German author Grass says Israel endangering world peace
Reuters | Apr 04,2012 | JORDAN TIMES BERLIN — Nobel Prize-winning German writer Guenter Grass has attacked Israel as a threat to world peace and said it must not be […]
Global Injustice: Not a country’: ICC blocks Palestine war crimes probe
Russian TV; The ICC has refused Palestine’s bid for an investigation into the Israeli military offensive on the Gaza strip on the basis that Palestine is not a recognized state. […]
Girl to leave street where she has lived for 18 years
Inquirer News Rosali Mosende has spent all of her 18 years growing up on Paterno Street in Manila’s Quiapo district. It has been a life of hard knocks. Her family has no house, just a lean-to on the sidewalk. A high school student, she studies her lessons at night under […]
A Million Hijab March!
I just read an inspirational news in the Huffington Post, One Million Hijabs For Shaima Alawadi: Women Wear Hijabs In Support Of Slain Iraqi Woman, and that gave me an […]
Men Start Businesses for the Money: Women for the Social Value
ScienceDaily (Apr. 3, 2012) — A study of the sexes reveals that when it comes to starting a business, women are more likely than men to consider individual responsibility and use business as a vehicle for social and environmental change. “We found that women are 1.17 times more likely than men […]
MLK, Trayvon and Jesus
Huff Post April 4 is the 44th anniversary of the martyrdom of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This week is Holy Week. So what do Trayvon Martin, Dr. King and Jesus have in common? No, this question isn’t the beginning of a bad joke — the answer is […]
Kazakhstan Vodka Maker Puts ‘Allah’ On Liquor Bottle, Angers Muslims
Huff Post Religion ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Muslims in the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan are up in arms at a vodka producer for including the word “Allah” on its liquor bottles. Privately owned Channel 31 cited Bekzat Boranbaiuly, head imam at a mosque in the city of Semey, as saying […]
Resurrection: Fact or Fiction?
Review of Religion has published its March 2012 volume on this theme. Here is the Editorial: The person of Christ is not only important to Christians, but is also significant […]
President Gauck and Germany’s Muslims – A Certain Distance to Islam
Source: Qantara The interviews and speeches given by Germany’s new president, Joachim Gauck, show that he is putting a clear distance between himself and Islam. But as German president, his job is not to polarise, but to differentiate. In this essay, Jan Kuhlmann argues that he should reach out more […]
Afghanistan presses for answers on long-term U.S. military bases
Source: Reuters Authors: Sanjeev Miglani and Hamid Shalizi Afghanistan wants the United States to clearly spell out what sort of military presence it will leave behind once most of its combat troops leave by the end of 2014, a senior Afghan official said. It is also pressing Washington in talks […]
One Town for Sale.
Source: CNN Money. CNNMONEY REPORTS A small town in Wyoming is for sale, well technically. Current population of the town is one. Yes, there is a post office and a zip code. Link
Iraq’s Shiite-Sunni Divide Growing
Source: Huffington Post Author: Hamza Hendawi BAGHDAD — Now that U.S. forces are gone, Iraq’s ruling Shiites are moving quickly to keep the two Muslim sects separate – and unequal. Sunnis are locked out of key jobs at universities and in government, their leaders banned from Cabinet meetings or even […]
NYPD’s ‘stop, question and frisk’ policy is racial profiling,critics say
Source: CNN Author: Steve Kastenbaum Every time a cop car slows down near him, Djibril Toure worries that he’s about to be stopped and questioned. Not because he did anything wrong […]
International demand for Judicial Inquiry into the Custodial Death of Mr. Abdul Qudoos, by Police in Punjab
In his letter to Mr. Asif Ali Zardari, President of Pakistan in Islamabad, Mr. William Gomes asks the Pakistani President to conduct a judicial inquiry into the illegal detention and […]
Private sector adds 209,000 jobs in March
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Private companies continued to add jobs in March, albeit at a slightly slower pace than in February. Businesses added 209,000 jobs in March, according to a report issued Wednesday by payroll-processing company ADP. Those job gains were slightly lower than forecasts for 217,000, and marked a […]
Twice-exiled former Ottoman princess dies
By ASSOCIATED PRESS ARABNEWS ANKARA, Turkey: , an Ottoman princess who married an Egyptian prince and was twice forced into exile when both royal households were abolished, has died. She […]
$10 million mystery-Joke? – or Just Politics: a bounty on Hafiz Saeed?
Global Post: Officially, India welcomed the US decision to offer a $10 million bounty for information leading to the capture of alleged Pakistani terrorist Hafiz Saeed, whom both the US […]
Gems From Pakistan Press: Qadianies behind Balochistan Problem
The Nation: LAHORE – Chairman Sunni Ittehad Council MNA Sahibzada Fazal Karmin has vowed to shed last drop of blood for protecting Namoos-e-Risalat, saying that the conspiracies of making Pakistan […]
“BACKS FAITH WITH HIS LIFE” NY Times Article Dec 3, 1899
BACKS FAITH WITH HIS LIFE.; East Indian Wants to Prove Mohammed’s Greatness. Courtesy: The NY Times PM article on NY Times Dec 3 1899 Link to NY Times archive […]
Patriarch urges strength in face of smear campaign
Russian TV: The head of the Russian Orthodox Church claims that the church is under an information attack, after several scandals broke out in less than a month. Patriarch Kirill […]