[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 […]
Source: Your Ottawa Region – Jesus Christ is mentioned more times by name in The Holy Koran than is the name of the Prophet Mohammad. While it isn’t a numbers’ […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By AFP Published: January 28, 2012 DAVOS: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza gilani said on Saturday there was “a trust deficit” between Islamabad […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By AFP Published: January 28, 2012 DAVOS: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza gilani said on Saturday there was “a trust deficit” between Islamabad […]
The cabinet on Friday voted to ban burkas and other face-covering garments from public places. Once the legislation has passed through parliament, the Netherlands will become the third country in Europe to ban the Islamic garment, after France and Belgium. The ban will apply to people wearing balaclavas and full-frontal […]
The New York Police Department is facing intense scrutiny following revelations Monday that afilm about the threat of radical Islam was screened to nearly 1,500 officers during training. Critics of the 2008 documentary “The Third Jihad” have denounced it as “anti-Islam“ and ”hate-filled.” The Council on American-Islamic Relations called it […]