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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Russian TV: Economists around the world are struggling to break free of the clutches of the financial crisis but a Canadian girl explains exactly what needs to be done. Victoria Grant, 12, became an overnight Internet sensation after a video of her slamming Canada’s banks and the government for robbing […]
Source: CNN One person was killed and seven others injured Saturday when shots were fired at the Eaton Centre shopping mall in Toronto, police said. Six of the victims suffered […]
Source: Dawn Author: Waris Husain Last week, Justice Dost Muhammad Khan of the Peshawar High Court declared that extra police security should be provided to the Hindu community in Peshawar, whose temple […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The title of the first chapter of Geert Wilders’ recent book against Islam, Marked for Death: Islam’s War […]
Source: Cult Girl/Ahmadiyya: One of the countless, debilitatingly endemic problems with anti-Ahmadiyya hate sites is that they provide a platform for any old ignoramus to pose as a scholar and offer their own opinions as ‘Islam,’ whilst providing no supporting evidence whatsoever. Such people seem to become so enamoured with […]
Health.com: Chemicals from building materials, furniture, and even air fresheners can make indoor air toxic, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. But just getting some greenery can help, says B.C. Wolverton, PhD, a former NASA research scientist and the author ofHow to Grow Fresh Air. “Houseplants give off oxygen and […]
Fiji looks to India for health care advancement The Minister for Health, Dr Neil Sharma, visited India this week to examine medical facilities and source expertise in various medical areas for Fiji. The Fiji High commission in New Delhi facilitated the meetings. Fiji’s High Commissioner to New India, Yogesh Karan, […]