WOMEN IN ISLAM

PART: 2 Women in Islam, speech delivered by by Laiq Ahmed Atif, president Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta, in the ‘Seminar about Women’, on Friday 17th June 2011. This especial event was organised to commemorate the “International Women’s Day Centenary 1911-2011″, by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta. Find original post:

Khartoum recognizes South Sudan

By REUTERS Published: Jul 8, 2011 20:47 Updated: Jul 8, 2011 20:47 KHARTOUM/JUBA: Sudan became the first state to recognize the independence of its oil-producing south on Friday, smoothing the way for the division on Saturday of Africa’s largest country into two. Underdeveloped South Sudan secedes Saturday — a hard-won […]

Your rape culture is not my religion

That reporting a rape is an arduous ordeal is a truth that resounds globally. When braving for police investigations, enumerating the ordeal in court and damaging stereotypical media representations become a norm then the argument for a pellucid approach becomes preemptory.   In 2006, a much-heated debate on the Hudood […]

Legal move against minaret ban thrown out

The European Court of Human Rights has rejected two appeals against a ban on the construction of new minarets in Switzerland.Judges ruled that the plaintiffs – three Muslim organisations and a private citizen – were not victims of an alleged human rights violation. The Strasbourg-based court on Friday announced that […]

Fossils in Saxony shed light on ancient lizard life

cientists in Saxony have discovered 290-million-year-old fossil skeletons of a previously unknown, tree-dwelling lizard species in a perfectly preserved petrified forest that casts new light on the habits of ancient reptiles. The researchers in Chemnitz have found five well-preserved fossil skeletons of a reptile species that lived more than 50 […]

The Church of Scientology is a notoriously difficult subject for journalists. A new book, Inside Scientology: The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion.

The Church of Scientology is a notoriously difficult subject for journalists. The press has long been considered an enemy of the church, which was founded half a century ago by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. Inside Scientology: The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion, author Janet Reitman tells the fascinating […]