Dr. Abdus Salaam: Islam and Value of Education in Pakistan

By Asif Merchant, New Age Islam 29 July 2016 Dr Abdus Salam Nobel Prize winner I had the privilege of seeing and hearing Dr. Abdus Salaam during the Indian Science Congress in Bombay. This was in December 1959 or maybe January 1960. I was a graduate student of Physics at that time. I had come across references to papers by Dr. Abdus Salaam, and realized that he was to Science in Pakistan what Dr. Homi Bhabha was to Science in India. All of us were very proud of both these scientists. Dr. Salaam’s talk was held at one end of the Oval Maidan in front of a packed audience. Both Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Dr. Homi Bhabha were present as befitting such an auspicious occasion. He opened with a very memorable declaration....

The Hijab Does Not Impede Muslim Women from Doing Their Job: New Age Islam's Selection, 29 July 2016

New Age Islam Edit Bureau 29 July 2016 The Hijab Does Not Impede Muslim Women From Doing Their Job By Yara Al-Wazir In Lebanon, All Are Responsible For The Presidential Vacuum By Nayla Tueni Fact-Checking Saudi and Iranian Statements On Terrorism By Dr. Majid Rafizadeh The US, the Peshmerga and Mosul By Michael Knights All Life Same In Fight Against Terror By Bikram Vohra Compiled By New Age Islam Edit Bureau ----- The Hijab Does Not Impede Muslim Women from Doing Their Job By Yara al-Wazir 28 July 2016 Earlier this week, Kevin MacKenzie, former editor of The Sun questioned whether it was appropriate for a Muslim anchor that wears the hijab “to be on camera when there had been yet another shocking slaughter by a...

Terror in Afghanistan: Unwelcome Guests

The Economist Jul 30th 2016 EVEN for a country as inured to war as Afghanistan, the strike on a crowd of peaceful protesters in Kabul on July 23rd was shocking. Bombs killed 81 people, perhaps the deadliest such attack in the capital since the civil war two decades ago. Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility, saying it had sent two suicide-bombers to “a Shiite gathering” (the protesters were mainly Hazaras, a Shia minority). It hinted it would attack again should Afghan Shias keep travelling to Syria to fight on the side of its president, Bashar al-Assad. The Afghan government said it thought IS was indeed guilty. The group published photos of two men they said were the bombers, and details of the attack bear IS’s hallmarks....

Democracy in Turkey Is Under Threat after Failed Coup

By Mohammad Behzad Fatmi 29 July 2016 The failed military coup in Turkey has been widely hailed as a triumph of democracy. The courage that thousands of Turks have shown to thwart an effort by a section of the armed forces to oust a democratically elected government and president is commendable. Has their protection protected the democratic values in the country? The answer is “no”. Though this is not to suggest that the situation would have been better otherwise, there is hardly any doubt that the survival of the Erodogan government has led to a further deterioration democracy, human rights and the rule of law in Turkey. About 15,200 education ministry employees, 8,000 policemen, 3,000 judges, 3,500 soldiers, and 100 generals...

Pakistan Needs a Special Institution to Protect Women from Their Own Families

By Umar Riaz 29 Jul 2016 “We do not want to have two dead bodies coming out of our home,” they said. A young girl had been killed by her brother and the family was insisting on closing the matter. It was an open-and-shut case with the weapon of crime seized and the accused confessing rather boastfully. “Do you not love your daughter?” the bereaving mother was asked. Her tears gave away the answer, but she did not want to lose her son after losing her daughter, even though he was her killer. The story is painful but familiar, and often repeated. In the last five and half years, around 1,500 women and girls have been killed in the name of honour in the province of Punjab. The annual number is in the range of 300 to...

Old Age: Burden or Blessing?

By Roshan Shah, New Age Islam 29 July 2016 Not all of us will live to ‘a ripe old age’, but today, when the average life expectancy has increased, many of us might. There are fundamentally two ways of viewing life, and they offer two distinct ways of viewing old age. One way of viewing life is the materialistic way. According to this view, we are just the body—a collection of some billion molecules of matter—and when we die, that is the end of us. Accordingly, for materialists’, life has no real or ultimate purpose, or, if one has to find a purpose to live for in order to remain sane, it is to ‘enjoy’—to maximize the stimulation of the five senses as far as possible. The second way of viewing life is the religious or spiritual. According to this view, we are spirit beings or souls...

Our Reactions to Terror Are a Litany of Hypocrisies: Muslims are the Greatest Victims of Radical Islam

By Kabir Taneja 27/07/2016 About 3000km across the Arabian Sea from India's western coast, a conflict has been raging far away from eyes of the world. The civil war in Yemen, the poorest nation in the Middle East, has seemingly fallen through the cracks of global diplomacy, and the country despite having a half-hearted peace process, seems to have largely been left to its own devices. Yemen was, and perhaps still is, a stronghold of Ansar al-Sharia, also known as the Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). However, the current crisis in the country is between the Saudi Arabia-backed government in the capital Sana'a and the Zaidi Shia rebels known as the Houthis, which are known to have the support of Iran. At the peak of the conflict,...

British-Saudi Dual Citizen Amina al-Jeffrey Taken to Saudi Arabia and Locked in a Cage

Amina Al-Jeffery shown in a school yearbook photo Shisha Smoking by Saudi Women Leading To Divorce Man Strangles Teenage Niece for 'Honour' In Mansehra, Pakistan 200 Saudi Women Allowed By Courts to Travel Alone Behind Closed Doors: Virginity and Hymen Reconstruction in Morocco Beat That! Egyptian Women Are World Leaders in Assaulting Husbands African Girl, 16, Rescued From Early Marriage Compiled by New Age Islam News Bureau URL: http://www.newageislam.com/islam,-women-and-feminism/new-age-islam-news-bureau/british-saudi-dual-citizen-amina-al-jeffrey-taken-to-saudi-arabia-and-locked-in-a-cage/d/108119 ------- British-Saudi Dual Citizen Amina al-Jeffrey Taken to Saudi Arabia...