Brics nations to create $100bn development bank
The leaders of the so-called BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – sign a deal to create a new $100bn development bank and emergency reserve fund.Global […]
Cease-fire is no solution
The Daily Star Lebanon Since the full headlines usually added that, in stark contrast, Israel had accepted the Egypt-brokered initiative, why is Hamas seemingly acting stubborn in the face of overwhelmingly superior military firepower, and amid horrific destruction in terms of lives and livelihoods in the Gaza Strip? In effect, […]
CNN: Malala to Boko Haram: Stop misusing Islam
Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) — Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who survived an attack by the Taliban, on Monday appealed to Boko Haram militants in Nigeria to lay down their weapons and “stop misusing the name of Islam.” Malala is visiting Nigeria in support of an estimated 276 girls kidnapped by Boko […]
Swiss ready to help Italy with migrant influx
Swiss Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga says Switzerland is ready to help Italy in coping with the influx of migrants to its shores. So far this year, more than 63,000 migrants […]
Thousands mark Srebrenica massacre anniversary in Bosnia
Daily Times: SREBRENICA: Several thousand people gathered Friday in Srebrenica for the 19th anniversary of the massacre of some 8,000 Muslim males by ethnic Serbs forces, Europe’s worst atrocity since […]
Iraq names moderate Sunni parliament speaker in move to break political deadlock
BAGHDAD: Iraqi politicians named a moderate Sunni Islamist as speaker of parliament on Tuesday, a long-delayed first step toward a power-sharing government urgently needed to save the state from disintegration in the face of a Sunni uprising. A Shiite leader suggested the naming of Salim Al-Jabouri as speaker was part […]
Blasphemous Oppression In The Name of Islam in Pakistan
Blasphemous Oppression In The Name of Islam: Hold Pakistan Accountable For Persecuting Religious Minorities Source: Forbes By Doug Bandow The world is aflame. Religious minorities are among those who suffer […]
140 Days: The fast-track school term in an asylum centre (in Switzerland)
By Jo Fahy JUL 15, 2014 – 11:00 Children at a Zurich asylum centre don’t pack their rucksacks and head off to the local school each day like other kids […]
Navigation app boon for Haj pilgrims from India
A new state-of-the-art navigation system is being introduced to help Indian pilgrims to find their way to their places of accommodation in Makkah during Haj, Indian Consul General B. S. […]
Interfaith Leaders Launch Daylong Fast For Peace In The Middle East
Huff Post: by Dale Hansom Bourke — (RNS) While the violence escalates in Israel and Gaza, a movement is taking hold that unites Jews, Muslims and others in a campaign for peace. On Tuesday (July 15), a daylong fast is planned as part of a public effort to show unity […]
Atheist to deliver invocation in New York town that won prayer ruling
theguardian — Community of Greece won US supreme court ruling which upheld its right to open town meetings with a prayer An atheist is set to deliver the invocation in a western New York community whose town board won a US supreme court decision upholding its right to open meetings with a […]
17 things that change forever when you live abroad
MUso de cookie Mas Edimburgo: by Angie Castells — I originally wrote and published this article in Spanish. As we brace ourselves to move abroad for the third time in a few years, I look back and I know that squeezing our lives into a suitcase and leaving our native Barcelona was the […]
Yellen Tells Congress That Fed Will Continue to Help Economy
WASHINGTON — Janet L. Yellen, the Federal Reserve chairwoman, told a Senate committee on Tuesday that the economy continues to grow slowly, that the Fed plans to continue to help, and that the basic situation is not likely to change anytime soon. “Too many Americans remain unemployed; inflation remains below […]
Brief Lull in Gaza Ends as Israel Resumes Strikes After Rockets Fly
Source: NY Times: JERUSALEM — Hostilities between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip continued Tuesday, despite Israel’s initial embrace of an Egyptian cease-fire proposal, which the Islamist Hamas movement appeared to reject. Israel announced at 9 a.m. Tuesday that it had accepted the Egyptian initiative, but the unilateral […]
Ramadan Iftar at White House 2014
President Obama thanks Muhammad Ahmad Chaudhry for his Foundation’s work Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya USA was honored tonight when one of it’s finest members, Muhammed A. Chaudhry of San Jose Majlis, was recognized at the White House Iftar Dinner for his non-profit work in the education sector. President of the United […]
Muslims in China province say they are banned from fasting during Ramadan
Chinese Muslims in the Western region of Xinjiang are distressed because they are banned from fasting during the holy month of Ramadan. Xinjiang is home to the mostly Muslim Uighur community, one of China’s 56 recognized minority ethnic groups. Three Muslim students told the BBC they were forced to have meals […]
eDigest: Debate: Did Jesus Rise?
Epigraph: And We made the son of Mary and his mother a Sign, and gave them refuge on an elevated land of green valleys and springs of running water.(Al Quran […]
Arles 2014: Photographer Nicolo Degiorgis lifts the veil on Italy’s Islamophobia
The Guardian: By Sean O’Hagan Nicolo Degiorgis contrasts the peace of prayer with the tension of politics, with many of Italy’s Muslims now forced to pray in warehouses, garages, gyms, […]
Arles 2014: Photographer Nicolo Degiorgis lifts the veil on Italy's Islamophobia
The Guardian: By Sean O’Hagan Nicolo Degiorgis contrasts the peace of prayer with the tension of politics, with many of Italy’s Muslims now forced to pray in warehouses, garages, gyms, […]
Baghdadi ‘Mossad trained’: Edward Snowden
Gulf-daily-news.com: WASHINGTON: The former employee at US National Security Agency (NSA), Edward Snowden, has revealed that the British and American intelligence and the Mossad worked together to create the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Snowden said intelligence services of three countries created a terrorist organisation that is able […]