Comments on Issue of the day: Mob ransacks Ahmadiyah village
Your comments: Kids are being deliberately kept under-educated. Any spark of critical thinking and wider social awareness is driven out of their young minds at an early age until they […]
Quote of the Day, Erwin Schroedinger – Science and Religion
“I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experiences in a magnificently consistent order, but is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really […]
Award of Tolerance for SBY the President of Indonesia
SBY ‘Undeserving’ of Award for Tolerance: Rights Group The Jakarta Post: An Indonesian human rights organization has blasted a US-based interfaith group’s decision to recognize President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for […]
Quote of the Day by Francis Collins – Science and Religion
“Science is…a powerful way, indeed – to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective…in making commentary about the supernatural world. Both worlds, for me, are quite real and quite important. They are investigated in different ways. They coexist. They illuminate each other.” Francis Collins (1950-) –American physician-geneticist and […]
Too many Muslims support violence
By Tarek Fatah The Toronto SUN, May 8, 2013 In 2007, Environics conducted a survey about the attitudes of Canadian Muslims. It showed an astonishing 12% of respondents said, if the men in the so-called “Toronto 18” terror plot had succeeded in carrying out their attacks on Canada, they would […]
EU donates €300,000 Nobel Peace Prize money to UNICEF Pakistan
Express Tribune: ISLAMABAD: The European Union has provided €300,000 from its Nobel Peace Prize money to Unicef Pakistan to support its educational activities for children affected by a lack of security […]
Israel boycott: Stephen Hawking refuses to attend Jerusalem conference
Global Post: Hawking, a theoretical physicist and math professor at the University of Cambridge, wrote a letter to the Israeli president saying that he had changed his mind about headlining […]
Pakistan: Persecution: Anti-Ahmadi group targets community again
LAHORE: A group of anti-Ahmadi activists and police dragged five members of the community from an anti-terrorist court to a police station and detained them for several hours here on […]
Afghan interpreters begin legal bid for right to live in Britain
Reuters, London – Alarabiya.net Three men who worked as interpreters for British forces in Afghanistan began a legal challenge on Friday to win the right to live in Britain, arguing […]
Myth of Buddhist non-violence
Daily Times: Razi Azmi: In a world filled with hate and violence on account of religion, race, ethnicity, etc, Buddhists are no exception, despite their contrary image Buddhism is almost universally regarded as synonymous with peace, tolerance and non-violence. On the other hand, so strong and widespread is the perception of […]
Imran Khan’s recovery will be based on further tests, doctor says
ET: LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e- Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s doctor Faisal Sultan, said Khan can carry out his scheduled rallies if the treating team feels comfortable with his recovery, while addressing the media at the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre. According to the doctor, Khan’s life is not […]
Russia, U.S. agree to push both Syria sides to end conflict
AFP, Moscow – The United States and Russia on Tuesday agreed to push both warring sides in the Syria conflict to find a negotiated solution and to hold an international […]
Majority of the Americans say the Muslims Face Significant Discrimination
Source: The PEW Research Center After Boston, Little Change in Views of Islam and Violence The public’s views of whether Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence […]
Picture of the Day-Spider Man Lizard
“The Spider-Man Lookalike Lizard” The lizard is a Mwanza Flat Headed Agama, which are native to Africa and usually live in groups with one dominant male – usually the most colourful.
Under corrupt and regressive Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan has no future
Source: LUBP In an interviewed published in the backdrop of Pakistan’s forthcoming elections, only a couple of days away now, the great political thinker of these times Noam Chomsky has not shown much optimism about the outcome of the election results if the Punjabi mafia led by Nawaz Sharif wins. […]
Picture of the day.
Balla or Mullah via Munir Ahmad Munawwar of Austria Click HERE
Dalai Lama Decries Buddhist Attacks On Muslims In Myanmar
Source: The Huffington Post By Ian Simpson COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 7 (Reuters) – Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Tuesday decried Buddhist monks’ attacks on Muslims in […]
World from Berlin: ‘Germany Fooling Itself in Battle against Neo-Nazis’
The series of racist murders perpetrated by the neo-Nazi terror trio National Socialist Underground represents a massive failure on the part of German law enforcement officials. But as the trial starts on Monday, editorialists say that German society is also to blame. It is difficult to overstate the importance of […]
Blunder in Burma: Scrapping of EU Sanctions Sends Wrong Message – A Commentary by Lotte Leicht
Source: Spiegel.de Although Burma is shrugging off the burden of five decades of military dictatorship, its transition to democracy is still far from complete. Reform remains precarious, and ethnic violence […]
Saudi women to operate metro rail at PNU
RIYADH: ABDUL HANNAN TAGO & ALVIN RELOX ARABNEWS Wednesday 8 May 2013 The driverless metro rail, to be operated by a team of only Saudi women inside the women’s school […]