Prince Hassan calls for regional cohesion, peace
by Rand Dalgamouni | May 29,2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Countries in West Asia and North Africa (WANA) should build peaceful ties with each other to come up with […]
For Ahmadiyya Muslims, another memorial day
Source: Washington Post By Harris Zafar On May 28th this year, we observed Memorial Day, a day to remember and honor those who have died in service to our nation. But on this year’s Memorial Day, I also reflected on other brave souls who died in another service: to their […]
The Real Muslim Problem
Source: Huff Post By Joyce S. Dubensky CEO, Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding There’s lots of talk about the “Muslim Problem” in the U.S. and abroad. Generally, I find that framing troubling. But recently some very ordinary experiences made me realize that there actually is what I can only call […]
Do Americans have the right to ban Mosques?
Huff Post NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Construction of a Tennessee mosque that has been strongly opposed by critics of Islam likely will be stopped after a judge ruled Tuesday that local […]
Stubborn Infection, Spread by Insects, Is Called ‘The New AIDS of the Americas’
Source: The New York Times Chagas disease, caused by parasites transmitted to humans by blood-sucking insects, has been named “the new AIDS of the Americas” in a lengthy editorial published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. The authors, several of whom are tropical disease experts from Baylor College of Medicine […]
Economist worries ’20 or 30 billionaires control everything’ in the automated future
Souce: PBS Paul Solman of PBS Newshour recently went to a conference run by a California think tank called Singularity University to learn the future of human workers. Solman noted that as far back as the Roman empire, people had worried about being displaced by machines. Emperor Vespasian, who built […]
Bangladesh Charges Islamist Leader of War Crimes
Source: VOA The leader of Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami has been charged with war crimes by a special tribunal. Matiur Rahman Nizami was indicted Monday on 16 charges, including genocide and murder allegedly carried out during the country’s 1971 independence struggle against Pakistan. Another tribunal indicted Abdul Quader Molla, […]
Dripping crucifix sparks Indian blasphemy row
Source: Kuwait Times MUMBAI: Angry Catholics have accused an Indian sceptic of blasphemy after he argued a dripping crucifix was caused by faulty plumbing rather than divine intervention, leaving him facing a possible prison term. Thousands of believers flocked to a suburban street in the west of Mumbai in March, […]
Syrian diplomats around the world expelled
Governments around the world expelled ambassadors and top Syrian diplomats Tuesday in an unusually coordinated blow to Syria’s leaders, after a particularly gruesome massacre in which the United Nations says […]
UK Property prices creating generation of mummy’s boys
Soaring property prices have created a generation of “mummy’s boys” with a third of men in their 20s and early 30s now living with their parents, according to official figures. […]
UK: Ken Clarke says only extreme nationalists want ‘silly’ European referendum
A referendum on Britain’s relationship with the European Union would be “silly” and is only of interest to “a few extreme nationalist politicians,” Kenneth Clarke has said. The Justice Secretary […]
Indonesia will be the fourth largest economy in the world by 2040
Indonesia’s rise is the big story we’re missing Can Australia handle having a stronger, richer neighbour? AUSTRALIANS see Indonesia today through a kaleidoscope of negative images: Islamic terrorists, people smugglers, […]
Israel creates thousands of “fake” Jewish tombs around Al-Aqsa Mosque
The Middle East Monitor: Al-Aqsa Association for Religious Endowment (Waqf) and Heritage has accused the Israeli occupation authorities of planting thousands of fake Jewish tombs around Al-Aqsa Mosque and the […]
Spanish Data Point to Further Decline
PARIS — Data underscoring the depth of Spain’s economic problems dampened investor enthusiasm in Europe, but most stock markets turned positive as Wall Street opened. Spanish retail sales fell in April by a record 9.8 percent from a year earlier, the 22nd consecutive monthly decline, the government statistics institute said […]
Yes, marriage is the ‘gold standard’
A survey shows that young people aspire to a good marriage – so why does the divorce rate continue to rise? By Judith Woods TELEGRAPH CO UK A well-dressed woman […]
The British Government Is Forcing People To Work For Free
Business Insider: Thousands more unemployed people will be forced to work for free or lose their benefits under controversial plans to be announced by the work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, as the government is warned its drive to get people back into work appears to be floundering. The […]
World not safe, needs US military
RT The world is a dangerous place and needs a dominant US army to keep it in check, presidential candidate Mitt Romney has decreed. If elected, he promised to maintain […]
Peace in Religious Communities is Impressive and Inviting
James Kunstler, Kunstler.com : Way up here in the heartland, far from the craft beer parlors, Facebookstock bucket shops, and gender obsessions of the mythical Urban Edge People, the detritus of your country is […]
Fake International Jurist Award for Chief Injustice of Pakistan In UK
London, 28 May 2012: At a dubious ceremony in London in which Pakistan’s Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry awarded himself the International Jurist Award by the International Council of Jurists […]
New Masters of Europe: Qatar goes on shopping spree
Daily Telegraph: Over the past three months, Qatar – a state no bigger than Yorkshire – has embarked on the financial equivalent of a £7bn supermarket sweep. It has snaffled […]