Aijaz Zaka Syed Friday, February 22, 2013 Source: Dubai eye The News Pakistan http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-9-161448-No-country-for-minorities The writer is a commentator on Middle East and South Asian affairs. These aren’t the best of times for minorities in South Asia. From the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, to the idyllic Buddhist paradise of Sri […]
Mercola.com: A typical American comes in regular contact with some 6,000 chemicals and an untold number of potentially toxic substances on a less frequent basis. There are about 75,000 chemicals […]
Source: ANI News Meerut, Mar 4 (ANI): Meerut, situated in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh, is famous for harmony between people of diverse religions who live here. One place in the city which exemplifies this fact is a temple dedicated to Lord Hanuman in the Baksar area of the […]
Source: Indian Express Defying stereotypes, a Muslim boy and girl have bagged all three medals instituted for the BA course in the ancient Indian language by the Gujarat University. Two of the medals for Sanskrit were won by Taiyab Sheikh, a student of Y S Arts and Commerce college in […]
By Nicholas C. Stern News-Post Staff The Muslim Ahmadiyya Community has launched a nationwide campaign to dispel misconceptions and misunderstandings among many non-Muslims about Islam and the religion’s prophet, Muhammad. The […]
Source: Huff Post, by David Lose. Before you dismiss the question out of hand, consider these four inter-related bits of evidence: 1) As recently reported in the New York Times, military personnel who identify themselves as “Atheists” have requested chaplains to tend to their spiritual needs. As the Times article notes, “Defense Department statistics […]
Epigraph “Surely, men who submit themselves to God and women who submit themselves to Him, and believing men and believing women, and obedient men and obedient women and truthful men and truthful […]
Zeenews.com: Human Rights Watch: Islamabad: The Pakistan government should immediately take legal action against Islamist militant groups and others responsible for threats and violence against minorities and other vulnerable groups, Human Rights Watch has said. HRW said Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy law had “come under renewed scrutiny” after a mob torched […]
Alislam.org: At around 45th minute into the programme (upto 55th minute), Huzoor is asked a question by a young girl and Huzoor gives a detailed answer explaining why is it […]
Daily Times: True federalism or secularism? Or both? — Shahid Ilyas Pakistani leadership since the initial years of the country’s creation has followed a self-defeating policy with regard to the ‘linguistic’ issue Some fellows are against both linguistic and Islamic identity in Pakistan. They fail to understand that Pakistan without […]
Epigraph “If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of the greatest geniuses the world has known.” Karen […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Anantanand Rambachan Professor of Religion, Saint Olaf College, MN On March 10, Hindus around the world will celebrate Shivaratri (The Night of Shiva). I share these theological reflections on the occasion of this sacred festival. For centuries, Hindus have worshiped and described God through the name […]
By Peggy Fletcher Stack | The Salt Lake Tribune Mormon historians are cheering the newly released English edition of LDS scriptures, pointing to new wording about race and polygamy that […]
Source: Huff Post, by Anantanand Rambachan. On March 10, Hindus around the world will celebrate Shivaratri (The Night of Shiva). I share these theological reflections on the occasion of this sacred festival. For centuries, Hindus have worshiped and described God through the name and form of Shiva. The name Shiva […]
by Urs Geiser, swissinfo.ch Mar 8, 2013 Foreigners seeking permanent residency in Switzerland must speak one of the country’s four national languages, according to a government proposal. The bill includes […]
Source: LUBP: In the afternoon of 9 March, a mob of 3,000 Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (ASWJ/LEJ) and PML-N activists destroyed the entire neighborhood of Joseph Colony, Badami Bagh, in Lahore. The destruction was carried out when a rumor was deliberately spread by the religious-political activists affiliated to the Deobandi/ASWJ/LeJ mosque in […]
Aijaz Zaka Syed ARABNEWS Sunday 10 March 2013 IT’S a depressing landscape from one end of the Muslim world to another. From Bangladesh and Pakistan to Afghanistan and from Syria and Iraq to Egypt, it is the same story everywhere. Extremism, intolerance and violence have emerged as an existential threat […]
AMMAN — Filipino UN peacekeepers seized by Syrian rebels on the Golan arrived in Jordan on Saturday, hours after their captors released them from an ordeal of more than three […]
JEDDAH: RIMA AL-MUKHTAR ARABNEWS Sunday 10 March 2013 On the occasion of International Women’s day, Nawal Al-Rashid, Saudi managing editor of the female section at Al-Riyadh daily newspaper and secretary […]
The number of Syrians investing in Jordan shot up by 197 per cent during the first two months of this year, the general controller of companies, Burhan Akroush, told The Jordan Times on Saturday. Burhan Akroush said 101 Syrian investors launched new ventures at the Companies Control Department (CCD) during […]