Jerome Taylor: Religious freedom is not an absolute right
Source: The Independent The European Court of Human Rights gets a regular kicking in the British press, often unfairly. So it’s good to see that the judges in Strasbourg have […]
Would Jesus Buy an Automatic Assault Weapon?
Huff Post: by Charles Negy: One of the things that has always struck me about many Christians in the United States is the disconnect between their faith in Jesus and their personal behavior. One obvious example that rears its ugly head once a year is the whole enterprise of Christmas […]
PAKISTAN: “THE HANDS OF CRUELTY”: ABUSES BY ARMED FORCES AND TALIBAN IN PAKISTAN’S TRIBAL AREAS: Amnesty International
Amnesty International: After a decade of insurgency, Pakistan’s Tribal areas remain in a state of crisis. In the Tribal areas, the courts are barred from upholding the fundamental rights protections guaranteed under Pakistan’s constitution. This document summarizes the report by Amnesty International which shows that, rather than investigating and prosecuting […]
The Holy Quran Applauded as a Landmark Contribution to ‘Words of Justice’ by the Harvard University
Epigraph: “Blessed is He (Allah) Who has sent down the Discrimination (the Quran) to His servant (Muhammad), that he may be a Warner to all the worlds.” (Al Quran 25:1) […]
Muslim group shocked by vandalism in Sydney
CBCnews: ‘I think it’s probably just a random incident,’ says organization A welcome sign belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has been ripped down the middle in Sydney, but the organization says it’s hoping it was a random act. The group discovered the vandalism of their sign, across from the […]
A road straddling two religions
Source: The Hindu In an inspired moment, the street in Alwarpet was named after two giants of the legal field, K. Bhashyam Iyengar and Basheer Ahmed Sayeed Fellow heritage enthusiast and writer, Dr G. Sundaram, wondered as to the origins of Bashyam Basheer Ahmed Street in Alwarpet. Have the signboard […]
Myanmar Rural populations to get off-grid solar power
Source: Mizzima olar power for off-grid rural populations is to be set up by SPCG Public Company Ltd., The Bangkok Post reported last week. “Electricity supply in Myanmar is falling short of demand that has grown rapidly.” said the Thai energy company’s chairwoman Wandee Khunchornyakong to the newspaper. “The country’s […]
Toronto stands in solidarity with Hazaras in Pakistan
Source: Dawn Author: Murtaza Haider While the Hazaras sat with the coffins of their children who died in targeted bomb attacks on January 10, 2013, millions in Pakistan joined the […]
Making Islamic sense of free speech
Source: The Washington Post By Harris Zafar While many celebrated the winter holidays, news broke of the arrest in Saudi Arabia of liberal writer Turki Al Hamad for allegedly insulting […]
Largest number of Muslim Delegates elected to CA DEM PARTY
CA Muslim Community Makes Political History 28 Muslim Delegates Elected to CA Dem Party By Farrah KhanThis past weekend, California Muslims made political history when 28 Muslim candidates were elected by Democrats as delegates and alternate delegates to the California Democratic Party (CDP). This constitutes the largest number of Muslims […]
Swiss ask for Syrian war crimes prosecution
by Rita Emch in New York, swissinfo.ch and agencies Jan 15, 2013 – 11:06 More than 50 countries led by Switzerland have called on the United Nations Security Council to refer the Syria crisis to the International Criminal Court (ICC), which prosecutes genocide and war crimes. “We are firmly of […]
When and How would Forty Four Million Muslims Wake up to their Rights in Europe?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Short answer to the ‘when,’ question is as soon as they read this article carefully and share it with […]
Atomic bond types discernible in single-molecule images
Source: BBC By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News A pioneering team from IBM in Zurich has published single-molecule images so detailed that the type of atomic bonds between their atoms can be discerned. The same team took the first-ever single-molecule image in 2009 and more recently published […]
France poised to send thousands more troops to Mali
The insurgents vow to make conflict ‘worse than Afghanistan’ Thousands of French troops were preparing to join the anti-terrorist war in Mali today as British army chiefs warned against getting sucked […]
Israel: CBS: Jewish births up, Muslim births down
Fertility rate among Jewish women in Israel increases while rate in Muslim sector drops, according to demographics report BY Yaron Druckman According to a demographics report released by the Central […]
Illuminating Jewish Life in a Muslim Empire
JERUSALEM — A batch of 1,000-year-old manuscripts from the mountainous northern reaches of war-torn Afghanistan, reportedly found in a cave inhabited by foxes, has revealed previously unknown details about the […]
Pakistan Supreme Court orders arrest of PM Raja Pervez Ashraf
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of PM Raja Pervez Ashraf and 15 others over corruption allegations, raising fears of a political crisis just months ahead of an election. […]
India puts visa deal with Pakistan on hold
India has put on hold a plan to issue visas to Pakistani senior citizens on arrival, amid fresh tension between the two countries. Home Secretary RK Singh told the BBC […]
Video: ‘One million children’ join Buddhist meditation event
Source: BBC Every year, a project called V-Star Change the World brings schoolchildren to a Buddhist temple in Thailand for a day of meditation. Organisers claim that one million children attended the most recent event at the Phra Dhammakaya temple near Bangkok. The temple has attracted controversy in the past, […]
Toronto Area mulla catapults onto Pakistan’s stage
Toronto-area mullah catapults onto Pakistan’s stage SAEED SHAH and RENATA D’ALIESIO, LAHORE — The Globe and Mail Published Friday, Jan. 11 2013, 10:47 PM EST, Last updated Saturday, Jan. 12 2013, 11:15 AM EST An unlikely political saviour for Pakistan, Toronto-area cleric Tahir ul Qadri has descended on his native […]