Kevin Goudreau’s blue golf shirt is buttoned to the collar. Were it not, heads would surely be turning, because there is a large tattoo of a swastika on his chest. He keeps it under wraps during a recent interview, but it is on the Internet for all to see, along […]
Adding insult to injury, prosecutors at the Serang District Court on Tuesday recommended nine months in jail for an Ahmadi man critically injured in the deadly attack on members of the community in Cikeusik, Banten. Last week, the court handed down sentences of only between three months and six months, […]
The Serang District Court in Banten recently cleared 12 defendants of the primary charge of inciting hatred and mob violence, but found them guilty of “participation in a violent attack that results in casualties”, in the act of violence that left three Ahmadiyah followers killed in Cikeusik village last February. […]
Family of Hen Aida Ayish who was fatally injured in a car accident a week-and-a-half ago requests that her eggs be extracted and frozen after donating her organs for transplant. The Kfar Sava Family Court ruled on Sunday that the family of a recently deceased 17-year-old may extract her eggs […]
Reuven Rivlin, the Knesset Speaker, says he believes elections will be moved ahead of the November 2013 date. Rivlin said that he believes elections will be earlier than the expected date in November of 2013. “I do not believe we will reach November 2013,” Rivlin said, “since politics can create […]
Israel’s got the defense technology. China is in the market. But Israeli defense executives are wary of getting their hands sullied again, burned once by the US looking warily over its shoulder at advanced weapon sales it forced Israel to cancel. Nevertheless, when Chen Bingde, chief of the General Staff […]
Source / Courtesy: The Jerusalem Post Eighty-one congressmen, or about 20 percent of the US House of Representatives, will visit Israel over the next three weeks during Congress’s summer recess, with the first group of 26 Democrats scheduled to arrive on Monday. The Israel Factor: The Republican presidential candidates Most […]
Source/Credit: : Monday, August 8, 2011 , by Joseph S. Nye President George W. Bush was famous for proclaiming democracy promotion as a central focus of American foreign policy. He was not alone in this rhetoric. Most US presidents since Woodrow Wilson have made similar statements. So it was a striking departure when […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday annulled the suspension orders of Additional Director General (DG) FIA Zafar Qureshi, and reinstated him as the head of the NICL scam probe. (Read: SC to announce NICL verdict on Monday) Qureshi was tasked to investigate the multi-billion rupee land scam in the National Insurance […]
Source/Credit: Project Syndicate, 2011, www.project-syndicate.org. 2011-08-04: By Amar Bhidé and Edmund S. Phelps NEW YORK – The Greek debt crisis has prompted questions about whether the euro can survive without a nearly unimaginable centralization of fiscal policy. There is a simpler way. Irresponsible borrowing by governments in international credit markets requires irresponsible lending. Bank regulators […]
“The word of wisdom is the lost property of a Muslim, so that wherever he finds it, he should take it, as he is the most entitled to it!” The Holy Prophet Muhammad … Source / Courtesy NY Times By THOMAS NAGEL Published: March 11, 2011 Readers of his Op-Ed column […]
The thing about Italy’s proposed law to ban women from wearing veils that cover their faces is that it’s not clear what difference it would make. Just like in France or Belgium, which have introduced similar measures, Italy does not have a large population of women who wear the burqa […]
Reuters) – The confessed killer of 76 people in Friday’s bomb and gun attacks in Norway described Japan as a model country in a document he distributed on the Internet, praising it for shying away from multiculturalism, Kyodo news agency reported. In a rambling 1,500-page manifesto posted online shortly before […]
Everett, Washington (CNN) — The Boeing 787 Dreamliner sparkled Saturday in rare Pacific northwest sunshine as the plane made its long-awaited debut. Three years overdue and billions of dollars over the budget, Boeing will finally deliver the 787 Dreamliner to Japan’s All Nippon Airways next month in Tokyo. Read more
Dr Ghassan Khatib, the Special Envoy of the Palestinian Authority President, last week addressed the Capital Jewish Forum in the Victorian Parliament House. (J-Wire, Jewish online news from Australia and New Zealand) Dr Khatib spoke on ‘Statehood: Palestine and Israel’ and was introduced by Mr Izzat Abdulhadi, Palestinian Authority Head […]
By ROGER HARRISON | ARAB NEWS The value of dates as food has long been known and a simple analysis establishing them as a source of protein, glucose, vitamins and minerals is fact. Far less of an established fact is the folkloric record of their medicinal properties. As with many […]
By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: The General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) on Sunday opened the newly established international terminal at Prince Muhammad International Airport in Madinah that can handle 35 flights daily. “The new terminal has the capacity to accommodate 600 passengers per hour,” GACA said, […]
By ARAB NEWS MAKKAH: “High rents have wrecked my plans to spend Ramadan in a spiritual atmosphere in the vicinity of the Grand Mosque,” declared Muhammad Husain, a domestic pilgrim. There are not many vacant hotel rooms in Makkah since the beginning of Ramadan this year, despite the astronomically high […]
DAMASCUS/ JEDDAH (Agencies) – Jordan Times. Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah demanded an end to the bloodshed in Syria in the early hours of Monday, and said he was withdrawing his country’s ambassador from Damascus. “What is happening in Syria is not acceptable for Saudi Arabia,” he said in a written […]
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