How The UK Is Strengthening Interfaith Bonds After Paris Attacks
Source: The Huffington Post Inter Faith Week has been celebrated in the UK since 2009. But this year, the terrorist attacks that gripped Paris last Friday gave the campaign a […]
Saudi Arabia Sentences Palestinian Poet To Death For Apostasy
Source: Huffington Post His conviction was based on a witness who claimed to have heard his cursing God, as well as his poems. RIYADH, Nov 20 (Reuters) – A Saudi […]
After the UN security council vote, the west must heed the lessons of Iraq
Source: The Guardian By Rosemary Hollis; A professor of Middle East policy studies at City University The UN security council’s unanimous adoption of resolution 2249 signals a new level of international resolve to […]
Mitzvah Day unites Jewish and Muslim leaders in kitchen
Source: The Guardian A rabbi and an imam walk into a kitchen and each picks up a knife. It sounds the like the start of a bad standup routine. In […]
Kansas Professor on Leave After Using Racial Slur in Class
Source: Time (LAWRENCE, Kan.) — A white University of Kansas professor is on paid leave after using a racial slur during a class discussion about race. The school told Andrea […]
Double standards in the Paris attacks coverage
Source: Al Jazeera As news of the attacks in Paris was breaking, Facebook launched a feature allowing its users to “check-in” and let their family members and friends know they were […]
Russian strikes blamed for 400 Syrian civilian deaths
Source: Al Jazeera Russian air strikes in Syria have killed over 400 civilians since September this year, monitoring groups say. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said the […]
Rights groups slam ‘Islamophobia’ of US candidates
Source: Al Jazeera Rights groups have criticised American politicians’ comments about Muslims as a debate over the future of Syrian refugees in the United States intensified in the wake of […]
Pak Army called out to quell riots against Ahmadis
Army called out to quell Jhelum riots By Our Correspondent / Arsalan AltafPublished: November 22, 2015 Tribune.com.pk Authorities called out the army on Saturday to quell violent protests triggered by […]
Hijab Day in Halifax Canada
About 50 people gathered at the Halifax Central Library Saturday afternoon to take part in hijab day, an event that invites people to try on the hijab to foster understanding […]
Individual Responsibility or Group Punishment: Destroying ISIS and Saving the Western Civilization
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Donald Trump “would certainly implement” a database system tracking Muslims in the United States, the Republican front-runner […]
There are far more Muslims ready to fight for the West than against it
The Washington Post: by Edward E. Curtis IV, editor of the Bloomsbury Reader on Islam in the West. On Oct. 19, 2008, former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman and secretary of state Colin Powell went on NBC’s “Meet the Press” to endorse Barack Obama for president. Troubled by accusations that Obama […]
I will not apologize!
Nov 22, 2015 Khaled Almaeena Khaled Almaeena The Paris attacks that killed 130 people and injured hundreds of others are still capturing headlines. They also occupy the top spot in social media the world over. The attack came days after suicide bombers blew up about 40 people in a Beirut […]
653. Commandment – They swore by Allah their strongest oaths, that if a Warner came to them, they would follow guidance …
653. Commandment – They swore by Allah their strongest oaths, that if a Warner came to them, they would follow guidance better than any other people. But when a Warner did come to them, it only increased them in aversion [35:43] And they swore by Allah their strongest oaths, that if […]
NASIR: WHY SO MANY PAKISTANIS ARE HEADED TO IRELAND AND ELSEWHERE
Photo by Caroline Brady of Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner in Dublin NASIR: WHY SO MANY PAKISTANIS ARE HEADED TO IRELAND AND ELSEWHERE NASIR JAMALNOVEMBER 17, 2015 Applications by Pakistani asylum seekers to Ireland have jumped eightfold so far this year, the Irish Timesreported earlier this month. What is […]
Escaping Hell Through Compassion
Huff Post: by Mathieu Ricard — “No matter who it is you meet, know that they have already walked several times through hell,” writes French poet Christian Bobin. Our Parisian […]
‘Punching in the Dark’: Why Islamic State Is Winning the Online War
Islamistisches Propagandavideo In the wake of the Paris attacks, authorities are becoming increasingly concerned about Islamic State’s skillful use of the Internet. So far, however, European countermeasures have been frustratingly ineffective.By SPIEGEL Staff It sounded like jihadi megalomania. “We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women.” Every Muslim […]
Rational Monster: How Terror Fits into Islamic State’s Plan
By Christoph Reuter spiegel.de AFP/ WELAYAT TARABLOS Analysts falsely believed Islamic State was too weak to carry out terror attacks abroad. But IS views terror as a means to an end — and will launch attacks as long as they continue to serve its broader strategy. “It was a terrible night. […]
Afghan family finds shelter in Swiss farmhouse
SEEKING ASYLUM Afghan family finds shelter in Swiss farmhouse By Gaby Ochsenbein in Hinterkappelen, Bern NOV 20, 2015 – 11:00 The Sajadi family in their bed-/living room at the Hinterkappelen asylum centre (swissinfo.ch) Growing numbers of Afghans are coming to Switzerland, most of them via the Balkans – including the […]
Mali hunts suspects after deadly hotel siege
By AFP – Nov 21,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Soldiers from the presidential patrol outside the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako, Mali, Saturday (AP photo) BAMAKO — Mali was hunting Saturday for suspects over the militant siege at a luxury hotel that left 19 people dead, mostly foreigners, as the president […]