News around the Muslim World on Sunday 2 November 2014

Social media has made it very easy and quick for people to go from passive recipients of extremist messages to becoming extremists

Jihadis in Holland

The Dutch-Turkish jihadist known as Yilmaz, pictured in Syria, 

has proven adept at the use of social media for jihadist "public relations".

Source : Gatestone Institute

Global warming is happening and that human activities are virtually certainly responsible; that, left unchecked, it will have drastic – and, yes, irreversible, consequences; but that these could be averted, at surprisingly little cost, if action is taken without delay.

Global warming let us take action before it's too late

Source : The Telegraph 

Can too much religion be bad for Pakistan?

The author a former diplomat looks at Pakistan's struggle to find and identity.

Source : Saeed Querashi

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