library
Professors at the University of Bologna in Italy think they found the world’s oldest Torah scroll, and they didn’t even have to excavate any ancient archeological sites to do it. […]
Muslim community to dedicate fun run to Boston and Woolwich victims
Source: STV Glasgow ‘Love for All, Hatred for None’ is a grand statement. But at the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Mosque, it is more than just a lofty adage – it […]
Rape cases: DNA tests not admissible as main evidence says CII
ET: ISLAMABAD: Until now, police have relied heavily on DNA tests to determine cases of rape. The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), however, has declared that DNA tests are not admissible as the main evidence in rape cases. In a meeting of the council on Wednesday, religious scholars observed that […]