Rachid Nekkaz: on crusade for state religious ‘neutrality’. Photo: Denis Charlet/AFP Businessman vows to pay burqa ban fines Published: 11 Dec 2015 11:00 GMT+01:00 A ban on wearing niqabs or burqas in public has yet to be implemented in the canton of Ticino but an Algerian businessman is already vowing […]
ARAB NEWS Published — Monday 21 December 2015 JEDDAH: The Shoura Council will vote on Monday (today) on a proposal to identify tasks of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Haia) by issuing specific guidelines for the body’s members. A Shoura member who proposed […]
Dec 20,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL According to a recent survey conducted by the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research, two-thirds of Palestinians surveyed support the wave of knife stabbings of Israelis and view an armed Intifada as “serving the Palestinian national interests in ways that negotiations would […]
By Khetam Malkawi – Dec 20,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – Khetam Malkawi AMMAN — Following the adoption of the UN Security Council resolution that supports international efforts to seek a political solution in Syria, local analysts differed in forecasting the scope and influence of Jordan’s role in these efforts. The […]
Dec 20,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – Jeffrey D. Sachs The United States, the European Union and Western-led institutions such as the World Bank repeatedly ask why the Middle East cannot govern itself. The question is asked honestly, but without much self-awareness. After all, the single most important impediment to good governance […]
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred. Killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Derived from Al Quran 5:32/33) By Faith Karimi, CNN Updated 5:10 AM ET, Mon December […]
Voices Meet the British physicist who ignored Taliban death threats to teach in the badlands of Pakistan David Gosling spent four years as principal of University of Peshawar – “When you have education in its totality, it enables our students to see what should be obvious: we are all one” Robert […]
Source: ET PHOTO: THE TELEGRAPH KARACHI: It all started with a request. Short and simple. “Aap se darkhwast hai [We’re making a request to you]”. And that was enough. It was a code, used by Islamic State-inspired militants to raise funds for their activities in the metropolitan city. The women’s wing […]
Source: The Guardian By Henry Zeffman Despite rising fears of western hostility toward Muslims, new research shows British liberal views have strengthened since last month’s events in France Last month’s terrorist […]
npr.org: About 60 percent of rebel fighters in Syria hold an ideology that is similar to that of the Islamic State, a British think-tank has found. The Centre on Religion and Geopolitics, an initiative of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, warns that’s why wiping out the Islamic State would not […]
The Independent: When Shafiq Masih visits his relatives, he risks running into a mob. A Christian, convicted and acquitted under Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy laws after a dispute with a neighbour, Mr Masih lives in fear. He fled his home in Faisalabad, where he said he was almost lynched by a […]
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 […]
Promoted post: We are all living in the Womb of God-the-Mother, 13.8 billion Years Pregnancy Istanbul: Prof. Dr Svetan Teofanov, a Classical Arabic Studies lecturer at the Sofia University, has […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]