10 Ideas That Will Change the World
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Pain Builds in Europe’s Sovereign Debt Risk
LONDON — European banks for years bolstered their balance sheets with assets considered safe and secure: the sovereign debt of European countries. But now this debt no longer appears so safe, weakening banks when countries still depend on them for loans to help finance their gaping budget deficits. The results […]
Success lies in secularism
Source: Dailytimes, Pakistan. In addition, Pakistan’s name was changed to ‘Islamic Republic of Pakistan’. A new definition of who is a ‘Muslim’ was legislated and it was required that all citizens, while applying for a passport or a national ID card, must sign an oath in this regard. Religion is […]
Divisive Author Chased Out of Immigrant District
Source: Spiegel magazine Germany Thilo Sarrazin, pictured here in April, is outraged. Angry Muslims reportedly drove controversial author Thilo Sarrazin from a Turkish restaurant in Berlin. Though his bestselling book claims Muslims are dumbing down German society, their accusations of racism have left the former central bank board member shocked and […]
MSNBC: Cancel the debt to the Federal Reserve
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640 Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The mainstream media in the US are really picking up on the issue of Central Banks.
Salt is addictive like cigarettes: Study
Source:Times of India // LONDON: Salt is addictive in the same way as cigarettes or hard drugs, a study has found. The findings could help explain why many find it so hard to cut back on salt, despite warnings about dangers to blood pressure and heart health, Daily Mail said […]
The Stone: The Sacred and the Humane
Source: NYTIMES.COM Does it matter whether our belief in human dignity originates in a belief in God? More:
Noah’s “real-life” ark takes shape on Dutch river
Source: Dawn.com Dutch Johan Huibers poses on board of the 150 metre-long Noah’s ark he created at an old abandoned quay on the Merwede River in Dordrecht on June 21, 2011. DORDRECHT: For three years, the quaint old city of Dordrecht has watched in amazement as a local businessman’s dream […]
Indonesian President praises Muslims’ pluralism
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has praised the country’s largest Islamic organization, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), for its commitment in supporting pluralism. “I praise the NU’s consistency in upholding the four pillars of our society, namely Pancasila [five principles], the 1945 constitution, Bhinneka Tunggal Ika [unity in diversity], and the Unitary State […]
Being Jewish in Indonesia
Being a minority of about 10 in a predominantly Muslim country of almost 250 million people is truly being a minority. My National Identity Card lists me as a Christian, since every citizen is required to profess one of six prescribed religions by law – none of which is Judaism. […]
Be civil regardless of faith
Source: News-Leader.com I write this as the countries surrounding Saudi Arabia and Israel are at obvious boiling points with respect to their government’s overthrow or potential revolutions. The people are rising up, fuelled by a hatred of either the ruling leaders now in power, or the Americans occupying their country […]
US drones target white jihadis
Source: Asiatimes on line. The Pakistan al-Qaeda network is increasingly recruiting white Muslim converts to widen the pool of terrorists able to foil racial profiling and hit Western targets. The July 5 killing of another white jihadi amid an unprecedented surge in drone attacks in Waziristan since a European terror […]
Gospel Trail: The Hiking terain where Jesus once walked
Israel’s recently inaugurated 60-kilometer Gospel Trail starts in Nazareth, where Jesus spent his early years, and ends up at the Sea of Galilee, the center of his ministry. Walking, biking, or even driving along the route, travelers pass by many of the unforgettable places mentioned in the Christian Scriptures. At […]
How Muslim-bashing loses elections
Source: Asiatimes on Line. During the 2010 mid-term election campaign, virtually every hard-charging candidate on the far right took a moment to trash a Muslim, a mosque, or Islamic pieties. In the wake of those elections, with 85 new Republican House members and a surging Tea Party movement, the political virtues […]
“NATO will fall”.
Pravda. Russia. Opinion. For a start, the crowd packed into central Tripoli was massive. Eye witness reports of it being one million strong, and 1.7 million the previous Friday, would mean that these are among the largest demonstrations of support for a leader in history. Muammar Gaddafi then goes on […]
UN calls for wind turbine pause at France’s Mont Saint Michel
Rfi, France. Unesco, which is holding its annual meeting in Paris until 29 June, asked France to put a hold on the installation of wind turbines in the area around the monument, which is a major tourist attraction. The heritage site committee has asked for wind farm projects to be suspended […]
Dominque Strauss-Kahn will not be a Socialist presidential candidate
By RFI Dominique Strauss Kahn will not be in the running to become the Socialist Party candidate for president of France. An organiser of the Party’s primaries said the date for filing to be in the Socialist Party primary election was on Wednesday and the names are set. They do […]
Bangladesh: Protect Women Against ‘Fatwa’ Violence
(Dhaka) – The Bangladesh government should take urgent measures to make sure that religious fatwas and traditional dispute resolution methods do not result in extrajudicial punishments, Human Rights Watch said today. The government is yet to act on repeated orders of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court, beginning […]
New studies on proposed Saudi-Egyptian bridge set
By GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and Egypt have decided to launch fresh studies to build a gigantic 32-km bridge linking the two countries in a renewed bid to forge closer ties and boost bilateral trade and investment. The bridge project will be on the top […]