Insight – Spiral of Karachi killings widens Pakistan’s sectarian divide
By Matthew Green KARACHI (Reuters) – When Aurangzeb Farooqi survived an attempt on his life that left six of his bodyguards dead and a six-inch bullet wound in his thigh, […]
Predator drones deployed in Niger, says US official
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE ARABNEWS Sunday 24 February 2013 WASHINGTON: The United States has deployed several Predator drones to Niger to fly surveillance missions in support of French forces in Mali, a US defense official said Friday. The unarmed robotic aircraft are flying out of Niamey at a base with a […]
Jordan collected ‘world’s highest number of potential organ donors’ last December
signatures were collected during a one-day campaign organised in cooperation with Drs. And More coalition, to reach the highest number of potential donors in the world at the time, noting […]
Zaatari refugees (in Jordan) torn between revolution, security
by Hani Hazaimeh | Feb 23, 2013 | 22:55 MAFRAQ — While hundreds of Syrians fleeing the violence in their country arrive at the Zaatari Refugee Camp daily, some camp residents want to return to their homeland for various reasons. Several Syrians interviewed by The Jordan Times last week complained […]
Married Catholic Priests A Possibility
Source: Huff Post, LONDON — Roman Catholic priests should be allowed to marry and have children, Britain’s most senior Catholic cleric said Friday. Cardinal Keith O’Brien, who heads the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, said the requirement for priestly celibacy is “not of divine origin” and could be reconsidered. He […]
‘A very unfortunate decision’: French President gets UNESCO peace prize
Source: RT. Some critics are saying that Hollande is a strange choice for peace award, as he is currently engaged in a military conflict. “Having assessed the dangers and the repercussions of the situation on Africa, and on Mali in particular, the jury appreciated the solidarity shown by France to […]
Rare intrafaith dialogue on Islam
Source: Rice, by Jeff Falk. A rare intrafaith dialogue on Islam had the Asia Society Texas Center’s Brown Foundation Performing Arts Theater packed to the last seat Feb. 21. The event featured four imams representing the Ahmadiyya, African-American, Shia and Sunni traditions of Islam and was co-hosted by Rice University’s […]
18 Female Leaders in the world: Global Post
http://www.globalpost.com/photo-galleries/5710071/women-rule-18-female-leaders-worldwide-photos (PHOTOS): Women rule: 18 female leaders worldwide (PHOTOS)
When Jews and Muslims stand United
Embrace moderate Muslim leaders Ynet News: The delegates to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations deserve our united applause for travelling to Paris last week to express […]
If Prophet Muhammad Had His Way, There Would Be No Guantanamo Bay
Source/Credit: Huffington Post: By Faheem Younus Sen. Mitch McConnell is guilty on both counts: What he believed to be news was a joke, and what he missed was the real news. […]
After 20 years first Azan sounded on Azerbaijan-Armenia contact line
APA: As a part of the campaign “Towards Karabakh – the voice of Allah and our truth”, Azan has been resumed and the first Azan sounded in Chemenli village of […]
Aceh Muslim Stands By Lawsuit Against Loud Mosque Speakers
The Jakarta Globe: A 75-year-old man in Aceh has filed a controversial lawsuit against local religious officials alleging that the noise from a nearby mosque’s six loudspeakers has negatively impacted […]
West Java Governor Signs Deal With FPI Banning Ahmadiyah
The Jakarta Globe: Just days before a provincial election, West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan has signed a deal with the hardline Islamic Defenders Front in which he has reportedly agreed […]
How life was like in 1910
The year is 1910, over one hundred years ago. What a difference a century makes! Here are some statistics for the Year 1910: ************ ********* ************ The average life expectancy for men was 47 years. Fuel for this car was sold in drug stores only. Only 14 percent of the […]
US Supreme Court recognized four Prophets as Great Law-Givers, in 1932
Epigraph: “Say, ‘We believe in Allah and in that which has been revealed to us, and that which was revealed to Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the […]
Islam belongs to all believers, Amina Wadud; Qantrada.de
t Interview with Amina Wadud”Islam Belongs to All Its Believers” Amina Wadud is an American scholar of Islam with a progressive focus on Koran exegesis. In 2005, she led Friday prayers in the US, which not only broke with tradition, it also triggered debate and Muslim juristic discourse on the […]
Navan (Ireland) teenager killed fighting with Syrian rebels
MARY FITZGERALD, Foreign Affairs Correspondent A teenager from Navan who joined rebels in Syria last year without his parents’ knowledge has been killed as fighting between the Assad regime and […]
KHUTABA JUMMAH, HAZRAT KHALIFATUL MASIH V: MTA
Synopsis of Friday Sermon (22-Feb-13) prepared by Sister Shermeen Butt Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih said that he had in mind to deliver today’s sermon with reference to the Musleh Maud prophecy. He felt that we usually present the prophecy and mention the achievement of Hadhrat Musleh Maud (may Allah be pleased […]
Islamic Socialism: A history from left to right
Nadeem F. Paracha DAWN.COM Between the 1950s and early 1970s, a powerful ideology in the Muslim world galvanised itself from the minds and fringes of modern Islamic intellectualism and made its way into the mainstream political arena. But this ideology did not have a single originator. Its roots can be […]
UN will not compensate Haiti cholera victims, Ban Ki-moon tells president. – World body invokes legal immunity to rebuff claims despite studies identifying UN peacekeepers as source of the outbreak
Rashmee Roshan Lall in Port-au-Prince and Ed Pilkington in New York THE GUARDIAN The UN has taken the rare step of invoking its legal immunity to rebuff claims for compensation from 5,000 victims of the Haiti cholera epidemic, the worst outbreak of the disease in modern times and widely believed […]