Source: Huffington Post By Ed Mazza; Overnight Editor, The Huffington Post The display was called “an egregious violation of the First Amendment.” A Kansas school has taken down a portrait of Jesus […]
Source: New York Times PUNE, India — All week, people streamed in and out of the handsome bungalow where the Lodha family lives, eager to witness for themselves the amazing […]
LOOKING AHEAD Asylum requests expected to rise in 2016 AUG 23, 2015 – (Keystone) The State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) has announced that requests for asylum in Switzerland will likely increase in 2016. In a letter to cantonal officials last week, SEM Director Mario Gattiker explained that around 30,000 applications […]
Aug 24,2015 – JORDAN TIMES In his Pulitzer-Prize-winning book, Lords of Finance, the economist Liaquat Ahamed tells the story of how four central bankers, driven by staunch adherence to the gold standard, “broke the world” and triggered the Great Depression. Today’s central bankers largely share a new conventional wisdom — […]
Haaretz Extremists call it a ‘holy war,’ but this conflict has always been about the very secular issues of territory, injustice and identity. Is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a religious one? […]
RT: A petition calling on the UK government to arrest Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes in Gaza when he arrives in London has garnered more than 80,000 signatures. […]
By AFP – Aug 24,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Protesters chant in support for the Shiite spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani, in the poster, during a demonstration in Basra, 550 kilometres southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, on Friday (AP photo) BAGHDAD — As Iraq attempts to curb rampant corruption […]
Wisconsin governor and GOP candidate Scott Walker is facing harsh criticism from American Islamic organizations after claiming that only a “handful” of the world’s Muslims are “reasonable” or “moderate.” When […]
Preventing Further Radicalisation Is the Challenge Muslims Must Undertake: Some Concrete Suggestions By Sultan Shahin, Editor, New Age Islam 27 April 2015 [This article is a slightly updated version of a presentation made by the author in an international conference on counter-terrorism in Jaipur (India) 19–21 March, 2015] A Brief […]
Source: BBC Spain and Morocco have arrested 14 people in a joint operation targeting suspected recruiters for the so-called Islamic State (IS) group. The arrests were made in suburbs of […]