‘Canada will burn praise Allah’: Vandals deface Toronto war memorial on Remembrance Day TORONTO — Police are investigating after a war memorial was vandalized on Remembrance Day in Toronto. The Victory Peace memorial in Coronation Park was defaced with the words “Canada will burn praise Allah” written in what appeared to […]
He says that we can draw our inspiration from our scriptures but we have to translate the message into a language that is understood by other fellow citizens from different […]
By: Muhammad Umar Source: The Review of Religions May/June 1993 Vol. LXXXVIII No. 5/6 http://www.alislam.org/library/links/in_vedas.html Almighty God has provided for all our physical needs. The Holy Quran says: He it is Who created for you all that is in the earth. (2:30) And He has subjected to you whatever is in […]
Right Side News 12 November 2012 By Soeren Kern The statements of Mark Elchardus, author of a 426 page study, who linked Islam with anti-Semitism, earned him a lawsuit filed by […]
Epigraph: “If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of the greatest geniuses the world has known.” Karen Armstrong Source: Islam is Peace Website Innocence of Muhammad: An in-depth Response to Recent Events Recently a film named Innocence of […]
By Alan Boswell McClatchy Newspapers NAIROBI, Kenya — Earlier this summer, Mali’s Islamist militant northern rebels abandoned their southernmost position, the town of Douentza, some 100 miles northeast up the road from Mopti, where the Malian army had retreated this spring after being routed out of the northern two-thirds of […]
The Geneva-based International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) has launched a new website designed to help families dispersed by conflict and catastrophe find each other. The site, familylinks.icrc.org, will […]
The Arab League has welcomed the formation of a new anti-Damascus opposition bloc, and recognized the so-called Syrian National Council (SNC) as the representative of the Syrian people. On Sunday, Syrian oppositionists agreed to unify the multiple military councils in command of the foreign-backed insurgents inside Syria under pressure from […]
By Barbara Lochbihler The Daily Star, Lebanon “Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come,” the American poet Carl Sandburg wrote hopefully in 1936. His sentiment seems more apt than ever nowadays, but not because humanity has turned pacifistic. Rather, wars are increasingly fought remotely, with drones – or […]
Story Summary by David Ignatius, The Daily Star, Lebanon Petraeus may have seemed larger than life in uniform, but beneath the ribbons he was a very human story. Petraeus’ 14-month tenure as CIA director was short and, compared to his rocket-like ascent to a four-star rank in the Army, something […]
Story Summary Aware of the danger but drawn by curiosity, men huddled on a rooftop and gawped as artillery rounds crashed into the earth, yards from the flimsy fence that separates this Turkish border town from Syria. In the 20 months since the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad began, one […]
by Ami Teibel, The Daily Star, Lebanon Story Summary Israel is considering resuming its contentious practice of assassinating militant leaders in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip in an effort to halt intensified rocket attacks on Israel’s south, according to defense officials. With Israeli elections two months away, rocket barrages from Gaza […]
Huff Post: Aamir Hussain. On Nov. 13, 2012, people around the world will celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights. Although the holiday is mainly observed by Hindus, Jains and Sikhs, […]
Dawn.com: Faiza Mirza. “I always felt different because everywhere I go people either give me sympathetic looks or are scared that I will bring bad luck. But the first time I actually felt betrayed was when one of my sisters was getting married. I was treated like an outcast by […]
NY times: Can war be justified? Is there such a thing as morally proper conduct in war? With Veterans’ Day upon us and, with the Obama administration preparing to face another four years of geopolitical choices in unstable regions, The Stone is featuring recent work by Jeff McMahan, a philosopher […]
Daily Times: LAHORE: The Hindu community will celebrate Diwali, also known as festival of lights on Tuesday (today). Special prayers will be held at temples across the city. The Hindus […]
RT: A newly uncovered clandestine computer network, known as the ‘One System,’ can reportedly share children’s personal details across different UK agencies, including age, sex, address and their school behavior records – all without parents ever knowing. One of Britain’s biggest government contractors has created a database containing the personal […]
Dawn: UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan on Monday was elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council, an intergovernmental body within the UN system. Pakistan, which had the endorsement of the Asia […]
Source: BBC India is once again trying to make low-cost computers available to students across the country. The country’s president has unveiled an upgraded version of the world’s cheapest tablet computer – despite the functionality and distribution problems faced by the device’s predecessor. Made by UK-based Datawind, the Aakash 2 […]