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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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,” […]
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 […]
Preparing the biggest homecoming yet of its kind, authorities in New Zealand on Monday received 20 ancestral heads of Maori ethnic people once held in several French museums as a […]
Iran’s ayatollahs need to understand that if they persist with the illegal enrichment of uranium, their country will pay a heavy price. Yesterday’s decision by European Union foreign ministers to […]