The Jakarta Post Indonesians are becoming more religious and, at the same time, intolerant of different religious identities, which threatens the basic foundation of pluralism in Indonesia, an international seminar […]
TOM HOLLAND IN THE SHADOW of the SWORD The Battle for Global Empire and the end of the Ancient World Published by Little, Brown on Thursday 5th April, price £25.00 […]
Source: Guardian Unlimited Its legacy winds back through centuries and across continents, past the birth of America to the waning days of the Enlightenment. It is a record of humanity’s […]
Source: Huffington Post By Sonny Singh: musician & social justice educator As a brown-skinned Sikh with a turban on my head and a long beard on my chin, I deal […]
Source: China Daily Weaponry developing in line with rising defense needs, say analysts China plans to put its first aircraft carrier into service later this year, a top navy official […]
Speakers: Hon. Simon Busuttil – Member of European Parliament Hon. Evarist Bartolo – Member of Maltese Parliament Ms. Angele Deguara – Malta Green Party Fr. Edgar Busuttil SJ – Representing […]
By Marc. J. Randazza, Special to CNN updated 9:19 AM EDT, Mon March 12, 2012 Editor’s note: Marc J. Randazza is a Las Vegas based First Amendment attorney. He is […]
Exercise does a lot of good things — it burns calories, helps keep your weight in check and lowers your risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes. Now add one more […]
The Roman Catholic bishop of Chur, Vitus Huonder, has defended a pastoral letter in which he reminded church-goers that divorced Catholics who remarry cannot receive communion. “The ten commandments were […]
Let us Build Pakistan (LUBP). by Abdul Nishapuri Recently I read two excellent articles on the systematic murder of Shia Muslims in Pakistan, by Marvi Sirmed (in Daily Times, 5 March […]
Source: Brandon Sun – A cross-country exhibition devoted to promoting peace and dispelling myths about Islam is scheduled to make a stop in Brandon on Thursday. The Holy Qur’an Exhibition […]
Source: BBC Researchers in Cambridge have deciphered the genetic code of the gorilla – the last of the Great Ape genuses to be sequenced. Writing in the journal Nature, the scientists […]
Epigraph: But whoso does good works, whether male or female, and is a believer, such shall enter Heaven, and shall not be wronged even as much as the little hollow […]
Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad says that Holy Qur’an is a book of peace. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat is pleased to announce that on 24 February 2012, its world leader, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad inaugurated the […]
By Pervez Hoodbhoy Published: March 4, 2012 in The Express Tribune Eighteen bloodied bodies, shot Gestapo-style, lay by the roadside. Men in army uniforms had stopped four buses bound from […]
http://s.wsj.net/media/swf/VideoPlayerMain.swf Nine advertisers and a radio station in Hawaii dropped Limbaugh’s show after he called a law student a “slut’’ and a “prostitute.’’ Editor’s comments: I applaud President’s comments. Additionally, […]
July, Muslim women will be able to wear headscarves during football matches. FIFA has decided to drop its 2007 ban on the hijab or headscarf. The ban was introduced because […]
Christmas celebration in present day Istanbul During those troubled decades, the empire also became a haven for the religiously oppressed. In the mid seventeenth century, for example, a cluster of […]
Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad calls on the media to utilise its influence with responsibility and justice The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat is pleased to announce that on 4 th March 2012, […]
Source: Huffington Post By: Qasim Rashid Critics incorrectly allege that Islam command’s husband’s to beat their wives, often citing the Quran verse 4:34. Unfortunately, like any Muslim man who harms […]