America is un-white: Minority babies are now majority in United States
Washington Post: For the first time in U.S. history, most of the nation’s babies are members of minority groups, according to new census figures that signal the dawn of an […]
Government of Pakistan fined for Shariah violation
Express Tribune: Pakistan’s mission in Jeddah had to pay 19,500 riyals (Rs472,660) in religious fine to the Saudi Arabian authorities in 2007 because then-prime minister and his elaborate entourage had violated […]
Wilders seeks injunction to block fiscal pact
Freedom Party (PVV) leader Geert Wilders is seeking an injunction against the Dutch state in a bid to scrap the European Stability Mechanism, a permanent bailout fund which is part of a EU fiscal pact to reinforce economic surveillance. Wilders said on Wednesday that leading lawyer Bram Moszkowicz will represent […]
Ghana: We Can’t Sacrifice Peace on the Altar of Politics – Maulvi
AllAfrica Wa — The Ameer and Missionary in charge of the Ahmadiyya Mission in Ghana, Maulvi Dr. Wahab Adam, has expressed optimism that despite the violence that characterised the just-ended biometric registration exercise in some constituencies, this year’s elections would be peaceful. According to him, recent developments on the political […]
Ahmadiyya Muslims Knock On Doors To Spread Islam’s Message Of Peace
The Weekly Voice Vaughn: On May 6, throughout Canada, in over 80 cities and neighborhoods, members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community did their bit to remove negative perceptions on Islam […]
Top 10 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About the #Nakba
Auburn: By Observer5 Today, May 15, is the day that Palestinians commemorate as “Nakba Day,” “Catastrophe Day,” a day to mark the expulsion from homes in Israel during the 1948 war. Arab people throughout the Middle East, are showing their solidarity with the Palestinians in Occupied Israel in peaceful ways […]
The moon is more useful than the sun
ONE DAY MULLAH NASRUDDIN ENTERED HIS FAVORITE TEAHOUSE AND SAID: ‘THE MOON IS MORE USEFUL THAN THE SUN.’ AN OLD MAN ASKED ‘WHY MULLAH?’ NASRUDDIN REPLIED ‘WE NEED THE LIGHT […]
Joys and sorrows of parenthood
Author: Edited by Adil Salahi ARABNEWS The first marriage of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) gave him six children. The first was a boy, named Al-Qasim. While most human societies, past and present, give preference to male offspring, the pre-Islamic Arabian society surpassed all others in this regard. It […]
Iraqi VP’s ex-guards say they had orders to kill
BY: SINAN SALAHEDDIN | AP ARABNEWS BAGHDAD: Former bodyguards for Iraq’s fugitive vice president have testified that they were ordered to kill security officials and plant roadside bombs as a politically charged terror trial against the Sunni leader got under way. Vice President Tariq Al-Hashemi, who was in Turkey but […]
What NATO summit means for Pakistan
BY: Moeed Pirzada ARABBEWS Anxiety over whether Pakistan will be able to attend the NATO summit in Chicago on May 20-21 was put to rest when the trans-Atlantic alliance decided […]
Mladic taunts survivors at start of genocide trial
BY: Anthony Deutsch and Ivana Sekularac | Reuters ARABNEWS THE HAGUE: Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic taunted Srebrenica survivors on Wednesday at the start of his trial for genocide, running […]
Washington coordinates arms supplies to Syrian rebels: US officials
The US has coordinated the climbing number of illegal shipment of more advanced weapons to anti-Damascus Syrian rebels paid for by Persian Gulf Arab states, US and foreign officials say. […]
Universal Application of USA’s Declaration of Independence!
Written by Zia H Shah MD Declaration of Independence was a climax in the evolution of human rights over the centuries in Europe and America, in 1776 CE. It served […]
Book Review: Prayer of the Heart in Christian and Sufi Mysticism
Book by: Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Review by: Zia H Shah Sufi teacher and author Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee has drawn upon the wisdom of Christian mystics repeatedly over his forty years on the Sufi path. In Prayer of the Heart in Christian and Sufi Mysticism, he shares the deep connection he has experienced between […]
New Minor in Arab Studies Debuts at University of Houston
HOUSTON, May 14, 2012 – The University of Houston (UH) has launched a new minor in Arab Studies and named Emran El-Badawi as the first director of the Arab Studies Program. Beginning in fall 2012, UH students may declare the minor, which will be housed in the department of Modern and Classical Languages […]
Turkey under the influence of scholar Fethullah Gulen: CBS
A report aired on the US-based CBS channel says Turkey is influenced or at least inspired by the country’s Islamic scholar, Fethullah Gulen, who runs a multi-billion-dollar foundation in Pennsylvania. […]
Businesses are recovering, but Washington didn’t help
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — It’s a question that could determine if President Obama gets to serve another term: Are you better off than you were four years ago? CNNMoney put the question to six small business owners — Democrats, Republicans and independents. across the political spectrum. Their answer: They are […]
French president Mr.Francois Hollande
French president Mr.Francois Hollande along with his partner Valérie Trierweiler. She is a journalist. Ségolène Royal: ex wife of Mr. Francois Hollande, mother of his four children. She competed last (2008) presidential election of France against Sarkozy.
This path-breaking religious research – can we have no more like it?
Huff Post If the greatest achievement of a major study of religion is to bring the curtain down on purely religious research, it really will have done a valuable service. This month the door closes on a path-breaking research initiative investigating contemporary religion. With £12m and the clout of two […]