By ABDEL AZIZ ALUWAISHEG ARAB NEWS Published: Jan 22, 2012 04:57 Updated: Jan 22, 2012 04:57 Over the past few years, Saudi Arabia has accrued significant budget surpluses resulting from increased oil production and higher oil prices. Some of those surpluses have been used as foreign reserves of the Saudi […]
by Taylor Luck | Jan 22,2012 | 23:26 JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — As Arab foreign ministers gather in Cairo today to reasses the Arab League’s response to the ongoing crisis […]
Islamic political parties don’t endanger democracy. Powerful leaders do by Fareed Zakaria As 2011 was coming to a close, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a remarkable speech to his parliament. Assessing the Arab Spring barely a year after it had begun, Netanyahu announced triumphantly that it had failed, that […]
by Michael Posner From Saturday’s Globe and Mail first Published Friday, Nov. 04, 2011 On the cover of historian Niall Ferguson’s new book, Civilization: The West and the Rest, is a photograph of a gold-filigreed, antique French mantel clock lying on its side. Mr. Ferguson’s implication is clear: Like France’s […]
Source: The Daily Star. Bangladesh Civil society members’ reaction – Noted economist and academician Prof Muzaffer Ahmad said the coup attempt is the result of ‘unrest’ prevailing in society. “The military force is not isolated from our society. The force is influenced by ongoing unrest in our society,” he said. He […]
Source: NY Times. Antipiracy Case Sends Shivers Through Some Legitimate Storage Sites By NICOLE PERLROTH and QUENTIN HARDY SAN FRANCISCO — If Megaupload is guilty, then who among its brethren is innocent?Box.net is one of the many companies that have entered the online storage market recently. On Thursday, federal authorities […]
He said: It is conditional on people of Taqwa to spend their lives in meekness and humility. This is a branch of Taqwa through which we contend with unwarranted anger. […]
Source: Lankaweb By I. Ahmad The above article (LW – 14.1.2012) clearly indicates the advent of another person in the spirit of Jesus Christ as his second advent. There is […]
Courtesy Russian TV: Britain has revoked the press license of Iran-based English language broadcaster Press TV, accusing it of violating press regulations. But some say the decision was really motivated by British geopolitical interests. The Office of Communications (Ofcom), a government-approved watchdog overseeing broadcasting and telecommunications in the UK, says […]
Courtesy Press TV: Hundreds of people in Libya have staged rallies in major cities, calling on Libyan authorities to enforce Islamic Sharia laws in the North African country. Protesters staged […]
Courtesy NY Times: IS it possible for a religious demand for modesty to be about anything other than men controlling women’s bodies? From recent events in Israel, it would certainly […]
This is an important issue and subject, as in a trilateral dialogue between agnostics, Muslims and Christians, it can establish the truth of Islam over Christianity. Incidentally, we need the […]
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star The continuing deterioration of the political situation in Syria led the emir of Qatar to suggest last week that it would be appropriate to send in Arab troops to stop the killing. How seriously he meant this suggestion remains unclear. He may have […]
A rich farmer had been trying desperately to marry off his daughters. One day he met Mulla Nasrudin. “I have several daughters,” the farmer told the Mulla. “I would like to see them comfortably fixed. And I will say this, they won’t go to their husbands without a little bit […]
By REUTERS ARABNEWS Published: Jan 20, 2012 18:54 Updated: Jan 20, 2012 23:16 TRIPOLI: Libya will scrap a proposal for 10 percent of seats in a new national assembly to […]
By ASSOCIATED PRESS ARAB NEWS Published: Jan 20, 2012 23:17 Updated: Jan 20, 2012 23:17 LONDON: Britain’s telecoms regulator on Friday revoked the license of Iranian state-owned television station Press TV, and said the channel would disappear from UK TV screens by the end of the day. Ofcom said it […]
In a classic example of how people forget to do parenting of their own children and take up the task of parenting the whole world. Moeed Abdul Salam, a radical came from a Plano family that promoted interfaith harmony. He didn’t descend into radical Islam for lack of other options. He […]
Source: Beacon Star – Ansar Raza and Harith Chaudhary put up banners on the Muslim faith and waited for people to come and ask questions Saturday. Raza, a religious minister with Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at and Chaudhary, local outreach co-ordinator with the organization’s youth wing, were in at the Parry Sound […]
Premier Wen Jiabao is back to Beijing after a five-day visit to Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Qatar. Before the completion of his trip, Wen attended a press conference in Doha at 6 pm local time. Read More…
A locomotive producer in central China’s Hunan province on Friday rolled out a low-cost magnetically levitated (maglev) train that is more environmental-friendly than conventional ones. Read More…