Islam’s European hope
Inqiurer News Philippines By: Shlomo Ben Ami MADRID—Mohamed Merah’s killing spree in and around Toulouse in March, like the 2004 Madrid train bombings and the 2005 suicide attacks in London’s […]
Pakistani police strip Ahmadi mosque of Muslim symbols
The Sacramento Bee ISLAMABAD — Last week, police officers in the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore visited a mosque run by Ahmadis, a minority Muslim sect considered by the rest of the country to be heretical. They looked around, and then announced their conclusion: The mosque looks too much like a mosque. So, […]
The real challenge facing Saudi Arabia
By DR. KHALID ALNOWAISER Youth need hope and a real chance to pursue their lives free of restrictions If I were asked to name the greatest challenge currently facing Saudi Arabia, I would not say it is Iran, nor the disturbing events taking place in the Middle East and not […]
Iraqi aims to write world’s longest copy of Koran
NAJAF, Iraq — Hussein Al Kharsan kneels, bent over a giant sheet of paper, laboriously writing the words of Islam’s holy book, the Koran, in beautiful Arabic script with a traditional wood and feather pen. The 25-year-old Iraqi aims to take an unusual path to fame: writing the longest copy […]
Schengen states to apply new visa application procedures
Jordan Times AMMAN — The Delegation of the European Union to Jordan has announced that all consulates of Schengen states in Amman will start applying a new procedure for visa applications as of May 10, according to a statement from the delegation. Consular sections will collect biometric data, including fingerprinting […]
U.S. Lags in Global Measure of Premature Births
Source: The New York Times Fifteen million babies are born prematurely each year, and the United States fared badly in the first country-by-country global comparison of premature births, which was released Wednesday by the World Health Organization and other agencies. Although American hospitals excel at saving premature infants, the United States is similar […]
Socialist Hollande triumphs in French presidential poll
France24. François Hollande has won France’s presidential election, giving the country its first Socialist president in almost two decades, exit polls showed Sunday. According to Ipsos polling institute, the left-wing candidate took 51.7% of the vote to incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy’s 48.3%. Celebrations are underway at the iconic Place de la Bastille […]
Why did Sarkozy lose the French presidential election?
Rfi. ince 1958 only Giscard d’Estaing has failed to win a second term, apart from Georges Pompidou who he died in office. Sarkozy, whose popularity slumped while he was in office, staged a determined comeback campaign, reducing Hollande’s lead over him in the polls. But he lost when it counted […]
How François Hollande hopes to beat Nicolas Sarkozy
April 24, 2012 Rfi. France. Emerging from a meeting with colleagues on Monday, Socialist party leader Martine Aubry told journalists that Hollande had “only one strategy: to get France back on its feet, to put justice back at the centre of all our decisions and unite the French, in other […]
Hollande wins French presidential vote
Paris (CNN) — Francois Hollande, the winner of Sunday’s presidential runoff, thanked his supporters in a victory speech and promised to be a president for all of France. “Many people […]
Socialist Francois Hollande wins French presidency
Credit BBC News Socialist Francois Hollande has been elected as France’s new president. He got about 52% of votes in Sunday’s run-off, according to early projections, against 48% for centre-right […]
Black Pepper’s Secrets As A Fat Fighter Revealed
Medical News Today A new study provides a long-sought explanation for the beneficial fat-fighting effects of black pepper. The research, published in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, pinpoints piperine – the pungent-tasting substance that gives black pepper its characteristic taste, concluding that piperine also can block the formation of […]
Life-Size 3-D Hologram-Like Telepods May Revolutionize Videoconferencing in the Future
ScienceDaily (May 3, 2012) — A Queen’s University researcher has created a Star Trek-like human-scale 3D videoconferencing pod that allows people in different locations to video conference as if they are standing in front of each other. “Why Skype when you can talk to a life-size 3D holographic image of another […]
Misogyny and the Muslim woman
the Atlantic There are two general ways to think about the problem of misogyny in the Arab world. The first is to think of it as an Arab problem, an issue of what Arab societies and people are doing wrong. “We have no freedoms because they hate us,” Eltahawy writes, […]
AT&T to pay Muslim woman $5M in harassment case
Source: Yahoo News KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Kansas City woman who converted to Islam in 2005 said she was harassed for years at AT&T, and that the abuse […]
THE ORTHODOX JEWISH PRO POLYGAMY PAGE By EMES L’YAAKOV
This web page is dedicated to an open analysis and review of the Cherem Rabbeinu Gershom and the issue of polygamy for Orthodox Jews. All discussion is based on the following premises: G-d is the creator G-d gave to the Jews the entire Torah, both oral and written Chazal, our […]
ARABS TELL GOVERNMENTS TO PROTECT RELIGIOUS MINORITIES
01 May 2012 Source: BBC A former Archbishop of Canterbury has attacked religious laws in Saudi Arabia, saying they prevented non-Muslims from worshipping and were “profoundly unjust”. Lord Carey of […]
Hundreds call for end to peace with Israel in nationwide protests
by Taylor Luck | May 05,2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Hundreds of activists hit the streets in some urban centres in the country demanding an end to the Kingdom’s […]
In holy land excursions, a priestly hand guides the pilgrims’ progress
by Rajive Cherian | May 05,2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Sleeba Kattumangattu Cor-Episcopa, affectionately dubbed “Abunaan Sleeba” or “Father Sleeba”, has been shepherding flocks of religious tourists to the region for the past two decades. After organising more than 1,000 tours of the holy land, Sleeba told The Jordan […]
Centrist Bayrou’s tactical game in supporting Hollande
France 24. Centrist also-ran presidential candidate François Bayrou announced late on Thursday that he will be voting for socialist nominee François Hollande in the election’s second round on Sunday.Some French columnists put this surprise about-face – for centrists traditionally throw their support rightward – down to political expediency rather than […]