What Mother’s Day Means to One American Muslim
Source: Huffington Post By Engy Abdelkader, who is a new mother, attorney and member of the American Muslim community. In its current form, what we know as Mother’s Day, is a […]
Japanese woman unlikely to escape death penalty in Malaysia: lawyer
The lawyer for a Japanese woman who faces a mandatory death sentence for drug trafficking in Malaysia said Friday she is unlikely to escape a death sentence. As Mariko Takeuchi, 36, took the stand in her defense for the first time, her lawyer Sallehuddin Saidin told reporters and officials from […]
Fight against terrorism not over with bin Laden’s death: Kan
Prime Minister Naoto Kan welcomed on Monday the U.S. announcement of the killing of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden as ‘‘remarkable progress’’ but said his death does not signal the end of the international community’s fight against terrorism.
Memphis readies for big river; Ky. spared calamity
TIPTONVILLE, Tenn. — As Memphis readied for the mighty Mississippi to bring its furor to town, some Kentucky residents upstream returned to their homes Saturday, optimistic the levees would hold and that they had seen the worst of the flooding. In the small town of Hickman, Ky., officials and volunteers […]
Kingdom rejects BBC claim of Zamzam water contamination
By BADEA ABU AL-NAJA | ARAB NEWS Published: May 7, 2011 23:34 Updated: May 7, 2011 23:35 JEDDAH: Saudi authorities have refuted a BBC report claiming that the Zamzam well in Makkah is polluted and that drinking the holy water could cause diseases such as cancer. Zuhair Nawab, president of […]
Torture May Have Slowed Hunt For Bin Laden, Not Hastened It
Torture apologists are reaching precisely the wrong conclusion from the back-story of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, say experienced interrogators and intelligence professionals. Defenders of the Bush administration’s interrogation policies have claimed vindication from reports that bin Laden was tracked down in small part due to information received from […]
Muslim scholars pulled from Delta plane in Memphis
(Reuters) – Two Muslim scholars headed to a conference on American fears of Islam were pulled from a morning flight on Friday, and were later told that the pilot had refused to fly with them aboard. Masudur Rahman, a professor of Arabic at the University of Memphis, and Mohamed Zaghloul, […]
Tony Kushner denied an honorary degrees from CUNY due to his views on Israel
Acclaimed playwright was denied an honorary degrees from CUNY due to his views on Israel, but the decision generated a fierce backlash Tony Kushner believes that Israel engaged in ethnic cleansing at the founding of the state. He is an advisory board member of Jewish Voice for Peace, which has […]
Iran nuclear infrastructure functions alongside its legitimate, civil infrastructure:Former Mossad chief
Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan referred to the possibility a future Israeli Air Force attack on Iranian nuclear facilities as “the stupidest thing I have ever heard” during a conference held at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on Friday. Dagan’s presentation during a senior faculty conference was his first public […]
Happiness Linked to Genetics
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, a researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science, recently asked 2,500 Americans how satisfied they were with life. Then he analyzed their genetic makeup. What he found was that the respondents most satisfied with life were more likely to have two long versions of the gene […]
“All believers are brothers, so make peace between your brothers and be mindful of your duty to Allah that you may be shown mercy.” (Sura 49:11)
and: “In case two parties of the believers fight against each other, bring about reconciliation between them. If, however, one of them persists in belligerence and transgresses against the other, bring your collective might to bear upon the one that transgresses to force him until he agrees that his dispute […]
Musharraf slams US over bin Laden raid
DUBAI: Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf has slammed the United States for violating Islamabad’s sovereignty in carrying carry out the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, a media report said Saturday. The former military strongman told the expatriate Pakistan community in Dubai that all “peace loving people” should be happy […]
Iraq: Documented civilian deaths from violence 100,708 – 110,005
remarks on website: Full analysis of the WikiLeaks’ Iraq War Logs may add 15,000 civilian deaths. This web-site shows only the fully documented Civilian deaths. Other websites speak of up to one million death. The truth will be somewhere in between. Of course in the chaotic situation not all death […]
Syrian president to let UN assess humanitarian situation
UN CHIEF Ban Ki-moon declared yesterday that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad had agreed to permit UN teams to assess the humanitarian situation in the country following seven weeks of unrest. The announcement coincided with protests in a dozen Syrian cities and towns dubbed a “Friday of Defiance”, called to seize […]
Don’t encourage Arab revolutions, Melkite patriarch tells Western leaders
Patriarch Gregorios III, the Syria-based head of the Melkite Greek-Catholic Church, is warning Western leaders not to encourage the revolutions currently shaking up the Middle East. “Our Arab countries are not ready for revolutions, and not even for democracy of the European kind and model,” the patriarch explained in a recent […]
China foreign investments to overtake FDI ‘within three years’
BEIJING – With an annual growth rate of “20 to 30 percent”, outbound direct investment (ODI) will overtake foreign direct investment (FDI) “within three years”, a senior Ministry of Commerce official said. The United States, the European Union and Latin America are set to see “a rapid” increase in ODI from China, […]
Was killing bin Laden a mistake?
“He lived a hero, he died a martyr… if they killed one Osama, a thousand others will be born,” says a comment on a Facebook group called ‘We are all Osama bin Laden’. The group was formed one hour after US President Barack Obama’s announcement of the al-Qaeda leader’s death. […]
Jews and Muslims united for sharia?
We’re a bit late to this one, but Ron Kampeas of JTA has a fascinating recent piece on fears that anti-sharia initiatives brewing around the country could also threaten observance of traditional Jewish law, or halachah. You don’t hear much about halachah, or rabbinical courts known as beit din, even though both […]
Why do we embrace conspiracy theories? Farid Zakaria’s perspective
In face of Osama bin Laden’s death and reacction to it in the Muslim world, and even by many open minded in USA and Europe, here is what Farid Zakaria wrote in CNN. Farid Zakaria hosts a political program on CNN every week. I share this as another perspective to think about, of those who […]
You did not get a picture, whoops, we did not get any video either!
The head of the CIA admitted yesterday that there was no live video footage of the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound as further doubts emerged about the US version of events. Telegraph UK Other authors of esteem claim that the killing of CIA asset Osama Bin Laden is a […]