Source: Huff Post Socrates was right: “The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.” I like to ponder the big questions worth asking. The meaning of life, and all that. Robert Fulghum (the “All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten” guy), once said that […]
Source: New York Times Author: Farooq Jan Mangal and Matthew Rosenberg KHOST, Afghanistan — A member of a militia promoted by the American military to protect rural villages drugged his Afghan colleagues and killed at least nine of them as they slept on Friday, a police official said, in the […]
Source: AFP Author: Wissam Keyrouz and W.G. Dunlop BAGHDAD — Despite the absence of key leaders, heavy-handed security measures and resolutions seen as soft, the fact that Iraq managed to host an Arab summit at all has been hailed as a success. Delayed by a year as a result of […]
George Galloway has said his surprise victory in the Bradford West by-election showed the “alienation” of voters from the main political parties. The Respect Party politician said his win also […]
Dutch ship flying Ottoman flags. Impression by Arie Zuidhoek. By Abdul Haq Compier Source: Alislam-eGazette January 2010 Prince William of Orange ruled the Netherlands in name of the Spanish king Philip II, but experienced moral difficulty in the execution of the persecution laws. Orange appealed many a time to Philip […]
Silver crescents worn by the Dutch from 1566 to 1574, reading ‘Rather Turk than Pope’ (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam). We move now to the Netherlands, where the Protestant movement endured persecution under the successor to Charles V, king Philip II of Spain. Prince William of Orange ruled the Netherlands in name of the […]
BBC: All crossings between Israel and the West Bank have been closed until midnight Israeli security forces have fired stun grenades and tear gas to disperse stone-throwing Palestinian protesters in […]
COPENHAGEN — European finance ministers agreed Friday to create a permanent bailout fund for the euro zone with temporary lending capacity of €800 billion, the latest signal sent by Europe to show its determination to overcome a two-year-old crisis of confidence. The decision gives Europe a so-called firewall against future […]
Source: Tehelka LIFE IS full of paradoxes, and not all of them are upsetting. Some of them give a pleasant cozy feeling too. Recently, on March 25, 2012, people saw the Pakistan Deputy Attorney General Muhammad Khurshid Khan polishing the shoes of devotees in Gurudwara Rakabganj, Delhi. This work is part […]
Source: Yahoo finance How would you like to go to a private liberal arts college that will give you a full-ride tuition scholarship for four years? Sounds crazy? Actually, I’m serious. Antioch College in Yellow Spring, Ohio, is waiving the tuition for all its students, who enroll in the next three years. How much […]
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit:Timesunion.com KATHY GANNON, Associated Press Updated 12:19 p.m., Thursday, March 29, 2012 LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — It was barely 4 a.m. when 19-year-old Rinkal Kumari disappeared from her home in a small village in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province. When her parents awoke they found […]
Ahmadiyya Times: by Jonathan M.A.Ghaffar: Most people know that Judaism, Christianity and Islam are all descended from Abraham, the Patriarch of the three Semitic faiths. If these three religious “children” all came […]
Russian TV: Athletes, coaches and officials vising the summer Olympics in London will be not allowed to marry while they are in Britain. The UK Home Office fears some will […]
Pakteahousenet: By Raza Habib Raja: Once again Pakistan has witnessed merciless killings which are sectarian in nature. A few days ago, killers stopped a bus enroute to Gilgot, picked out those belonging to the […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Web Desk / Huma Imtiaz Published: March 29, 2012 WASHINGTON: A top Pentagon official has said that Pakistan has an addiction of playing around […]
Six-legged calf “Lilli” stands on the pasture of its owner Andreas Knutti, in Weissenburg, Switzerland, Thursday, March 29, 2012. The calf was born seven weeks ago with two additional legs […]
Credit: The Fiji Times via Waseem Sroya. THE Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat has backed the call by its mother branch for world leaders to join forces in the face of the looming threat of a nuclear war. President Fazalullah Tariq called on big nations to understand the significance of peace and […]
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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 […]
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 […]