week of unemployment benefits dipped slightly but remained over 400,000, according to a government report. There were 404,000 initial unemployment claims filed in the week ended Oct. 8, the Labor Department said Thursday, down 1,000 from the prior week’s revised 405,000. Read more
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1068726–speakers-at-muslim-conference-noted-for-disparaging-gays-and-jews?bn=1 Daniel Dale Urban Affairs Reporter Four of the six speakers scheduled to appear at an upcoming Muslim conference at a downtown hotel have made anti-gay or anti-Semitic remarks. The “Calling the World Back to Allah” conference is part of the “Canada Launch Tour” of the Islamic Education and Research […]
By AFP / Express / Kamran Yousaf Published: October 13, 2011 Source/Credit: Express Tribune ISLAMABAD: US Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan Marc Grossman on Thursday said that Pakistan and the US have a “meeting of the minds” on securing a stable Afghanistan. In a joint press conference with Grossman, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said […]
Credit/Source: / Wednesday, October 12, 2011 , by KUrt-Sansone Changing norms of society hurting Church’s bottom line Calling the faithful: The Church needs more support as it contends with falling income and higher expenditures. Photo: Chris Sant Fournier With donations and collections forming the bulk of the Maltese Catholic Church income, the […]
By EKMELEDDIN IHSANOGLU The horrific and tragic incident that happened in Norway reminds us again of the importance of combating religious intolerance and promoting cultural understanding. Anti-Islam and anti-Muslim attitudes and activities, known as Islamophobia, are increasingly finding place in the agenda of ultra-right wing political parties and civil societies […]
The team of Humanity First volunteers was as diverse as the patients they served. Credit/Source: Azizah Magazine: Serving the World by: Aliya A Latif A Gift of Sight: Serving the World Countless Guatemalans suffer from vision related problems and are unable to afford corrective surgeries. Tayyeba Ali and her colleagues […]
By ABDULATEEF AL-MULHIM ARABNEWS In the Arab world, the science of public relations is not taken seriously. And when something that has a negative effect on a country in the Arab world takes place, then you would only hear official versions of the event. The audiences in the West don’t […]
(Who ones lies is not believed, even when he speaks the truth). Kingdom, GCC condemn ‘abhorrent’ plot to kill Saudi envoy By AGENCIES ARABNEWS RIYADH/WASHINGTON: Saudi Arabia strongly condemned on Wednesday the “sinful and abhorrent” attempt to assassinate its ambassador to Washington, a day after the United States claimed Iran […]
Click on the Image to visit the page In this time where we involved more in a Visual World , the Revival of Islam team has tried to bring out something with the hope that the Jamaat members and the remaining public can take the best from it . This […]
Source / Courtesy: China Daily US filmmaker: Beijing can help ensure ‘global pluralism’ NEW YORK – “China is not perfect”, but it is an alternative to a world dominated by the West, said US filmmaker Andre Vltchek. Vltchek, who is also a novelist and political analyst, has been discovering places that […]
Source: The New York Times Author: Jack Healy KABUL, Afghanistan — Despite increased efforts to destroy fields of opium poppies and wean Afghan farmers off the country’s biggest cash crop, poppy cultivation in Afghanistan rose in 2011 and spread into areas once declared “poppy free,” according to a United Nations […]
Sharia Banking: An expose……….by Muhammad Saleem Tarek Fatah Excerpt from “Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State Family law is not the only place where the introduction of sharia law is being sought in Canada. While Islamists may have suffered a setback in their attempt to introduce […]
Source: AFP ANKARA — Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari arrived in Ankara Wednesday for talks with Turkish leaders to boost the fight against Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq, the Anatolia news agency reported. Zebari was to call on President Abdullah Gul before huddling with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu […]
Source: The Local The German military on Wednesday unveiled the new “Euro Hawk” super drone, whose size and range is set to revolutionize the Bundeswehr’s intelligence-gathering capabilities. “It’s a milestone for us,” project leader Rüdiger Knöpfel told Die Welt newspaper in Manching, Bavaria, where the drone was presented by the Federal Office […]
Source: Spiegel Internaional German paleontologists have discovered what they believe is the best-preserved dinosaur skeleton ever found in Europe. Some 98 percent of the fossil found in the southern state of Bavaria is intact, and it will soon be placed on display for a short time in Munich. The discovery of young, unnamed […]
It’s true that atheists are by definition godless, but it’s possible to draw a subtle distinction between the two concepts. Atheism is the absence of belief in gods; godlessness is the absence of gods and is generally defined as not recognizing or worshipping any gods. Technically, a person could believe […]
by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky “There is no tomorrow” under a NATO sponsored Al Qaeda rebellion. While a “pro-democracy” rebel government has been instated, the country has been destroyed. Against the backdrop of war propaganda, Libya’s economic and social achievements over the last thirty years, have been brutally reversed: The [Libyan […]
Third of Four Installments on Libya: Israel and Libya Once again, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya peels away the veneer of legitimacy and deception enveloping the U.S./NATO genocide currently taking place in Libya. In his first article, Nazemroaya exposed the mechanism by which the world came to “know” of the need for […]
The Jakarta Post Myanmar women prisoners walk outside Insein Prison in Yangon, Myanmar Wednesday after they were released. Myanmar has begun releasing more then 6,300 prisoners but has held back on freeing some prominent political prisoners. The releases began around the country Wednesday morning after President Thein Sein issued an […]
Jakarta Post Forum Discussion: Firebrand Islamic cleric and terror convict Abu Bakar Ba’asyir has condemned suicide bomb attacks on places of worship, saying such acts are “forbidden in religion”. He said that non-Muslims should be kept safe from any harm. “Bomb attacks are an accursed act. They are sinful, except […]