Source: The Local With grey skies and intermittent rain on the cards, there’s little here to raise the spirits. While the temperatures should remain relatively mild, the overall outlook is uninspiring. The west looks set to get off more lightly on Friday, with heavy rain-bearing clouds concentrated in the east. […]
Source: Asiatimes: Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar carefully crafted an opening speech boasting about the achievements of the Pakistan Peoples Party-led government since 2008. The speech made repeated mention of the catch-words “democracy” and “women’s rights”. Even drone strikes – or their purported illegality rather – surprisingly received a paragraph […]
Islamic Law, Adoptions, and Kafalah by Faisal Kutty / November 8th, 2012 There hasn’t been a concerted push to open doors for Muslim orphans because the expectation would be that those efforts would fall flat… – Chuck Johnson, chief executive, National Council for Adoption Conventional wisdom — among both Muslims and non-Muslims — […]
(WNN) Santiago, CHILE: When 40-year-old Chilean citizen Ms. Fabiola Palominos Flores converted to Islam in 2007 she started wearing a hijab (headscarf) as part of her identity as a Muslim woman living in Chile. But at the time she didn’t know she would run into trouble. On August 2010 Palominos […]
Reading can mould the personality and transform people, according to Shaikh Sultan bin Ahmad Al Qasimi, Chairman of the Sharjah Media Centre. Speaking at the sidelines of the ongoing Sharjah International Book Fair, Shaikh Sultan bin Ahmad Al Qasimi said there is much to gain by interacting with leading authors, […]
Justin Welby, a former oil executive who was made a bishop just over a year ago, has been appointed the next leader of the Church of England, Downing Street confirmed on Friday morning. A statement on the website of the prime minister’s office said the Queen had nominated Welby. A […]
Agence France Presse ARABNEWS DAMASCUS: A defiant President Bashar Assad rejected on Thursday calls he seek a safe exit, vowing he would “live in Syria and die in Syria,” as […]
By ANNE BARNARD THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syria’s rebel fighters — who have long staked claim to the moral high ground for battling dictatorship — are losing crucial support from a public increasingly disgusted by the actions of some rebels, including poorly planned missions, senseless destruction, criminal […]
The Constitution or Charter of Medina pre-dated the English Magna Carta by almost six centuries. It was executed and implemented for 10 years (622-632 A.D.) and applied to 10,000 citizens […]
Saudi Gazette. While unfortunately there are still too many reservations about the outcome of the Syrian National Council’s Doha summit this week, the situation on the ground in Syria itself is apparently becoming clearer — the Free Syrian Army is going on the offensive in Damascus. In a stunning display […]
A Saudi Student named Hashem performed Prostration infront of thousands of foreign students to thank God after winning third place in Physics (intel Aesf 2012, competition) which was held in […]
The Jakarta Post: At least 200 members of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) staged a demonstration in Bandung, West Java on Thursday, demanding that the administration immediately implement a total […]
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Source BBC Tens of thousands of people around the world have signed an online petition calling for the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban to be nominated […]
The latest addition to the myriad of museums in Moscow has just opened. Among the first visitors to the new Jewish Museum and the Center of Tolerance were Israeli President […]
The Ahmadiyya community in Australia is holding a Peace Symposium this weekend and it says it wants to reach the broader community with its message of peace and tolerance. Australia’s Ahmadiyya community holds Peace Symposium (Credit: ABC) The Ahmadiyya faith is a branch of Islam but the community has recently […]
NY Times: By ERIC L. LEWIS WASHINGTON PRESIDENT OBAMA has been re-elected. He must now decide how to balance his commitment to human rights against the political risks of appearing “soft on terrorism.” The president’s critics on the left must accept that he has fundamentally altered the George W. Bush-era human rights […]
Agence France Presse ARABNEWS DAMASCUS: A defiant President Bashar Assad rejected on Thursday calls he seek a safe exit, vowing he would “live in Syria and die in Syria,” as fighting raged in Damascus. “I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the […]
P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR ARABNEWS JEDDAH: Muslim community leaders were unanimous in their opinion: Barack Obama’s re-election as president of the United States would promote global peace and strengthen America’s relations with the Islamic world. Leaders and participants at the Islamic Development Bank community development workshop shared their thoughts about the […]
Dawn.com: Khuda Bux Abro. I want a Pakistan where peace reigns supreme. A Pakistan where children can play in the streets to their hearts’ content and their parents need not fear that their children will be kidnapped. The streets are not blocked with barriers; neither are there impediments on […]