Prof Juan Méndez, UN special rapporteur on torture, expresses concern at government’s plan for secret courts. The new generation of secret courts proposed by the government could suppress evidence of […]
Court in Karlsruhe is expected to announce whether Germany’s participation in a permanent bailout fund is in line with the country’s constitution. for surprises. But its eight judges will never […]
Europeans hold strongly negative views about GOP contender but Obama’s favourability poor in Pakistan and Middle East. The reputation of the US in Europe risks sinking back to Bush-era levels […]
Source: Gulf News. Guwahati: Illegal migration from Bangladesh has been the dominant theme of Assam politics since independence. However, over the years, successive federal governments or state governments have done little to curb this. Immigration from Bangladesh or erstwhile East Pakistan has a colonial history. People were brought in as […]
I was working with a Swiss NGO in Kosovo on 9/11. I saw a ‘News Alert’ on my PC that a plane hit the World Trade Center in New York. Then I saw a second ‘News Alert’ that a second plane hit the second World Trade Center Tower. I decided […]
Three school children visit a dusty library to research the story of ‘The Dark Ages’. What they find changes their world view dramatically as ingenious inventors and pioneers of science and culture are vividly brought to life. Starring Oscar-winning legend Sir Ben Kingsley in the role of The Librarian, […]
Credit: The Local Chiara Rick from Duisburg, North-Rhine Westphalia, asked to learn Turkish with some of her Turkish-speaking classmates but was told that there was a state decree preventing it, said regional paper the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ). She had learned some English while in kindergarten and has a passion […]
Source: Loonwatch On this 9/11 let it be remembered that American Muslims do not bear collective guilt for the crime of 9/11, and let us remember those who died in the attacks. (h/t: Abdallah C.) List of Muslim Victims of 9/11 (via. Some Random Thoughts Blog) “American Muslims bear no collective […]
AFP Tuesday, Sep 11, 2012 JAKARTA – Indonesia is stepping up efforts to combat religious radicalism, officials said Tuesday after a spate of terror-related incidents, but analysts accused the government […]
Source: ET How can you make complete use of the Holy Quran when you can’t touch it at certain times of the month when you’re ‘unclean’? PHOTO: REUTERS If you […]
When religion defines foreign policy it will inevitably clash with national interests, creating the grounds for wars that only elites who rule in the name of religion win, writes Gamil Matar (Al-Ahram Weekly) That Egypt’s president cites Quranic verses and uses religious phrases in his public addresses does not surprise […]
Creidt: BBC 11 September 2012 Last updated at 07:34 GMT Andy Murray says his US Open win “means the world” and that he is relieved to have ended Britain’s long search for another male Grand Slam champion. The Scot, 25, beat Novak Djokovic in five sets to claim his first […]
Source: CNN Cairo (CNN) — Angry protesters climbed the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday and hauled down its American flags, replacing them with black flags with Islamic emblems. More:
The hard truth is that the clash between the value systems of political Islam and modernity is so total as to make them incompatible, writes Tarek Heggy Source: Al Ahram Weekly, Cairo http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1113/op4.htm “Bear witness for us, O pen/ That we shall not sleep/ That we shall not dither between […]
Roger Ailes, Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity have stoked Islamophobia — and encouraged right-wing ignorance By Nathan Lean Excerpted from “The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims” As is the case with any industry, advertising is paramount to the success of a product. One need not look […]
Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and former French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing are two of the leading architects of the European Union. In a SPIEGEL interview, the veteran statesmen discuss […]
By David Ignatius The Daily Star, Lebanon God had a good convention: The Almighty’s name was mentioned (albeit at the last minute) in the Democratic platform. And He was invoked no less than 12 times in the Republican platform, in case He is keeping score. But the real news is […]
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star, Lebanon When God, Jerusalem, the Arab-Israeli conflict and American domestic politics come together, the result usually reconfirms established dynamics in three arenas: Americans are a religious folk, they know very little about the facts of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and their government is severely […]
PARIS: Defected Syrian general Manaf Tlass said Monday that French secret agents helped him escape from Syria, where he had long been a member of President Bashar al-Assad’s inner circle. “The French (intelligence) services helped me get out of Syria and I thank them for that,” Tlass, whose July 6 […]
Source: By: LAIQ AHMED ATIF, President Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta amjmalta@gmail.com The world is not at rest and much of it today is embroiled in wars, disorder and enmities. Some […]