The state has no business deciding someone’s faith
Express tribune.com: by Saroop Ijaz One of the most majestic and arresting structures of Europe is the Great Mosque of Cordova. Apart from exquisite architecture, the unique thing about the […]
Can Islamic banking help boost Czech exports
A good deal of the ongoing economic and financial turmoil on world markets has been blamed on the unscrupulous practices of the international banking and financial sector. Islamic banking, on the other hand, is seen as a fairer and more balanced alternative which has been much less affected by the […]
Big Ben’s tower to be renamed in honour of Queen Elizabeth II
MPs back proposal to change name of east tower at the Palace of Westminster despite republican A parliamentary proposal for the tower housing Big Ben to be renamed in honour […]
British medical worker among four rescued from cave by special forces in Afghanistan
A British medical worker kidnapped in Afghanistan has been dramatically freed in a special forces raid. The SAS are understood to have carried out the helicopter raid on the cave […]
The New Evangelization: Quo Vadis
Written by: Mr. Paul Kokoski Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae states that every person has a “right” to religious freedom and that they are not to be “coerced” in any way to act contrary to their own beliefs. In seemingly contradictory fashion the same document exhorts Catholics to use the coercive […]
Ahmadiyya Youth, Paying Tribute To Mother Mary.
Source: Moose Jaw Times Herald – The Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association of Canada (AMYA), which is an auxiliary wing of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (www.alislam.org), is hosting an open house Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. at the Moose Jaw Public Library today to promote religious harmony, dispel misconceptions about Islam […]
The CIA crossed a red line to find Osama bin Laden
By David Ignatius The Daily Star, Lebanon As an intelligence operation, it must have seemed like pure genius: recruit a Pakistani doctor to collect blood samples that could identify Osama bin Laden’s family, under cover of an ongoing vaccination program. But as an ethical matter, it was something else. The […]
The logic of Kofi Annan’s Syria strategy
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star, Lebanon It must be depressing for Kofi Annan, the United Nations-Arab League envoy to Syria, to hear at every turn that the “Annan plan” for resolving the conflict is dead, and that country will soon plunge into a full-fledged sectarian civil war. My […]
“Love for All, Hatred for None” – 30,000 Muslims meet in convention center Karlsruhe / Germany
“Love for All, Hatred for None ‘: 30,000 Muslims meet in convention center in Karlsruhe, Germany – For the second time since Friday the Muslim Community Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat (AMJ) […]
Mathura communal riot: CM steps in, violence almost controlled
Source: Twocircles.net New Delhi: For full 8 hours, mobs of the majority community allegedly ran on rampage in the Kosikalan village about 40 kms from Mathura district headquarters. Initial news reports said one person was killed in the violence but an eyewitness said at least five persons, all youths from […]
Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council Eager to Provide Promotion Services for Other Technologies
Source: FNA TEHRAN (FNA)- Secretary-General of Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council Dr. Saeed Sarkar expressed pleasure with the two-year activities of the Tech-to-Market Services Corridor (a subsidiary of the INIC), and announced the INIC’s preparedness to provide other technologies with promotion services. “We are prepared to offer such services to other […]
Wilders loses anti-rescue fund lawsuit
Geert Wilders has lost the legal case he began against the European rescue fund. A judge in the Hague has ruled that Wilders’ objections to the creation of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) are not a legal basis for stopping parliament from ratifying the plan. Wilders wants the ratification of […]
State Dept. report on world human rights ignores US abuses
It has a chapter on every other country in the world, but a State Department report on global human rights doesn’t address the U.S. role in atrocities overseas. Globalpost: Alex Pearlman From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, the State Department’s annual report card on human rights in most of the countries in […]
Students from the University of Saskatchewan visit Mahmood Mosque in Haifa
Students make unexpected discoveries in Israel by Brian Moskowitz, Special to The CJN, SASKATOON — A new program at the University of Saskatchewan is introducing aspiring business leaders to the […]
Cancer ‘was made by modern man’
Only a handful of possible cancer cases emerged after scientists analysed almost 1,000 remains from ancient Egypt and Greece. They also found precious little reference made to the symptoms of cancer in ancient literature. Researchers did for the first time identify cancer in one Egyptian mummy but it was the […]
Fiji delegation contributes towards biodiversity science
USP Home » News @ USP Print Fiji delegation contributes towards establishment of major international biodiversity science policy Back to News » Members of the Fiji delegation that attended the Panama meeting: Mr Rahul Chand, Coordinator of the Fiji National Biodiversity Strategic Action Plan and Professor Randy Thaman from USP, who served […]
Global economy: The darkness returns: Have you Stored some Food?
Remember those dark days of 2008 and 2009? When doom and gloom were the norm? When economic catastrophe seemed imminent? When hope turned to fear, and then fear turned to panic? Well, folks, if you haven’t been closely following events recently then I’ve got some bad news for you: It […]
Abysmal ranking: ‘Pakistan third worst place for mothers’
Express Tribune: Ranked at 78th out of 80 less developed countries, Pakistan is the third worst place for a mother, according to a Save the Children report. The country also held […]
US unleashed Stuxnet cyber war on Iran to appease Israel
Russian TV: The US and Israel made the Stuxnet virus as a new kind of weapon targeted against Iran, a media investigation revealed. The operation reportedly started in the Bush […]
Religion and Science in Pakistan
The Friday Times: Perhaps the most intractable question in Pakistani educational reform remains how best to reconcile religion and science within the curriculum. This is a serious matter but few are willing to engage with the issue directly, for fear of being branded religious heretics by some or apologists for […]