Source: The Daily Beast: Saudi women attend the Gulf youth conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on April 28, 2012. (Hassan Ammar/AP) The Kingdom’s government is reportedly allowing women to ride bicycles now. How nice—but what about actually doing something to end the country’s gender apartheid, asks David Keyes. More: […]
Source: The Daily Beast: First, evangelicals have had a genuine biblical conversion to how God wants us to respond to “the stranger” and especially when Jesus says how we treat them is how we treat him. Second, evangelicals have had a relational conversion as immigrant families, including the undocumented, have […]
Source: Daily Beast: By Leslie H. Gelb The White House press corps should ask President Obama this question: You’ve told Iran’s leaders that if they come close to marrying a nuclear warhead with a missile that can hit the United States or our allies, they should expect a U.S. military […]
Source: TOI SEOUL: A top South Korean security official said on Sunday that North Korea may test-launch a missile this week, as the United States delayed its own missile test due to soaring tensions on the peninsula. Kim Jang-soo, chief national security adviser to President Park Geun-hye, said a test-launch […]
A Wonderful Prayer for those pushing 60 or beyond. Almighty God you know that I am growing older. Keep me from becoming too talkative, from repeating all my jokes and anecdotes, and particularly keep me from falling into the tiresome habit of expressing an opinion on every subject. Release me […]
Huff Post: Although the North Carolina House of Representatives killed a bill Thursday that would have paved the way for establishing an official state religion, a new national HuffPost/YouGov poll finds widespread support for doing so. The new survey finds that 34 percent of adults would favor establishing Christianity as the official state religion […]
Russian TV: Moscow has expressed its concern over the UN’s “inconsistent” and “unconstructive” approach to dealing with the charges of alleged chemical weapons use in Syria. Sara Flounders explains what could go wrong if the issue is not thoroughly addressed. Russia has accused the UN of yielding to the pressure […]
International Women’s Day is being observed around the world. For more than 100 years, March 8th has been a day to take note of the position of women in society and to celebrate their achiements. RNW’s Arab department marks the day with portraits of […]
Lake Baikal in Siberia- World’s Oldest, Deepest lake & Clearest ! It is 25 million years old. Baikal is home to more than 1,700 species of plants and animals, two thirds of which can be found nowhere else in the world Keep sharing Amazing Things You Never Knew At 1,642 […]
Source. Daily News via Wasim Srroya: Washington, April 6 — Raising the spectre of a renewed conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, a US study has warned that Islamabad may well turn to trusted Pakistani militant groups, such as Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), to do its bidding. For the past two […]
Source: TOI GARHI KHUDA BAKHSH, Pakistan: A cancelled rally, a loathed president and a party chairman kept out of the public glare because of Taliban threats — Gulzar Ali Khawaja has never seen anything like it. For the first time in his life, the once ardent supporter of the Pakistan […]
Source: The Local “According to our information Syria has become the new target for Jihadists from Germany,” the president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Hans-Georg Maaßen, told the paper. In 2013 Syria will become “a new centre” for such trips, he said. Security officials estimated […]
By Zubair Khan During Pervez Musharraf period electronic media started enjoying freedom of expression. With passage of time it continued.Setting aside the state controlled TV stations all other channel these days seemed to be involved in various activities exposing those aspects which for years remained no go areas of […]
Press Conference of the Worldwide Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad
Pakistani judges provoke laughter, with oddball questions for election candidates The Toronto Star, April 5, 2013 By: Sebastian Abbot The Associated Press, Published on Fri Apr 05 2013 ISLAMABAD—Aslam Khan Khattak passed his first — and perhaps most curious — test this week in his quest to become a member […]
Source: www.chinafile.com http://video.chinafile.com/players/s8YTlES9-ylyuUi5i.html China’s Hui Muslims are unique in many respects. The country’s second-largest ethnic minority share linguistic and cultural ties with the majority in China that have allowed them to […]
Source: www.jihadwatch.org How could this have happened in a peaceful, tolerant Muslim nation such as Bangladesh? Did they appoint Eric Posner, Sarah Chayes, or Nathan Lean (aka “Garibaldi“) as Internet czar? “Bangladesh arrests three atheist bloggers,” from AFP, April 2 (thanks to Lookmann): DHAKA: Bangladesh police have arrested three atheist bloggers for allegedly defaming Islam and […]
Source: www.messenger.com.ge The new government of Georgia offered President Mikheil Saakashvili to reface some parts of the Rabati fortress in Akhaltsitkhe. The complex is of a multicultural architecture, and includes a […]
Source: BBC There’s a thing about being alone and there’s a thing about being lonely, and they’re two different things. I was alone but I was not lonely. My background was as a fighter pilot in the airforce, then as a test pilot – and that was mostly in fighter […]