Europe and Britain sinking under weight of welfare costs
Daily Telegraph: So how did Mr Nasty – aka George Osborne – do? I give the Chancellor a qualified thumbs-up for his party conference speech, even if the word “growth” was […]
Woman who claimed to be world’s oldest dies at 132
Source: TOI: LONDON: A Georgian woman, who claimed to be the world’s oldest living person surviving through two World Wars and the Russian Revolution, has died at the age of 132. Antisa Khvichava, who lived in the remote mountain village of Sachino in Georgia, held Soviet-era documents which said she […]
Twice cursed: Trials of being labelled an Ahmadi and a blasphemer
LAHORE: In year 2010, Mian Irshad* was acquitted in a blasphemy case by the Lahore High Court. Despite the court order, Irshad’s life has resembled that of a fugitive since then. In 2004, Irshad – who had accepted the Ahmadi faith a few years back – was taken to a local […]
Reason for Syria strikes on Turkey is apparent
BEIRUT — Syria’s cross-border attacks on Turkey in the past week look increasingly like they could be an intentional escalation meant to send a clear message to Ankara and beyond, […]
Egyptian president pardons all political prisoners since revolution
Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, has pardoned all political prisoners arrested since the start of last year’s popular revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak. On Monday, a decree, published […]
US polls, rigged referendum for everlasting war: Analyst
Source: Press TV Every election in the United States is basically a “rigged referendum” in an incredibly corrupt system of war profiteering, funding hawkish candidates who promote “endless war,” says […]
Haj guides visited pilgrims’ countries in past centuries
JEDDAH: NADIM AL-HAMID ARABNEWS The tasks carried out by members of the Tawafa Chiefs’ Organization — a body that encompasses the heads of three main pilgrim serving guides including Haj […]
Procedures for foreign pilgrims to be digitized
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has ordered an e-channel project for foreign Haj pilgrims. “As part of the project, Haj visa issuing procedures, including finger printing, should be completed at the country of departure before pilgrims leave for the Kingdom. All procedures that a […]
American view of Muslims distorted by TV news
Dani Anguiano | THE ORION Cars are burning and people are running rampant through the streets as anarchy ensues. While watching any of the major news networks such as Fox, NBC or ABC, most would think the entire Muslim world is in utter chaos all the time. The news gives […]
Open Mosque Day 2012
Huff Post: by Megan Sweas. With the Southern California sun shining off its white marble walls and tall blue minaret, King Fahad Mosque in Culver City is hard to miss. But I almost did miss it. As I turned my car around, I thought about how easy it would be […]
Justice for minorities: Pipe dream or possibility?
Dawn.com: by Faiza Mirza. Although, on the surface, the constitution of Pakistan vows to protect the Muslim and non-Muslim minorities of Pakistan, however, in practice we have yet to see a time when Ahmadis, Christians, Shias, Hindus and other religious communities were treated on the same footing with Sunni Muslims. […]
One Film Can Make a Difference
Huff Post: by Craig Considine. We learned through “Innocence of Muslims” that one film can make a difference in the way Americans and Muslims perceive each other. Now is the time for “Journey into America” to make the difference, but for the better. ……… The anti-Islamic propaganda film “Innocence of […]
Israeli cyber attacks targeted offshore oil, gas platforms– Iran IT head
RT: Iran’s offshore oil and gas platforms were the targets of the cyber attacks aimed at crippling the country. All threats were repelled and Israel was behind them, according to head of IT at the Iranian Offshore Oil Company, Mohammad Reza Golshani. Golshani told Reuters that the attack happened over […]
Trial by ordeal or the Shariah Law?
Epigraph: “And as for the man who steals and the woman who steals, cut off their hands in retribution of their offence as an exemplary punishment from Allah. And Allah […]
Ahmadiyya Muslims condemn machination to create rift between Sikh and Ahmadiyya’s
Source: Times of India AMRITSAR: With intentions of creating rift between Sikhs and Ahmadiyya Muslims, a person using fake ID on Facebook has attempted to defile Guru Nanak Dev and […]
Members of Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya Germany donating Blood-A very short video shown in prime news of German TV
Source: Zafarullah Khan of Germany Click HERE to watch the video: Newscaster explaining the blood donation campaign, which Majlis Khuddamul Ahmaddiyya, an auxiliary organization of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Germany organized with the cooperation of Red Cross Germany. About 100 Khuddams donated the blood.
Gurdon and Yamanaka share Nobel prize for stem cell work
Source: BBC Two pioneers of stem cell research have shared the Nobel prize for medicine or physiology. John Gurdon from the UK and Shinya Yamanaka from Japan were awarded the prize for changing adult cells into stem cells, which can become any other type of cell in the body. Prof […]
Necessary Illusions
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies Author(s) Noam Chomsky Publisher South End Press, Pluto Press Publication date June 1989 Media type Paperback Pages 422 ISBN 0-89608-366-7 OCLC Number 19457706 Dewey Decimal 302.2/3 19 LC Classification P95.8 .C48 1989 Necessary Illusions: […]
Turkey’s parliament authorises military operations against Syria
Guardian: Turkish military fires into Syria for second day after five civilians are killed by shelling in border town Turkey’s parliament has authorised military operations against Syria and its military […]
Why You should Outsource to Indonesia
Whether you like it or not, we are now doing business in a boundless world; the Internet has made geographical location irrelevant when it comes to get things done. You […]