Mars Mission: Rover Lands On Red Planet
Nasa’s Curiosity rover has landed successfully on Mars and the most expensive and ambitious mission to the red planet is under way. Read more
Muslim organization to hold prayer for victims of Sikh temple shooting
Journaltimes. com: A prayer vigil will be held at 8:10 this evening at the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community 5600 W. Fond du Lac Ave., Milwaukee, to honor the memory of the victims […]
Is Saudi Arabia on the edge? Bandar “Bush” is Alive!!
Washington Post: By David Ignatius, Monday, August 6, 7:43 AM By appointing Prince Bandar bin Sultan as its new intelligence chief, Saudi Arabia has installed what looks like a war cabinet at a time of rising […]
US, Israel arranging roles in Iran war theater? World War III
Russian TV: Reports are surfacing of a US-Israeli plan to attack Iran’s ballistic missile batteries, giving Israel extra space to tackle Syria and Hezbollah. While no talks have been confirmed, […]
Pakistan: Jinnah, Zafarullah and Theocracy
COMMENT: The partition of Punjab — II — Yasser Latif Hamdani Is the Islamic Republic of Pakistan today not a theocratic state? Does it not discriminate against Christians, Hindus and other […]
USA: Ahmadi Muslims condemn shooting at Sikh Temple
Ahmaddiya Times: Nation’s oldest Muslim organization sends condolences and calls for peace and justice Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the USA had strongly condemned the ‘senseless shooting’ this morning on Sikh […]
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Islamophobia, Sikhophobia and Media Profiling
Huff Post: Simran Jeet Singh On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks shook the American nation to its core. Nineteen individuals associated with al Qaeda coordinated to hijack four passenger jets and use them as weapons of mass destruction. The terrorist attacks of 9/11 claimed approximately 3,000 lives, including all […]
CNN: Sikh temple shooting to be probed as ‘domestic terror’
Oak Creek, Wisconsin (CNN) — The FBI will investigate Sunday’s rampage at a Sikh temple in a Milwaukee suburb as a “domestic terrorist-type incident” that left at least six people […]
Philippine school bans the hijab, sparks controversy
Philippine News: A ban on Muslim students wearing the hijab at a Catholic-run school in the Philippines, has sparked complaints and controversy. Pilar College in Zamboanga has defended its decision to ban Muslim students from wearing thehijab. Many of the schools 3,000 pupils are Muslim.Ciibroadcasting reported the college president, Sister Maria Nina Balbas, defied the complaints the […]
Greece enters ‘crucial weeks’ with troika praise for €11.5bn cuts progress
Finance minister Yiannis Stournaras talks of ‘bridge of hope’ in reform drive. The next few weeks will be crucial if Greece is to avoid defaulting on its mountain of debt […]
Muslim sprinter wins Olympic sprint dressed head to toe in hijab
Sprinters have long been squeezing their muscular frames into the most eye-wateringly skimpy, tight and revealing costumes imaginable. But one female athlete at this year’s Olympics is bucking the trend for bulging lycra and naked torsos. In 2004, Bahrain’s Ruqaya Al Ghasara, a devout Muslim, was the first athlete to […]
7 dead in Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek (Milwaukee)
(CNN) — At least seven people, including a gunman shot by a police officer, have been killed in an attack on worshippers at a Sikh temple in the Milwaukee suburb of Oak Creek, Wisconsin, on Sunday, police said. The officer was wounded but “returned fire, and that shooter was put […]
Iran kicks off manufacturing indigenous passenger airplanes
Iranian experts have completed the feasibility studies of Iran’s national plan to build 150-passenger airplanes and the project has entered the designing and manufacturing phase, an Iranian official says. In […]
Breaking News: At least 1 dead in shooting at Wisconsin Sikh temple
(CNN) — A shooting at Sikh temple in the Milwaukee suburb of Oak Creek, Wisconsin, on Sunday, left at least three people wounded and one gunman killed by a police […]
Vertical skydiving world record broken in Illinois
Published – Aug 04 2012 07:20AM EST ANDREA THOMAS, Associated Press OTTAWA, Ill. (AP) — Falling at speeds of up to 220 mph, a group of nearly 140 skydivers shattered […]
A Call to Investigate Russian Governor’s Comments
By ELLEN BARRY INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE MOSCOW — A member of a Kremlin-sponsored civic chamber will ask state prosecutors to investigate racially tinged statements made by the governor of the Krasnodar region, a close ally of President Vladimir V. Putin, to see if the remarks violate Russian law on incitement […]
Martha Nussbaum: Standing up for rights of Muslims
The Post that inspired me to save her Wikipedia page in the Muslim Times: Philosopher Martha Nussbaum takes aim at anti-Muslim intolerance. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Martha Nussbaum Martha Nussbaum in 2008 Born Martha Craven 6 May 1947 (age 65) New York City Era 20th-century philosophy […]
FIJI NEWS – Former Fiji PM jailed on corruption charges
Military rulers suppressing opposition in Fiji: lawyer Updated 4 August 2012, 8:09 AEST A prominent lawyer says the jailing of Fiji’s last democratically elected prime minister shows the military government is trying to remove its opposition ahead of elections slated for 2014. Jailed for corruption: former Fijian prime minister Laisenia Qarase. (Credit: ABC) […]
FIJISUN – Violence erupts at anti-Islam rally-Sweden and Islam updates
Violence erupts at anti-Islam protest in Sweden The Associated Press Published: Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012 – 6:25 am Last Modified: Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012 – 8:56 am STOCKHOLM — Swedish activists clashed with police amid a hail of bottles and fireworks in downtown Stockholm on Saturday as they tried to break […]