TED Talk: What the Western World Can Learn from the Prophet Muhammad: Haroon Moghul
Youtube: TED Talks by Haroon Moghul: The Huge Overlapp between the Idea of America and the Idea of Islam Watch in Youtube.
For the record: Woman climber makes Pakistan proud- climbs Everest
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 […]
برطانوی پولیس نے الطاف حسین کو گھر میں ’نظر بند‘ کردیا
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 […]
Exile and the Prophetic: Joseph Massad strikes again
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 […]
Why Westerners are joing the Jihad?
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 […]
‘A Military Solution Won’t Yield Lasting Peace in Syria’
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:
Merkel policy like Nazi invasion
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:
Police warn against high-tech Islamist attacks
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:
US denies Christian homeschoolers asylum
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:
Hanging Gardens Of Babylon Discovered 300 Miles Away In Nineveh May 6, 2013
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 […]
Good News? Bad News? International News? REUTER News? Sad, sad media world.
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” […]
Neither war nor peace: Battle begins against drones and killer robots
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 […]
Militants from 29 countries fighting in Syria: Assad
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 […]
Former US drone pilot quits, regretting bombing innocents, including children
A former US assassination drone pilot says he quit the force after feeling “numb” about seeing a child and other civilians blown away in his remote bombing of targets in […]
Google Maps help kidnapped Chinese man to find kins
Tuesday 21 May 2013 ARABNEWS.COM BEIJING: A 28-year-old Chinese man who was kidnapped 23 years ago and sold to a family 1,500 km from his home, has met up with […]
Behind closed doors: Nawaz, Kayani agree on ‘policy overhaul’
Source:ET ISLAMABAD: Officially, little came out from Saturday’s meeting between the incoming premier, Nawaz Sharif, and army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. The Express Tribune, however, learnt on Sunday that the two sides agreed to ‘overhaul’ the country’s national security and foreign policies. During the meeting, which lasted three-and-half hours, at […]
“The first ever ‘Charter for the Protection of Religion and Religious Rights’ is found in the Holy Quran”
Source.Press Desk AMJ London-UK PRESS RELEASE “The first ever ‘Charter for the Protection of Religion and Religious Rights’ is found in the Holy Quran” Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad addresses Reception […]
B.C.’s largest Ahmadiyya mosque opens in Delta- CBC
Source:cbc.ca Hundreds of people are attending the opening of the Baitur Rahman mosque in Delta, described as the largest Ahmadiyya Muslim house of worship in B.C. The Ahmadiyya movement —a […]
How to buy happiness
Epigraph: “Indeed, man is born impatient and miserly. When evil touches him, he is full of lamentation. But when good falls to his lot, he is niggardly, except for those who pray.” (Al Quran 70:20-23) http://embed.ted.com/talks/michael_norton_how_to_buy_happiness.html
The United Nations and Syria: reminds me of: The Development Set
The development set Excuse me, friends, I must catch my jet I’m off to join the Development Set; My bags are packed, and I’ve had all my shots I have traveller’s checks and pills for the trots! The Development Set is bright and noble Our thoughts are deep and our […]