Rawal TV in Canada has a program series hosted by Atif Mir titled: Contemporary issues. To learn more about Rawal TV go to: http://www.youtube.com/user/RawalTV This segment is about a criticism […]
In his achievements, Dr. Salam saw a certain special Providence of God. Let me quote from the transcript of one of his interviews. The questi0ns asked by Lewis Wolpert or […]
After a marathon sitting, a majority of senators in the upper house of parliament are now opposed to a ban on the ritual slaughter of animals, a week ahead of the crucial vote. Labour senators have now changed their minds and oppose a ban, as has the ruling VVD. Christian […]
Seems like it. It’s not that being distracted isn’t off-putting, but when distracted we’re less negative, less complex and more personal in our speech. We also encourage the other person to talk more. From James Pennebaker’s book The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us: …distracted pairs actually […]
MICHAEL COREN | The Toronto SUN It says a great deal about Canadian pluralism and decency – and about the diversity that still exists in the corners, if not mainstream, of Islam – that a group of Muslim women can come forward and ask a Conservative government minister to extend, […]
[This post is published with permission from the personal blog of SEC Senior Policy Advisor Rick Bookstaber.] Conspicuous leisure, conspicuous waste, conspicuous consumption. Veblen coins these terms in Theory of the Leisure Class to describe the strategies the noble and priestly classes employ to assert their status. Veblen observes that a life of leisure is the readiest evidence […]
ScienceDaily (Jan. 27, 2012) — Whenever we fall ill, there are many different factors that come together to influence the course of our illness. Additional medical conditions, stress levels, and social support all have an impact on our health and well-being, especially when we are ill. But a new report suggests […]
Before treatment, the 51-year-old graphic artist was legally blind, unable to read a single letter on a standard eye chart. She has suffered from Stargardt’s disease, the most common form of macular degeneration in young patients, since she was a teenager, and it was getting progressively worse. A second patient, […]
IMAGINE the following scenario: a complex housing a mosque, a madressah, a girls` school and a home for the elderly being run by a Muslim charity is broken into at dawn and bulldozed by officials. No notice is served, and no documents challenging ownership are produced. Yet, within hours, the buildings […]
Source: The Local It is a premiere for Germany. Never before have artifacts from Islam’s holiest site, the Kaaba in Mecca, been on display in the country. A new exhibit […]
Source: The Local A German man has created a new website to arrange shared car trips with a twist – it’s targeted toward Muslims, and drivers can only offer transport […]
Source: Spiegel International The photos demonstrated conclusively to him that taboos hardly exist anymore — and that it was time to come up with something to combat the “diktat of nudity.” He knew that he and his team were on the right track. “Cosmopolitan, Elle, Vogue, Marie Claire, it’s all […]
Source: Spiegel International A new consortium of EU researchers is exploring options for dealing with an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Plenty of ideas are already on the […]
Source / Courtesy: The Horizon The government officials have advised the members of the Rawalpindi Ahmadiyya community to stop praying at the Satellite Town Ahmadiyya center, Ewan-e Touheed. Known terrorist, […]
Viola Caon left her Italian home to find work. Now she returns to see how her former classmates are faring… and in the week that shocking figures showed how badly […]
Bank announces that Sir Philip Hampton will not receive bonus amid controversy over decision to award RBS chief executive Stephen Hester £963,000. Royal Bank of Scotland chairman Sir Philip Hampton […]
‘We just didn’t play well enough, individually or collectively’ . England’s No1 ranking at risk if they do not win third Test. Andrew Strauss admitted that England’s batsmen are no closer […]
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Amsterdam police chief Bernard Welten will not order his officers to arrest women wearing a burqa when the government introduces a ban, he implied during a tv show. Police officers should always be sensible, Welten said. ‘I do not always consider myself an instrument of the government who should immediately […]
The Dutch parliament on Tuesday voted to ban ritual slaughter in landmark animal rights legislation that has been compared to Nazi persecution of the Jews by the country’s Chief Rabbi. In a rare show of unity, representatives of one million Dutch Muslims and 40,000 Jews have condemned the prohibition of halal […]