By BEN CASPIT, LIOR NOVIK Senior defense official: Israel thought Assad would fall sooner. Syrian President Bashar Assad heading a cabinet meeting in Damascus, February 12, 2013. Photo: REUTERS/SANA/Handout The debate over the situation in Syria and President Bashar Assad’s chances for survival has sharpened recently within the Israeli defense […]
Israel 21C: There are more museums per capita in Israel than anywhere in the world, and they’re all bursting with innovation and creativity. Israel has more museums per capita than […]
Indonesia has thousands of Museums and cultural heritage sites. Following is only a partial list taken from the Wikipedia: North Jakarta and Thousand Islands Maritime Museum Onrust Archaeology Park […]
Source: CNN By Hussein Rashid, Special to CNN Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the Boston Marathon bomb suspects, reportedly wrote that “an attack against one Muslim is an attack against all” on the wall of the boat in which he was hiding from police last month. Variations of this refrain seem to […]
The Jakarta Globe: A mob of more than 100 people damaged an Ahmadiyah mosque in Tulungagung, East Java, on Thursday night. Baitul Salam mosque, located in Gempolan village, Tulungagung, had […]
Source: ET According to documents available with The Express Tribune, Minister for Information and Technology, Education and Trainings and Science and Technology Dr Sania Nishtar informed Caretaker Premier Justice (retd) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso and her cabinet colleagues that Pakistan was the only country in the world without a clear […]
LUBP: by Ali Taj The spiritual leader and fifth Khalifa of Ahmadiyya Muslim community visited Los Angeles on 11 May 2013 and delivered an address. I had the pleasure and honor of meeting his holiness and asked him a question about the U-turn that Pakistan is taking away from tolerance […]
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Source: The Conservative Papers by Peter Paton Prime Minister David Cameron should dissolve Parliament and call an early election later this year on taking Britain out of the EU. Summary of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 The Bill fixes the date of the next General Election at 7 May 2015, […]
Russia Today: One in 10 people under 25 are Muslim, while Christianity is in decline, the 2011 UK census reveals. An explosion in the Muslim population and an aging Christian demographic could mean Islam will be the dominant religion in the UK in 10 years. A new analysis of the […]
Source: The daily Beast All successful political leaders have one or two very simple fundamental beliefs upon which they build both their popularity and their policies.For Ronald Reagan, it was limited government and more freedom. For Barack Obama, it is the unshakeable conviction that government can and must be a […]
Epigraph: “O children of Adam! look to your adornment at every time and place of worship, and eat and drink but exceed not the bounds; surely, He does not love […]
Source: The Economist FOR young people of Muslim heritage, the internet can either be a deadly temptation or a breath of fresh air. At worst, for some frustrated kids with time on their hands, it opens a window into a world of extremism where all moderating influences from real life (parents, […]
Source: Spiegel There are few foreign policy mistakes as grave as this one: A president publicly draws a red line, telling his opponent he can go this far and no further without consequences. But when that line is crossed, he does nothing. This has been the scenario with United States […]
Source: Las Wegas Sun A 29-year-old Las Vegas man was still in critical condition Thursday afternoon after being shot multiple times overnight by a Metro Police officer. The man, Miguel Alejandro Martinez, who was brandishing a pellet gun that was a replica of a Colt .45 handgun, was taken to […]
Source: Las Wegas Sun via Wasim Sr The man set to become Pakistan’s next prime minister after historic elections over the weekend could be called the Islamist comeback kid. Nawaz Sharif has held the job twice before, but the last time didn’t end so well. The 63-year-old was toppled in […]
Source: Der Spiegel. “There is no particular enthusiasm for (German Chancellor Angela) Merkel, but rather paralyzed consent.” During her eight years as chancellor, Angela Merkel has skillfully lulled Germans to sleep and used feel-good policies to switch their focus from politics to personal comfort. By starving Germany’s democracy of vibrancy, […]
Source: The Local. Revelations that Western drug companies colluded with East Germany’s communist regime to use more than 50,000 people as “human guinea pigs” in 1980s medical trials has sparked widespread outrage. More:
Source: AMJ Press Desk UK: The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad arrived in Canada on 15 May 2013 as his tour of North America continued.His Holiness landed at Vancouver International Airport at 5.30pm local time and was greeted by Canada’s Minister […]