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 […]
A Commentary by Rolf Schieder Source: Spiegel International Muslims in Germany have been accused of many things, from threatening the feminist cause to trying to destroy German society through “demographic jihad.” It isn’t the Muslims that are the problem, however, but rather our obsession with Islam. German Islamophobes hold that their […]
Source: Physicsworld Athor: Philip Ball Who discovered that E = mc2? It’s not as easy a question as you might think. Scientists ranging from James Clerk Maxwell and Max von Laue to a string of now-obscure early 20th-century physicists have been proposed as the true discovers of the mass–energy equivalence […]
Source / Courtesy: Globe and Mail Why do certain media choose to offer platforms to those who spread malicious lies and instill fear about Muslims? Do they agree with those sentiments? Is it to influence their government’s policies on multiculturalism, immigration or laws banning Muslim institutions and practices? Is it […]
The US Embassy Malta hosted its annual Iftar Dinner on Thursday 25th August with about 100 guests including the Imam of the Paola Mosque Muhmmad El-Sadi and the National President Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta, Laiq Ahmed Atif. The Chargé d’ Affaires of the US Embassy Mr. Richard M. Mills and his […]
The Defense Ministry on Friday voiced “strong dissatisfaction” and “firm opposition” to a newly-released annual report by the Pentagon on China’s military. “China has lodged solemn representations with the U.S. side,” said Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun in a statement on the report. Read More…
KUALA LUMPUR: Traffic at several stretches along the North-South Expressway (Plus) has been slow since 5pm Friday, particularly traffic heading North, between the Menora Tunnel and Sungai Perak in Perak. A Plusline spokesman told Bernama, traffic was also building up from Tapah to Gopeng, Perak and from Juru to the […]
IOM – International Organization for Migration – Press Briefing Note Friday 26 August 2011 Spokesperson: Jemini Pandya Second IOM-Chartered Boat Leaves for Tripoli as First Group of Migrants Are Safely Evacuated – A second IOM-chartered boat is today leaving the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi for Tripoli where it will […]
Telegraph: Official figures reveal that 1.1 million people in England were admitted to hospital in 2009/10 because of alcohol – a rise of 879 per day compared with five years ago. Overall there was a 25 per cent increase in the number of people admitted to hospital for reasons caused […]