No winner
Source: BBC Mo Ibrahim said only exceptional leaders will get the prize There is no winner this year for the world’s most valuable individual prize – the Mo Ibrahim prize for good governance in Africa. Read More:
Tripoli prison suffers mass breakout
Source: BBC The prisoners are said to be of various nationalities and officials say about 60 have so far been recaptured. It is not clear how the breakout happened. Al-Judaida is one of Tripoli’s largest jails. Human rights groups accuse officials of abusing inmates. The mass escape comes less than […]
Switzerland seeks to confirm top research spot
by Andreas Keiser, swissinfo.ch Switzerland tops all major research and innovation rankings worldwide, largely thanks to generous funding and a clear separation between public and private research, as well as […]
Rehman Malik announces $1 million bounty on Pakistani Taliban spokesman
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit:Dawn.com KARACHI: Interior Minister Rehman Malik has offered a $1 million bounty for Ehsanullah Eshan, the central spokesman for the […]
“Religion often seems a problematic issue”
Christoph Bochinger, a professor of religious studies, sees no countertrend to secularisation, with the result that the churches have lost their role as leaders on matters relating to values and conscience. Interview by Matthias Herren “Swiss review”: The Catholic and Reformed Protestant Churches have steadily been losing members for decades. […]
Switzerland: Moving away from the churches
The Swiss people’s relationship with religion is undergoing significant change. There are twenty times more Swiss with no religious affiliation today than forty years ago. Faith also plays a less […]
Saudi Arabian polygamists seek Canadian home
Officials say they’re flooded with applications from well-heeled Saudi Arabian men with one or more wives seeking a new life in Canada BY TOM GODFREY,TORONTO SUN Diplomatic officials said they’re […]
Math That Won Two Economists The Nobel Prize: Matching People for Stable Marriage
Businessinsider.com: This year Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley are splitting the Nobel Prize for Economics, and it’s about time. Each has made a huge impact on both the theory and the real world practice of economics, and have saved thousands of lives in doing so. Shapley is the more senior of the pair, and scores […]
Russian school bans 5 Muslim girls from classes for wearing hijab
RIA Novosti / Said Tzarnaev A head teacher of a school in Russia’s North Caucasus region banned five Muslim girls from attending classes while wearing a hijab. Indignant parents filed […]
Anti-jihad ads reminiscent of McCarthyism, 1950s fear mongering
By Mike Honda Washington Post: This week felt like a throwback to the 1950s, to McCarthyism and fear mongering. I, and countless others, spoke out in defense of Muslim Americans […]
Supporting Pakistanis, Stopping the Taliban: Saving Pakistan from Taliban
New York Times: Many Pakistanis have united to condemn the Taliban for shooting Malala Yousafzai, a 14-year-old schoolgirl. According to a Taliban spokesman, the girl was targeted because she “was promoting Western culture […]
Bail granted to Pakistani cleric accused of framing girl in Quran case
Source: CNN Author: The Muslim cleric accused of framing a young Christian girl in a blasphemy case in Pakistan was granted bail Thursday, his lawyer told CNN. Bail was granted after several witnesses who initially accused the cleric of tampering with evidence to frame the girl recanted their statements. The […]
‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’
Huff Post: The Archdiocese of New Orleans is responding to the high rate of violence and murder in the Crescent City with a basic Biblical reminder that reads: Thou Shalt Not Kill – God. This week the diocese will be distributing 5,000 signs to its parishes to be distributed to […]
Butterfly effect: 9,000 butterflies die in Damien Hirst’s crowd-pleasing expo
RT: Damien Hirst’s retrospective exhibition at London’s Tate Modern drew nearly half a million visitors. Although it turned out there were heavy losses. The gallery says 9,000 butterflies died during a 23-week run of the solo show. One of Hirst’s most important early creations, “In and Out of Love”, featured […]
Canadian Minister, Jason Kenney calls on the Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Source: Press Release On 12 October 2012, Canada’s Minister for Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Jason Kenney MP, visited the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, at the Fazl […]
Malala Yousafzai, schoolgirl shot by Taliban, now in UK
BBC: Fourteen-year-old Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl shot in the head by Taliban gunmen in Swat, has arrived in the UK for medical treatment. A renowned campaigner for girls’ education, […]
UK: Pakistani Father fought hard to save his family
A man who lost his wife and four children in a suspected arson attack on their home “fought hard to save his family in appalling conditions”, police said today. Assistant […]
Islam’s sectarian divide has turned from mistrust to bitter violence
My childhood ignorance of differing Shia and Sunni prayer customs once caused humiliation where today it might risk death Nushin Arbabzadah GUARDIAN CO UK In the Kabul of the 1980s, […]
Planet with four suns discovered by ‘armchair astronomers’
Planet believed to be six times the size of Earth is named PH1 after Planet Hunters website used by two American volunteers guardian.co.uk, Monday 15 October 2012 A planet with […]
The Rude Awakening – Top 10 List of unusual Mormon beliefs and practices.
The Rude Awakening by Carl Lindquist http://clindquist-rudeawakening.blogspot.com/2011/12/top-10-list-of-unusual-mormon-beliefs.html?m=1 Top 10 List of Unusual Mormon Beliefs and Practices Obviously, every religion can seem strange to those outside its doors. And we often […]