Our president’s claim to fame is daylight national robbery. His public dry cleaning under the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) is the most blatant and shameless thing happened in the books of corruption even by the South Asian standards. First nature is punishing us by entangling us in all kinds of crisis, and now by […]

Image of 1000 year-old Islamic Crystal Decanter taken from the CBC
Christie’s in London is auctioning what is considered to be a rare crystal decanter dating back to the Fatimid rulers of Cairo, Egypt. The decanter, which was carved from a single piece of crystal, was initially described as a 19th century artefact. It […]

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Family Security Matters recently published an article on Dutch politician Geert Wilders speech at the Four Seasons in New York. For me it was eye opening and sobering to read.
Yeah, I know, this is not a Politically Correct view to take. I am sick and tired of all the Political Correctness that is going on. […]

Compass Direct News reports that:

A longstanding effort to replace a church with a mosque in Kenya’s northern town of Garissa culminated in an attack by 50 Muslim youths this month that left the worship building in ruins.
The gang stormed the building of Redeemed Gospel Church on Sept. 14 and pelted the congregation with stones, sending […]

Il s’agit ici d’un condensé de huit petits billets (1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8) que j’ai consacrés il y a quelque temps à un arrêt que si peu de gens concernés semblent avoir lu qu’il mérite bien une reprise.
Le 21 mai dernier, donc, la 11e Chambre de la Cour d’appel de Paris déboutait Charles Enderlin et France 2 […]

The Emir’s Clock in The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Fifth Annual Collection: A remarkable clock flashes a message of seemingly divine origin to a young Arab, charging him with the task of creating a new race of intelligent machines. [Synopsis from Fictionwise]

[Published July 15, 2008, in the Providence Journal]
WASHINGTON - Pakistan has denied the Afghan government’s insinuation that its military intelligence had masterminded the suicide blast that killed 41 people at the Indian Embassy in Kabul. If Pakistani military elements had indeed engineered the bombing of at the Indian facility, I would suspect that they […]

Dalam hitungan hari saja Insya Allah kita akan menghadapi bulan ramadhan atau bulan puasa. Mudah-mudahan kita semua gembira menyambutnya, segembira ketika kita waktu kecil menghadapi datangnya hari lebaran. Mmm… asyiiikk!
Rasulullah SAW pernah bersabda, “Puasalah, engkau niscaya sehat! “. Sabda tersebut beliau ucapkan lebih 14 abad silam. Dunia kedokteran kemudian membuktikan bahwa puasa tidak saja […]

I almost fell out of the taxi, holding baby J under one arm and dragging out her buggy behind me. Source of great amusement to the devout beggars lining the sidewalk around the mosque. Baby J waved wildly at the old men and got big smiles in return. Having broken the ice, I asked the […]