Baghdad inaugurated as Arab capital of culture
AFP, Baghdad – ALARABIYYA.NET Baghdad was inaugurated as the 2013 Arab Capital of Culture on Saturday, the latest in a series of steps which officials hope will put Iraq back […]
Rules of Joking in Islam
Some people joke too much and it becomes a habit for them. This is the opposite of the serious nature which is the characteristic of the believers. Joking is a break, a rest from ongoing seriousness and striving; it is a little relaxation for the soul. ‘Umar ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azeez […]
Buddhist, Muslim leaders urge end to Myanmar religious violence
Source: Channel News Asia YANGON: Religious leaders have called for calm in violence-hit central Myanmar and urged the government to step up security, state media said on Sunday. The outbreak of religious violence in the town of Meiktila has claimed at least 32 lives and displaced about 9,000 people, according […]
Does Neuroscience Require a Rejection of Religion?
Source: Huff Post, by Kelly Bulkeley. Two kinds of answers have been offered to this riddle. The first claims that the mind is nothing but the brain. Every aspect of mental life can be entirely and completely explained as a product of the physical properties of neural functioning. The second […]
In a first in 600 years, two popes meet over lunch
Pope Francis has travelled to Castel Gandolfo to have lunch with his predecessor Benedict XVI in an historic and potentially problematic melding of the papacies that has never before confronted […]
National Symposium to Mark Centenary of One of Britain’s Oldest Established Muslim Communities
LONDON, March 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — A Muslim community is beginning its UK centenary celebrations with a National Peace Symposium in the capital. Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community will converge on […]
Where is Jesus? The Case of the Missing Messiah
Source: The Huffington Post By Qasim Rashid The case of the missing Messiah is a mystery that has intrigued countless minds through the ages. Pope Innocent III predicted Christ’s return and doomsday in 1284. William Miller made his call in October, 1844. Alexander Dowie launched his campaign at the turn of […]
The Revival of Pure Islam: 23rd March, 1889: Founding of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Alislam.org: The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is a dynamic, fast growing international revival movement within Islam. Founded in 1889, it spans over 200 countries with membership exceeding tens of millions. Its […]
An interpretation of the Lahore Resolution
Dawn: It favoured greater autonomy to the provinces but it turned in favour of a strong and assertive centre in the post-independence period. The resolution for the establishment of a separate homeland for the Muslims of British India passed in the annual session of the All India Muslim League held […]
Armed Buddhists, including monks, clash with Muslims in Myanmar
Source: CNN Yangon, Myanmar (CNN) — Buddhist monks and others armed with swords and machetes Friday stalked the streets of a city in central Myanmar, where sectarian violence that has left about 20 people dead has begun to spread to other areas, according to local officials. Members of the Buddhist […]
Easter: Can Resurrection of Jesus be Precisely Defined?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD Easter is around the corner. Today I asked a simple question from the different Christian friends that I came across. I asked […]
Dr. Abdus Salam about George Sarton’s Book, Introduction to the History of Science
Dr. Abdus Salam, Nobel Laureate in physics summarized Sarton’s history pertaining to the Muslim scientists in an article, Islam and Science – Concordance or Conflict? Salam highlighted Sarton’s evaluation of history in this article and it was published in Review of Religions in March 1995, he said: Barely a hundred years after the Holy Prophet’s […]
ECP meets on selection of caretaker PM
Source: Dawn.Com Chief Election Commissioner Fakhruddin G. Ibrahim chairs a meeting of the ECP. — INP/File Photo ISLAMABAD: A consultative meeting of the Election Commission of Pakistan for the selection of a caretaker prime minister was taking place on Saturday, DawnNews reported. The meeting was being chaired by Chief Election […]
Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe by Martin Rees – review
Epigraph: “The God of Islam is the same God Who is visible in the reflection of the laws of nature and is discernible in the book of nature. Islam has […]
Netanyahu apologises to Turkish PM for Israeli role in Gaza flotilla raid
Barack Obama has persuaded Israel to apologise to Turkey for the loss of nine lives on board the Mavi Marmara – the lead ship in an aid flotilla trying to breach the blockade of Gaza – in […]
On choosing Popes and Caliphs
Source: Express Tribune By Pervez Hoodbhoy Published: March 22, 2013 A new pope was elected in the Vatican this month on March 13, 2013. Born in Argentina as Mario Bergoglio, he is now the 266th head of the Roman Catholic Church. The pomp and glory, the global publicity, the weeping crowds […]
The speech that was not delivered
By Uri Avnery: (Hebrew: אורי אבנרי, also transliterated Uri Avneri, born 10 September 1923) is an Israeli writer and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement. A member of the Irgun as a teenager, Avnery sat in the Knesset from 1965–74 and […]
Men and Women Get Sick in Different Ways
Source: ScienceDaily. Mar. 22, 2013 — Recent research in laboratory medicine has revealed crucial differences between men and women with regard to cardiovascular illness, cancer, liver disease, osteoporosis, and in the area of pharmacology. Typically perceived as a male illness, cardiovascular disease often displays markedly different symptoms among women. While a […]
Allah’s Mercy has No Limits
Aisha Stacy ARABNEWS: AND with Him are the keys of the unseen; no one knows them except Him. And He knows what is on the land and in the sea. […]
Fearing stark future, Syrian Alawites meet in Cairo
Mar 23, 2013 – 02:20 By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN (Reuters) – Opposition campaigners from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite sect will meet this weekend to support a democratic alternative to his rule and try to distance the community from wholesale association with the government’s attempts to crush a two-year […]