Thousands of protesters chanted the Arab Spring slogan “the people want the downfall of the regime” in Jordan’s capital on Friday. Demonstrations against rising prices are gathering force in a country so far spared the brunt of Middle East unrest. The mainly urban Muslim Brotherhood joined hitherto largely rural protests […]
Sobbing and shaking with unbearable grief, Jihad Masharawi is pictured cradling the body of his murdered 11-month-old son Omar yesterday. As the might of Israel’s military – gunboats, tanks, and aircraft – pounded the Gaza Strip in pursuit of Islamic militants, Omar was one of 11 young Palestinians killed on […]
By Julius Odeke the Independent, Uganda An advocacy group says the Ugandan Army’s quest to apprehend Joseph Kony and other senior leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army is destined to […]
Source: Yahoo News ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan decried Israeli’s air strikes on Gaza on Friday as a pre-election stunt and said he would discuss the crisis […]
War always was, and still is, a very powerful tool for wiping social problems off the table, for hiding the worsening housing crisis and the daily price increases for basic […]
Reseracher Warns against “Pakistanisation”of Indonesia The Human Rights Chief of the United Nations has condemned violence and discrimination against Christians and Muslim minorities in Indonesia. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said she had met with leaders of Christian communities as well as the Islamic minority, Shiite and […]
Merapi volcano’s ‘spirit keeper’ walks line between tradition and technology guardian.co.uk: Two years after eruption killed 350 in Indonesia, Mbah Maridjan’s son has taken over his role appeasing Mount Merapi […]
icscotland.co.uk: Hamas bears “principal responsibility” for the escalating crisis between Gaza and Israel, Downing Street has said. Number 10 also called rocket attacks on Israel by Hamas “completely unacceptable”. It […]
Source: http://www.indianmuslimobserver.com/2012/11/indian-american-muslims-condemn.html By Staff Reporter Muslims in India and around the world are condemning the attempts by some miscreants who are trying to illegally build a full fledged Hindu temple along the wall of the world renowned, four hundred year old Charminar monument in Hyderabad city, thereby disfiguring it. The […]
Source: Dawn.Com By Mohammad Ali THE study of religion has been a phenomenon of interest. It is because of this curiosity that historically different perspectives have been developed to understand, interpret and extract meaning from religious concepts and practices. Some of the dominant approaches have been theological, jurisprudential, spiritual etc. […]
Pakteahouse: Akbar Zaidi and the critical re-evaluation of Jinnah By Yasser Latif Hamdani This morning writing in The News, Akbar Zaidi, a respected economist, called for a critical re-evaluation of Jinnah’s role in Pakistan’s history. Just to re-cap this was business as usual – Jinnah’s democratic credentials are questionable because of […]
France 24: By Charlotte BOITIAUX For one group of angry French soldiers’ wives, posing semi-naked has become a way of protesting against a computer glitch that has left their husbands unpaid. Their Facebook campaign, “Un paquet de Gauloises en colère” (a group of angry Frenchwomen) — which features the wives, girlfriends, […]
Rfi: France The remains of Albania’s King Zog I were flown back to his country on Thursday after being exhumed in a cemetery near Paris. Zog, who reigned from 1928 to 1939, died in France in 1961. Details.
Source: Asia Times: By M K Bhadrakumar As tensions mount in the coming hours and days with the Israeli troops and tanks advancing toward Gaza menacingly, United States President Barack Obama begins to realize that he has a forked tongue. Gaza becomes the litmus test of what he can claim […]
Source: Asia Times: By Pepe Escobar So many wars to launch, so little time. When you’re the political leader of the most militarized nation on the planet – as is the case with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu – you gotta find ways to play with your toys. More:
by Armando Mombelli, swissinfo.ch The phasing out of nuclear power will mean a profound transformation of the Swiss energy system. But the Energy Strategy 2050, which the government has issued […]
GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN ARABNEWS Friday 16 November 2012 RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has delayed the execution of Filipino migrant worker Joselito Zapanta by four more months, giving his family more time to raise blood money to settle the case with the family of his Sudanese victim. “The father of two children, […]
Source: The Local: Hamburg has become the first German state to strike an historic agreement with Muslim community groups, but the deal has riled some members of the political establishment, who claim it undermines the separation of religion and state. Read More:
ARAB NEWS Friday 16 November 2012 MAKKAH: Preliminary work for the expansion of the mataf (the circumambulation area around the Kaaba) started yesterday with the installation of huge cranes at […]
Source: The Local: A sniff of a “cuddle hormone” can encourage married men to literally keep their distance from other women, German scientists have shown – but paranoid wives should not yet put in orders for monogamy spray quite yet. Read More: