Reuters International NOV 12, 2015 – 09:53 By Isabel Coles NEAR SINJAR TOWN, Iraq (Reuters) – Backed by U.S. air strikes, Kurdish forces said they captured several villages in an offensive on Thursday to retake the Iraqi town of Sinjar from Islamic State militants who overran it more than a […]
Nov 11,2015 – Last updated at Nov 11,2015 JORDAN TIMES – by Michael Jansen Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington did not heal the rift with President Barack Obama over peacemaking with Palestinians or the Iranian nuclear agreement. But the two men met the press before a White House […]
November 12, 2015 AFP SREBRENICA – Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic paid his respects Wednesday to Muslim victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, four months after being chased from a ceremony in the Bosnian town by a stone-throwing mob. Vucic, a former ultra-nationalist turned pro-European, laid a wreath of white […]
November 12, 2015 : Kunwar Khuldune Shahid Anyone remotely familiar with the poetry of Dr Muhammad Iqbal would know of his multi-pronged flirtations with numerous – often paradoxical – ideologies, at the same time. From fluctuating between a poet and a preacher to being the torchbearer of theocracies and personal […]
By Bethan McKernan in news Roma or Romani people have been discriminated against for millennia and the tradition continues in Europe today. A camp of mostly Roma on the outskirts of Malmo in Sweden wasraided last month. More than 200 people’s homes were destroyed and the local authorities only have plans to […]
Source: Quartz By Haroon Moghul; Senior Correspondent, Religion Dispatches At eleven o’clock in the morning on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, guns across Europe fell silent. An assassination in Sarajevo […]
The New York Times article “Why Women Compete With Each Other” attempts to delve into the psychological reasons as to why women are infamously noted for rivaling and undercutting each […]
“The Holy Quran teaches a lot about food portions and Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) teaches one to keep a third of the stomach full with food, a third with drink […]
KARACHI: All of us know that the legendary singer and global icon Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan had composed music for Dead Man Walking, Bone Collector, and Last Temptation of Christ. And we also know that the youth icon Atif Aslam sang for Man Push Cart and The Reluctant Fundamentalist. But do you know of Pakistanis other than Adnan Siddiqui, […]
An increasing number of women from different racial backgrounds are taking part in beauty pageants across the US, and the Miss California pageant is no exception. Sofia Hanan, an Arab-American woman, is one of the contestants participating in the pageant. Although she was born and raised in California, her father is an […]
France won’t dine with Iran unless wine is served Source: Washington Post BERLIN — Guess who’s not coming to dinner — or even breakfast or lunch? Ahead of Iranian President […]
Source: The Guardian The majority of British Muslims say they have witnessed discrimination against followers of the Islamic faith and that a climate of hate is being driven by politicians […]
Source: BBC Senegal’s President Macky Sall has called for a fight against the “excessive form” of Islam which has led to the growth of jihadi groups. Muslim clerics needed to […]
Source: Huffington Post In 2015, Diwali, the festival of lights, will be celebrated on November 11 by Hindus, Jains and Sikhs. The word Diwali comes from the Sanskrit deepavali, which […]
Source: Time Yale President Peter Salovey said in a statement he was “deeply troubled” by accounts of distress over racial issues Hundreds of Yale University students marched in protest this […]
Source: BBC A judge has sentenced a white supremacist to death for the killing of three people at two Jewish centres. Frazier Glenn Miller Jr, 74, targeted the sites in […]
Source: Huffington Post A Muslim man says former coworkers at Bed Bath & Beyond called him a “terrorist” after he grew out his beard, and alleges the chain later fired […]
Source: The Associated Press STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Europe’s top human rights court has rejected an appeal by the controversial French comic Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala, saying the right to free […]
Source: Berwick News By LACHLAN MOORHEAD ASKED if there’s anything else she’d like to say, Naureen Choudhry smiles and answers matter-of-factly. “I love Australia.” After 10 years, the Pakistani mother of two will next week officially become an Australian citizen at a special ceremony at the Casey Council chambers. While […]
The study found that people who took a Facebook break felt happier and were less sad and lonely. Photo: Iris/Scanpix Drop Facebook and be happy: Danish study Published: 09 Nov 2015 12:48 GMT+01:00 The Copenhagen-based Happiness Research Institute has a simple formula for increasing your happiness, social activity and concentration, […]