America’s middle class: An endangered species?
BOSTON — Meet Mr. and Ms. Median America. Or perhaps you already know them. His name is likely to be Michael. Hers, Jennifer. They’re 37 years old, and live in […]
Insight: Pakistani death squads spur desperate voyage to Australia
(Reuters) – It was 3 a.m. when Abid Warasi and his friend clambered into an Indonesian fishing boat, joining 300 other migrants packed into the hold. Only a few days […]
Has the presidency brutalized Obama
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1276806–barack-obama-has-been-brutalized-by-the-presidency Jonathan Schell After the second debate between U.S. President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, Obama’s supporters chorused in near-unison, “He’s back!” The languid, disengaged, and lacklustre performer of the first debate had disappeared, and the impressive, beloved figure of the victorious 2008 campaign had reappeared. As […]
LUMS, Dr. Salam and Dr. Hoodbhoy
Daily Times; COMMENT : Hounding the dissenters — Dr Mohammad Taqi An integral accompaniment to this hounding of the politicians from Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy to Asif Ali Zardari has been the harassment of the dissenters in the intelligentsia Pakistan has an unfortunate track record of hounding dissenters from Dr Fatima Ali […]
Is hate speech a right?
Source: Times of Malta By Laiq Ahmed Atif Freedom of speech, expression and conscience is a noble value and is vital to spread a message and to restore the dignity […]
The number of job seekers rose by 1.6% in September.
Liberation France. Wednesday morning, Prime Minister of France, Jean-Marc Ayrault, announced the results of September as “not good.” Rate of unemployment is up by 1.6% in September. It means 47,000 more job seekers, its the highest since the spring 2009. A french news paper.
Pilgrims to perform Wuquf Arafat today
MINA: The Hajj pilgrims will perform the most vital pillar of Hajj, i.e. Wuquf-e-Arafat (Stay at Mount Arafat) today (Thursday), Geo News. Mufti-e-Azam will deliver Hajj sermon in Masjid-e-Nimra. Hundreds […]
Over 1.75 m foreign pilgrims at Haj
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Thursday 25 October 2012 Interior Minister Prince Ahmed, who is chairman of the Supreme Haj Committee, said 1,752,932 foreign pilgrims have arrived for Haj this year, including […]
Mina valley reverberates with talbiyah
MINA: SIRAJ WAHAB ARABNEWS Thursday 25 October 2012 The valley of Mina yesterday reverberated with the chants of “Labaik Allahuma Labaik … Here I am at Thy service O God,” […]
Syria accuses France of backing terrorism
Rfi France. “Syria calls on the international community, and in particular the UN Security Council, to seriously question the role of France, which is preventing the cessation of violence and terrorism in Syria,” state news agency Sana quoted the foreign ministry as saying. “The previous and current French governments continue […]
ISLAM IN THE PRESS : post by H. Koya
Foreign Islamic militants worry Syrian rebels but also provide a powerful … Fox News ALEPPO, Syria – The presence of foreign Islamic militants battling Syria’s regime is raising concerns over the possible injection of al-Qaida’s influence into the country’s civil war. Syria’s rebels share some of those misgivings. But they also see in … See all […]
Rached Ghannouchi says he doesn’t want an Islamic state in Tunisia. Can he prove his critics wrong?
The leader of the North African country’s largest political party defends it against accusations that it poses a threat to secularism in the birthplace of the Arab Spring by Robert Fisk, The Independent When Rached Ghannouchi met Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali – before Mr Ghannouchi wisely exiled himself to London […]
Jordan’s king steers nation through turbulence
AMMAN, Jordan: The foiling of a planned al-Qaida terror plot in Jordan underscores a new subplot in the story of the Arab Spring: Things are heating up for King Abdullah II, a Western-oriented monarch who has run a business-friendly, pragmatic monarchy with some trappings of democracy. Jordan, a key U.S. […]
Romney – on auto bailout 2008
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/23/romney-auto-bailout_n_2006706.html? WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney’s opposition to the loans President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama have extended to the auto industry has long been an awkward scab on his presidential campaign. In Ohio, in particular, one out of every eight jobs is connected to the sector. Having insisted, […]
Placebo effect may be ‘down to genes’
BBC: Why some people respond to treatments that have no active ingredients in them may be down to their genes, a study in the journal PLoS ONE suggests. The so-called […]
Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right
By Wajeeha Choudhary Picture a person you reverently admire. For some, this may be a grandparent who brims with wisdom or a legendary hero from the pages of human history. Now imagine this person is maligned and disrespected in the most grotesque manner, ranging from accusations of pedophilia to tyranny. […]
Survey: Most Israeli Jews would support apartheid regime in Israel
Haaretz: Most of the Jewish public in Israel supports the establishment of an apartheid regime in Israel if it formally annexes the West Bank. A majority also explicitly favors discrimination […]
One Father, Three Legacies
Study of Patriarch Abraham; the book reveals what interpretations of Abraham’s life unite the three religions, and which ones divide them. Source; The Jewish week by Steve Lipman Concurrent with […]
Why ‘Intelligent Design’ subverts faith
Asia Times Online: by Spangler I hate it when the bad guys are right. But it happens sometimes, and when it does, we should own up to it. The bad […]
Attack on schoolgirl fuels Pakistani conspiracy theories
By Michele Langevine Leiby, Wednesday, October 24, 2:57 PM ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — It’s a well-known fact in Pakistan that Osama bin Laden died in 2006 and that the U.S. commando raid on his compound in May 2011 was merely a “drama” orchestrated by President Obama to help win reelection. Of course, if that were […]