Kababir Mosque, of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Published by Ven Satya Priya Sraman in Islam on November 12, 2011 The Ahmadiyyah movement (Ahmadi) is a camp in Islam which was founded arise the end of the 19th aeon in Punjab, India, and advance from there to altered countries. A lot […]
Splits within the Philippines elite over the worsening Islamic insurgency in the country’s south will greet United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as she lands in Manila on Tuesday. With a ceasefire accord in strife-torn Mindanao now shattered, former president Joseph Estrada is among opposition hawks who believe full-blown […]
NEW YORK – The protest movement that began in Tunisia in January, subsequently spreading to Egypt, and then to Spain, has now become global, with the protests engulfing Wall Street and cities across America. Globalization and modern technology now enables social movements to transcend borders as rapidly as ideas can. […]
Yasuyuki Fujimura runs the Atelier Non-Electric company and advocates a lifestyle without electricity. Photograph: Japan for Sustainability It is not all that long ago when we began using so many electrical appliances in everyday life. Japan’s first “pulsator-type” washing machine, a prototype of current models, reached the market in 1953. […]
NEW YORK — At least he’ll have the ocean currents in his favor. Benoit “Ben” Lecomte, a Frenchman living in the United States, intends to swim clear across the Pacific Ocean next year, an unprecedented 5,500-mile (8,800-kilometer) journey expected to last five grueling months—and may land him in the history […]
By WALAA HAWARI | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Women campaigning for the abolishment of a rule stipulating they name a legal guardian every time they apply for a job say their patience with the Ministry of Labor is running thin because the government department has not responded to their initial demand. […]
By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia’s sacrificial meat utilization program has been instrumental in helping millions of pilgrims to perform sacrifices without hassles during the past three decades, said Ahmed Mohamed Ali, president of Islamic Development Bank (IDB). “We have been facilitating the sacrificial rites of […]
By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: The Islamic Development Bank’s community development workshop aims to empower Muslim NGOs in different parts of the world by providing them with necessary training to boost their leadership skills, said Awadh Alassaime, director of the IDB department for communities in nonmember countries. […]
By Omar Obeidat Jordan Times AMMAN –– As economic sanctions against the Syrian regime are set to be broadened, experts stressed that Jordan has to carefully weigh its interests before joining the drive. With the US and the European Union (EU) still working to put more pressure on Syria to […]
The “new Libya” has entered its own “Terror” which is spreading inexorably, aided by NATO member states including American, French and British SAS units known locally as “disappearance squads”. This is one of the rapidly developing consequences of the UN’s rush to “protect Libya’s civilian population” last spring. And it […]
Exclusive: The murder of Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi was widely hailed in the West as a just outcome. But it involved powerful nations making up the rules as they went along, the law of the jungle disguised as international justice, observes Peter Dyer. By Peter Dyer If there is one […]
UCLA On November 8, UCLA biologists reported that they had slowed the aging process in fruit flies. They activated a gene called PGC-1, which increases the activity of mitochondria, the tiny power generators in cells that control cell growth and tell cells when to live and die. “We took this […]
The country’s second-largest Islamic group has thrown its full weight behind efforts to rid Indonesia of its heavy smoking habit. After issuing a fatwa in March 2010 to tell its tens of millions of followers that it was religiously unacceptable to light up, Muhammadiyah is now set to declare all […]
JAKARTA—Indonesia won 16 gold medals to extend its domination of the 26th Southeast Asian Games into a third day Sunday for a total of 40 gold, 21 silver and 13 bronze. Thailand surpassed Vietnam to move into second place after claiming 11 golds, 16 silvers and 24 bronzes. Vietnam collected […]
It talks about Jesus, may peace be on him, one who was a prohet to the Israelites, is described as a Caucasian and the Jesus, predicted to come in Latter days is an Asian with brown complexion. …
BERLIN — The window of opportunity to save the euro is rapidly closing, as the sovereign debt crisis erodes the solvency of Europe’s banks and drives up borrowing rates for even once rock-solid countries like France. On Saturday, the crisis swept away another leader, when Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigned after 17 […]
Published: November 13, 2011 Two days after he and his Pakistani counterpart resolved to write a‘new chapter’ in relations between their countries, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday that Pakistan’s powerful military was fully on board in carrying forward the peace process, reports The Economic Times. “I did discuss with […]
Published: November 13, 2011 LAHORE: The frantic political stir created by the up-and-coming Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has provoked opposing reactions on Saturday from the two heavyweight parties of the country, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). While Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani calmly shrugged off talk […]
Zubair Khalil Khan If there’s one thing that separates humans from other creatures on earth it is foresight: the potential to proactively anticipate what might be, and act accordingly. Yet, caught up as we are in our daily chore of busying out an existence that’s more often than not fuelled […]