How to Integrate Europe’s Muslims
Courtesy Op ED: NY Times: By JONATHAN LAURENCE: TWO weeks ago, dozens of cars were set alight in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand after a 30-year-old truck driver, Wissam El-Yamni, was […]
More weaponry will not help the Arabs
January 24, 2012 02:20 AM By Raja Kamal The Daily Star, Lebanon The Obama administration recently concluded a deal to sell $30 billion in sophisticated weapons to Saudi Arabia, including 84 F-15 fighter jets. Not to be left behind, British Prime Minister David Cameron made his first visit to Saudi […]
France urges Turkey not to overreact to genocide law
PARIS: France urged Turkey not to overreact on Tuesday after the French parliament adopted a bill making it illegal to deny the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago was genocide. Speaking on Canal+ television Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, who was personally against the move, said […]
The farce of United Nations reforms
By RAMZY BAROUD, ARABNEWS US campaign against UN bodies does not represent a genuine democratic endeavor The country that has long been known to abuse its powers and privileges in the United Nations is now leading a campaign to reform the same organization. While UN reforms are welcomed, if not […]
Saudi female driver who defied ban dies in fatal accident
A Saudi woman who defied a driving ban in the kingdom was injured and her companion killed when their car overturned in the northern Hael province, a police spokesman said on Monday. “One woman was immediately killed and her companion who was driving the car was hospitalised after she suffered […]
Switzerland: Calls for a minimum wage mount
by Armando Mombelli, swissinfo.ch Switzerland may be a rich country, but there are still many “working poor” – people who work but are under the poverty line – a situation […]
Sri Lanka deports 161 Islamic preachers
Immigration official says the deported violated visa regulations by preaching around the country. Source: Aljazeera. Sri Lanka has ordered a group of 161 foreign Islamic preachers to leave the country, […]
DEFINING “ISLAMOPHOBIA”
The term “Islamophobia” was first introduced as a concept in a 1991 Runnymede Trust Report and defined as “unfounded hostility towards Muslims, and therefore fear or dislike of all or […]
Religion and US polls
Source: Dawn Author: Syed Amir THE separation of religion and state is grounded in the first amendment of the US constitution and has long been recognised as a guiding principle. Thomas […]
TSA turns away Sen. Rand Paul at airport checkpoint in USA
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Europe Steps Up Pressure on Greece
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Openhouse on Islam and women in Port Hope
Source: Northumberland Today – Promoting peace, condemning terrorism and dispelling myths about Islam have been the goals of the nation-wide campaign of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association of Canada, an […]
Peaceful Exchange
Source: Chatham Daily News – Members of the youth wing of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Canada held an open house at the Chatham- Kent Public Library Saturday. Naseer Mirza, a businessman from Brampton, participated in the community- reach project “to give people some introduction of Islam.” Mirza emigrated to Canada about […]
Ahmadiyya Muslims
Relegion and Ethics: KIM LAWTON (Correspondent): In New York’s Times Square, it was an unexpected sight: Nestled amid ads for rum and hit TV shows, a sign proclaiming that Muslims […]
Doubt Cast on Threat That Deterred Rushdie
Source: The New York Times JAIPUR, India — At an old Mughal palace accommodating what organizers called “the greatest literary show on earth,” the headliners on Sunday included Oprah Winfrey, Deepak Chopra and Tom Stoppard. But the absence of another star, Salman Rushdie, continued to overshadow the event. A free-speech […]
Yet Another Reminder That Democracy Is An Illusion
January 23, 2012 Santiago, Chile With over 150 million registered users, the file sharing site MegaUpload.com is one of the most popular on the Internet. At least, it was. The site has now been seized by the US government and its homepage converted to an FBI anti-piracy warning. Its founder, […]
These States Will Lose Billions If Their Illegal Immigrants Are Deported
Unauthorized immigrants made up 5.2% (about 8 million) of the U.S. workforce in 2010, according to a report from the American Immigration Council’s Strength In Diversity report. The same year, the American Immigration Council and American Progress estimated that deporting all unauthorized immigrants from the country and sealing the borders to future unauthorized immigration would “reduce […]
Australia’s Richest Person Wants To Split The Country In Half
Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest person, is back in the news for doubling her personal fortune to more than $20 billion last week — a move that brings her closer to becoming the world’s wealthiest woman. But Rinehart, who hates the attention her fast-growing wealth has garnered, isn’t your usual, polished billionaire (a […]
Meet The People Stockpiling Food, Water And Guns Just In Case
This post originally appeared at The Blaze. The world’s a scary place. Wars, famines, corrupt politicians, terrorism, imploding economies — the list goes on. There are plenty of issues worth fearing, which is why a subset of the nation is preparing for what they see as impending calamity. These individuals, dubbed “preppers,” […]
The threat within
REPORTS of an attempted coup in Bangladesh by serving and retired military officials in connivance with a banned Islamist group, Hizbut Tahrir, having been foiled by Bangladeshi authorities over the weekend is a reminder of the potentially catastrophic nexus between radical Islam and the armed forces in Pakistan too. The […]