Pakistani Widows, 'Second' Wives Flee Fighting But Are Denied Aid

Internally displaced women beg a soldier to allow them to enter a food distribution centre set up in a sports stadium in Bannu, in northwest Pakistan. — Photo by Reuters

Egypt: Woman Activist Calls For Sex Education to Combat Harassment

Britain Has Looked the Other Way For Too Long Over FGM

Syrian Refugee Women Face Sexual Exploitation

British Actress Emma Watson Joins Turkey's Laughing Women

Headless Mannequins Conundrum in Sharjah

Malala Yousafzai targeted in 'Systematic Propaganda Campaign’

Israelis 'Addicted' To Killing Women and Children

Europe in Push to Stop Violence against Women

Compiled by New Age Islam News Bureau

URL: http://www.newageislam.com/islam,-women-and-feminism/new-age-islam-news-bureau/pakistani-widows,--second--wives-flee-fighting-but-are-denied-aid/d/98394

Israel's Creation, Communist Revolution and the Arab Oil

By Nauman Sadiq, New Age Islam

2 August 2014

Is it not the international politics most significant coincidence that the Balfour declaration for the creation of Israel was passed in the same fateful year: November 1917, in which the February and October Communist revolutions were taking place in Russia? Coincidences do happen but sometimes they are contrived to look like mere coincidences.

 No informed person can deny the importance of oil for the industrial economies, but it is generally believed in the foreign policy circles that oil took the centre stage in the international politics only after the collective Arab oil embargo of 1973 when the price of oil quadrupled in a short span. It is a fact that the US got so paranoid after the Embargo that it started keeping 60 days stock of reserved fuel, just in case the Arabs do it again.

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Israel's Creation, Communist Revolution and the Arab Oil

 No informed person can deny the importance of oil for the industrial economies, but it is generally believed in the foreign policy circles that oil took the centre stage in the international politics only after the collective Arab oil embargo of 1973 when the price of oil quadrupled in a short span. It is a fact that the US got so paranoid after the Embargo that it started keeping 60 days stock of reserved fuel, just in case the Arabs do it again.

http://newageislam.com/islam-and-politics/nauman-sadiq,-new-age-islam/israel-s-creation,-communist-revolution-and-the-arab-oil/d/98392

In Xinjiang, Veils Signal Conservative Shift among Uighurs

Women in Hotan and other parts of Xinjiang are often fully veiled despite the Chinese government's efforts to curb the practice. Jeremy Page

Islamic State Orders Total Cover-Up for Women

Jeddah Records High Number of Violations at Female Workplaces

Acid Attacks on Women Cast Pall of Fear in Balochistan

Education Is a Rare Jewel; Appreciate the Endless Opportunities It Brings: Malala

Istanbul Convention Grants International Rights for Domestic Abuse Victims

Raja Teh Named Most Talented Woman Professional in Islamic Banking

Turkish Court Considers Wearing Leggings as ‘Provocative’ Factor in Domestic Violence Case

Compiled by New Age Islam News Bureau

URL: http://www.newageislam.com/islam,-women-and-feminism/new-age-islam-news-bureau/in-xinjiang,-veils-signal-conservative-shift-among-uighurs/d/98380

Foundation of Islamic System of Life on Peace and Security اسلام کے نظام حیات کی بنیاد ہی امن و سلامتی پر رکھی گئی ہے

فیض الرحمٰن عمر

1 اگست، 2014

اسلام کی 14 سو سالہ تاریخ  گواہ ہے کہ اسلام کے خلاف ہر دور میں زور آزمائی کی گئی ہے اور اس آفاقی مذہب کو مٹانے کے قدیم منصوبے کو مختلف رنگ و روپ دیئے گئے ۔ موجودہ اکیسویں صدی  میں اسی تحریک  کو مزید مضبوط  کیا گیا اور اسلام کو قدامت پسند اور دہشت گرد جیسے اجنبی الفاظ سے یاد کیا جانے لگا۔حالانکہ حقیقت ا س کے خلاف ہے۔ اسلام کی آمد ہی دہشت گردی ، قتل وغارت گری اور کشت و خون کو ختم کرنے کے لئے ہوئی ہے۔ اسلام کا اولین  مقصد امن و امان کا قیام ہے۔ درج ذیل سطور میں امن و امان  سے متعلق  اسلام کے نقطۂ نظر کو واضح کرنے کی کوششکی گئی ہے۔

http://newageislam.com/urdu-section/foundation-of-islamic-system-of-life-on-peace-and-security/d/98366

Interfaith Dialogue: An Existential Necessity for the Very Survival of the Human Species

Jesuit and sociologist Rudolph Heredia’s article neatly summarises the case for interfaith dialogue. Going beyond the all-too-common tendency to see interfaith dialogue as a means to enable others to understand and appreciate one’s own faith better (or even to convert to it), Heredia stresses that dialogue is—or, rather, should be—a valuable means for each dialogue partner to be spiritually enriched and to grow through encountering and learning and benefitting from other religious traditions and their adherents. Seen in this way, interfaith dialogue becomes a “mutually enriching encounter”. For us to be able to be truly transformed by this encounter, Heredia tells us, romanticizing our own religious traditions (and also refusing to recognize that they might, in part, need to be rethought or revised—a possibility that the dialogical encounter might provoke) is indefensible. Heredia also adds that for dialogue to be more than people talking past each other there must also be a realization that God or the Ultimate Reality is a mystery that is far beyond human comprehension and that, therefore, no single religion or other such worldview can contain or represent Him/Her/It in His/Her/Its totality.

http://newageislam.com/books-and-documents/roshan-shah,-new-age-islam/interfaith-dialogue--an-existential-necessity-for-the-very-survival-of-the-human-species/d/98369

Now An Emirate In Ben Ghazi, Libya: But Why Does It Not Call Itself Another Khilafat

By New Age Islam Edit Desk

1 August 2014

Islam has been hijacked and turned into a joke by these marauders and terrorists called the ISIS and Al Qaida. Last month, on 30 July, Abu Bakr Baghdadi, a person of dubious background announced the establishment of Islamic State in Mosul and unleashed a reign of terror among Christians and Muslims alike, razing many religious structures of Shias and Sunnis and then issuing the order mandating FGM of millions of girls in the captured territory. Since the time Baghdadi parted ways with his Alma mater Al Qaida and rose to fame, Al Qaida was looking for an opportunity to assert its existence and strength. And as it cannot overpower ISIS in Iraq or Syria, it shifted its focus and strategy from Iraq to Libya where there was some scope of reclaiming the lost ‘glory’ as the land is at the moment without any authority or rule of law. So, an Al Qaida offshoot Ansar al Shariah conquered Benghazi in Libya and announced that an Islamic Emirate had been established there. But why an Emirate and not a Caliphate?

http://newageislam.com/the-war-within-islam/d/98378