AP | Jul 27, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES BEIRUT — In the recent sectarian violence in Syria, some observers see a grim pattern: Alawite fighters from President Bashar Assad’s minority sect, they say, are trying to carve out a breakaway enclave for themselves by driving out local Sunnis, killing entire […]
JEDDAH: NADEEM AL-HAMID ARABNEWS Friday 27 July 2012 Oud incense and oil as well as eastern perfumes are on most Saudi families’ shopping lists. Burning oud, or agarwood, is an […]
by Avi Spiegel, co-authered by Adina Bathzniki, HUFFINGTON POST Imagine this scenario: a group of women in southern California ask their local YMCA for an extra swim class. The YMCA would have to stay open a bit later than usual, but it happily obliges. It is summer, and the women, […]
Source: Huff Post By Chris Lisee (RNS) A 600-foot footrace was the only athletic event at the first Olympics, a festival held in 776 B.C. and dedicated to Zeus, the […]
By Paul Kokoski Envy is at once a passion and one of the capital sins. As a passion it consists in a sort of deep sadness experienced in the sensitive part of our nature because of the good we see in others. This sensitive impression often produces a feeling of […]
Metro News: LONDON – A competitor from Saudi Arabia, who is one of the country’s first female athletes ever selected for the Olympics, will not be allowed to wear a headscarf during competition, the International Judo Federation said. President Marius Vizer ruled that “according to the principles and spirit of […]
Toronto Sun: TORONTO – Three liquor stores in the GTA recently sold booze to a 14-year-old boy whose identity was hidden because he was wearing a full-length burka and face veil at the time. The teenager, clad in an Islamic female’s traditional garb of a burka, headscarf and facial covering, […]
By Marwan Boltrosh Source: Kuwait News Agency LONDON, July 22 (KUNA) — Ramadan atmosphere for Arab and Muslims living throughout Europe is different, compared with the annual spiritual experience at home, with many sensing distress for performing annual religious services far from their loved ones. However, the city of London […]
Source: Teheran Times TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Monday that Syria is heading for tranquility as the army is gradually suppressing the armed insurgent groups. “Enemies imagined that they can create a vacuum in the management of the country by explosions in Damascus but the […]
Source: Albwaba Ramadan is Kareem (generous) for some, but Stingy for Somalia Inevitably during Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar, the Somali plight- the distress of a fellow […]
by Matthew Barakat, THE REPUBLIC, Columbus, Indiana ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A nearly five-year legal saga will conclude Thursday for Falls Church resident Jamal Abusamhadaneh when he takes the oath of citizenship at a federal courthouse, after a federal judge ruled that immigration authorities wrongly drew sinister conclusions about aspects of […]
by Sophie Douez, swissinfo.ch Moves by two Swiss hospitals to suspend the practice of circumcising boys in the wake of an adverse court ruling about the procedure in Germany have sparked heated debate amongst legal experts in Switzerland. The children’s hospitals of Zurich and St Gallen announced they had suspended […]
Accra, July 25, GNA – The Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission of Ghana on Wednesday congratulated President John Dramani Mahama for his elevation to the high office of the Presidency. President Dramani […]
Fiji drops tax charges against Chaudhry The Australian A FIJI court has quashed money laundering charges against former prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry, but he will still stand trial for allegedly breaching foreign exchange laws, reports say. Chaudhry, who became Fiji’s first ethnic Indian prime minister in … See all stories on this topic » Chaudhry to […]
WASHINGTON — The argument for the Federal Reserve to introduce another round of stimulus, and its reasons for hesitation, can both be summarized by a single number: 3.53 percent, the average interest rate last week on a 30-year mortgage. The cost of mortgages and other kinds of loans remain well […]
It is devastating for human rights activists the world over and those who stand for religious freedom, practise and tolerance, that the Government of Pakistan is not only stone deaf and dumb but also blind to the continuous murders of the followers of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. We have received […]
Source China Daily Flood water spills from the Three Gorges Dam, a hydropower project on the Yangtze River, in Yichang city, Central China’s Hubei province, July 24, 2012. [Photo/Xinhua]
Global Post: US officials have slammed China’s human rights record, criticizing Beijing for continuing to quash dissent. “The overall situation of human rights in China continues to deteriorate,” Agence France-Presse […]
Khabar: Fearing the wrath of religious fundamentalists, Pakistan’s scientific community has been unable to properly acknowledge Nobel Prize winner Abdus Salam (1926-1996), whose theoretical work helped pave the way for […]
Washington Post: Come nightfall, a bucolic farming village begins to buzz with unusual activity. Shadowy figures emerge from olive groves, clutching small suitcases. Cars crowd the winding rural road collecting […]