weekly – McLean`s Around $900 billion in assets across the globe are managed by Islamic banks that operate according to sharia, an interpretation of Islamic law. In recent years, so-called Islamic finance has been growing at a rate of 15-20 per cent a year, and proved remarkably resilient to the […]
http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/hub.1326407570.html(Reuters) – When President Barack Obama unveils his annual budget next month, the blueprint will reveal a lot about his re-election strategy but probably little about the spending and tax policies the Congress will adopt in the coming year. Obama’s budget for the 2013 fiscal year will be declared “dead […]
Source: Sydney Morning Herald. Hackers calling themselves ‘nightmare group’ have attacked and disrupted services in Israel. The web based denial-of-service attack was targeted at Israeli Stock Exchange, national airlines and three banks. Read more
Source: The New York Times NEW DELHI — At one of the better colleges in India’s capital, there is just one large room for 140 faculty members to sit and have a cup of tea or grade papers. “If even half show up, there aren’t enough chairs,” said Ghazala Amin, a […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune Published: January 17, 2012 http://tribune.com.pk/story/322825/babar-awans-license-cancelled-temporarily/ ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan suspended the license of federation’s counsel Babar Awan temporarily in the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (ZAB) presidential reference case on Tuesday, reportedExpress News. The apex court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad […]
The National Post: THE HAGUE — Popular Dutch Queen Beatrix described Thursday an outcry by the country’s far-right after she was seen wearing a headscarf while visiting a mosque in […]
BBC: A Sikh man in France has won the backing of the United Nations Human Rights Committee in his fight over religious headgear. It said France was violating Sikhs’ religious […]
Wikipedia is the latest web entity that has decided to take down their site voluntarily on Wednesday to protest against the SOPA bill. The bill, which will affect a broad spectrum of items related to piracy, privacy and freedom of expression – has raised concerns from all corners of the […]
Wielding just nail-polish remover, a camera and an “Against Nazis” tote bag, Irmela Mensah-Schramm is a one-of-a-kind fighter against Germany’s increasingly threatening far-right scene. She works alone but is one of a growing number of grassroots activists stepping in to what they says is the gulf left by the authorities. […]
TEHRAN—Iran’s morality police are cracking down on the sale of Barbie dolls to protect the public from what they see as pernicious western culture eroding Islamic values, shopkeepers said on […]
Extreme modesty, or freedom gone wild? Why the debate over the veil is much more complicated than you think. Anne Kingston No item of female apparel summons more attention, animosity, […]
LONDON (AP) — British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years. Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, a paleontologist at Royal Holloway, University of London, said Tuesday that he stumbled upon the glass slides […]
Courtesy Washington Post: In a call to her Pakistani counterpart this month, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reiterated the Obama administration’s counterterrorism “red line”: The United States reserved the right […]
Courtesy The Daily Telegraph: The EFSF, which is tasked with supporting indebted countries, was itself hobbled as S&P gave it a AA+ rating, reflecting the downgrade of France and eight […]
Russian Television: Frightening statistics from Delhi’s police have revealed that 13 children go missing in the city each day. Many end up as slaves or are forced to work in the sex industry in a city which is now India’s undisputed kidnapping capital. With almost 17 million people packed into […]
As one of the many outgrowths of the sweeping federal health care law, health insurers and employers must now pay the cost of screening children for obesity and providing them with appropriate counseling. With about one in three children in the United States obese or overweight, according to government statistics, […]
Source: Niagara This Week A Muslim youth group will be hosting an open house at the Grimsby Public Library this Saturday. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association of Canada has been promoting peace, condemning terrorism and dispelling myths about Islam as part of a national campaign for the past year. The […]
The Fourth and Final Axis of Evil Analysis Recently, I was at a seminar in the Netherlands where I met a young Israeli diplomat who thought one of Israel’s biggest external perception challenges was that the country was seen as under-developed. It was a polite and small gathering, but with […]
Getting up early is a common trait among CEOs, but don’t get carried away. Not getting enough sleep can lead to weight gain, cancer and other adverse consequences described in the following infographic (via Barry Ritholtz). And 93% of people don’t get enough sleep. Although the infographic is effectively an ad for […]
France 24: AFP – The ruling party of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev won 80.74 percent of the vote in snap elections, retaining its dominant grip on parliament, early results showed Monday. Nur Otan will be joined in parliament by the pro-business Ak Zhol (Bright Path) party, which polled 7.46 percent, and […]