JERUSALEM, ISRAEL (BosNewsLife)– Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called on Muslims around the world to mobilize their troops alongside Iran against Israel and the United States to prepare for the coming of the “Mahdi” seen as “the savior of Islam”. for more click here
The USSR plotted to invade Manchester during the height of the Cold War, it has emerged. for more click here
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)– A Pakistani Christian teenager was behind bars Wednesday, August 26, after being beaten on “false” charges of “blasphemy” and several Muslims have demanded a death sentence for him, his family and supporters, rights investigators said For more click here
Melanie Reid, our columnist, is merely one of many commentators who has asked why Britain’s soldiers are apparently fighting for the right of Afghan men to mistreat their wives, in the wake of the new so -called “Marital Rape” Law (although the original clause permitting men to withold food from wives who refuse sex was eventually removed). Here Faith’s Central’s Muslim guest blogger, Shelina Janmohamed, author of Love in a Headscarf and the blog Spirit21 looks at the disturbing, related issue of the lack of legal protection for many Muslim women who marry in Britain. for more click here
Seventy years ago this Thursday, Neville Chamberlain announced that Britain was at war with Germany. For a new documentary, Melvyn Bragg sought the recollections of people – from evacuee to aristocrat, soldier to refugee – on whose lives that first day of conflict left an indelible imprint. for more click here
Gordon Brown came under fresh pressure to reveal details of his Government’s dealings with Libya today after claims by the son of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi over the Lockerbie bomber.
Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi claimed a prisoner transfer deal with Britain had targeted Abdelbaset Ali al Megrahi and was linked to talks on trade and oil. for more click here
IN APRIL 1968 Enoch Powell, a Tory cabinet minister, destroyed his political career when he denounced mass immigration as a disaster (“like the Roman”, he said, “I seem to see ‘the river Tiber foaming with much blood’”). Today Powell’s arguments, if not his classical allusions, are becoming dangerously mainstream. for more click here
A year after the worst anti-Christian violence in India’s democratic history, more than 4,000 Christians are reportedly still stuck in squalid refugee camps, too scared to return to their villages. for more click here
Karlsruhe, Germany – German authorities said Friday they had arrested a man suspected of aiding a terrorist bomb plot, and a newspaper said he was picked up as he was leaving for a training camp in Pakistan. for more click here
The president says post-election unrest was part of a foreign “enemy plot” carried out by “subversives.” His demand runs counter to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who gave a conciliatory speech Wednesday. for more click here