Why isn’t it ‘terrorism’ when the perpetrators aren’t Muslim?
By Frank Vyan Walton At this week’s Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas and in the courts of America, it seems like when we talk about “terrorism” we only […]
Sofia University Professor converts to Islam after translating Holy Quran into Bulgarian language
Istanbul: Prof. Dr Svetan Teofanov, a Classical Arabic Studies lecturer at the Sofia University, has converted to Islam after studying and translating the Holy Quran into the Bulgarian language, a […]
Kasich Parody Website Announces Putin as Trump’s Running Mate
Source: Time ‘This campaign will be terrific! Huge!’ Russian President Vladimir Putin may soon be joining Donald Trump on the Republican presidential ticket in the culmination of a highly-publicized exchange […]
How Hillary Clinton Won the Debate Months Ago
Source: Time Hillary Clinton’s rivals questioned her commitment to tighter rules on guns, her hawkish foreign policy tendencies and even her age. None of that mattered. The former Secretary of […]
Shootings are a tragedy for all Americans, Muslims included
Source: Pittsburgh Post Gazette By KHALID HUSAIN The writer is a member of the Muslim Writers Guild of America. The horrifying San Bernardino shootings were carried out by a man shown […]
Alarms ring over refugee children
December 18, 2015 At least 43 unaccompanied refugee children have gone missing from various asylum centers in Norway this year alone, and 25 have died since 2006. Several of those missing were as young as nine years old, and the numbers of refugee children in Norway are now increasing dramatically. Around 4,000 refugee children are […]
Syrian Children Carry Trauma Into the Classroom
Story tools New Canadian Media, News Feature, Beatriz Paez, Posted: Dec 18, 2015 When Syrian refugee children arrive in Canadian classrooms for the very first time, the anxiety they feel might be more than simply first-day-of-school jitters, say humanitarian relief workers and health-care providers. Many may be experiencing the trauma […]
Refugee children should attend school within 3 months of arriving in Germany: experts
GERMAN PRESS AGENCY – DPA BERLIN Published December 17, 2015 Refugee children should attend school within three months of arriving in Germany in order to speed up integration efforts, a commission of experts said on Thursday. The Robert Bosch-funded commission – tasked with reviewing refugee policy – said that efforts to […]
Home school families face potential investigation over ‘radicalisation risk’
Source: The Guardian Families who home-school their children could to come under investigation over fears the practice is used as a means of radicalisation, the government has confirmed. The education […]
Laughter is the best medicine
Lahore, Pakistan http://www.zemtv.com/2015/12/20/khabarnaak-on-geo-news-19th-december-2015/ Khabarnak on Geo News : fake interview of Allama Tahir ul Qadri ————— The only cow in a small Russian town stopped giving milk, so the villagers went to Minsk and bought a new one. The cow produced lots of milk, and the people were so happy, […]
6 Ways Interfaith Partners Can Stand with Muslims
Source: Huffington Post By Saud Inam; who is a Muslim American activist, social entrepreneur, blogger and Project Manager for Discover Islam. Dr. Martin Luther King said: “We must learn to live […]
The Origins of Intolerance in America
Source: Huffington Post By John Tirman Executive Director, MIT Center for International Studies In the last few weeks, the alarming rise of vitriolic anti-immigrant, xenophobic rhetoric from the right wing […]
15 Religious Moments In 2015 That Give Us Hope For The New Year
Source: Huffington Post The world is a difficult and scary place to be, but we are continually floored by the way human beings to come together despite their differences to […]
200-year-old fossil mystery resolved
Source: BBC Scientists have reconstructed how an ancient reptile swam in the oceans at the time of the dinosaurs. Computer simulations suggest the plesiosaur moved through the water like a penguin, using its front limbs as paddles and back limbs for steering. The creature’s swimming gait has been a mystery […]
US Democratic debate: Sanders apologises to Clinton over data breach
Source: BBC Bernie Sanders has apologised to fellow US Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton after his staff stole valuable voting data from her campaign. “This is not the type of […]
China landslide: 22 buildings collapse in Shenzhen industrial park
Source: BBC Some 22 buildings have collapsed in a landslide at an industrial park in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. About 900 people have been evacuated, with four people […]
Is the Red-Dead correct?
Dec 19,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – The Disi Water Conveyance Project was set to be the dream saviour for Jordanians until the middle of the next decade. Before 2011, the Ministry of Water and Irrigation had announced several times that with the Disi project there would be a complete shutdown […]
Keeping Jordan safe
Dec 19,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – WALID M. SADI Not too long ago, Republican candidate for the White House Marco Rubio prophesied that terrorist attacks in Jordan are imminent. The leading Democratic candidate in the race for the White House, Hillary Clinton, made a similar forecast about the security and […]
What awaits Syria?
Dec 19,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – MUSA KEILANI No amount of Vienna meetings or Geneva communiqués can stop the war in Syria unless the root causes of the conflict are addressed. A new round of negotiations took place in New York this week, but it did not tackle the conundrum of […]
Refugees constitute third of Jordan population — World Bank official
By Khetam Malkawi – Dec 19,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Refugees are seen at the Zaatari camp in this photo taken earlier this year. The camp, some 90km northeast of Amman, is currently home to 79,253 (File photo) AMMAN — Although the number of refugees from different nationalities in the […]