The Express Tribune: Khaled Ahmed When Muslims fly into rage and become destructive, it is never supposed to be original behaviour. We announce that our extremeaction has been caused by the injustice and violence of someone else. Therefore, our extremism is not original; therefore, we are not to blame for […]
RT: It’s a good thing one of our ancestors was too lazy to do the dishes: A group of archaeologists in Mexico has just discovered traces of 2,500-year-old chocolate left on a plate excavated in the Yucatan peninsula. It’s the first time researchers have come across ‘antique’ chocolate residue on […]
Source: NY Times ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In a nation thirsting for energy, he loomed like a messiah: a small-town engineer who claimed he could run a car on water. The assertion — based on the premise that he had discovered a way to easily split the oxygen and hydrogen atoms […]
Source: NY Times. By Reuteres The government told three international aid agencies on Thursday not to help thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have been fleeing into Bangladesh to escape violence in neighboring Myanmar. The announcement, directed at the aid agencies Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), Muslim Aid and Action […]
Source: Business Insider. It’s been a rough summer on Wall Street — the LIBOR scandal, JP Morgan’s trading loss, Knight Capital’s trading error… Must we go on? But it’s important to put all that in perspective. Compared to the last 15 years on Wall Street, this is a cake walk. […]
The Times of India: Strawberry extract added to skin cell cultures acts as a protector against ultraviolet radiation as well as increasing its viability and reducing damage to DNA, a […]
Source: Bangkok Post Forty-eight Iranian pilgrims were kidnapped from a bus in the Syrian capital on Saturday, their embassy’s consular chief in Damascus told Iran’s state television. “Armed terrorist groups […]
Media Takes Aim at Jerusalem by Rabbi Shraga Simmons Jews have experienced repeated attempts to obliterate Jerusalem as the eternal capital of the Jewish people. On the Jewish calendar, this […]
Several local governments in the western region of Xinjiang have ordered Muslim restaurants to stay open during the holy month of Ramadan and are telling civil servants and students to continue to eat and drink during daylight hours, when Muslims generally fast. Ramadan began on July 20. A notice on […]
Source: CNN Oscar Pistorius, a South African double-amputee nicknamed the “Blade Runner,” made an unprecedented Olympic debut Saturday, finishing second in his 400-meter qualifying heat. With a time of 45.44 […]
Written by Onimisi Alao, Jos Friday, 03 August 2012 05:03 The Catholic Archbishop of Jos, Most Rev. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama yesterday made a case for unity and peace among Christians […]
Pakistani parents found guilty in ‘honour killing’ of teenage daughter Published on Friday August 03, 2012 http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1236647–pakistani-parents-found-guilty-in-honour-killing-of-teenage-daughter Martin Rickett/AP A British court found that Iftikhar (above) and Farzana Ahmed, both originally from Pakistan, suffocated their 17-year-old daughter, Shafilea, in 2003. They were ordered Friday to serve a minimum of 25 […]
Source IBNlive Meerwada: Life in the remote village of Meerwada used to grind to a standstill as darkness descended. Workers downed tools, kids strained to see their schoolbooks under the faint glow of aged kerosene lamps and adults struggled to carry out the most basic of household chores. The arrival […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Our Correspondent Published: August 4, 2012 ISLAMABAD: A military court sentenced five military officers, including a brigadier, at a court martial on […]
The Christian apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus) and Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim ruler after the death of Prophet Muhammad, were both great men of faith who etched their influence on their respective religions. In his commentary on Paul, Luke Timothy Johnson, a professor at Emory University, said: “Paul […]
RIYADH: ARAB NEWS Saturday 4 August 2012 Saudi students at Murray State University in Kentucky have received a license to establish an Islamic center where they can organize cultural and […]
JEDDAH: FOUZIA KHAN ARABNEWS Saturday 4 August 2012 Ramadan is the month of blessings and Muslims in this month try to receive as much blessings from Allah as they can. […]
The Daily Star, Lebanon The problems and dilemmas confronting Pakistan’s leadership – including a deepening vortex of mutual suspicions, sectarian killings and brazen terrorism – are almost too numerous to count. And that leadership – whether it is civilian, military or judiciary (which has now become increasingly active politically) – […]
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star Amid the many scenarios for Syria are two widely discussed possibilities: that President Bashar Assad will respond to his imminent collapse by retreating with his Alawite compatriots to an Alawite mini-state in the northwestern coastal area of Syria; and that Syria will fragment […]