Blind Faith: Video-Blasphemy laws in Pakistan
vimeo: Excellent documentary where even Mr. Farooq Maududi accepts that this is wrong according to Islam. He states that State should be secular. It also details how these laws target […]
Muslims seeking reformation in Geneva
By Tarek Fatah, QMI Agency First posted: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 Noordin Mengal Noordin Mengal, left, and Mehran Marri, right, with columnist Fatah protesting in Geneva, Switzerland, which is hosting the annual session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The two young Balochistan leaders live in exile — Mengal […]
Religion Without God: Is there something called Religious Atheism?
The New York Review of Books: Before he died on February 14, Ronald Dworkin sent to The New York Review a text of his new book, Religion Without God, to be published by Harvard University Press later this year. We publish here an excerpt from the first chapter. —The Editors […]
Pakistan’s Extremist Democracy: By Ahmad Rashid
The New York Review of Books: This spring was supposed to open a new chapter in Pakistan’s tenuous embrace of inclusive democracy. At midnight on March 17, following constitutional rules, the Pakistan government of Asi Ali Zardari stepped down and the national assembly was dissolved, in preparation for national elections in […]
Akbar Zib, Pakistani Diplomat, Rejected In Saudi Arabia Because Name Means ‘Biggest D**k’ In Arabic- A Hoax: please see correction
Huff Post: According to reports, a well respected, high ranking Pakistani official has been rejected as ambassador to Saudi Arabia because his name, Akbar Zib, translates as ‘biggest dick’ in Arabic. Yes, that’s really what it translates as. Neal Ungerleider over at True/Slant helpfully tells us that Akbar is a common […]
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Jordan’s King Finds Fault With Everyone Concerned
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK THE NEW YORK TIMES Published: March 18, 2013 CAIRO — King Abdullah II of Jordan leads one of the smallest, poorest and most vulnerable Arab nations. […]
Destruction of Historical Sites in Islam’s Holiest City-Why?
Source” the Atlantic Cities, by Zvika Krieger. A report by the Saudi British Bank (SABB), one of the kingdom’s biggest lenders, estimates that $30 billion will be invested in construction and infrastructure in Mecca over the next four years from local and foreign companies. Up to 130 new skyscrapers are […]
You Wouldn’t Believe How Fast Americans Are Losing Their Religion — But the Fundamentalists Have a Plan
As their power declines in America, fundamentalists are moving to developing countries not as far along the secularization curve. And they’re causing massive damage. March 15, 2013 | Sometime last […]
Dear George Bush and Dick Cheney, You Are Guilty of Murder: A Letter from a Dying Veteran
“I hope that before your time on earth ends, as mine is now ending, you will find the strength of character to beg for forgiveness.” March 19, 2013 | To: […]
Rebels pick US citizen as Syrian prime minister
By BEN HUBBARD | Associated Press YAHOO NEWS ..ISTANBUL (AP) — The man chosen to head the Syrian opposition’s new interim government is a Syrian-born American citizen who has spent […]
UK: Malala Back In School After Taliban Shooting
Sky News: Just months after brain surgery, the schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban goes back to school. A Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot in the […]
A Way To Bridge The Muslim-Christian Gap By The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Source: JSOnline.com “If any Church or other place of worship stands in need of protection, they will find us standing shoulder to shoulder with them.” His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad […]
Shiite, Ahmadiyya and Sunni Under One Umbrella
Religious Affairs | Sierra Express Media By: SEM on March 19, 2013. Various religious sects in the Islamic faiths in Sierra Leone including Ahmadiyya, Shiite and Sunni converged last Saturday 16th March, at the […]
Students in US Promote Prophet Mohammad (saw)’s Message Of Peace With Roses
Source: Ummid.Com A group of Saudi students in the United States have launched a campaign to publicize Prophet Mohammed in seven cities across the country, Al Arabiya reported quoting Al Sharq newspaper. The campaign, “Mohammed, the prophet of mercy” was established in February marking the prophet’s day of birth, it said. […]
Pakistan: Minorities’ votes may decide fate of 96 constituencies
From the Dawn Newspaper | Our Staff Reporter | 16 hours ago ISLAMABAD: Votes of religious minorities can play a key role in the coming elections in about 96 constituencies of national […]
Quote of the Day: Michael Shermer on Christianity
Michael Shermer makes a fairly provocative yet a correct statement, in my opinion, in the middle of a recent debate: I have a problem with resurrection. So, you believe that […]
Fed meeting: Bracing for Bernanke buzzkill
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Stocks are rallying, job growth is strengthening and a housing recovery is well underway — but don’t expect the Federal Reserve to back away from its stimulative policies just yet. If anything, the Fed is likely to deliver a buzzkill after its two-day meeting wraps up Wednesday. […]
Prophet of Islam: Mohamed gets the biopic treatment
The Independent: There are controversial subjects, and then there is Mohamed. Yet the fear of controversy appears not to have deterred film-makers in Iran and Qatar, who are producing a […]