Ex-FBI employee claims she saw angels at Flight 93
By Joe Mandak Associated Press Deseret News PITTSBURGH — A former police officer who retired from the FBI due to post-traumatic stress disorder linked to her role in the aftermath […]
Former PVV councillor found dead in woods near Utrecht
The body of a man found in woods near Utrecht has been identified as that of a former provincial councillor for the anti-immigration PVV, according to media reports on Wednesday afternoon. Jos van Hal Scheffer left the party last month after his wife became a suspect in a million euro […]
A subservient government or an official Israeli policy?
Terrorist acts against Palestinian civilians committed by Israeli colonists clearly point to “a religious war” By As’ad Abdul Rahman, Special to Gulf NEWS Under the watchful eyes of the Israeli […]
Is this the UAE’s tiniest baby ever?
DUBAI: A premature baby born at just 570 grams with a head as small as a plum has miraculously survived after battling it out for four months at a private […]
FIJISUN – Appreciating Islam’s contribution to civilation
Parvez Ahmed Associate Professor of Finance, Coggin College of Business, University of North Florida GET UPDATES FROM PARVEZ AHMED L Appreciating Islam’s Contribution to Civilization Posted: 07/05/2012 5:35 pm Fox News , Islam , Islamophobia , Muslim Innovations , Muslim Inventions , Pbs ,Religious Stereotyping , Religion News SHARE THIS STORY http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?action=like&api_key=46744042133&channel_url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.ak.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter.php%3Fversion%3D9%23cb%3Df148c06524%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%252Ff31b214fa8%26domain%3Dwww.huffingtonpost.com%26relation%3Dparent.parent&extended_social_context=false&font=lucida%20grande&href=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%252Fparvez-ahmed%252Fappreciating-islams-contribution-to-civilization_b_1648224.html&layout=standard&locale=en_US&node_type=link&sdk=joey&show_faces=false&width=244 27 11 0 https://plusone.google.com/_/+1/fastbutton?bsv=pr&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fparvez-ahmed%2Fappreciating-islams-contribution-to-civilization_b_1648224.html&size=tall&count=true&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com&hl=en-US&jsh=m%3B%2F_%2Fapps-static%2F_%2Fjs%2Fgapi%2F__features__%2Frt%3Dj%2Fver%3DqtvzPMli2GA.en_US.%2Fsv%3D1%2Fam%3D!0Tt3uNrLr0Coc6egjA%2Fd%3D1%2Frs%3DAItRSTOtcgAD4dpnSQl_RohzS0XsePhHFg#id=I2_1341586551837&parent=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com&rpctoken=248747437&_methods=onPlusOne%2C_ready%2C_close%2C_open%2C_resizeMe%2C_renderstart Submit […]
AMYA invits the residents of Lindsay to Annual Convention
Source: The Post – A Muslim associais offering residents of Lindsay and area free transportation to attend a convention and banquet lunch at no charge this Sunday, July 8 being held in Mississauga. Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association of Canada (AMYA) is an auxiliary wing of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community ( http://www.alislam.org […]
PTA bans Ahmadi website
Credit: Nation via Wasim Sroya PTA bans Ahmadi website By: Our Staff Reporter | July 06, 2012 | 0 LAHORE – Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has banned a website by the name alislam.org which was controlled by the Ahmaddiya community. An official of the authority said that the site had […]
Former PVV councillor active on nazi group Stormfront website
A former councillor for the anti-immigration PVV in Noord Holland has close ties to the neo-nazi group Stormfront and submitted 2,200 items to the organisation’s website, the Noord-Hollands Dagblad reported on Friday. Monica Nunes is one of three provincial councillors who left the PVV earlier this year to go it […]
Study: Jehovah’s Witness heart patients do well, even without transfusions
Jehovah’s Witnesses who have heart surgery don’t seem to fare any worse than other patients, even though they refuse to undergo blood transfusions during the surgery, a new study has […]
Ahmedabad remembers duo who died for communal harmony
Source: DNA India On Sunday evening, the city of Ahmedabad paid tribute to Vasantrao Hegishte and Rajab Ali Lakhani who died saving others during a communal flare-up in 1946 Rath Yatra. NGOs Anhad, Sauhard and Action Aid had organised a cultural event on the occasion. The venue, a small auditorium […]
India’s Muslims: a tale of two communities
Source: Khabarsoutheastasia Better education and a less conservative mindset may be contributing to a higher quality of life for Muslims in India’s southern provinces compared to those in the north, sources told Khabar South Asia. Children watch from a mosque during a procession to mark Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi, the celebrations of the […]
Germany: Jews, Muslims increase calls for circumcision law
Germany is coming under increasing pressure over the court decision that ruled circumcision was bodily harm and thus a crime – with the Wiesenthal Centre quoting Hitler, and a Muslim group saying it was a blow against integration. The Los-Angeles-based Jewish group called on German lawmakers to provide legal safety […]
Muslim Brotherhood ”strikes deal” to lead Libya
Tripoli: Libya’s top politicians have hatched a deal by which the Muslim Brotherhood will lead the government after the country’s first free elections on Saturday in almost five decades. According to The Telegraph, negotiations between the Muslim Brotherhood and a secular-based political movement led by former interim prime minister Mahmoud […]
Higgs boson: Pakistan’s contribution to a major breakthrough
At least some in Pakistan have the good grace to recognise Dr. Salam’s contribution in the field of science. Few Pakistanis know what the Higgs boson is and even fewer […]
Swiss stop short of ban on trading Iranian oil
The government has decided to tighten economic sanctions against Tehran, but stopped short of implementing a ban on trading Iranian oil to match an embargo by the European Union or […]
WikiLeaks begins publishing more than 2 million Syria e-mails
AFP ARABNEWS Thursday 5 July 2012 LONDON: WikiLeaks on Thursday began publishing more than two million e-mails from Syrian political figures which could shed light on a crackdown that has […]
Tax billionaires to help world’s poor: UN (why not ZAKAT?)
AFP ARABNEWS Friday 6 July 2012 UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations yesterday called for a tax on billionaires to help raise more than $400 billion a year for poor countries. An annual lump sum payment by the super-rich is one of a host of measures including a tax on carbon […]
FIFA approves goal line technology, Islamic headscarf
AGENCIES ARABNEWS Friday 6 July 2012 ZURICH: Goal-line technology to confirm whether or not a goal has been scored and the use of the Islamic headscarf were approved by soccer’s […]
General from Assad inner circle reportedly defects
BEIRUT — In what would be the most high-profile defection from the inner circle of the Syrian leadership, Manaf Tlas, a friend of President Bashar Assad and a brigadier in his Republican Guard, was reported on Wednesday to have fled to Turkey. Meanwhile, Syrian troops pushed into the rebel-held northern […]
True Sharia based on justice, equality, not fear, hatred
By: M. Imran Hayee, Duluth News Tribune On May 21, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signed legislation barring all Kansas state courts from considering “foreign” law in their rulings. While many […]