Saudi woman set to conquer Antarctica
Sahar Al-Shamrani, By ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Sahar Al-Shamrani from the Eastern Province is preparing to be the first Saudi woman to travel to the South Pole, Al-Eqtisadiah newspaper reported Monday. […]
US formally ends war effort in Iraq
The article is not worth reading. Therefore I am just copying one of the comments: MUKHTAR N. SHEIKH, Dec 16, 2011 10:04 Queer, isn’t it? After all the deaths (4,500 […]
How much of TV is too much for kids?
By DIANA AL-JASSEM | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Advanced technology has made it difficult for parents to know what their children are watching on Television and the Internet. However, experts say parents must keep monitoring what their children look at to prevent them from dangers that might emerge as a result […]
Breakthrough could double solar energy output at way cheap cost
A new discovery from a chemist at the University of Texas at Austin may allow photovoltaic solar cells to double their efficiency, thus providing loads more electrical power from regular sunlight. Also it’s way cheap. Chemistry professor Xiaoyang Zhu and his team discovered that an organic plastic semiconductor could double the number of […]
Three Myths that Perpetuate Islamophobia
Author: Atif Munawar Mir This article was published in originally in November 2010 Alislam-eGazette: Universal Brotherhood. Introduction What is it about Islam that frightens the western world? Has Islamophobia risen […]
Shariah Law: Collection of Literature by The Economist
What is Shariah law? How does it relate to the Western law? What does it mean for democracy and freedom? Read More
Celebrating Divine Union: Death Anniversary of Rumi
Source: Huffington Post Author:Fahad Faruqui Jalaluddin Rumi is famed as much in the west as in east for the tradition of whirling and an assortment of devotional poetry. His death anniversary on Dec. 17 is known as Wedding Night, or Seb-i Arus in Turkish. Like every year, dervishes and devoted fans across […]
The Holy Quran and the Holy Bible
The Bible is not a comprehensive book. It does not even contain some of the very basic words in Christianity. For example on a quick research on a Bible website, […]
Women are having fewer children than their mothers did: research
Women are having fewer children and at an older age than a generation ago, new statistics show. Women born in the 1960s have had fewer children than a generation ago to women born in the 1930s, new data has revealed. Figures from the Office of National Statistics show that women […]
Christopher Hitchens, an atheist in a foxhole
By Tom Chivers in Telegraph There are no atheists in foxholes, goes the old saw. Well, it’s not true, as Christopher Hitchens – a man of principle to the last […]
African Women Scientists Honoured with Science Awards
Seven of Africa’s top women scientists have been honoured with the Kwame Nkrumah Science Awards for 2011 for outstanding achievements and valuable scientific discoveries at ceremonies to mark the founding […]
Give me nine …
One Less Gold Mullah Nasruddin was dreaming that someone had counted nine gold pieces into his hand, but Mullah Nasruddin insisted that he would not accept less than ten pieces. […]
S.E.C. Sues 6 Former Top Fannie and Freddie Executives
The Securities and Exchange Commission has brought civil actions against six former top executives at the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, saying that the executives did not adequately disclose their firms’ exposure to risky mortgages in the run-up to the financial crisis. The case is one of the […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community: An Introduction
The Messiah, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Founder of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community In the 19th century, Islam as a religion and Muslims as a nation were helpless. Muslim empires were crumbling all over the world. In the subcontinent of India, the Mughal Empire was brought down by the British. Islam was being attacked by all […]
Celibacy or Islamic teaching of Chastity: that is the question?
Epigraph: Then We caused Our Messengers to follow in their footsteps; and We caused Jesus, son of Mary, to follow them, and We gave him the Gospel. And We placed […]
Gilani asks US to respect Pak’s ‘red lines’
Source: TOI on Line. ISLAMABAD: The US must respect Pakistan’s “red lines” and give a guarantee that there will be no transgression of the country’s borders in order to regain Islamabad’s cooperation in the war on terrorism, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said today. Gilani made the remarks during a […]
Catholic Church sexually abused tens of thousands children in Netherlands: Commission
Source: TOI The report criticised the church for protecting paedophile priests as it tried to put the reputation of the church above care and concern for the victims. AMSTERDAM: Tens of thousands of children have been victims of sexual abuse by the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands since […]
The false monolith of political Islam
Source: Asia Times: The leaders of the American government make the gravestmistake possible for a world power. They believe their own propaganda. Elected officials and media pundits warn American citizens of the ever-increasing peril of “Islamic terrorism”, “Islamic fundamentalism” or the supposedly extant ideology of “Islamofacism”. A multitude of states […]
The Unraveling: Pakistan in the Age of Jihad
Source: Asia Times. With relations between Pakistan and the United States in cold storage, John R Schmidt, a senior US diplomat, sheds some light on the reasons. He argues that Islamabad’s dual policy of supporting US military actions in Afghanistan while maintaining its connection with radical Islamic groups is understandable […]