AllAfrica Katutura — WE respect Armas Shikongo for usually taking a public stand on important issues. His principled stance on the Palestinian question for instance comes to mind here. However, we would like to engage in that public debate about religion called for by Shikongo in his article ‘A Faith-based […]
Huff Post Sean Harris, pastor of Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville, N.C., has now “apologized” for a delivering a sermon in which he told parents to “punch” their “limp-wristed” sons and force their “butch” daughters to “dress up” and “smell nice” from time to time. However, he claims that his words were […]
A new look at a 425-year-old map has yielded a tantalising clue about the fate of the Lost Colony, the settlers who disappeared from Britain’s Roanoke Island in the late […]
According to Nick Kristof, nuns rock! I couldn’t agree with him more. When Pope Benedict XIV made his ill-advised remarks against Islam a few years ago, I received an email from my friend, Sister Rosemary, apologizing for his rude comments. In my opinion, nuns are a testament to the statement […]
David Cameron was warned today that he must return to “traditional policies” after bruising defeats in the local elections and his dream of elected mayors left in tatters. Senior Conservatives […]
Credit: Express Tribune: By Rana Tanveer Published: May 5, 2012 A hoarding is installed behind the chhatri (flattened dome) at the entrance, so that the worship place does not look like a mosque. PHOTO: EXPRESS TRIBUNE LAHORE: Two days after being told by Misri Shah police to ‘cover up’ architectural elements […]
Hadith were collected after several decades or centuries after the Prophet Muhammad’s death. Yet there were hundreds of thousands of Muslims shaping and spending their lives after the role model of […]
The United States had another month of disappointing job growth in April. The nation’s employers produced a net gain of 115,000 positions, after adding 154,000 in March, the Labor Department said Friday. April’s job growth was less than economists had been predicting. Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, immediately […]
FRANCE 24 A day after locking horns with incumbent French President Nicolas Sarkozy in a heated televised debate, Socialist candidate François Hollande told FRANCE 24 and RFI on Thursday he was satisfied with his performance. “I think the debate unfolded as I hoped it would,” said Hollande, who admitted to having […]
Source: NY Times. By Tamar Lewin In what is shaping up as an academic Battle of the Titans — one that offers vast new learning opportunities for students around the world — Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday announced a new nonprofit partnership, known as edX, to […]
By Abdal Hakim Murad (Professor Tim Winter), Cambridge University It’s no mystery that people like Khalil Dale are drawn to the religion’s ultimate simplicity The discovery at the weekend in […]
Credit. BILD newspaper Berlin via Zafrallah Khan of Germany Imam Basit Tariq of Berlin Berlin – Even against opposition Imam Abdul Basit Tariq (56) opened in 2008 the first mosque in eastern Berlin. Today, four years later, the Imam of the small Ahmadiyya community in Heinersdorf is creating excitement again.The […]
Loonwatch.com: PVV leader Geert Wilders has called on Muslims throughout the world to leave Islam. He made his call in a speech in New York, to promote his English-language book Marked for Death. […]
Euronews: Another voice, that of former Libyan prime minister al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, who is in prison in Tunisia, has added his support to the accusation that French President Nicolas Sarkozy took […]
Dawn: by Asghar Ali Engineer: RECENTLY a conference of the Muslim Personal Law Board in India saw a huge crowd of 200,000 Muslims from all over Maharashtra. The chairman of the […]
An old article of 1996. What has changed in the meantime? Any improvements? Source: http://www.meforum.org/306/why-does-the-muslim-world-lag-in-science Aaron Segal, professor of political science at the University of Texas, El Paso, is the author of An Atlas of International Migration (Bowker, 1993) and Learning by Doing: Science, Technology and the Developing World (Westview, […]
IDEALS AND REALITIES Selected Essays of Abdus Salam by C H Lai & Azim Kidwai The latest edition of “Ideals and Realities” includes some of the most recent talks given […]
LONDON: Adolf Hitler had a “messiah complex” and became increasingly obsessed with the perceived Jewish “enemy within” as World War II turned against Germany, according to a secret 1942 assessment […]
By JEDDAH: AHMED HASSAN ARAB NEWS Published: May 4, 2012 01:44 Updated: May 4, 2012 01:44 The rising cost of living is the greatest concern for young people in the Middle East, according to a poll of young Arab men and women in 12 Arab nations, including the six Gulf […]
By AGENCIES ARABNEWS ANKARA: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan denounced Standard and Poor’s rating agency yesterday, saying its downgrading of Turkey’s outlook was clouded by an “ideological approach.” Erdogan […]