President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has reiterated his plan to propose an international protocol against religious defamation to prevent conflicts and maintain world peace during the upcoming UN General Assembly meeting. […]
All of us are transgressors and we all need each other; atonement is to be achieved individually and communally. Haaretz:………… Many Jewish men wear a kittel on Yom Kippur, the […]
Dawn: by Nadim Paracha: It’s official: We are not a nation. We are a mob. All those ‘think positive’ types waiting for some kind of a ‘moderate Muslim awakening’ in this country are simply deluding themselves. No amount of your egos, resources and ‘positiveness’ invested in ‘moderatism’ such as interfaith […]
It has been three years since the US government approved a list of Guantanamo Bay detainees for release. On Friday, the names of those 55 inmates who had been authorized for transfer were made public. The Department of Justice stated that there was no longer a “need to withhold” the […]
by Muath Freij JORDAN TIMES PETRA — On donkeys, on foot, by day or by night, Petra offers many perspectives from which to observe its archaeological treasures and natural beauty. […]
Pakistani girl… sooo cute
The Express Tribune: by Anwer Mooraj. This is not the first time it has happened. The Danes and the French had a go with those blasphemous cartoons which ridiculed Islam. They unleashed a torrent of protest in the Muslim world which took weeks to die out. British and American newspaper editors […]
Huff Post: by James Zogby. The crisis created by the film The Innocence of Muslims that many feared might spin out of control seems to be subsiding across the Arab World. The appeal by extremists to escalate the situation appears to have given way to more stable and thoughtful leadership. Washington acted […]
By Munir Varraich, Sweden Recently in a move to find solution to the violent reaction to the film trailer, there is a campaign to get signatures to have a “Charter of Morality” which should be in place so as to avoid the repeat of such a happening. Let us not […]
Global Post: Australia’s Roman Catholic Church has admitted to over 600 cases of sexual abuse dating back as early as the 1930s. The Catholic Church revealed that they had record of at least 620 children being abused in a submitted report at a parliamentary hearing in Victoria on Friday, Agence France […]
NY Times: “PISS CHRIST,” a famous photograph partly financed by taxpayers, depicted a crucifix immersed in what the artist said was his own urine. But conservative Christians did not riot on the Washington Mall. “The Book of Mormon,” a huge hit on Broadway, mocks the church’s beliefs as hocus-pocus. But Mormons […]
Sultan of Brunei’s Daughter’s Wedding May Cost $20 Million, is Going on for a Week sorosayers.com: Possibly the most lavish wedding the world has ever seen happened Friday, in Brunei, […]
Source: Press Release, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat says that anger of Muslims is fully justified, but violent reaction must be condemned The World Head of the Ahmadiyya […]
PESHAWAR: A Pakistani federal minister has announced a bounty of $100,000 on the maker of the American film “Innocence of Muslims” disrespecting the Holy Prophet (PBUH), DawnNews reported. Speaking here […]
When the federal government began providing billions of dollars in incentives to push hospitals and physicians to use electronic medical and billing records, the goal was not only to improve efficiency and patient safety, but also to reduce health care costs. But, in reality, the move to electronic health records […]
By Peter Graff and Suleiman Al-Khalidi SWISSINFO.CH BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – An Islamist militia was driven out of the city of Benghazi early on Saturday in a surge of anger against the armed groups that control large parts of Libya more than a year after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. […]
Dawn: The alarm went off on Monday morning, the radio came on and all I heard was, “It’s been described as the most serious insult to Islam ever! People have been killed, and protests are mounting.” I thought ‘What’s happened? Has Satanic Verses been turned into a cartoon?’ I switched […]
Source: The National Post: ………………………..Questions are being asked whether the anti-American unrest is really about the video. Is it rather a convenient way of channeling the aggression of jobless youth […]
Source: New Straits Times: ‘NO’ TO BLASPHEMY: Attacks on things held dear by all faiths are repugnant and merit restraint by law No society on earth can function, and no […]