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Hijab offers liberation, admiration and security
By Eve Dugdale“MUSLIM women, along with followers of many other religions, choose to wear the hijab. Many find liberation, respect and security through wearing it.”That was the British Foreign Office’s message to staff as it invited them to try out wearing the headscarf for the day to celebrate World Hijab Day this month.The occasion – that I’d never heard of until this year – was founded by New Yorker Nazma Khan five years ago. Taking place on Feb. 1 each year in 140 countries, organizers say the day is intended to encourage women of all religions and backgrounds to wear and experience the hijab.Senator Roxanne J Persaud from New York said that World Hijab Day presented “an opportunity for us to learn about this religious custom, thus leading to less discrimination for the...
February 15, 2018

Hijab offers liberation, admiration and security

Spread goodness
Saudi GazetteThere is a saying of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) that states, “Righteousness is in good character.”The doors to spreading goodness are many, and a praiseworthy believer is the one who varies his/her acts of goodness and kindness. Each different act of kindness can help someone in your community, and at the same time it will leave a special, distinct, and sweet feeling in your heart.It is good to train your soul with various and different acts of kindness just as it is good for your body to vary your exercise routine in order to strengthen different muscles in your body.I have gathered from different sayings of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) a long list of simple acts we can do that will, Number 1: bring a bit of happiness to our fellow brothers and sisters....
February 15, 2018

Spread goodness

Muhammad Umar Gautam, chairman of the New Delhi-based Islamic Dawah Center, speaks at a function in Jeddah, recently.
Islam is not only for Muslims, says scholar
Saudi GazetteISLAM is not a religion for Muslims alone; it is for the entire mankind, a well-known Indian scholar and preacher has said.“It is our duty to enlighten followers of other religions on the noble teachings of Islam. Our religion teaches us moderation, tolerance, compassion and peaceful coexistence,” Muhammad Umar Gautam, chairman of the New Delhi-based Islamic Dawah Center (IDC), said at a special function organized by Aligarh Muslim University Old Boys Association (Jeddah chapter) in Jeddah recently.It is high time to exert great efforts to disseminate the sublime nature of Islam at a time when the image of the religion which preaches peace is tarnished by its own followers, as well as by certain deviant groups, said the preacher who reverted to Islam in 1984.Formerly known...
February 15, 2018

Islam is not only for Muslims, says scholar

Lindsey Vonn
Ski star Vonn puts out Twitter call for Valentine's date
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea - US ski star Lindsey Vonn had Twitter in a froth on Wednesday when she put the call out to her nearly one million followers for a Valentine's Day date.Many competitors at the wind-swept Pyeongchang Olympics marked Valentine's Day by making heart shapes with their hands, but the 33-year-old Vonn was much more forward, tweeting: "So apparently it's Valentine's Day... I forgot all about it because I'm at the Olympics and I'm single."Anyone else out there single and want to be my valentine? #worthashot."Vonn, who won Olympic gold in the downhill and super-G bronze at the 2010 Games, dated golf former number one Tiger Woods for more than two years before they split up in 2015.Her shout-out for a date soon had her fending off...
February 14, 2018

Ski star Vonn puts out Twitter call for Valentine's date

Negina Khpalwak, the first female orchestra conductor in Afghanistan, during a rehearsal at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul . - AFP
Afghan institute, Metallica win music's 'Nobel Prize'
STOCKHOLM - An Afghan music institute that has empowered girls in the war-torn country and metal pioneers Metallica on Wednesday shared the Polar Music Prize, often called music's Nobel.The laureates will each receive one million Swedish kronor (101,000 euros, $125,000) at a televised gala in Stockholm on June 14 in the presence of King Carl XVI Gustaf.The Afghan National Institute of Music was honored along with its founder, Ahmad Sarmast, who started the school in 2010 in a rare coeducational initiative in the war-torn country.The institute, which teaches both Afghan and Western music, helped generate the country's first all-female orchestra which performed last year at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.Sarmast, who has faced substantial risk in a country where both...
February 14, 2018

Afghan institute, Metallica win music's 'Nobel Prize'

