Picture of the Day-Monster Eye or…?
Its not an eye but a mind-boggling image of draining sink that looks like a monster eye.
Voice against Relegious Intolerance in Indonesia
Religious Minorities Band Together for Tolerance The Jakarta Globe: So often the victims of intolerance in Indonesia, Christians, Ahmadiyah and Shia Muslims on Monday marched together in Central Jakarta to […]
Indonesia’s persecuted Ahmadis locked inside mosque
BANGKOK (AlertNet) – Thirty members of the persecuted minority Ahmadiyah Muslim sect have been inside a sealed mosque in West Java since Thursday, and police have been accused of harassing […]
Extremists replace the picture of the Dome of the Rock with Talmudic writings.
The Jewish Press: Jewish religious leaders do not stop targeting the Al-Aqsa Mosque, trying to harm it in many ways, with daily attacks on the mosque and with Talmudic rituals […]
Your Life Is Bigger Than You Think
Huff Post: You belong to the most amazing species.. each one of us is a work of art. And sometimes, all we need is a reminder that we are capable of such greatness. More
Palestine: Simple suggestion put forward
April 08, 2013 | 22:32 JORDAN TIMES Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has a good suggestion to break the impasse in the stalled Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, one that is simple and straightforward. He wants Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to draw a roadmap for the two-state solution that he has rhetorically accepted […]
Musharraf appears in court today over treason charges
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Tuesday 9 April 2013 Last Update 8 April 2013 11:02 pm ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top court summoned former dictator Pervez Musharraf to appear today over allegations of high treason and barred him from leaving the country, dealing another blow to his homecoming. It is the first time the […]
Egypt lets down Gazans
Ramzy Baroud ARABNEWS Tuesday 9 April 2013 On Sept. 17, 2012, Ismail Haniyeh, the prime minister of the Hamas government in Gaza, made another appeal to his Egyptian counterpart Hisham Kandil to consider setting up a free trade area between Gaza and Egypt. The reasonable idea would allow Egypt to […]
Massive development of holy sites to ease Haj
HANOVER: ARAB NEWS Tuesday 9 April 2013 Studies are under way to set up 60,000 fireproof tents in Arafat at a cost of SR 2 billion, and expand Mina to house seven million pilgrims as part of government’s efforts to improve services to the guests of God. Interior Minister Prince […]
US budget cuts could delay trial of Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law
The Telegraph The highly anticipated New York trial of Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law could be delayed because his court-appointed lawyers have been hit by US budget cuts. Martin Cohen, a […]
AQ Khan, father of the Islamic bomb, says North Korea is not ‘trigger happy’
The Pakistani metallurgist who passed nuclear technology to North Korea says Kim Jong-un’s regime is not “stupid” enough to use atomic weapons in its increasingly tense stand-off with the US. […]
Serbia’s worst peacetime massacre as gunman kills 13 in village rampage
A Serbian man shot dead 13 people in a shooting spree during the early hours of Tuesday morning in a village near Belgrade. The 60-year-old man first shot his son, […]
UK Chancellor George Osborne: All Tories live in the shadow of Baroness Thatcher
By Political Correspondent of Telegraph George Osborne, the Chancellor, has admitted that the Conservative leadership is still in the shadow of Baroness Thatcher and said that her achievements are “impossible to […]
Just one more religion?
Source: The Economist: WHAT is the tenth most widely followed religion in the world? According to http://www.adherents.com, a site which gathers data on faith from many sources, that honour goes to juche, the national ideology of North Korea, which is credited with 19m followers. As the site’s editors explain, “from a […]
PAKISTAN: The stupidity of the Ideology of Pakistan
Asian Human Rights Commission: April 8, 2013 Baseer Naveed The most popular slogan during the movement for the creation of Pakistan was, “Haath main lota munh main paan — laiker rahain gay Pakistan”, believe it that this was the ideology of Pakistan It was on March 25, 1969, when General […]
Special Report: Buddhist monks incite Muslim killings in Myanmar
By Jason Szep (Reuters) – The Buddhist monk grabbed a young Muslim girl and put a knife to her neck. “If you follow us, I’ll kill her,” the monk taunted police, according to a witness, as a Buddhist mob armed with machetes and swords chased nearly 100 Muslims in this city […]
Photo: The First American Ahmadi Muslim: A.L. Anderson
Mirza Hasan F.L. Ahmad Anderson – the first American #Ahmadi #Muslim (pic attached) #islam pic.twitter.com/gMwsArCT — Salaam Bhatti (@salawm) January 20, 2013 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Suggested Reading Was President Thomas Jefferson a Muslim?
Indonesian minorities protest religious intolerance
Source: Bangkok Post Around 200 Christian, Muslim Shiite and Ahmadiyah leaders protested in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Monday against growing religious intolerance in the Sunni Muslim-majority country. rally […]
Science and Islam, Jim Al-Khalili – 3 Part BBC Documentary
Science and Islam is a three-part BBC documentary about the history of science in medieval Islamic civilization presented by Jim Al-Khalili. The series is accompanied by the book Science and […]