By Christoph Reuter DER SPIEGEL GERMANY After spending months reporting on the conflict, a SPIEGEL journalist has pieced together a realistic view of the situation on the ground, and reports that dictator Bashar Assad’s fall seems inevitable. But as the fighting grows more barbarous on both sides, he worries what […]
JEDDAH: RIMA AL-MUKHTAR Wednesday 2 January 2013 Saudi women expressed outrage at Chelsea Handler, the American host of the TV show “Chelsea Lately,” when she swore at Saudi men for […]
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE ARABPRESS Thursday 3 January 2013 NEW YORK: A shy New York woman whom no one took to be wealthy left a shockingly happy surprise when she died: […]
By SONIA FALEIRO Published: January 1, 2013 NYTimes January 2, 2013 I LIVED for 24 years in New Delhi, a city where sexual harassment is as regular as mealtime. Every day, somewhere in the city, it crosses the line into rape. For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the […]
WASHINGTON — Ending a climactic fiscal showdown in the final hours of the 112th Congress, the House late Tuesday passed and sent to President Obama legislation to avert big income tax increases on most Americans and prevent large cuts in spending for the Pentagon and other government programs. The measure, […]
Source: Alislam.org: A detailed and comprehensive video coverage of Khalifa of Islam’s recent visit to Brussels. Watch here:
Alhambra (pron.: /ælˈhæmbrə/),[a] the complete form of which was Calat Alhambra,[b] is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. It was constructed during the mid -10th century by the Umaid Arabic ruler Badis ben Habus of the Kingdom of Granada in al-Andalus, […]
Source: The Conservative Paper. From ancient times India has been worshipped as Mata Bharat or Mother India. The country’s very soil is therefore not just motherland but the mother goddess herself. Which makes the now notorious brutal rape and murder of the 23 year old female medical student all the […]
Source: The Conservative Papers via Mr Hasan Notice the Arabic Graffiti painted on one of the burned cars. Interior Minister Manuel Valls said Tuesday that 1,193 vehicles were burned overnight around the country. Clashes between police and offenders in the New Year’s Eve took place in the Muslim majority districts […]
1-800 WHY ISLAM Love for All, Hatred for None. Also, watch http://www.mta.tv ‘Why Islam’ Reaches Florida The campaign “Why Islam” features 29 billboards and latest web technology to drive traffic to ICNA’s YouTube channel and website CAIRO – A leading Muslim organization has launched a new awareness campaign in the central […]
( A rule of exception-part of the most legal system: Koya) Polygamy Allowed in Islam, Not Encouraged The Indian court ruled that polygamy is only allowed under certain circumstances as the illness of the wife CAIRO – An Indian court has ruled that polygamy is not encouraged by the […]
FT: Roula Khalaf: The new face of Syria’s opposition, Moaz al-Khatib, is a mild-mannered reformist cleric with whom western governments say they can do business. But when it comes to rebels fighting the regime on the ground, the religious figure to whom many turn is of a different style. He is Sheikh […]
BBC News: Seven charity workers, six of them women, have been shot dead in north-west Pakistan, police say. The women, some of them teachers, were attacked near a children’s community centre. A male colleague died with them. All were Pakistani citizens. More
Huff Post: Rabbi Adam Jacobs. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know […]
Prologue by Zia H Shah MD The charm and mystique of any good fiction lies in the conflict, tension and drama between the characters. Alhambra lives in the imagination of […]
RT: “The fiscal cliff is just more theater from bankers and politicians trying to distract people from the underlying root catastrophe that is a bunch of whackers and bankers who are manipulating the system day in and day out destroying the economy,” Keiser said of the US economy. Live from the […]
Source: ET Qadri’s proposal is to have a caretaker, technocratic govt, but this would be in clear violation of the Constitution. PHOTO: NNI/FILE One of the saddest aspects of democratic politics in Pakistan today is how the very political parties who are supposed to be safeguarding are the ones posing […]
Source: AMJ Press Desk London Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad says defending honour of Holy Prophet Muhammad a lifelong task for all true Muslims The 121st Annual Convention (Jalsa Salana) […]
Source: Nasim Malik of Sweden Reply by Nasim Malik of Sweden to the objection raised by Ansar Abbasi
Indian Student attached in Germany over Islam conversion Press Trust of India : Berlin, Thu Dec 27 2012, 22:41 hrs A 24-year Indian student in Bonn was brutally attacked by Islamic extremists who slashed his tongue when he refused to convert, German police said today. The Indian student was attacked on Christmas […]