To Reassure Investors, Fed Stresses It Will Not End Stimulus
WASHINGTON — Each time in recent years that the Federal Reserve has paused in its efforts to stimulate the economy, it has come to regret the decision as premature. Its leading officials say the recovery has been slower as a consequence of those pauses. It is a mistake they do […]
One Reason Women Stay Home: Because It’s Easier on Everyone
Courtesy: The Daily Beast One Reason Women Stay Home: Because It’s Easier on Everyone by Megan McArdle Mar 18, 2013 9:40 AM EDT Two career couples must constantly negotiate who does what. This article on women who stay home is undoubtedly going to trigger a lot of commentary on […]
200 Volunteers from Majlis Ansarullah of Jama’at-e-Ahmadiyya UK planted 8,000 Trees at Heartwood Forest, England
Information from: Press Release 200 Ahmadiyya Volunteers, including 34 from Watford, Luton and Stevenage braved the inclement weather on Saturday 16th March 2013, to plant trees at Heartwood Forest Sandridge […]
Sikhism’s Ecological Roots: Protecting Mother Earth
Source: HuffingtonPost.com Bandana Kaur | Ambassador, EcoSikh Earlier this winter, seventy new medicinal plants were sown in the garden of Naulakha Bagh in Kiratpur Sahib, Punjab, along the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains. As aged fingers reached down through the dirt to create space for young saplings, this group of […]
Science and Religion – An event with Prof. Tom Kibble in Jamea (Islamic theology University) Germany
Source: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Germany By Bilal Aslam Picture (from R-L): Dr. Dawood Majoka, Prof. Tom Kibble & Dr. Mansoora Shamim The same Event as on March 1st held in Bensheim Germany, was also held next day in Jamea Germany, the islamic thelogical University of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in […]
Hundreds of New Yorkers protest political unrest in Bangladesh
source: pix11.com http://landing.newsinc.com/wpix/video.html?freewheel=91044&sitesection=wpix&VID=24614910 http://embed.newsinc.com/Single/iframe.html?WID=1&VID=24614910&freewheel=69016&sitesection=wpix&width=601&height=338 NEW YORK (PIX11)- Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the United Nations today. The group, predominantly Bangladeshi-Americans, came together over political unrest in Bangladesh. Life in the small South-Asian country has been disrupted over the past several months, many blaming Jamaat-e-Islami militant political group. The protesters outside of the […]
How I became a scientist by Dr. Mansoora Shamim
Promoted Post: Dr. Maurice Bucaille’s Analysis of the Glorious Quran — A Three-Minute Reading Presented by Zia H Shah MD Dr. Mansoora Shamim is a Pakistani physicist who worked on the discovery of Higgs Boson. Speech delivered on March 1, in Bensheim Germany by Dr Mansoora Shamim, a scientist at CERN […]
Tracking Unitarian Tradition in Christianity: The Cathars
Collected by Zia H Shah MD Whatever the details of Cathars beliefs may be, it is certain that they did not believe in Jesus as the son of God or […]
Those Who Cannot Remember the Past and the Cathars …
Collected by Zia H Shah MD Religious fanaticism and forcing of ones beliefs on others is a bad news for the whole of humanity, whether it comes from the Mullahs […]
Elections: Only two Kinds of Pakistanis- Ahmadis or Non Ahmadis
COMMENT : Are Pakistan’s non-Muslims ‘dhimmis’? — Yasser Latif Hamdani No Pakistani is a dhimmi. All of us, whatever our faith, are equal citizens with equal obligations and equal responsibilities As Pakistan has mercifully completed one complete democratic cycle and is now heading towards, hopefully, a second one, one hopes that […]
Suicidal Bacteria: Unicellular Organisms Occasionally Poison Themselves With a Toxin
Source: ScienceDaily. Mar. 15, 2013 — The cyanobacterium Synechocystis produces toxins that often lead to its own demise. The biologists Stefan Kopfmann and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hess from the University of Freiburg have determined the logic governing this mechanism. Their findings have been published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry(JBC) and PLoS ONE. […]
Britain and Islam
Source: Huff Post, by Matthew Goodwin. Behind a large Christian majority, and excluding the non-religious, the census reveals that Muslims are the second largest religious group, and are also the fastest growing. There are now more than 2.7million Muslims in England and Wales, an increase of over one million since […]
The Christians of Pakistan mean nothing to the Pope
Express Tribune Blogs: By Rohan Emmanuel: The last Pope, Benedict XVI, elected at the age of 78, was the oldest person to have been elected as pope since 1730. In February […]
Minorities in Pakistan should be Called “Non Muslim Pakistanis”
Dawn: Muneeb says blasphemy accused should be tried by FSC LAHORE: Religious scholars belonging to the Sunni school of thought have proposed that accused in blasphemy cases should be tried by the Federal Shariat Court (FSC) and the changes introduced by former president Gen (retd) Musharraf’s regime in the registration […]
Video: Spiritual Leadership, Is the Pope Elected by God?
Additional Reading Tracking Unitarian Tradition in Christianity Belfast Telegraph: ‘World Muslim leader congratulates Pope Francis and the Catholic Church’ Introducing Islam to Pope Francis
Joke of the week – the old lady and the groceries …
An elderly lady was well-known for her Iman and for her confidence in talking about it. She would stand in front of her house and say Alhamdulilah “Allah be praised” to all those who passed by. Next door to her lived an atheist who would get so angry at her […]
Joke of the Day – the old and the new Imam
An Imam shocked his community when he announced that he was resigning from that particular Masjid and moving to a drier climate. After the session, a very distraught lady came to the Imam with tears in her eyes, “Oh, Imam, we are going to miss you so much. We don’t […]
Costly Iraq war left US no stronger in Middle East (but allowed Israel to continue its settlement construction)
AFP | Mar 17, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES WASHINGTON — The US-led invasion of Iraq overthrew a dictator, but 10 years on the war is seen to have destabilised the Middle East, exposed the limits of military power and left America no stronger than before. With US forces having withdrawn […]
Jordan downplays tensions with Damascus
by Taylor Luck, Jordan Times AMMAN — Jordan downplayed reports of rising tensions with Damascus on Sunday, refuting accusations by Syrian officials of Jordanian support for rebel forces. Minister of […]