The rise of the Dutch Socialist Party could end Holland’s reputation as a Brussels-friendly member of the beleaguered Eurozone club, reports Harriet Alexander. Maastricht is a town at the heart […]
The worst wildfires in memory in the Malaga region of southern Spain were being brought under control yesterday, leaving a charred and blackened wasteland where there had been fragrant pine […]
Source: Toronto Star Six years after it was first proposed for Ontario, a breast milk bank that could have saved dozens of vulnerable babies is still months away from completion. Vancouver has had a facility for more than three decades, and Calgary opened one in April after only 16 months […]
Credit: The Local Newspaper. ‘Missing’ posters prompt Muslim anger Four Muslim groups have pulled out of an anti-extremism partnership with the government in protest at a poster campaign which they say puts all Muslims under general suspicion.The posters resemble those put up to try to find missing people and show […]
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Credit: CNN Charlotte, North Carolina (CNN) — Mitt Romney departed Tampa, Florida, on Friday hoping to ride any momentum he had built up over the past week as he makes the final turn into the November election. Romney’s acceptance address won’t go down as often quoted but it got the […]
Credit: CNN (CNN) — The head of a survivors’ group Saturday dismissed an apology issued five decades later by the German manufacturer of a drug that caused thousands of babies to be born with disabilities. Pharmaceutical firm Gruenenthal apologized Friday for the first time over its drug, thalidomide, which caused […]
Credit: BBC Rebels and regime forces have been battling for control of several air bases in Syria. The government said it had repelled a huge attack on an air base near Aleppo while rebels claimed victory in another battle in the east of the country. The rebels have increasingly targeted […]
Source: Northern Voices Online The Assam violence between Bodos and Muslims, alleged by many to be Bangldeshi infiltrators, has a long chain of repercussions. The number of dead is nearly eighty. Killings are continuing and the people who have been displaced have been over 4 lakhs. There is no exact […]
Credit:ET MQM chief addresses a conference organised to promote harmony between different sects of Islam. PHOTO: FILE KARACHI: Expressing serious concerns over the ongoing sectarian violence in the country, Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM’s) chief Altaf Hussain said on Saturday that the trend might break Pakistan. “If people are not provided protection, […]
Source: Business Recorder ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) Justice ( Retd) Rana Bhagwandas has said that Sindh has always remained the land of peace, progress, amity, human and interfaith harmony. He was speaking at the launching ceremony of a booklet titled, ” Sufi Shah Inayat- a […]
A Superstar Televangelist in Pakistan Divides, Then Repents http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/world/asia/a-star-televangelist-in-pakistan-divides-then-repents.html?pagewanted=1&src=recg (Note: a Murderer becomes repentant – Amir Liaqat Husain) THE audience erupted as Aamir Liaquat Hussain, Pakistan’s premier televangelist, darted around the television studio, firing off questions about Islam. “How many gates are there to heaven?” he challenged. Children leapt from […]
Source: Haaretz, Israel In his closing speech as new NAM chairman, Iran’s president says “all NAM member states approved the need for a new world management upon the basis of […]
TEHRAN (FNA)- While the media wing of the major world powers, spearheaded by the United States, UK and Israel is sparing no effort to further isolate Iran over its nuclear […]
Source: Friday Times via Wasim. 41 11 On 25 August, 2012 former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani attended the Khatm-e-Nabuwat Conference in Golra in Islamabad. Talking to reporters after the conference, the former prime minister said the mission of Pir Mehar Ali Shah, the patron saint of Golra, came to its […]
Credit: Daily News via Wasim: AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File Pakistani Taliban release video of severed heads Pakistani Taliban released a video showing what appeared to be the severed heads of a dozen soldiers on Friday as security officials said 15 troops were missing following fighting with militants. The clashes on […]
Source: Welt on Line via Zafarullah of Germany Cologne – In protest against a controversial poster campaign four Muslim organizations have denounced the current so-called security partnership with the German Federal Ministry of the Interior.The posters, Muslims under suspicion, created tension betweenh the associations and Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich (CSU). […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times And He (Allah) revealed to it (conscience) the ways of evil and the ways of righteousness – […]
In the center of the alleged Civil War Among Muslims in Russia is said to be the push for the “Creation of an Islamic State -the Caliphate.” It is believed to be based on Wahhabism. This is the declared mission of the Khilafa Movement (Read Khalifa Magazine found on-line). The Khilafa […]
By JUDITH H. DOBRZYNSKI For Nasser D. Khalili, an Iranian-born businessman and philanthropist, the Islamic art market is suddenly feeling crowded. Over the past 40 years, he has amassed a […]