Why Bangladesh Should be a Secular State?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD Bangladesh will retain Islam as the state religion in amendments the government is proposing to its constitution, a government minister said yesterday, […]
Inflammatory Messages About Islam on Increase In NYC Subways: CBS
More Ads With Inflammatory Messages About Islam Appear In NYC Subway January 8, 2013 9:28 PM Share on email3 View Comments (credit: CBS 2) Filed Under Local, News, NY News,Radio.com – News,Syndicated Local Related Tags 911, ads, American Freedom Defense Initiative, Islam,Pamela Geller, Twin Towers,World Trade Center NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Another set of inflammatory ads has appeared […]
Understanding Islam is Easy Now (Telugu): HINDU
Understanding Islam is easy now G. V. R. SUBBA RAO SHARE · COMMENT · PRINT · T+ PHOTO: V. RAJUBook-lovers browsing the pages of Quran at a stall put up at the ongoing Vijayawada Book Festival in Vijayawada on Tuesday. Andhra PradeshVijayawada arts, culture and entertainmentbooks and literature religion and beliefislam Publishers bring Quran and other […]
The Faith Of An Abolitionist Prophet
Huff Post: John Stauffer. For Douglass, there was an intimate link between individual conversion and social reform. The path of reform flowed outward from self to society. Before eradicating social evil, you first had to purify the self. Consequently Douglass and other abolitionists tried to live righteously, abstaining from tobacco, […]
Unwed Couples Still Favor Traditional Household Roles
Science Daily: The conventional notion of male breadwinner and female homemaker still guides at least some behaviors, even for couples in which the woman is the primary financial provider or at least one partner wishes to have a nonconventional arrangement. Working-class couples who buck the tradition of marriage are far […]
Could Obama be first 3-term president since FDR?
RT: A United States congressman has introduced a bill that would repeal the 22nd Amendment, which currently limits the president to serving only two terms as commander-in-chief. Should the bill become a law, it could allow President Barack Obama to run for reelection yet again in 2016. The bill, H.J. […]
Quotable quotes ……. or stupid utterings
(On September 17, 1994, Alabama’s Heather Whitestone was selected as Miss America 1995.) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: “I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we […]
Anglican nuns praised for joining Catholic Church
Oxford, England, Jan 8, 2013 / 02:02 am (CNA).- A group of 11 Anglican nuns who were received into the communion of the Catholic Church Jan. 1 were lauded for […]
Sweden: Centre Party faces internal rebellion (trying to legalize polygamy, among other things…)
Resistance is growing within the ranks of the Centre Party over a radical new party programme which includes proposals on free immigration, polygamy and an end to compulsory schooling. Several regional party chapters in southern Sweden are now organizing against the proposed 2013 party programme, reports the newspaper Dagens Nyheter. […]
The murder of Saad Farooq in Pakistan
Source: New Religion via Nasim Malik of Sweden. Ummad Farooq speaks out against sectarian violence in Pakistan, weeks after his brother was murdered for being an Ahmadi Saad Farooq (left) with younger brother Ummad Farooq (right) By S. Taalay Ahmed I’m sitting across the table from Ummad Farooq in a small […]
Cameron Succumbs to Growing Europhobia
Source: The Spiegel By Christoph Scheuermann REUTERS Cameron speaks on the BBC’s ‘Andrew Marr Show’ on Sunday. Britain’s right-wing conservative movement is making life difficult for Prime Minister David Cameron. The UK Independence Party wants to lead the country out of the EU, and its approval ratings are higher than […]
Hagel sets early challenge for Israel lobby
Source: Asiatimes: Former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel’s likely nomination as US defense secretary creates a dilemma for the Israel lobby. Opposition would risk ties with President Barack Obama and failure threaten its “invincible” aura in Washington’s corridors of power. Acquiesce, and it would have to deal with a fiercely independent […]
Jesus Wife: Harvard Theological Review Postpones Publication For More Testing
(RNS) The Harvard Theological Review is postponing publication of a major article on the papyrus fragment in which Jesus seems to refer to his wife, raising further doubts about a […]
The Crisis of the Middle Class and American Power
Source: Stratfor. By George Friedman Last week I wrote about the crisis of unemployment in Europe. I received a great deal of feedback, with Europeans agreeing that this is the core problem and Americans arguing that the United States has the same problem, asserting that U.S. unemployment is twice as […]
Halt hate speech now
Source: ET SSP rally had spread hate speech against Shias. PHOTO: EXPRESS/IRFAN ALI We are our biggest enemies. This is something many fail to see because they believe external forces are to blame for Pakistan’s problems but the recent filing of a first information report (FIR) in Multan against members […]
The Politics Of Orthodox And Ahmadiyya Muslims In Wa (Ghana)
The political and religious temperature is fast boiling in Wa municipal. 2008-2012 tested our weak political and religious credentials in the Wa municipality. We involved in political violence and overthrow of ministers and religious violence to some extent, what about this time round. The question is who really care about […]
Finally a Syria transition plan with real prospects
by David Ignatius, The Daily Star, Lebanon Story Summary To help oust President Bashar Assad, a Syrian opposition group has drafted a plan for a transitional justice system that would impose harsh penalties against diehard members of his inner circle but provide amnesty for most of his Alawite supporters. To […]
Greatest Law Givers in Human History, Muhammad (SAW), Recognized by US Supreme Court in 1935
wnd.com and Youtube: While Muslims engaged in violent protests worldwide over caricatures of Muhammad have insisted any image of their prophet is considered blasphemous, a prominent frieze in the U.S. […]
Jordan: Man finds, returns JD320,000 ($450’000)
Petra | Jan 07, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES ZARQA — A man on Monday found JD320,000 in a bag in Zarqa Governorate. Zarqa Police Department Director Brig. Gen. Mohammad Thaher said the man called a radio station and informed them about the money he had found. He noted that the […]
US senator calls for gradual cut in aid to Israel
ARON HELLER | AP ARABNEWS Tuesday 8 January 2013 .JERUSALEM: US Sen. Rand Paul on Monday called for a gradual reduction of American foreign aid, delivering the message in an unlikely venue — since Israel is among the top recipients of American assistance. Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, told reporters […]