By Khetam Malkawi, Jordan Times AMMAN – Hotels in Aqaba and at the Dead Sea are packed for the Eid Al Fitr vacation, with Jordanians and Arab Israelis topping the list of customers. Hotels in both areas reported 100 per cent occupancy rate for the August 30-September 2 holiday marking […]
Source: Jordan Times His Majesty King Abdullah’s meeting with heads of the Orthodox churches in the Middle East is a reminder to the international community and the Arab countries that Muslims and Christians in the region, and indeed elsewhere in the world, of the need for peaceful religious accommodation and […]
Source/Credit: TheTimesOfMalta: Friday, August 26, 2011 , by Christian Peregin Malta sent more than €500,000 worth of aid to embattled Tripoli yesterday. Four hundred tonnes of food and 250 tonnes of medicine were loaded onto the ship Al Ensitisar, which left for Tripoli in the afternoon, according to a spokesman for […]
Source: Asiatimes on Line. Startling and detailed revelations by Majid Jamali Fashi, the confessed killer of a top Iranian scientist, heighten suspicions of at least a dozen Israeli-trained lone operatives active inside Tehran. This brings into question the weaknesses in Iranian protective security measures, which in turn increases the pressure […]
source.TOI on line PESHAWAR: At least 36 Pakistani security personnel were killed and dozens of others injured when hundreds of Taliban insurgents from Afghanistan attacked border checkpoints in Pakistan’s north western Chitral district on Saturday. More:
Source:dawn.com In many fundamentalist religious movements – be it in the US, Europe or on anywhere else—it always boils down to owning the women or changing their status equivalent to a piece of chattel. Polygamist Warren Jeffs (C) is flanked by Las Vegas Metro Police SWAT officers during an extradition hearing […]
Source: The Local Poet, playwright and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe has been voted the greatest German of all time in a new poll, beating runners-up chancellor Konrad Adenauer and […]
The U.S. population grew 9.7% to 308.7 million during the last decade. Use this map to track where people moved and how racial and ethnic populations changed. Click the map’s iReport icon to see how people live in different places. Latinos now account for 9% of Oklahoma’s 3.8 million residents, […]
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta University of Indonesia (UI) has come under a storm of protests for awarding an honorary doctorate to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, a leader whose commitment to human rights has been seriously questioned by labor activists. The award came just two months after the beheading of […]
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A surgical team from the Swiss-run International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has arrived in the Libyan capital Tripoli, a spokesman has confirmed. The four-strong delegation was able to evacuate 17 people left without care in a hospital in the south of the city. ICRC spokesman Steven Anderson told […]
By MOHAMMED MAR’I ARAB NEWS RAMALLAH: Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine Sheikh Mohammed Hussein said that despite Israeli restrictions, some 300,000 Palestinian worshipers succeeded to reach Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem for last Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan. Hussein told Arab News that “the worshipers succeeded to […]
By MD HUMAIDAN | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court has called on Muslims in the Kingdom to look for the new moon of Shawwal on the evening of Monday, which is the 29th day of Ramadan (Aug. 29) and report the matter to the nearest court if any […]
By BADEA ABU AL-NAJA & YOUSUF MUHAMMAD | ARAB NEWS MAKKAH/MADINAH: Sheikh Saud Al-Shuraim, imam and khatib at the Grand Mosque, said Ramadan was the sweetest month in the year in terms of spiritual peace and tranquility. “The distinctive features of the month, which passes like a fleeting moment, make […]
Alex Jones Youtube Channel Ron Paul videos collection Monetary policy becomes at the core of presidential debates Alex Jones and his Infowars project have for a long time seemed just a “conspiracy site” which some liked and some did not, but without much consequence for the course of events. Right […]
Source / Courtesy: Infowars.com #14 The Targeting Of Christian Groups We are increasingly hearing from the Obama administration and some members of Congress that we need to be really concerned about “homegrown terrorists” and “Christian extremists”. For example, during a recent Congressional hearing U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee warned that “Christian militants” […]
No bloodshed Far from necessitating the oppression and bloodshed which have accompanied the Bolshevik revolution, this system [of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community], if it were to be widely accepted, will bring about the desired revolution without any bloodshed or disorder. On the contrary, poverty will disappear, goodwill and affection will […]