Britain's Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle attend a reception for young people at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh on Wednesday. - Reuters
Prince Harry, Meghan Markle visit Scotland ahead of wedding
LONDON - Prince Harry and fiancee Meghan Markle are continuing their pre-wedding tour of Britain with a trip to Scotland.Hundreds of well-wishers greeted the couple Wednesday in a cold and windy Edinburgh, including one besotted man who implored Markle to choose him instead of the prince.The visit began with a stop at Edinburgh Castle, one of Scotland's most famous landmarks.The fashionable Markle wore a tartan coat by Burberry to honor the plaid for which Scotland is known.It was the couple's fourth official engagement together as Harry introduces Markle to various parts of Britain.They plan to meet members of the public and with various organizations involved in community work.The American actress and Harry are set to marry at Windsor Castle on May 19. - AP
February 14, 2018

Prince Harry, Meghan Markle visit Scotland ahead of wedding

Mongkol Preechajan, 43, performs in front of prison inmates as the popular British TV comedy character Mr. Bean, in the central Thai province of Nakhon Nayok. - AFP
Thailand's Mr. Bean plays jails for laughs
NAKHON NAYOK, Thailand - With the signature red tie, brown blazer, briefcase and teddy bear, a Thai computer technician has become a national sensation through his uncanny Mr. Bean impersonations that are tickling a country that loves slapstick comedy. Mongkol Preechajan, a 43-year-old father from Phuket with more than a passing resemblance to the British character played by Rowan Atkinson, shot to fame after trying out the miming routine on the popular "Thailand's Got Talent" TV show in 2016. The video went viral - one YouTube clip has been watched over five million times - turning Mongkol into an overnight celebrity in a country where Mr. Bean is among the most popular foreign comic turns, in part because his speechless routines cut through language barriers. Now Mongkol...
February 14, 2018

Thailand's Mr. Bean plays jails for laughs

Orelsan
Calls to strip French rapper of awards for 'sexist' lyrics
PARIS - A French rapper is facing calls to be stripped of the country's top musical awards for the sexist and "degrading" lyrics of his old songs.Orelsan won three Victories of Music prizes Friday, confirming him as France's rapper of the moment.But a petition is demanding that French Culture Minister Francoise Nyssen strip him of the awards because of his 2006 song, "Saint Valentine", which saw him convicted of inciting violence against women.Orelsan, 35, was acquitted on appeal of the charge in 2016 despite the hit containing the line "Shut your mouth or I will make a Marie Trintignant of you," a reference to a French actress who was killed by her pop star boyfriend, Bertrand Cantat of Noir Desir, in 2003.A number of feminist groups have brought...
February 14, 2018

Calls to strip French rapper of awards for 'sexist' lyrics

'Black Panther': More than just another superhero movie
LOS ANGELES - "Black Panther" is expected to be a major box office smash, but it has also taken on the mantle of cultural talisman, a touchstone on which moviegoers of color worldwide are pinning their hopes.The 18th entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, opening Friday in the United States, features an almost entirely black cast led by Chadwick Boseman as the first non-white superhero to get his own standalone movie in the lucrative franchise.The film from Disney-owned Marvel Studios is expected to break opening weekend box office records and has spawned headlines and social media buzz worldwide about its significance as a game changer for racial representation in cinema."We put our heart and soul into it because we knew it was a great opportunity," Boseman, 41, said...
February 14, 2018

'Black Panther': More than just another superhero movie

Bill Paxton
Bill Paxton family sues hospital, doctor for wrongful death
LOS ANGELES - The family of Bill Paxton has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a Los Angeles hospital and the surgeon who performed the actor's heart surgery shortly before he died.The suit filed against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center alleges the surgeon, used a "high risk and unconventional surgical approach" that was unnecessary and that he lacked the experience to perform, and that he downplayed the procedure's risks.And it alleges the hospital knew the surgeon, Dr. Ali Khoynezhad, tended to "engage in maverick surgeries and show suboptimal judgment."The misguided treatment caused Paxton to suffer excessive bleeding, cardiogenic shock and a compromised coronary artery, the suit alleges.Paxton's death certificate says he died Feb. 25, 2017, from a stroke,...
February 14, 2018

Bill Paxton family sues hospital, doctor for wrongful death

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