Pakistani diplomats and misplaced priorities
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Canadian professor finds true religion
Published: Mar 30, 2012 00:29 Updated: Mar 30, 2012 00:29 David Roy Woelke, a Canadian English language instructor at King Abdulaziz University, embraced Islam at the World Assembly of Muslim […]
Jordan Valley rally to overshadow pro-reform demos
by Taylor Luck, Jordan Times. AMMAN — The Palestinian cause is expected to dominate Friday demos with thousands of activists set to converge near Jordan’s borders with the West Bank. Leftists, Islamists and pro-Palestinian activists from across the Kingdom and around the world are scheduled to gather in the Jordan […]
Woman: Click tricks
A few years ago, Nicole Anderson left her travelling days as cabin crew and took on the world of photography. The Dubai-based photographer says, “The satisfaction of capturing the true essence of each subject and putting smiles on the faces of others was what got me hooked.” Anderson specialises […]
Japan will intercept N Korean rocket if necessary
Japan says it will shoot down a North Korean rocket if necessary, as new satellite images appeared to show preparations for the launch next month. Defence Minister Naoki Tanaka issued the order to intercept the rocket if it threatened Japan’s territory. Pyongyang says it will launch a satellite on […]
Contact With Spirits?
Contact With Spirits? Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad – Khalifatul Masih IV fourth Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community We present below part of a question and answer session with Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad(ru), Khalifatul Masih IV, Fourth Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, held in London in November, 1995. Transcribed […]
Islamophobia as a political ploy
Source: the guardian Consider the case of a controversial cartoon. Not the notorious Danish cartoons, but a cartoon published in the New York Post last month. A response to revelations that emerged in February about the NYPD’s large-scale spying on American Muslim students after 9/11, it portrayed three hook-nosed, turbaned terrorists […]
Scouts launch outfits for Muslim girls
Source: The Guardian March 2012 The Scout Association has launched a new clothing range for Muslims in response to an increasing number of girls from the faith joining the organisation. […]
My God-of-Love Life: Interspiritual Wisdom for a Unified World
Source: Huff Post I have always been spiritually promiscuous, lying down with any God who will have me. This passionate attraction to religion makes no sense. My parents, intellectual Jews, rejected the wrathful Father-God of their ancestors in favor of an eclectic embrace of eastern thought, western esotericism and indigenous […]
Response to Saudi Grand Mufti’s Call For Destroying Churches
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA’s National Spokesperson, Harris Zafar, is interviewed on Jordan Sekulow radio show regarding the Saudi Grand Mufti’s statement that all churches in Arab peninsula must be destroyed.
Arab leaders stay away from Baghdad summit
Source: The Christian Science Monitor Author: Hamza Hendawi & Lara Jakes, Associated Press Fewer than half the leaders of the Arab world showed up at an Arab summit in Baghdad on Thursday, a snub to the Iraqi government, but the leaders agreed on an appeal to Syria’s regime to stop […]
The Afghan girls who live as boys
Source: BBC Author: Tahir Qadiry For economic and social reasons, many Afghan parents want to have a son. This preference has led to some of them practising the long-standing tradition of Bacha Posh – disguising girls as boys. When Azita Rafhat, a former member of the Afghan parliament, gets her […]
Suspecting foul play: SC denies request to withdraw banned chemical case
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Our Correspondent Published: March 29, 2012 ISLAMABAD: Suspecting foul play, the Chief Justice of Pakistan denied Anti-Narcotics Force’s (ANF) request to withdraw […]
UK:David Cameron accused of presiding over ‘shambles’ on fuel as panic buying gets worse
David Cameron has been accused of presiding over a “shambles” as petrol stations throughout the country ran out of fuel after government attempts to allay panic buying backfired. Ministers had […]
Israel’s plan to attack Iran put on hold until next year at the earliest
Haaretz: Damning U.S. war simulation forces Ehud Barak to reconsider attack plans; Americans pledge more money for Iron Dome antimissile system. At 8:58 P.M. on Tuesday, Israel’s 2012 war against Iran came to a quiet end. The capricious plans for a huge aerial attack were returned to the deep recesses […]
Global Jerusalem March
Arabs prepare for ‘Jerusalem March’ Hundreds of thousands of people expected to take part in pro-Palestinian protest over weekend; marches to be held across region. Anti-Israel fly-in taking shape Ynet […]
Helping Ex-detainee Children Cope with Trauma
Palestine Chronicle: A year after his arrest and detention by the Israeli military in Bethlehem, Hamza, a 17-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank, is seeing a social worker to try […]
Academic Built Case for Mandate in Health Care Law
After Massachusetts, California came calling. So did Connecticut, Delaware, Kansas, Minnesota, Oregon, Wisconsin and Wyoming. They all wanted Jonathan Gruber, a numbers wizard at M.I.T., to help them figure out how to fix their health care systems, just as he had helped Mitt Romney overhaul health insurance when he was […]
When Home Is No Refuge for Women
Source: The New York Times NEW DELHI — This month, two women’s stories, told courageously, helped to underline the reality of domestic violence in India. Nita Bhalla, a journalist, wrote for the BBC about being physically assaulted by her partner. Meena Kandasamy, a poet and writer on social issues, wrote […]
Nuclear Fusion Power May Be Feasible, Sandia Scientists Say
Source: Huffington Post. If new computer simulations pan out in the real world, nuclear fusion, the power source that makes stars shine, may be a practical possibility here on Earth, scientists say. Simulations at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico revealed a fusion reactor that surpasses the “break-even” point […]