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 […]
SAN ANTONIO — Several Texas A&M professors know something that generations of teachers could only hope to guess: whether students are reading their textbooks. They know when students are skipping pages, failing to highlight significant passages, not bothering to take notes — or simply not opening the book at all. […]
Source: Wikipedia The 1997 Constitution of the Maldives designates Islam as the official state religion. The Government interprets this provision to impose a requirement that all citizens must be Muslims. Freedom of religion is restricted significantly. The law prohibits […]
Source: The Local: Metal thieves targeting Germany’s railway Deutsche Bahn delayed 17,000 trains last year by stealing among other things copper cable worth around €17 million. More:
Youtube: THATCHER/PAKISTAN: On her official visit to Pakistan, PM, Margaret Thatcher, visits the border with Afghanistan. ROSE,DAVID VID ENG/LB PAKISTAN Khyber GV Pass: MS Helicopter arrives Tents of refugees camp […]
Source: Digital Journal By Eliott Elwas Pope Benedict XVI announced his retirement from the papacy in February 2013. The Pope’s sudden retirement reminds many biblical eschatologists of St. Malachi’s famous prophecies for the 112 Catholic popes. Pope Benedict XVI retired on Thursday, 28 February 2013. He is the first pope […]
MTA Video Documentary: The Life of Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad (rh) A Man of God (Biography of Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad) MURDER in the NAME of ALLAH (Book) Shariah Relationship Between Religion and […]
Angels and demons do really exist, according to a senior Russian Orthodox Church clergy member, but are often mistaken for “so-called aliens” by those who encounter them. “They are real creatures, humans come into contact with them as they sometimes reveal themselves,” Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, who oversees the Russian Orthodox […]
The imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, has reiterated his thesis on the creation of a “Kurdish Democratic Confederation” comprising the Kurds of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey in a message to the Kandil mountains in northern Iraq, where the main PKK base is located. […]
Its not an eye but a mind-boggling image of draining sink that looks like a monster eye.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]