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 […]
Sudan: Food becomes a weapon of war
The Global Post: TESS, Sudan — The United States and the UN are scrambling to get food to this conflict zone where an estimated 500,000 people are at risk of […]
Poverty drives central Europe’s great exodus
By Ioana Patran and Sam Cage: (Reuters) – Maria Ene’s traditional white house on a muddy, unnamed Romanian street doesn’t have running water, but it does have two satellite dishes sprouting […]
Ahmadiyya Islam’s Answer to Saudi Grand Mufti’s edict: Muslims must Defend Churches
Daily Bulletin.Com: By Imam Shamshad A. Nasir: I am very sad to see the state of Islam today, where once again the beautiful message of Islam and the example of the Holy Prophet […]
Swiss want to “democratise” UN Security Council
by Rita Emch in New York, swissinfo.ch Switzerland and four other states have submitted a draft resolution with proposals for improving the working methods of the United Nations’ most powerful organ. The aim of the reforms submitted to the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday by the “Small […]
The Kerala king who embraced Islam
By ALI AKBAR ARABNEWS Published: Feb 9, 2012 For Arabs, Malabar was the most familiar place in the whole Indian subcontinent. The relationship between Arabs and Malabar has a history that dates back centuries. Arab merchants were trading spices such as ginger, pepper and cardamom as well as things like […]
Daniel of Morley and Adelard of Bath, the coming of Arabic science to England in the 12th-Century Renaissance
Frontispiece of an Adelard of Bath’s Latin translation of Euclid’s Elements, the oldest surviving Latin translation of the Elements. Illumination from a 14th-century MS, British Library Burney MS 275, f293 We are being told the story how Europe pulled itself out of the dark Middle Ages by stumbling upon some […]
Symmetry of slaughter
By GWYNNE DYER ARABNEWS After Mohamed Merah died in a hail of French police bullets last week, people who had known him talked about “a polite and courteous boy” who liked “cars, bikes, sports and girls.” His friends had trouble believing that he had murdered seven people, including three children, […]