Twelve men have gone on trial in Indonesia charged with the killing of members of the small Ahmadiyah Islamic sect. The men have been charged with involvement in an attack in February when 1,000 Muslims surrounded the home of an Ahmadi. Three people were bludgeoned to death and scores were […]
On April 21, 2011 the Supreme Court of Pakistan announced the verdict on Mukhtar Mai’s case. According to the verdict, the initial judgment of the Lahore High Court was upheld and five out of six accused in Mai’s gang rape were acquitted. Various news channels covered the acquittal including several […]
An official lecture on ‘controversial but relevant themes’ for Noord-Holland province has been cancelled following protests from the anti-Islam PVV, the Volkskrant reports on Friday. The Willem Arondéus lecture, named after the artist and World War II resistance fighter, should have been given by cultural historian and writer Thomas von […]
Kandahar, Monday Almost 500 Taliban prisoners escaped through a tunnel in an audacious overnight jailbreak in south Afghanistan which the president’s office called a security “disaster”. The Taliban said it was behind the operation to free the prisoners using a massive underground tunnel in its heartland of southern Kandahar, and […]
Arab League should help end Syria’s unrest, just as GCC has been able to do in Yemen THE more things change in the Middle East, the more they seem to remain the same for some. We all saw what happened when excessive force was used in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen — […]
Now that the celebrations are over, let us examine the facts about the Christian Easter story. It mounts to little more than hearsay as I will show in the Google knol linked here. But, please do not get very upset. Veneration and awe of the Transcendent is inherent in human nature, but […]
Syrian authorities blame foreign conspirators and Salafists, but analysts say the uprising is spontaneous. If the Syrian government is to be believed, the protests sweeping the country are the work of “foreign conspirators” and amount to an armed insurrection by Salafists, members of a hardline, puritanical Islamic movement. But analysts and […]
Plants in East Africa with promising antimalarial qualities—ones that have treated malaria symptoms in the region”s communities for hundreds of years—are at risk of extinction, according to research released in anticipation of World Malaria Day. Scientists fear that these natural remedial qualities, and thus their potential to become a widespread […]
Deputy National Education Minister Fasli Jalal says he has witnessed strong indications of radicalization of junior and high school students across Indonesia, adding that it was carried out by Islam religion teachers. “We have seen these radical teachers teaching students the wrong way. We must do something to neutralize [the […]
It is the new kid on the block and growing leaps and bounds. Soon it may tower like a goliath over other better known peers in the Web world as suitors from the government, public and corporate sector jostle for attention on its platform. Weibo, or micro blog, the sending […]
Exam takers swarm into the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province, on April 24, to take the provincial civil service examination. About 83,000 people took the exam that day. PHOTO BY LI HUI / FOR CHINA DAILY Source of news
The story of The Animals’ Lawsuit against Humanity was written down in Basra in around 980AD by the community of philosophers called the Iqhwan al Safa wa Khillan al-Wafa, or the Brethren of Sincerity and Friendship. There is an island set in the Green Sea ruled by the King […]
Nowadays, Dutch parliament is in a frenzy to prohibit halal and kosher slaughter. The propagators say that the industrial way of shooting a pin into the animal’s brain is much more humane. As muslims we should stand up ourselves for animal’s rights as it is a specific teaching by our […]
A Nigerian human rights group says more than 500 people died after presidential elections earlier this month. The Civil Rights Congress said the violence happened mostly in the northern state of Kaduna and that the number of victims could be even higher. Rioting broke out when it emerged that Goodluck […]
Dutch forces have for several years been training soldiers in Mali, Senegal and Chad in their fight against al-Qaeda militants—without the Dutch parliament being informed. The covert mission is part of the United States war against terrorism, according to Dutch newspaper AD, which cites documents from the US Congress and […]
Whenever I travel overseas I feel uncomfortable when the immigration officer opens my passport and looks through my personal details. It’s not because the colour of my passport is green; what annoys me is the fact that he knows my religion. Why should I tell the official that I am a Muslim? Is […]
by Eveline Kobler, swissinfo.ch The new Swiss president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences tells swissinfo.ch about the challenges of squaring religious faith with science. Werner Arber, an Aargau-born microbiologist and geneticist who shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for Medicine, is the first Protestant to hold the position. The 81-year-old […]
The leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland, Cardinal Keith O’Brien, will use his Easter message later to attack “aggressive secularism”. It was something Pope Benedict warned about on his state visit to Britain last year. Cardinal O’Brien will say the enemies of Christianity want to “take God from the […]
The rare blooming of a giant flower, taller than a man, that stinks of carrion, has been drawing thousands of visitors to Basel University’s botanical garden. The only previous time a titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) produced a flower in Switzerland was 75 years ago. World-wide, there have only been 134 […]