Author: Chris Selley Source: National Post, Canada In awarding a Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal to two scofflaw anti-abortion activists — Mary Wagner, who is behind bars, and Linda Gibbons, who usually is — Saskatchewan MP Maurice Vellacott obviously knew he would cause a political stir […]
Source: Reuters (Reuters) – Boatloads of Muslims struggled to reach refugee camps and sought safety on islands and in coastal villages on Saturday as Myanmar tried to put out the fires of a week of sectarian unrest that has shaken its fragile democratic transition. Dozens of rickety wooden vessels packed […]
Source: VOA Daniel Schearf October 26, 2012 BANGKOK — The death toll from sectarian clashes in Burma’s coastal Rakhine state has doubled to 112 with over 70 reported injured, including children. The official figures surpass the bloodshed in fighting this summer and were released after President Thein Sein vowed to […]
Source: BBC Online retailer Amazon has reported a bigger than expected quarterly loss, led by its investment in struggling online deals service LivingSocial. Amazon made a loss of $274m (£170m) for the July to September period, compared with a profit of $63m a year earlier. The overall loss is equivalent to […]
Additional reading and viewing: In the Face of the Cartoon Row: The Best Movie about the Prophet Muhammad — ‘The Message’ The Life of Muhammad is a 2011 British three-part documentary miniseries examining the life of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) and the origins of Islam. The documentary […]
Businessinsider.com: With Britain questioning the legality of a strike on Iran, denying the U.S. access to pivotal airbases, and the U.S. presidential election just days away, we wanted to re-examine how extensive an endeavor […]
cic.gc.ca: Ottawa, October 25, 2012 — The Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, issued the following statement to recognize Eid-al-Adha: Today at sundown marks the beginning of Eid-al-Adha, one of the most important holidays for Muslims around the world. Also known as the Feast of the Sacrifice or […]
by Muath Freij JORDAN TIMES MAFRAQ — Although Ibrahim Nuaimi has yet to fulfil his dream of opening an argileh shop in his hometown of Daraa, Syria, he has made […]
by Urs Geiser, swissinfo.ch The Swiss media have improved their coverage of politically and socially relevant issues, but they have become more superficial over the past decade according to Zurich […]
An increasing number of Americans living in Switzerland are renouncing their citizenship as a result of ever intrusive demands from the tax authorities in their “home” country. The US embassy […]
RIYADH: ABDUL HANNAN TAGO ARABNEWS Saturday 27 October 2012 The Imam of a Riyadh mosque has called on every responsible person to behave properly and treat whoever is under his […]
Jennifer Gibbson reports on LA Times Last week, Stanford University and New York University released a major study about the use of drones in the ever-evolving but never-ending war on terror. Unfortunately, many commentators missed the report’s key message: Drones are terrorizing an entire civilian population. I was one of […]
Huff Post: Dr. David Liepert. Islam’s Eid ul-Adha reminds me every year that what we believe about God doesn’t matter as much as whether we believe in God in the first place. I’d like to ask my Muslim, Christian and Jewish brother and sister believers a quick question: Even if […]
theguardian: Mark Vernon. Spirituality has always been associated with the quest for health. Camberwell in south London, I recently learned, derives its name from a healing well frequented by those who were “cambered”, or physically disabled. But it is only a scientific age that would seek to distil causal links […]
Health News: One of the sad realities about Alzheimer’s disease is that there’s no way of preventing it – at least not yet. We know some people are genetically or biologically at greater risk than others, but researchers want to find out how we can fight it off, or at […]
Britain has said that it is not right “at this point in time” for a possible strike on Iran, but is involved in military contingency planning with the US and other allies over Iran, according to the UK newspaper the Guardian. “The UK would be in breach of international law […]
Muslim group holds interfaith converstaion on anti-Islam film Columbus Dispatch (blog) The Columbus Chapter of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community recently held an interfaith meeting at its Nasir mosque in Groveport to discuss the Innocence of Muslims film clips that mocked the Islamicprophet Mohammed and sparked riots in Muslim countries … See all stories on this topic » Young Muslims host week long […]
Silvio Berlusconi was condemned as a man with a “natural capacity for crime” by a Milan court which handed him a four year prison sentence for tax fraud. The […]
The father of a girl shot by the Pakistani Taliban for wanting to go to school said his daughter would “rise again” and has started walking and talking after asking […]
Source:zdnet Technology executives will kick the tires on Windows 8—despite prognostications that enterprises will run away from it—but one size won’t fit all companies. The key word when it comes to Windows 8 and Windows RT is nuance. http://www.zdnet.com/microsofts-windows-8-the-enterprise-case-7000006345/?s_cid=e539