Huff Post “Why Do They Hate Us?” asks the latest cover ofForeign Policy magazine. Beneath the title stands a cowering woman wearing nothing but black body paint resembling the niqab, or full Islamic face veil. Egyptian feminist Mona Eltahawy authored the article. Her central contention — that Arab Muslim culture “hates” […]
Courtesy: Maqsood Ahmad Malik, Deputy Director, Directorate General of Archeology Youth Affairs, Sports, Archeology and Tourism Department A monitoring mission from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)is […]
By Zunaira Mubasher Satkohi, USA In Pakistan women can legally divorce their husbands. Through the woes of my colleagues, however, I learned about the social stigma associated with divorced women in Pakistan. In an Islamic studies class I learned of the prohibition of female infanticide towards the beginning of […]
Source: BBC News A young woman has had her child “marriage” legally annulled in northern Rajasthan state, in what is thought to be the first case of its kind in India. Laxmi Sargara, 18, wed Rakesh when she was just one and he was three. She grew up with […]
Source: BBC News India has made impressive economic progress but there are “serious disparities between rich and poor”, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said. “There are many people who don’t have [access to basic services,” he told reporters in Delhi on the second day of a three-day visit to India. […]
Source: The New York Times Birds are famously good navigators. Some migrate thousands of miles, flying day and night, even when the stars are obscured. And for decades, scientists have known that one navigational skill they employ is an ability to detect variations in the earth’s magnetic field. How this […]
The body of missing British aid worker Khalil Dale has been found in Pakistan, four months after he was kidnapped by armed men, the International Committee of the Red Cross […]
Written by Muhammad Azimul Haque Gujarat’s encounter specialist and suspended super cop D.G, Vanzara who is in Ahmedabad jail alleged involved in many fake encounters of Muslims including Mumbai based […]
Source: The Voice of Russia Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov sees nothing wrong with Islamists coming to power in some Arab countries. “Political Islam is a normal phenomenon. This does […]
As Jihad Watch reported recently: “Copenhagen: Four new mosques. 16 churches to be closed.” Now priests and politicians are discussing what to do with those 16 closed-down churches. For many people, including the owner of the churches — the Church Foundation — it hurts to see how Christianity is getting […]
Source: Missoulian Aisha Rahman is a American-born Muslim raised in a small town in Tennessee, where her father was a doctor at a small hospital. Her family had emigrated earlier […]
Reuters, ARABNEWS JERUSALEM: A former Israeli spymaster has branded the country’s leaders unfit to tackle the Iranian nuclear program because of what he called the “messianic feelings” behind their threats to launch a pre-emptive war on Iran. read more here: http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article620786.ece
By AGENCIES ARABBEWS PARIS/TRIPOLI: Muammar Qaddafi’s regime agreed to fund French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign to the tune of 50 million euros, a news website reported yesterday, publishing […]
AFP / JORDAN TIMES WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has signed a waiver to remove curbs on funding to the Palestinian Authority, declaring the aid to be “important to the security interests of the United States”. A $192 million aid package was frozen by the US Congress after the Palestinians […]
Russian TV: A top Russian Church official has said that ancient religious texts should not be checked for extremist calls or statements, suggesting rather that more recent teachings be probed. […]
NY Times: THE United States has been narrowly saved from lethal terrorist plots in recent years — or so it has seemed. A would-be suicide bomber was intercepted on his […]
Source: The Guardian Author: Martin Chulov, Eileen Byrne, and Abdel-Rahman Hussein An explosive call for a sexual revolution across the Arab world in which the author argues that Arab men “hate” Arab women has provoked a fierce debate about the subjugation of women in countries such as Egypt, Morocco and […]
Source: The Guardian (Author): (Reuters in Kabul) Hackers have for the third time in less than a year attacked the main website of the Afghan Taliban. The Taliban has blamed western intelligence agencies amid an intensifying cyberwar with the insurgents. The unidentified hackers broke into the Taliban’s El Emara website […]
Source: AFP Author: Abdel Hamid Zebari ARBIL, Iraq — Top Iraqi politicians, many of whom feel marginalised by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s style of governing, called on Saturday in Arbil for greater democracy in running the country. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, Massud Barzani, the president […]
the guardian Andrew Copson, who runs the British Humanist Association, is a third generation post-Christian. “I grew up in a post-religious society in the Midlands. I went to an entirely secular primary school and secondary school; the popular culture I imbibed was things like Star Trek. I read fantasy and science […]