Mar 7, 2013 – 18:42 By Mark Hosenball and Daniel Trotta WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors unsealed an indictment against a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden on Thursday that charged him with conspiracy to kill Americans, after U.S. government sources said he was arrested overseas and brought to New […]
Epigraph: “Indeed, we have granted thee (Muhammad) a clear victory, That Allah may cover up for thee thy shortcomings, past and future, and that He may complete His favor upon […]
OF THE 99 beautiful names of Allah, it is Ar-Rahman and Ar-Rahim that we use most frequently in our prayers and du’aa. Ar-Rahman and Ar-Rahim are both derived from the same Arabic root word, rahma, meaning “mercy, compassion.” Pickthall translates Ar-Rahman, Ar-Rahim as “the Beneficent, the Merciful,” and Yusuf Ali […]
Britons and other Westerns increasingly converting to Islam Over time, the Priest may allow saying prayers the Islamic way in the Church and it may become socially acceptable. This all depends on the manners and behaviour of a person after he or she had further improved and developed his or […]
It took over a century for the main stream Muslims – as seen here- to catch up with the true meaning of Jihad. The first to expound the true meaning was the 20th Century Imam Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. The Muslims are slowly coming together on the true meaning as […]
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit: wluml.org Source: PI Online “A controversy erupted this week in Saudi Arabia when some scholars suggested that the top religious organization in the Kingdom, […]
Source: Hiffinton Post Hugo Chavez had a friend in Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who apparently held the Venezuelan leader in such high regard that he believes he will “return on […]
US Department of State, Office of Global Women’s Issues: These women are as follows: 1. Malalai Bahaduri First Sergeant, Afghan National Interdiction Unit (NIU), Senior Instructor, Afghanistan First Sergeant Malalai […]
U Alberta study: An overwhelming majority of Albertans believe dying adults should have the right to request to end their life, according to new research from the University of Alberta. […]
…… not the prime minister’s biological children, but they all were the creation of his spirit, students of his views and pupils of his government’s policies. These Israeli skinheads are […]
Source: the revealer – a daily review of religion and media By Saba Imtiaz The Akram family’s house looks like any other in Nawabshah, a city in Pakistan’s Sindh province. […]
Courtesy: The Atlantic You might consider America’s vast wealth inequality, vividly illustrated in this viral video, to be offensive, infuriating, or irrelevant. But it is not terribly mysterious. Rich people have more money. More money tends to lead to bigger properties, fatter savings, and better access to capital markets. As […]
War-scarred Bangladesh torn by new tensions DAWN.com Three years on, its first verdicts have plunged the country into one of its most turbulent chapters since independence from Pakistan four decades ago and threatens lasting damage to the world’s eighth most populous country. More than 80 people have been killed in […]
Source: News.com.au. UNITED Airlines has gone to extraordinary lengths to make sure a man got to see his mother before she died. Kerry Drake started sobbing after his flight from San Francisco to Houston was delayed. He had left only 40 minutes connection time in Houston to make his flight […]
Source: All Africa. Com The question of whether accepting and acting on climate change adaptation amounts to an admission of defeat for climate change mitigation was the most pressing topic discussed by climate experts on a panel this week at an event sponsored by The Earth Institute. The debate around […]
Source: The Local A German cardinal on Thursday said the upcoming papal conclave to pick the next head of the Catholic Church would be as pleasant as a visit to the dentist. More:
Source: Asia Times: Unfortunately for turbo-capitalists in Washington and Brussels, the death of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez from cancer does not signal an end to the spirit of Chavism. With his “socialism of the 21st century” and defiance of centuries-old patterns of subjugation in Latin America, El Comandante struck a […]
Source: Asis Times: By Richard Javad Heydarian After eight months of diplomatic hiatus, Iran and the “P5+1” powers – the United States, China, Russia, France, the United Kingdom and Germany – were finally able to return to the negotiating table. In Kazakhstan at the end of last month, to the […]
Rome (CNN) — Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to a year in prison by a Milan court on Thursday over the publication of an illegally obtained […]
Russian TV: IMF confirmed that the AUD and CAD will appear as reserve currency within three months. This emphasizes the spiraling demand for additional reserve currencies and the New Zealand […]