April, 2011

• 25 April

  The good book, re-edited By Greg Burk

  

  Retranslations in the latest New American Bible are another step in lessening ill will between Jews and Roman Catholics. Pope Benedict XVI walks into the Auschwitz complex, where he made a plea for reconciliation and asked why God had allowed such "unprecedented horror" to happen. (Diether Endlicher / AP Photo) Despite the anti-Semitic ranting of Mel Gibson, the public gulf between …

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• 25 April

  Utah church offers free Korans in Easter gesture By James Nelson

  

  (Reuters) – A Utah church is giving away free copies of the Koran in an Easter season ecumenical riposte to the recent burning of the Islamic holy book by a controversial Florida pastor. The Wasatch Presbyterian Church has ordered 50 copies of the Koran to be distributed at a local bookstore starting on Monday. "We're not promoting Islam, we're not …

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• 23 April

  Saved by the Sharia By Dr Mahjabeen Islam

  The questions in the Pakistani mind centre around the vast difference between an American life and a Pakistani one. There is furore over the US’s chest-thumping pronouncements about the supremacy of the law and then its flagrant violation in other countries It is hip to hate sharia or Islamic law in the US. Many a Republican is jumping on the …

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• 23 April

  Iraqi Style Destruction of Libya By American, British and French Champions of Human Rights

  

  Arms traders (merchants of death), oil tycoons and all other businessmen are ready with their bags to reconstruct Libya? By Latheef Farook The NATO military strikes on Libya, claimed to free Libyans from Gaddafi’s 42 year long dictatorship, were supposed to be “humanitarian intervention”. However more than three weeks later, killing scores of civilians, Gaddafi’s forces continue to advance forcing …

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• 23 April

  ‘1,100 Palestinian kids arrested in 2010’

  

  Nearly 1,100 Palestinian children have been arrested by Israeli troops in 2010, a new report by the Palestinian Authority (PA) Ministry of Detainees' Affairs shows. The ministry said on Wednesday that about 500 of the above-mentioned figure were detained in the city of al-Khalil (Hebron) in the occupied West Bank, Maan news agency reported.  PA Detainees' Affairs Minister Issa Qaraqe …

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• 20 April

  Scholarships from Malaysian Government: The Malaysian Technical Cooperation Programme (MTCP) is out again……..

  ELIGIBILITY The scholarship is open equally to qualified candidate up to 40 years of age at the time of application. Candidates should be the citizens of beneficiary as listed in Appendix I. They should, at the time of application, obtain a degree or equivalent qualification with at least upper second class honours, (or CGPA 3.0) for Master’s programme; and hold …

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• 20 April

  Secret Memos Expose Link Between Oil firms And Invasion of Iraq By Paul Bignell

  

    Plans to exploit Iraq's oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world's largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show. The papers, revealed here for the first time, raise new questions over Britain's involvement in the war, which had divided Tony Blair's cabinet and was voted through only after …

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