Source: CNN Money By Tami Luhby Poverty is growing faster in the suburbs than anywhere else in the United States, soaring 64% over the past decade. That was more than twice the growth rate of the urban poor population, according to the Brookings Institution, which released a book Monday titled […]
Source: BDNews 24 A Dhaka court has remanded three Hifazat-e Islam activists for four days to police custody in two cases filed over the May 5 violence in capital Dhaka’s Motijheel. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Erfanullah also rejected bail petitions of the detainees on Monday. Police on Sunday detained Hifazat’s […]
By Camelia Pasandaran, The Jakarta Globe: Police have halted an investigation into last week’s attack on an Ahmadiyah mosque in Tulungagung, East Java, citing an agreement by the victims to […]
The Jakarta Globe: About 20 members of the beleaguered Ahmadiyah sect in Tasikmalaya, West Java, supposedly embraced Sunni Islam on Monday and declared their devotion to Indonesia’s most popular religious […]
Telegraph: Dr Justin Barrett, a senior researcher at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Anthropology and Mind, claims that young people have a predisposition to believe in a supreme being […]
Epigraph: “Indeed, We Ourself have sent down this Exhortation (the Quran), and most surely We will be its Guardian.” (Al Quran 15:10) Source: The Huffington Post By Hal Taussig: Author, […]
the electronic intifida: Peder Egenaes. (Berit Roald / AFP/Getty Images) Oslo Freedom Forum founder’s ties to Islamophobes who inspired mass killer Anders Breivik by Max Blumenthal, The Electronic Intifada, New York City 14 May […]
Youtube: TED Talks by Haroon Moghul: The Huge Overlapp between the Idea of America and the Idea of Islam Watch in Youtube.
ISLAMABAD / GILGIT-BALTISTAN: Two young siblings achieved rare mountaineering glory for themselves on Saturday by becoming the first Pakistani woman and only the third Pakistani man to set foot on the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal. Through their feats, 21-year-old Samina Baig and her 29-year-old brother Mirza Ali ensured that […]
لندن ( مرزا نعیم الرحمان سے ) میٹروپولیٹن پولیس نے متحدہ قومی موومنٹ کے قائدالطاف حسین کی موومنٹ محدود کردی ہے ۔ ذمہ دار ذرائع کے مطابق برطانوی پولیس […]
by Marc H. Ellis on May 17, 2013 Joseph Massad is at it again. He never seems to go away. Good for him! Massad is a Jordanian-born, Palestinian and a professor at Columbia University. He gained notoriety in a tenure battle that featured a ferocious below the belt campaign against […]
Africa’s ‘Arc of Instability’ From Markham to Mogadishu and London to Nouakchott: A Toronto Star investigation into Africa’s “Arc of Instability” and why westerners are joining the jihad. MOGADISHU, SOMALIA—Everyone in Mogadishu knew an attack was imminent. Double agents within Al Shabab had warned Somalia’s security services that something spectacular […]
Source: Spiegel In a SPIEGEL interview, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, 51, discusses the search for a political solution to the Syrian civil war, controversial German arms exports and how his family’s experiences in World War II inform his positions today. More:
Source: The Local. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbàn deepened diplomatic tensions with Germany after comparing the policies of German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the Nazi military invasion of his country ordered by Adolf Hitler. More:
Source:The Local. The Federal Criminal Police Office is warning of a new type of Islamist terrorist threat from the air that could attack both passenger and cargo planes as well as airport facilities, the Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported. More:
Source: The Local An American appeals court has denied a fundamentalist Christian family from Germany the right to asylum in the US. The family claimed they were being persecuted for not being allowed to homeschool their children. More:
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The Hanging Gardens of Babylon have long been regarded as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, although not without […]
Below I am giving you ‘the latest News from Reuters’ as copied from swissinfo.ch website. Militant news and bad news make most of the headlines. Did any International News Agency for instance pick up the News of the opening of the Vancouver Mosque? Not interesting, because it is non-violent. “Only” […]
by Frédéric Burnand in Geneva, swissinfo.ch May 20, 2013 – 11:01 The intensive use of drones by the Obama administration is feeding a wave of protest and criticism which reaches […]
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says militants from 29 different countries are now fighting against the government in different parts of the country. Assad made the remarks in a lengthy interview […]