Source: BBC Australia’s Foreign Minister Bob Carr has described comments made by Baroness Thatcher as “unabashedly racist”. In a conversation with her “in her retirement”, Mr Carr said the former […]
Source: DW of Germany via Wasim Srroya: North Korea owes a great deal to Pakistan, in particular to its former nuclear chief Abdul Qadeer Khan, who, in 2004, confessed that he sold nuclear secrets to Pyongyang. Experts say that without Khan’s help, North Korea would not be able to conduct […]
Source: Asia Times: By Ashfaq Yusufzai BAJAUR AGENCY, Pakistan – “My sole motive is to serve my people, especially women who have had no role in politics so far. I feel we can make progress only by bringing in women into mainstream politics.” These are the words of Badam Zari, […]
Source: Stratfor. Actually, it is crazy … very, very crazy, but against all conventional wisdom, it acts crazy for a purpose. Pyongyang behaves like it’s looking for a fight, but it doesn’t want to start a war it knows it can’t win. It wants to appear volatile to gain concessions […]
Stop praying for defeat of ‘Kufaar’ Every time a Canadian Muslim is named as a suspect, the predictable Islamic clerics line up to deny it Tarek Fatah, The Toronto Sun First posted: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 06:21 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 06:23 PM EDT Here we […]
Empty Tomb – Resthaven Memorial Park, Lubbock, Texas Was Jesus Crucified? Ahmed Deedat Vs Dr. Floyd E. Clark: In this debate, whereas, Dr. Floyd E. Clark stays mostly off the […]
Huff Post, by Harris Zafar. While many celebrated the winter holidays, news broke of the arrest in Saudi Arabia of liberal writerTurki Al Hamad for allegedly insulting Islam on Twitter. We also heard of another Saudi activist, Raif Badawi, who was arrested in June and will now continue with his […]
by Harun Yahya HUFFINGTON POST The word Islam conjures up a disturbing picture in the minds of some people outside the Muslim world. It is a fact that many in the West imagine Islam to be a faith far removed from modern life, closed to science and that attaches no […]
Reuters JORDAN TIMES CAIRO — Egypt’s Islamist-led government has asked independent legal experts to propose amendments to the new constitution, the state news agency MENA said on Tuesday, signalling that it may be heeding concerns of the liberal and leftist opposition. Members of Egypt’s main opposition bloc, the National Salvation […]
AFP JORDAN TIMES ALEPPO, Syria — “Goal! Goal!” children scream, kicking a football around like children everywhere. But in war-ravaged Aleppo, their playground is a strip of no-man’s land near […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Wednesday 10 April 2013 Arwa Al-Hijeili received the first definition of a trainee lawyer as a start to obtaining a license to practice law. A Justice Ministry […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Wednesday 10 April 2013 The first phase of the expansion of mataf (circumambulation area around the Kabaa) will be ready before Ramadan when millions of pilgrims come […]
TAIF: IRFAN MOHAMMED arabnews Wednesday 10 April 2013 Taif airport may soon become a key disembarkation point for pilgrims coming in from the neighboring states. The airport has seen a 250 percent jump in air traffic in 2012, according to Khalid Al-Khaibary, spokesperson and general manager of public relations at […]
Cnbc: It sounds like something straight out of science fiction, but someday you may be able to access your computer just by thinking. (Read More: Goodbye Apple iPhone? Wearable Tech Is Coming ) Researchers at the UC Berkeley School of Information claim that computer brainwave-based authentication is an effective and secure substitution for […]
By Paul Berger The Forward Enraged alumni have threatened to physically block Jimmy Carter from entering Yeshiva University’s Cardozo School of Law, where he is due to receive a peace award on April 10. Daniel Rubin, 62, said about a dozen former alumni are planning an act of civil disobedience […]
ROVER’S DIARY: The myth of the ideology of Pakistan —Babar Ayaz Nowhere in history was Islamic ideology of Pakistan mentioned, it was always the political, social, economic rights of the Muslims Moments of rejoicing in this country are few and far between. While the democrats are rejoicing that for the first time […]
Express Tribune: CAIRO: Egyptian prosecutors are probing new complaints against popular satirist Bassem Youssef, this time for “insulting Pakistan” and “spreading atheism,” judicial sources told AFP on Tuesday. The wildly popular Youssef – whose weekly political satire programme al Bernameg (The Show) has spared few public figures of merciless critique – […]
by Dina Elmuti THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA Chicago Transcribing the vivid details of the account engraved into the fabric of her memory, I am transfixed by all that she’s held onto for 65 years. From paper to pulse, I write the story buried deep in her consciousness to affirm her truth. […]
by Musa Okwonga Tuesday, 9 April 2013 at 12:46 pm On the last day of my Easter holidays, Dr. Phoebe Abe (or, as I know her, my mother) sat down in her living room with me and several women from Somalia, Egypt and Sudan. My mother, a GP, had for […]
By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press ABC NEWS COLOMBO, Sri Lanka April 9, 2013 (AP) The U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka expressed alarm at rising hate speech and attacks against Muslims in the island nation and warned that such sentiments should not be allowed to fester. Hate speeches, vilification and even […]