Sally Mauk: Islam promotes equality, American Muslim woman says
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 […]
Israel’s ex-spy master: Netanyahu, Barak unfit to tackle Iran
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
Qadaffi agreed to fund Sarkozy in 2007: website
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 […]
Obama signs waiver to lift Palestinian aid barrier
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 […]
Orthodox Church: Don’t probe ancient texts for extremism
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. […]
Terrorist Plots, Hatched by the F.B.I.
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 […]
After the Arab spring, the sexual revolution?
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 […]
Taliban website under repeat attack by hackers
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 […]
Top Iraq politicians demand greater democracy
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 persistence of superstition in an irreligious Britain
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 […]
In Islam, Heaven Is Not Exclusive
Huff Post He was trying to find his way. While driving to the mosque for my Friday prayers, I saw him in my back view mirror, fidgeting with his GPS on a hot summer day. Driving up on Park Heights in Baltimore with a car full of children, this visibly […]
Headscarves – Oppression or freedom of choice?
Headscarves – Oppression or freedom of choice? The review of religions (September 2003 , Vol.98,No9) In September of this year, a German court ruled that a school in the southern state of Baden Wuttemberg was wrong under current legislation to exclude a female teacher for insisting on wearing a headscarf […]
The Human Soul According to Qur’anic Teachings
from the writings of the Promised Messiah(as) ( Translated from Chashma -i- Ma’rifat of Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Sahib, pp.158_168 Ruhani Khazain, Vol.23) Unlike the Vedas, the Qur’an says that the souls are not uncreated but that they come into existence along with the body. This is the truth about the […]
Saudi receives Bin Ladens on humanitarian grounds: report
The Daily Star, Lebanon JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia has allowed the three widows and children of slain Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden entrance into the kingdom on humanitarian grounds, a Saudi-owned […]
Hague court convicts Taylor of crimes in Sierra Leone
By REUTERS THE HAGUE: A United Nations-backed court convicted former Liberian president Charles Taylor of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity, the first time a head of […]
How Washington went soft on childhood obesity
(Reuters) – In the political arena, one side is winning the war on child obesity. The side with the fattest wallets. After aggressive lobbying, Congress declared pizza a vegetable to […]
Israel: Scarecrow frightened of own shadow
By FAWAZ TURKI ARABNEWS UNLIKE the Gaza Freedom flotilla two years ago that sought to break Israel’s chokehold on the Strip, the Welcome to Palestine 2012 ‘flytilla’ two weeks ago, that sought to show solidarity with Palestinians in the West Bank, did not turn into a story that had legs. […]
The Iraqi-Iranian connection
By ALI BLUWI ARABNEWS Every time I hear politicians of the Third World utter the word “unity” I remember a meeting between the late Libyan leader Qaddafi and the late Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba and the latter’s response to Qaddafi’s call for unity. It is normal that in politics wishes […]
Why the sudden interest in East Jerusalem?
by Daoud Kuttab “The sudden flurry of visits also came after the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, publicly called on all who can to visit Jerusalem as a statement of solidarity. Abbas said what Faisal Husseini said in this regard, namely that visiting a prisoner doesn’t equate recognition of his jailers….Jerusalemite […]
Is visiting Jerusalem recognition of Israel?
Arab News; By ABDULATEEF AL-MULHIM Since 1948 till today, the Arab states have been in a state of war with Israel. There were four major wars (1948-56-67-73) and many more military conflicts. And till 1979, there were no formal relations between any Arab country and Israel. The first breakthrough came […]