By Steve Anglesey 3 Comments 29 Jul 2012 18:09 Issaka The Otter: Novice from Niger is new Eddie The Eagle after super-slow sculls Wild-card who got into a boat for the first time three months ago finishes almost two minutes behind winner You can do it: Niger’s Hamadou Djibo Issaka […]
London (CNN) — One of the two women on Saudi Arabia’s Olympic team may be pulled from the competition because of the kingdom’s insistence that she wear a headscarf in her judo matches. Saudi and international Olympic officials met late into the night with International Judo Federation representatives to resolve […]
BY Maryam Shah, TORONTO SUN The first time Ann, 69, heard the azaan, or call to prayer, it was on one of her three trips to Egypt. “Of course, it did something different to me than it would to someone else,” she recalled. “I found it very spiritual in the content.” […]
Prof. William Lane Craig makes good arguments for existence of God in this debate as he usually does. But, as is his style, he also makes some frivolous and weak […]
SOME eminent Islamic scholars at the weekend, called on the Boko Haram sect to permanently end its violence in the interest of peace and unity. The clerics, who spoke at this year’s Ramadan lecture of the National Council of Muslim Youths Organisation (NACOMYO) in Lagos, reiterated that so far, the […]
On the strength of Friday night’s Olympic opening ceremony, I think it’s fair to describe Danny Boyle as a “progressive patriot”. The working-class son of a school dinner lady and a self-educated farm labourer, his patriotism is about pride in Britain’s industrial achievements, its welfare state and its tolerance towards […]
In London, international judo officials spent the weekend negotiating with the delegation from Saudi Arabia, which demands that Wojdan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shaherkani be allowed to wear a hijab or a head scarf during competitions. Her father told a British newspaper that his daughter, one of only two female Saudi […]
LONDON — At the start of another critical week for the euro, the head of the finance ministers that use the currency, Jean-Claude Juncker, reinforced expectations Monday of an initiative to lower Spain’s borrowing costs, which had hit alarming heights. The comments came as the U.S. Treasury secretary, Timothy F. […]
http://www.thestar.com/videozone/embed/1234056 Source: Toronto Star WASHINGTON—A young man talking on a cellphone meanders along the edge of a lonely train platform at night. Suddenly he stumbles, loses his balance and pitches over the side, landing head first on the tracks. Fortunately there were no trains approaching the Philadelphia-area station at that […]
Often I write critically about the New Testament, so, it is only fair that I should highlight the positive and useful as well. Here is a wonderful parable of Jesus, may peace be on him, from the Gospel of Mark: Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd […]
YANGON: Myanmar on Monday told a UN rights envoy it rejected accusations of abuse by security forces in the wake of communal unrest, after the United Nations raised fears of a crackdown on Muslims. In a press conference attended by UN Special Rapporteur Tomas Ojea Quintana, Myanmar’s foreign minister said […]
Taken from: Glowing Tributes to the Promised Messiah ( Section: ‘British Government in the Eyes of Ahl-e-Hadith’, pp. 38-40 ) Compiled and Translated by: Mirza Muhammad Hussain, B. Com. [ Note: Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Sahib of Qadian is often maligned through numerous allegations. One of them is that he […]
Credit: Spiegel Germany BY now, it’s an embarrassment to almost everyone in Germany that, in the grounds for one of its decisions, a regional court in Cologne almost off-handedly declared circumcision — a religious tradition dating back thousands of years — to be illegal. But the incident confirms a tendency […]
By Zubair Khan. Recently I happend to be in Ghana in conneciton with my job assignments. During the visit Ambassador at Large for Scandinavia Nasim Malik also visited Ghana. During the stay, many top level activities were performed by Mr Nasim Malik. On behalf of the Chairman IHRC, Ambassador at […]
Credit:NDTV via Wasim Sroya Jhang: The two-room bungalow, the birth place of Pakistan’s only Nobel laureate, today stands empty, testament to the indifference, bigotry and prejudice surrounding the country’s greatest scientist. Professor Abdus Salam, the child prodigy born to a humble family on the sun-blasted plains of Punjab who won […]
Russian TV: Radical Islamists with “British accents” are among the coalition forces looking to topple Bashar Assad, says Jeroen Oerlemans, a photographer who was held hostage in Syria for a […]
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Antioxidant-Rich Diet Linked to Reduced Risk of Pancreatic Cancer As researchers devote more and more time to studying the link between diet and disease, it is becoming clear that the […]