Deposed Libyan leader Moamar Gaddafi died of wounds suffered in his capture near his home town of Sirte on Thursday, a senior National Transitional Council official said. NTC official Abdel Majid Mlegta said earlier Gaddafi was captured and wounded in both legs as he tried to flee Sirte in a […]
Source: Wall Street Journal By NICK TIMIRAOS The reeling housing market has come to this: To shore it up, two Senators are preparing to introduce a bipartisan bill Thursday that would give residence visas to foreigners who spend at least $500,000 to buy houses in the U.S. The provision is […]
All over Libya, especially in Sirte, Tripoli and Benghazi, a lot of ‘celebretary’ gunfire is being heard on the news that the home tonwn of Gaddafi has been completely captured. First news said that Gaddafi was wounded in both legs and was taken to Misrata. Further rumours state that Gaddafi […]
Source / Courtesy: Europe News The highly popular church built near the Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi in Northern Sweden might soon be joined by an ice mosque by next winter, if all goes according to plan. “We are open to everything and we practice freedom of religion here in Jukkasjärvi,” said […]
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has appointed Peter Maurer, secretary of state at the Swiss foreign ministry, as its new president. He will take over from July 2012 and replace Jakob Kellenberger who asked to retire after 12 years at the helm of the Swiss-run organisation, the […]
By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEW JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia sought to discourage Saudis and expatriates from performing pilgrimage this year without valid Haj permits with an intensified public awareness campaign through the media.The country’s grand mufti also said it was unlawful to do Haj without permits. “Helping pilgrims to […]
By Muath Freij AMMAN – Hundreds of Jordanians flocked to Diwan Tamimi in west Amman’s Dahiyat Al Rashid neighbourhood on Wednesday to celebrate the release of Ahlam Tamimi. The 31-year-old was the only Jordanian prisoner among the first group of 477 prisoners released in exchange for the Israeli soldier Gilad […]
Book Review – Letter to a Christian Nation Introduction: Why Sam Harris Wrote Letter to a Christian Nation? In Letter to a Christian nation, Sam Harris makes a sneering, feeble and condescending attempt to demonstrate that religion is an imagination of human mind and the sooner humanity discards it, […]
Age of the Promised Messiah(as) One example of an attempt by the opponents of the Ahmadiyya Jama’ah to discredit Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Al-Qadiani(as) is to purport that he received false, or fabricated, revelations regarding the age of his death. Here the opponents say that whilst the Promised Messiah(as) […]
Source: Guardian Author: David Batty British courts need not abide by the rulings of the European court of human rights, the most senior judge in England and Wales has said. The lord chief justice Lord Judge said courts were not bound by the rulings of the Strasbourg-based court but should always […]
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Source: Nanaimo Daily News. A new national survey that tapped the level of “positiveness” that Canadians feel toward selected groups suggests that Muslims – significantly more than 10 other subsets of society – remain a magnet for negativity a decade after the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. Just 43 per […]
More than 400 allegations of physical abuse against young people at British Islamic schools were made in the last three years, figures show. However, only 10 of these cases ever made it to court, with just two leading to convictions, a report into abuse at madrassas warns. Muslim campaigners have […]
by CLARISSA ROHRBACH The Mahmud Mosque invites on the weekend Swiss of any belief to discover Islam at a lecture at the Zurich Volkshaus. Imam Sadaqat Ahmed explains why this enlightement is necessary. Tagblatt of the City of Zurich: Sadaqat Ahmed, what do you want to achieve with this function? […]
St Paul’s Cathedral last night appealed for the growing numbers of anti-capitalist protesters camped on its piazza to leave because of a sharp fall in visitors. The Dean and Chapter said they were “appealing to the protesters’ better nature” in “encouraging” them to move on due to the “risk to […]
The publication of the Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe guide brings the total of three Michelin star restaurant to 29, four ahead of France. Those of us who have been trying in vain to find a decent restaurant in France for the last ten years will think this tacit acknowledgement […]
SOURCE: IRANIAN PRESS TV A Saudi Arabian mufti has issued a religious degree (fatwa) prohibiting soccer for Muslim youth because it has been invented by Jews, Christians, infidels, the US, Russia, France and their lackeys. Abdullah al-Najdi advised Muslim youth to avoid playing soccer unless under specific conditions, IRNA reported. […]
So said Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Founder of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Have you any notion what was the strange event that occurred in the desert country of Arabia when hundreds of thousands of the dead were revived within a brief period and those who had been misguided through generations put on […]
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star Lebanon The Middle East continues to experience one of its most tumultuous moments of structural change in several generations, and countries are reconfiguring both their domestic power structures as well as their intra-regional relations. In this context, we can expect much of the […]