Marissa - Instablogs
Sep 30 2008
As a Muslim woman living in the embrace of a vibrantly secular, liberal democratic society, you are constantly caught between two very different worlds. On the one hand, there is your faith, Islam, a religion and way of life revealed to the Prophet...
Sep 29 2008
Muslim spiritual leaders could be denounced publicly by their own community as part of a campaign to expose imams whose silence on domestic abuse is leading to women being burnt, lashed and raped in the name of Islam.
Apr 21 2008
Medieval physicians believed that they could diagnose disease by holding up a flask of the patient’s urine to the light and squinting at it. According to scientists at Imperial College London, they could have been on to something.
Apr 14 2008
She started drinking alcohol at the age of 12. One year later, Natasha Farnham was drinking up to six bottles of wine a day. And even when she was diagnosed with liver failure at the age of 14, Farnham, of Twerton in Bath, Somerset, England, didn’t...
Apr 3 2008
The coroner examining the death of Diana, Princess of Wales launched a scathing attack Tuesday on her former butler, telling the jury at her inquest it was “blindingly obvious” he lied as a witness.
Mar 30 2008
Suppositories derived from sweet wormwood kill the deadliest malaria parasites quickly and offer a stop-gap treatment for people in remote areas until they can reach a hospital, researchers said on Friday. Their study found that a single dose of any...