Manama: Six women were among the 109 candidates who submitted their papers to run in Kuwait’s parliamentary elections on the first day of the application process. Under the country’s elections laws, parliament hopefuls have ten days to sign up their names for the elections in which around 400,000 eligible voters […]
1ـ رسولُ اللهِِ (صَلَّيَ اللهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ): إنّي أمزَحُ ولا أقولُ إلّا حَقّاً. 1– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘I joke but I do not speak other than the truth.’[Sharhe Nahj al-Balagha li Ibn Abi al-Hadid, v. 6, p. 330] Note by the editor: We really have to take care […]
HISTORY BY DR ABDUL MAJID SIRAJ ………….. Christians call Jesus the Son of the Father and for Muslims Jesus is called the Son of Mary. Muslims believe in the virgin […]
Source / Courtesy: The Huffington Post By Kirsten West Savali Growing up in an African Methodist Episcopal household as a child (A.M.E. shout out to Richard Allen!), the annual Christmas […]
The Roman Senate deified Augustus on September 17, 14 CE less than a month after his death. He was now divine not only for his ancestry and adoption but in […]
Allah created mankind and took it upon Himself to guide them, as He says in the Qur’an, “Surely, it is for Us to provide guidance.” (92:12) Guidance and Law were given to every nation of the world through His Messengers, “And for every people there was a Messenger” (10:47). “And […]
This article was originally published in the summer 2011 volume of the Muslim Sunrise. The Holy Prophet Muhammad, may peace be on him, said and it is common knowledge among the Muslim circles, “In the Latter Days, the sun shall rise from the West.” The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community believes that this […]
http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2011/12/05/private-billionaire-shahid-khan-revealed-in-jaguars-sale/ Last week’s sale of the Jacksonville Jaguars thrust soon-to-be new NFL owner Shahid Khan into the spotlight. A low profile private businessman for 30 years at Flex-N-Gate, an international auto supply company, he had rarely appeared in national press and never before was listed among the Forbes 400 Richest […]
Arabs are Semites and Arabic is a Semitic language and hence Islamophobia is antisemitism by definition! In linguistics and ethnology, Semitic (from the Biblical “Shem“, Hebrew: שם, translated as “name”, Arabic: ساميّ) was first used to refer to a language family of largely Middle Eastern origin, now called the Semitic […]
Jerusalem patriarch calls for Mideast reconciliation AFP |Jordan Times BETHLEHEM — Tens of thousands of Christians were flocking to Bethlehem on Saturday to celebrate Christmas following a year of political […]
By ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is sending a humanitarian mission to Mindanao in Philippines, to take account of the situation there following a devastating storm […]
AMMAN — Iraq has refused to allow passage of Jordanian trucks heading for Turkey through its territories, citing concerns that such a move would have negative effects on the Syrian people. Salam Quraishi, an economic adviser to the Iraqi government, said on Saturday that using Iraq as an alternative transit […]
Source: http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/Christmas_TheRealStory.htm A. The Origin of Christmas Tree Just as early Christians recruited Roman pagans by associating Christmas with the Saturnalia, so too worshippers of the Asheira cult and its offshoots were recruited by the Church sanctioning “Christmas Trees”.[7] Pagans had long worshipped trees in the forest, or brought them […]
Source: http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/Christmas_TheRealStory.htm (a Jewish website) A. Roman pagans first introduced the holiday of Saturnalia, a week long period of lawlessness celebrated between December 17-25. During this period, Roman courts were […]
(Reuters) – The U.N. General Assembly on Saturday approved a 5 percent decrease in the United Nations’ budget for 2012-2013 over the previous two-year period, only the second time in 50 years that the world body has slashed its spending. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised the 193-nation General Assembly for […]
DAWN: Nadeem Paracha: OP-ED: When on December 18 leaders from more than a dozen radical religious parties, certain down-and-out politicians, one very verbose former ISI chief and the son of a bygone and dead dictator graced the ‘Defend Pakistan’ rally organised by the controversial Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD), I wondered, was the […]
BEIJING – Beijing and Seoul are coordinating strategies on the Korean Peninsula following the death of the top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), as high-level talks are planned for next week. Read More…
Chinese writer Chen Wei has been sentenced to nine years in jail for “inciting subversion of state power”. Mr Chen published several essays online calling for freedom of speech and reform of China’s one-party system. Read More…
Source: Dawn Are you fed up with your Blackberry because it effectively puts you on call for your employer 24/7? Are you a slave to its blinking red light and […]