By BEN HUBBARD Associated Press WWW.WANDTV.COM HAREM, Syria (AP) – Before the civil war, Ramiz Moussa was a middle class civil servant who processed fines for littering, illegal construction and disturbing the peace in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city. Now, the 40-year-old squats with other rebels in damaged, abandoned homes in […]
Culture vs Religion vs Tradition Hundreds of villagers carry tenong (containers) with variety of food in the Somakaton village in Banyumas, Central Java, in Indonesia. Villagers make offerings, as […]
The Jakarta Globe: Every time the Israeli-Palestinian conflict re-emerges on the stage of global politics, Muslim groups in predominantly Muslim-populated countries like Indonesia, but also in the West, the United […]
Analysis by Jennifer Viegas DISCOVERY NEWS An 11th-century book by a revered Baghdad Muslim scholar turns out to be a tongue-in-cheek guide for party crashers, according to the researcher who […]
Reporting by John Irish; Editing by Angus MacSwan: Source: Yahoo News PARIS (Reuters) – France said on Tuesday it would vote in favour of Palestinian non-member status at the United […]
WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) — Washington should stay away from touching the mortgage interest tax deduction, warns the U.S. housing industry. Lately, housing is on the mend and one of the few bright spots in a lumbering economic recovery. Taking away a key tax break could throw a wrench into home buying […]
Source: Ahmadiyya Gazette Canada By Ansar Raza O ye who believe! Surely, the idolaters are unclean. So they shall not approach the Sacred Mosque after this year of theirs. And […]
Global Post: BERLIN, Germany — When Barack Obama traveled to the eastern city of Dresden with Angela Merkel in 2009, they stopped at the Frauenkirche, or Church of Our Lady. Leveled by […]
Source: The Local: A Turkish mother of six who speaks no German has been ordered by a court in Karlsruhe to take an integration course 30 years after her arrival in Germany. More:
Source: The Local: A pair of hungry German teens found themselves in hospital on Sunday, after an early morning trip to McDonald’s ended in running from the police and jumping through the display window of a car dealership. More:
Source: Asia Times: By:Francesco Sisci Europeans hopeful that economic crisis would bring nations together will be sorely disappointed. Greece is saved and the euro is sound, but politically the continent looks dead. Solace comes with the perspective that in the general scheme of global affairs, and with the refocus on […]
Interpreting Avicenna Critical Essays Edited by Dr Peter Adamson Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen View list of contributors… Hardback (ISBN-13: 9780521190732) Not yet published – available from May 2013 Price is not yet […]
Source: Asia Times: The Obama administration’s unconscionable decision to block a ceasefire effort by the UN Security Council, before joining Egypt to broker last week’s truce, prolonged the conflict. At the UN, it is doubtful many people will take Ambassador Susan Rice seriously again when she complains about Russia and […]
Source: Stratfor: By George Friedman Founder and Chief Executive Officer Last week was spent obsessed with Gaza. In the end, nothing changed. A war was fought without an Israeli ground assault but with massive air and rocket attacks on both sides. Israel did not have the appetite and perhaps the […]
NY Times: LOS ANGELES — Fuming for two months in a jail cell here, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula has had plenty of time to reconsider the wisdom of making “Innocence of Muslims,” his crude YouTube movie trailer depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a bloodthirsty, philandering thug. Bret Hartman/Reuters Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, who […]
Last Stop, Tel Aviv is the story of the 60,000 asylum seekers living in Israel. Escaping dictatorships and indefinite military conscription, Africans flee their homelands in the hope of a […]
Source: TOI LAHORE: In an action reminiscent of that of a school teacher punishing an errant student, a Pakistani judge made a government official stand up for hours in his courtroom for telling a lie. More:
Source: ET The administration at the Holy Family Hospital on Tuesday suspended five staffers after a rat scratched and bit a newborn in the gynaecology ward on Monday, Express News reported. According to Express News correspondent Adnan Mukhtar, the nurse in charge, two nurses and two sanitary workers were suspended […]
Daily Times: By Muhammad Akram LAHORE: The rough and ready security arrangements like closure of cellular phone service in fifty cities, ban on pillion riding in four big cities and […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD Epigraph: “And when the she-camels, ten month pregnant, are abandoned, and when the beasts are gathered together (in Zoos), and when the seas […]