RT: Four Orthodox Christian crosses have been chopped down in different parts of Russia. The incidents come after the Femen movement attacked a cross in Kiev to protest the sentence […]
محمد حنیف بی بی سی اردو سروس، کراچی نہ کہیں ماتمی جلسہ، نہ کوئی یادگاری ٹکٹ، نہ کسی بڑے چوک پر اسکا بت، نہ کسی پارٹی جھنڈے پر اُسکی کی […]
Source: Strategy Page August 25, 2012: The June ethnic and religious violence in the northwest (Rakhine State, the northwestern coast just south of Bangladesh) caused an uproar in Moslem countries, with calls for retribution against Myanmar for allowing it to happen. Long simmering tensions between the Moslem migrants from Bangladesh […]
Global Post: In the US this week, the brouhaha over Rep. Todd Akin’s remarks about “legitimate rape” touched on the hot-button issues of individual freedom, government intervention, party politics and […]
(Reuters) – Chief Abbess Manchen Shih gazed through a first-floor window of her vast wood and concrete temple as shaven-headed nuns in mustard robes prepared for midday prayers, cooking rice […]
StratRisks: : There are many people in Pakistan who oppose the Taliban and their militant activities; however, ironically, not all of them question the Saudi-Wahabi ideology that provides impetus to […]
Ahmadiyya Times: By Imran Jattala | August 26, 2012 Pakistan’s recently ousted premier Yousuf Raza Gilani reportedly addresses an anti-Ahmadi rally organized by a splinter faction of Khatima-e Nubuwwat movement, […]
KAZAN, Russia — A string of violent attacks by Islamic militants has shattered this city’s reputation as a citadel of religious tolerance and unnerved federal officials in Moscow, who have […]
Dawn: Nadim Farooq Piracha: Jinnah Rebranded A friend of mine, a Shia Muslim, often tells me an intriguing but a very telling little tale. He is from Jhang in the […]
ARAB NEWS Friday 24 August 2012 IT is a common misconception with some non-Muslims that Islam would not have millions of followers all over the world, if it had not […]
Kot Chutta, Pakistan (CNN) — From behind the steel bars of his jail cell, Muhammad Ismail described with uncanny ease how he shot and killed his wife, his mother-in-law, and sister-in-law. “The first shot hit the side of her body,” Ismail said. “I left her there and went next door […]
TRIPOLI — Attackers bulldozed a mosque containing Sufi Muslim tombs in the centre of Tripoli in broad daylight on Saturday, in what appeared to be Libya’s most blatant sectarian attack […]
ARAB NEWS Sunday 26 August 2012 JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia’s financial situation is stable and is the best place for seeking jobs, according to a consumer confidence survey conducted by Bayt.com in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Thirty-eight percent of Saudis who participated in the survey said the present […]
ISMAILIYA, EGYPT/GAZA — Egypt reopened the Rafah border crossing with Gaza on Saturday, a lifeline for Gazans which had been closed for much of the month since an attack on […]
You know it’s all true when the taxi driver turns off the motorway towards Aleppo. In front lies a mile of empty road, disappearing into the heat haze on its way to one of the oldest cities in the world. But a halo of brown smoke embraces the horizon and […]
A few hours after the ferocious attack on Damascus by the Free Syrian Army began last month, the new Syrian minister of information, Omran Zouhbi, turned on journalists in the capital. “What are you doing here in Damascus?” he roared. “You should be out with our soldiers!” And within a […]
Credit: Wasim Sroya, Maria Tariq, and teeworldz Clip below shows part where Javed Ahmed Ghamidi defends Ahmadis. Click here to watch the entire program from Dunya News’ official YouTube channel. […]
Source: The New York Times Author: Charles M. Blow America is in trouble. Emerging economic powers China and India are heavily investing in educating the world’s future workers while we squabble about punishing teachers and coddling children. This week, the Center for American Progress and the Center for the Next […]
ScienceDaily (Aug. 22, 2012) — Melbourne scientists studying the impact obesity has on pregnancy, are urging men to get ‘match fit’ before conceiving to assist with fetal development. Reproductive experts from the University of Melbourne’s Department of Zoology have discovered that a father’s obesity negatively impacts sperm, resulting in smaller fetuses, […]
Huff Post: Rev. Martha Spong. I’ve been speechless for the past couple of days. I’ve been thinking quite a lot about the words Todd Akin used to describe rape. I’ve been thinking and reading the words of others in their responses to him. On religious websites, the comments devolve immediately […]