Source: Asia Times: By Akbar Ahmed and Harrison Akins “When you leave a seed from a tree to grow in a pagoda, it seems so small at first. But you know you must cut it out before it grows and destroys the building.” These spoken words are a metaphor for […]
Amena Saleem The Electronic Intifada London 23 April 2013 The American poet T.S. Eliot wrote that “April is the cruelest month.” The phrase springs to mind in April 2013, the month that a new director-general took up his post at the BBC and, within two weeks, had installed a line-up […]
Source: Asia Times: By Tom Engelhardt Chalmers Johnson’s book Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire was published in March 2000 – and just about no one noticed. Until then, blowback had been an obscure term of CIA tradecraft, which Johnson defined as ”the unintended consequences of policies that […]
Source: Spiegel. After last week’s terror attacks in Boston, Americans themselves seem to have been surprised by their measured response. The more they get to know about the Tsarnaev brothers, though, the more it will become clear that they will now have to get used to a new breed of […]
Source: The Local Most Germans love to show how well they speak English, but they often misuse or even make up their own English vocabulary. We gathered up the worst offenders for this week’s The Local List. Click HERE for these words.
Source: Amnesty International Blog By Zeke Johnson April 23, 2013 at 1:56 PM My cousin lives in Boston and I was worried that he was somehow affected by the attacks. It immediately brought me back to 9/11 and the memory of how powerless I felt watching the Twin Towers […]
Venue Wednesday, April 24 7-10 p.m. WSU Vancouver campus Dengerink Administration building, room 110 FREE and open to the public For more information, visit vancouver.wsu.edu Theme of Discussion Moderated by […]
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME INDONESIA: Government collaborates with non-tolerant groups in closing down three Ahmadi mosques in Cianjur ISSUES: Freedom of religion; minorities; non-state actors; police […]
You have to know Urdu to read this Ad by a Fundamentalist’s organization as they vilify the most honored and respected philanthropist in Pakistan, Abdul Sattar Edhi, because of their hatred of the […]
Times of Malta.com: by Laiq Ahmad Atif. Love is a powerful weapon that unites and brings people, communities, nations, religions and countries closer. In the same way, hatred and malice are the instruments of division and conflict. The editorial of The Times of April 4, ‘Maltese perception of Muslims’ shed […]
Huff Post: by Scott Stephens. Dawkins’ views on religion are by now extremely well-known, to the point of cultural saturation thanks to the media’s fixation with him. Dawkins makes for good copy — that’s why journalists love him. But the dogmatic assertions and withering dismissals that made Dawkins a media-darling, […]
By Lynsay Williams | The Daily Tar Heel A little more than a week after the bombings at the Boston Marathon, Muslims in the Triangle came together Tuesday to promote Islam as a peaceful religion. The event, held in the Frank Porter Student Union and attended by about 60, was […]
Would you like to read the Holy Quran in English? please click here: You can search the entire text for any special point of interest to you. * * * […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman: Blogger, Sinai and Synapses I recently had a conversation with a neuroscientist, who also happened to be a self-described atheist. He knew I […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Source / Courtesy: Review of Religions and Alislam.org. First published in 2007. A compelling argument that Thomas Jefferson […]
Source: BBC By Sean Coughlan: BBC News education correspondent An international training institute to teach online tactics for human rights campaigners is being set up in the Italian city of […]
Source:RT.Com via Wasim Sr. Video footage allegedly showing Kindergarten-aged children firing an arsenal of heavy firepower at a terrorist training camp in Pakistan’s tribal area has surfaced online. Young children garbed in shalwar kameez can be seen lined up in neat rows, straining under the recoil as they fire semi-automatic […]
JEDDAH: JASSIM ABUZAID ARABNEWS Wednesday 24 April 2013 The office of the Ministry of Islamic and Endowment Affairs in Makkah has barred non-Saudis from being imams and muezzins. Abdullah Al-Nasser, head of the ministry’s office in Makkah, said there will be no exception to the ruling, a local newspaper reported. […]
AFP | Apr 23, 2013 | 23:31 JORDAN TIMES RAMALLAH — An Israeli-held Palestinian prisoner on a life-threatening hunger strike has agreed to end his fast in return for his early release, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Under terms of the deal, Samer Issawi, who has intermittently refused food since […]
AMMAN — Jordan’s security and stability is not a coincidence, but it is the result of the hard work and determination of the Jordanian people, His Majesty King Abdullah said […]