Reuters | Jan 26, 2013 | 22:09 Updated: Jan 26, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES RAMALLAH — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas tried to get Israel to let 150,000 Palestinians fleeing war in Syria resettle in the West Bank, but dropped the request after Israel demanded they first give up their right […]
by Hana Namrouqa JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The United Kingdom will provide £21 million in humanitarian assistance to Syrian refugees in Jordan and the region, British International Development Secretary Justine Greening announced on Saturday. The aid includes winter clothing, food and medicines for Syrian refugees, Greening told reporters at a […]
Source: Dawn: by Raja Asghar | Interior Minister Rehman Mailk. — Photo by AP/File ISLAMABAD: Like his other colleagues who spoke in the National Assembly on Saturday, the usually tough-talking interior minister, Rehman Malik, took the role of a preacher to make a holy, though ambiguous, offer to Taliban militants: “Return to […]
No room for violence, extremism in Islam: minister ISLAMABAD: Minister for Religious Affairs Syed Khursheed Ahmad Shah on Saturday said that there was no room for violence, extremism and terrorism in Islam – a religion of peace and tolerance. Winding up the discussion on Seeratun Nabi (PBUH) in the National […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD First something about the big picture, Christian apologists want to make a case for Christianity based on laws of nature and science, […]
First, a note from the the editor: Allah says about Rasool Allah Mohammed Mustafa (saw) in Qur’an-e-Majeed as: Chapter 33:22: Verily you have in the Prophet of Allah an excellent model, for him who hopes to meet Allah and the Last Day and who remembers Allah much. Chapter 21:108: And […]
The non-Muslim verdict on Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) K.S Ramakrishna Rao, an Indian Professor of Philosophy in his booklet, (“Muhammad, The Prophet of Islam”) calls him the: “Perfect model for human life.“ […]
Leslie Morgan Steiner was in “crazy love” — that is, madly in love with a man who routinely abused her and threatened her life. Steiner tells the dark story of her relationship, correcting misconceptions many people hold about victims of domestic violence, and explaining how we can all help break […]
Source. Spiegel. Read the full text of British Prime Minister David Cameron’s Wednesday speech on his country’s plan to hold a referendum on the future of its membership in the European Union. DPA The Union flag is draped behind that of the EU: “All this doesn’t make us somehow un-European.” […]
Islam teaches reverence for Jesus and other biblical prophets (LifePoints column) By Kay Campbell | kcampbell@al.com on January 25, 2013 at 1:32 PM, updated January 25, 2013 at 1:33 PM The Bible and the Quran have much more in common than most non-Muslims know, writes Zakiyyah Shakoor. (Kay Campbell / kcampbell@al.com) HUNTSVILLE, […]
(AFP) – Turkey launched Thursday a tender to build in Istanbul what aims to be the world’s largest airport at an estimated cost of over 7 billion euros ($9.3 bn), […]
Russian TV: Leaflets inviting people to a “Bible-burning festival” have stirred outrage in Malaysia. This coincided with a nationalist group leader urging to “seize and burn” Malay-language Bibles, prompting calls for his prosecution. The flyers, issued by a previously unknown group, promised mass Bible-burning in the Malaysian state of Penang […]
NEWARK, New Jersey: New Jersey Muslims who have sued New York City over its police-run surveillance of Muslims say the city’s request that the lawsuit be dismissed is without merit. In a filing Friday, they say the intelligence-gathering program targeted Muslims based solely on their religion and without any […]
Onislam: At church, we were taught that Islam was not a very good thing. I don’t need to go into the detail there, so early on my experience with Islam was really negative, what the media had portrayed to me. I was born in New Zealand in 1972, in a […]
The NEWS: ISLAMABAD: As a retired Major of the Pakistan Army has accused the incumbent khaki leadership of following in the footsteps of General (R) Pervez Musharraf, who had literally launched a campaign against beards in the armed forces, military circles say the forced retirement of Major Zaheeruddin was an […]
Source> The Economist. AFTER 11 years spent waging war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, almost $1.5 trillion in direct costs and hundreds of thousands of lives lost, the Western public feels it has learned a hard lesson. It is more convinced than ever that even the best-intentioned foreign intervention […]
by Thomas Stephens, swissinfo.ch Jan 25, 2013 – 11:00 Good offices continue to play a significant role in Swiss peace policy, according to the foreign ministry. However, the number of protecting power mandates is dwindling. Whether it’s acting as a messenger between two non-speaking states or trying to actively mediate […]
By Editorial Board,January 22, 2013 WASHINGTON POST FOR ALL the upheaval the Arab revolutions have brought to the Middle East, and the tricky challenges they have created for the United States, it’s important to note that much of the region remains unchanged — and therefore vulnerable. While four autocratic rulers […]
Source: UN News Center 21 January 2013 – Global unemployment rose in 2012 amid continuing economic insecurity and insufficient policies stifling overall hiring, a new report by the United Nations labour agency has warned, adding that the world’s youth were most vulnerable to the growing job scarcity. In its annual […]
The door is closing on the chances of a two-state solution and will be firmly shut by the end of Obama’s second term, King Abdullah warns. By Elad Benari, Canada […]