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:
The Jordan Times by by Khaled Neimat | AMMAN — The Muslim Brotherhood told a senior government official late Wednesday it would “calm protests” against a government decision to lift […]
Source: Spiegel: The European Commission’s draft law for a gender quota across the EU won’t be easy to pass, given the heavy resistance from a number of member states. But German commentators on Thursday say that it is nevertheless an important step in the right direction. Full story:
Source: Spiegel: By Ulrike Putz in Beirut Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hoping the offensive in the Gaza Strip wins his Likud party more votes in January’s election. But the move is extremely risky. Skirmishes could escalate into a full-blown war that might weaken Hamas but shift Palestinian support […]
Humanity First Volunteers meet President Obama while helping victims of Hurrican Sandy: See Video here President Obama Thanks Volunteers from Canada Humanity First Canada Volunteers Help Victims of Hurricane Sandy […]
Dawn: SCIENTISTS working at the Large Hadron Collider have found no evidence that the new particle discovered earlier this year is anything but the simplest — and most boring — variety of Higgs boson. Staff at Cern, the particle physics lab near Geneva, celebrated in July after they found what […]
The Christian Science Monitor: Taha Siddiqui. The father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb has launched a political party, which plans to participate in the next presidential election slated for early 2013. Abdul Qadeer Khan has started a 100-day campaign to tour Pakistan, starting with Kahuta, home to the first nuclear facility in Pakistan, […]
The Gazette: Jillian Page. In case any readers are wondering, I am not anti-Christian or anti-Muslim or anti-religion. In fact, as my regular readers know, I am very spiritual and identify as a Theosophist. I believe that all religions have value, and that we gravitate to those that best fill our […]
The Express Tribune: Nadir Hassan. The politicisaton of religious identity can be traced back to the Objectives Resolution and, after that, the anti-Ahmadi riots of the 1950s. Groups like the Jamaat-e-Islami and others, who had opposed the creation of Pakistan, suddenly found themselves with a political niche in the new country. […]
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star Lebanon The rapid developments in recent days in the world of the Syrian groups fighting to overthrow the regime of President Bashar Assad will be a game-changer if the new coalition of opposition forces actually becomes a unified movement that achieves four critical […]
The Jerusalem Post: Both Iran and Israel have never been so aware as they are today of the positive and beneficial consequences of a close relationship and historic friendship. Iran […]
http://www.thestar.com/living/article/1287421–it-s-a-girl-documentary-explores-gendercide-in-china-and-india An Indian woman clutches her neck and giggles nervously as she describes how she strangled eight of her newborn daughters to death. “Women have the power to give life and take it away,” she says. According to director Evan Grae Davis’ documentary It’s a Girl, this woman’s story is […]
Source: Record fine, manslaughter charges for BP spill Reuters Photo: U.S. Coast Guard, File. IMAGE: Fire boat crews battle the blazing remnants of the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon, off Louisiana, on April 21, 2010. 1 hr ago By MSN and wire services BP has agreed to pay the largest […]
Omani Developer Tilal Plans Debut Islamic Bond Sale for Mall By Faisal Mantheri and Sherine El Madany – Nov 14, 2012 12:20 AM PT Tilal Development Company SAOC plans to raise 53 million rials ($138 million) in the first quarter in Oman’s first corporate Islamic bond sale to fund a mall […]
Source: ET PARIS: France on Thursday condemned the hanging of a Pakistani soldier convicted of murder and called for the country to renew its moratorium on executions and work towards abolishing the death penalty. “This decision constitutes a step backwards in Pakistan’s move towards greater respect for human rights,” foreign ministry […]
Source: ET: Hazrat Ali Shah declared guilty by Additional Sessions judge, fined Rs100,000. PHOTO: FILE CHITRAL: A man accused of blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was declared guilty and awarded a death sentence along with a fine worth Rs100,000 by Additional Sessions Judge Azhar Ali Khan in Chitral. More:
Promoted post: We are all living in the Womb of God-the-Mother, 13.8 billion Years Pregnancy By Tim Alamenciak Source: Toronto Star – Staff Reporter A request for a lunch-hour haircut has turned into a battle over human rights, pitting freedom of religion against a woman’s right not to be denied […]
Source: Stratfor: On Oct. 19, Lebanese Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan was assassinated on a narrow side street near Sassine Square in downtown Beirut. The attack involved the detonation of a moderately sized vehicle-borne improvised explosive device as al-Hassan’s car passed by the vehicle in which the device was hidden. The […]