By Dominic Hughes: Health correspondent, BBC News Young people who smoke cannabis for years run the risk of a significant and irreversible reduction in their IQ, research suggests. The findings come from a study of around 1,000 people in New Zealand. An international team found those who started using cannabis […]
During an interview with Reuters, Egypt’s new Islamist president vows to pursue a ‘balanced’ foreign policy. By Avi Issacharoff | Aug.28,2012 | 7:18 AM Egypt’s new Islamist president said on […]
Unprecedented move comes after 11-year-old thought to have Down’s syndrome charged with desecrating the Qur’an Islamic leaders in Pakistan on Monday came out in support of a Christian girl with […]
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ABDUL HANNAN TAGO |ARAB NEWS STAFF Tuesday 28 August 2012 RIYADH: With the number of Muslims coming for Haj rapidly increasing every year, the Ministry of Haj has advised Muslims […]
Credit: TOI ISLAMABAD: Disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist A Q Khan has floated a political forum ‘Tehrik-e-Tahaffuz Pakistan’ and said he plans to launch a countrywide youth awakening programme ahead of the general election. Khan, in continous feud with the country’s establishment , said he plans to motivate the youth “regarding […]
GAZA — Gaza will no longer be “liveable” by 2020 unless urgent action is taken to improve water supply, power, health, and schooling, the United Nations’ most comprehensive report on the Palestinian enclave said on Monday. “Action needs to be taken now if Gaza is to be a liveable place […]
Credit CNN via Wasim Sroya of Selvenia. Editor’s note: Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is chairman of the Cordoba Initiative, one of the key figures in the plan for an Islamic center near ground zero, and author of “Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Women Association holds 33rd National Annual Convention Ghana News Agency 27, GNA – Dr Maulvi Wahab Adam, Ameer and Missionary in charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, has said that it is important for all Ghanaians to approach the up-coming elections with honesty and in all seriousness. He said peaceful and […]
Pakistan should abolish overly-abused blasphemy laws Source: The Washington Post By Arsalan Iftikhar Local women walk past the locked house of a Christian girl in a suburb of Islamabad, Pakistan on Aug. 20, 2012. (AP) My grandfather was one of the most well-known literary figures in Pakistan’s history and once famously told […]
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Sultan endorses N0.5m Islamic studies’ scholarship | Print | E-mail Written by Biola Azeez, IlorinTuesday, 28 August 2012 The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has announced an annual donation of half a million naira to the best graduating student from the Department of Islamic Studies, University of Ilorin. Speaking at the opening of […]
U.S. troops tried to burn about 500 copies of the Koran as part of a badly bungled security sweep at an Afghan prison in February, despite repeated warnings from Afghan […]
Russian TV: Sardinian miners armed with hundreds of pounds of explosives have barricaded themselves over 1300ft (400m) underground in Italy’s only coalmine, presumably threatening to blow themselves up unless the […]
Express Tribune: The Sindh provincial government has moved a step closer to ensuring minority places of worship are protected from the tentacles of the “land mafia”. “Religious buildings are only […]
Dawn: by Faiza Mirza: When Jinnah said that “religion and state should be kept separate”, he could not have more appropriately warned the people of present-day Pakistan where the constitutionally […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD The opening chapter of the Holy Quran, Sura Fatihah, which has only seven verses, alludes to the Christians and the Jews in […]
RT: As the US government deports tens of thousands of immigrants, children are increasingly watching their parents handcuffed and dragged away as they get handed to social workers and denied contact with their broken up families. Nearly 45,000 parents who were illegally in the US were deported in the first […]
Watching a documentary on Africa and its various countries two days ago on BBC I discovered a religion that has been there before Christianity and Islam … and still exists. There were hundreds of worshippers dancing and praying, while many Christians and Muslims stood on the roads to see them […]
Scientist refutes Big Bang theory – proposes Earth cooled down Big Bang Was Actually a Phase Change, New Theory Says http://www.space.com/17217-big-bang-phase-change-theory.html How did the universe begin? The Big Bang is traditionally envisioned as the moment when an infinitely dense bundle of energy suddenly burst outward, expanding in three spatial directions […]