Michele Bachmann, the Republican presidential candidate, signed a Christian conservative pledge that stated that African American children were more likely to grow up in stable families during the era of slavery than under President Barack Obama. The controversial linkage of slavery to family values was made in the preamble to […]
With Gaddafi as determined as ever to cling to power in Libya, tensions between Nato’s member states are becoming increasingly exposed. Four months ago, when David Cameron led the international call for military intervention in Libya, the general assumption within government circles was that Col Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan dictator, […]
Zinnia flower in Maine, USA. Courtesy of Bing.com “He is Allah, the Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner. His are the most beautiful names. All that is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Him, and He is the Mighty, the Wise.” (Al Quran 59:25) How can our study and appreciation […]
Desperation reigns amid the 380,000 refugees in Dadaab, a sprawling “tent city” in northeastern Kenya. Africa’s biggest refugee camp is home to more than 250,000 people who have fled the ongoing conflict in Somalia I am tying my shoelaces when the early morning call to prayer begins to sound over […]
Attackers smash windows and raise Syrian flag at US compound, but are driven back by security guards at French embassy. Supporters of the Syrian government have stormed the US and French embassies in Damascus, prompting strong condemnation by the two countries’ officials. Witnesses describing Monday’s assault said the attackers smashed […]
With a tsunami of agnosticism and atheism sweeping across Europe and atrocities of terrorism sweeping through all the Muslim countries, the crying need for better Theism is being heard loud and clear through out the world! All Christian apologists highlight the dangers of atheism in their writings and speeches, but […]
RABWAH: When a fire broke out at a building in Chiniot, the district administration called the rescue service in Rabwah for help. The irony that the Chiniot building was owned by a member of the Khatam-e-Nabuwwat movement is not lost to Rabwah’s rescue services. A former tae kwon do instructor with the Pakistan Army, […]
A protest in Bogor that had been expected to turn violent remained civil on Sunday as a group of people in the mostly Muslim community voiced opposition to the Yasmin church congregation holding services on a sidewalk outside of its sealed-off church. Global rights group Amnesty International earlier reported that […]
By Louis Frankenthaler who lives in West Jerusalem with his family. He is a human rights worker and doctoral student. I read, today, in Haaretz that “two controversial bills – one prohibiting calls for a boycott against Israel, and the other restricting the ability of human rights groups to raise […]
PARIS — Centuries after the Spanish Inquisition led to the forced conversion of Jews to Catholicism, an ultra-orthodox rabbinical court in Israel has issued a religious ruling that recognizes descendants from the insular island of Majorca as Jews. The opinion focused narrowly on the Majorcan community of about 20,000 people […]
TODAY, as American, European, Russian and United Nations officials meet in Washington to discuss the future of the Middle East peace process, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, remains adamant that a peace deal premised on returning to Israel’s pre-1967 borders poses an unacceptable risk to its security. He is right: […]
After the discovery of a vast, US$22 billion treasure trove in the vaults of a Hindu temple, India is agonizing over letting the priests keep the riches or using them for the greater good. While the sacks of diamonds and precious stones and three-meter-long gold necklaces would make Kerala temple […]
With the decline of mass militaries and their possible replacement by machines, we may finally see that war is not just an extension of our needs and passions, however base or noble. In that sense, drones and other warrior robotics may do the world a strange favor: they may finally […]
A Pakistani paramilitary soldier secure an area as other troops move toward a forward base during a military operation against militants in Pakistan’s Khurram tribal region, Saturday, July 9, 2011. – AP Photo // http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ads?correlator=1310380730771&output=json_html&callback=GA_googleSetAdContentsBySlotForSync&impl=s&prev_afc=1&pstok=9_xZlHzqzoYKBRDzwb8E&client=ca-pub-8258178831251847&slotname=Dawn_Pakistan_inside_468x90&page_slots=Dawn_Pak_Ip_top_728x90%2CDawn_Pakistan_inside_468x90&cookie=ID%3D7bc0595e8816825a%3AT%3D1303908499%3AS%3DALNI_MaWM22AkqRAF5fH1tLDjMKxcxeZPw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dawn.com%2F2011%2F07%2F11%2Fless-us-military-aid-to-pakistan-harms-relations-not-army.html&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fdawn.com%2F&lmt=1310380730&dt=1310380731775&cc=100&biw=1007&bih=458&ifi=2&adk=1029873945&u_tz=120&u_his=3&u_h=768&u_w=1024&u_ah=738&u_aw=1024&u_cd=24&u_nplug=7&u_nmime=23&flash=10.0.2&gads=v2&ga_vid=1666339365.1310223579&ga_sid=1310379498&ga_hid=1597776697&ga_fc=true ISLAMABAD: A US decision to suspend $800 million in military aid to Pakistan is more […]
THE arrest of Brig Ali Khan and four majors last month bring Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) into the spotlight. Though HT did not confirm or deny their links with itself, its spokesman in Pakistan said in a recent interview that the idea of resonates with officers of the armed forces. HT […]
Every day Bing puts out a new picture. Perhaps Microsoft will not mind if we advertise their past pictures once in a while. Here is one:
By MUSHTAK PARKER | ARAB NEWS Every Muslim country especially the populous ones such as Turkey, Iran, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Egypt should have one. But of the 56 member countries of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), only one has and another is in the process of establishing one. The […]
by Isobel Leybold in Zurich, swissinfo.ch Insect expert Hans Rudolf Herren’s work in tackling the devastating cassava mealybug crop pest in Africa saved millions of lives and won him the 1995 World Food Prize. Herren, the subject of a new biography, tells swissinfo.ch how he managed to naturally control the bug […]
Polish PM Donald Tusk (R) and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (L) The euro debt crisis, Schengen border controls and carbon emission reduction were the key topics of the joint session of the Polish government and the College of EU Commissioners held on Friday in the Chancellery of the […]