Morality and Scriptures: Sam Harris vs Reza Aslan?
Suggested Reading Violence in the Bible and Jihad in the Quran Video: Here’s What Happens When People Think Bible Passages Are From The Quran A Sexual Offender from ISIS: Is the Quran […]
Netanyahu thinks mild Ban Ki-moon incites terror
Source: Independent Doesn’t Netanyahu realise how enraged Europeans are at his government’s treatment of the Palestinians? Robert Fisk @indyvoices 3 hours ago 10 comments I suspect that it was Ban’s […]
MALI HOSTAGE Twice-kidnapped Swiss woman splits opinion
MALI HOSTAGE Twice-kidnapped Swiss woman splits opinion By swissinfo.ch and agencies JAN 31, 2016 – 14:21 Stöckli in 2012 after having been kidnapped for nine days (Keystone) Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter is clear: freeing the Basel missionary Beatrice Stöckli, who was kidnapped in Mali earlier this month, is a […]
Death a bitter fact, a reminder
MARIAM ANWER Published — Friday 29 January 2016 Death is always a bitter realization, a huge reminder and a recurring scary thought: ‘How long before I am the one lying lifeless being washed, shrouded and buried by others?’ Allah says in His Glorious Book: “Every soul will taste death, and […]
2.18 million Umrah visas issued
In this Jan. 13, 2016 photo, a Muslim boy watches pilgrims as they circle the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia during the minor pilgrimage, known as Umrah. (AP) ARAB NEWS Published — Sunday 31 January 2016 JEDDAH: The […]
Falling on deaf ears
Jan 30,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon used strong words against Israel’s latest plan to build yet 153 more housing units in the West Bank during a recent UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East. The UN head criticised Israel’s settlement activities, calling them “provocative […]
UN’s Ban in new swipe at Israel over ‘stifling’ occupation
By AFP – Jan 28,2016 – JORDAN TIMES United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon briefs the Security Council during the meeting on the situation in the Middle East and Palestine on Tuesday at the UN in New York (AFP photo) UNITED NATIONS — Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday renewed his […]
Opposition arrives for peace talks as more Syrians starve
By AFP – Jan 30,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Abu Mahmoud, a 52-year-old rebel fighter, speaks with a fellow fighter next to gas masks inside a tunnel, used as a base, in the rebel-controlled area of Arbeen, on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus, on Friday (AFP photo) […]
Religious leaders call for safeguarding environment
By Rula Samain – Jan 30,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Religious leaders and environmentalists on Saturday stressed the importance of safeguarding nature and protecting the environment. At a one day event organised by the Catholic Centre for Studies and Media in cooperation with Konard Adenauer Stiftung, Christian and […]
What does it take to put an end to the mayhem in Syria?
Jan 30,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MUSA KEILANI Geneva III negotiations were launched this week in the hope of putting an end to the civil war in Syria, which, after five years, killed more than quarter of a million citizens and forced 8 million to become refugees, according to the […]
JORDAN: Population stands at around 9.5 million, including 2.9 million guests
By Mohammad Ghazal – Jan 30,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Syrians constitute 46 per cent of non-Jordanians living in the Kingdom and 13.2 per cent of the overall population, preliminary results of the national census conducted in late November showed on Saturday. Of Jordan’s total population of 9.5 million, […]
ISLAM’S LEGACY OF PLURALISM
. ISLAM’S LEGACY OF PLURALISM By Moin Qazi, India Jalaluddin Rumi, in his epic Masnavi 4: 415-18: states I speak of plural souls in name alone – One soul becomes one hundred in their frames; Just as God’s single sun in heaven Shines on earth and lights a hundred walls […]
Tumours reveal novel genetic disruption in DNA
Source: Gulf News Scientists who scoured the DNA of brain tumours, searching gene by gene for bad actors, were puzzled. The cancers had none of the mutations in growth-causing genes […]
Obama to make first visit of his presidency to a US mosque next week
Source: Gulf News Washington: President Obama will make the first visit during his presidency to a US mosque, the White House announced on Saturday, part of the administration’s push to promote religious tolerance at a time when rhetoric linking Islam with terrorism is growing. On Wednesday, the president will visit […]
‘Alliance of Virtue (or Get Your Bags Together)’
Source: Huffington Post Yusuf Islam / Cat Stevens Musician, Artist, Writer, Producer and Philanthropist As we settle down into the grip of another New Year, the past slips further away into […]
Making money out of the migrant crisis
Source: BBC Last year a record 1.1 million people sought asylum in Germany – and while politicians have been busy arguing over how best to deal with the influx of […]
The cloud that resembles a fireball in the sky
Source: BBC It looks like a fireball has been travelling through the sky. Not so: this is actually a cloud that was captured earlier this week by photographer and weather blogger […]
Migrant crisis: More than 10,000 children ‘missing’
Source: BBC More than 10,000 migrant children may have disappeared after arriving in Europe over the past two years, the EU’s police intelligence unit says. Europol said thousands of vulnerable […]
Ten books to read in February
Source: BBC Alexandra Harris, Weatherland “My thinking about people and weather has been inspired from the first by Virginia Woolf,” writes Harris, whose Romantic Moderns won the Guardian First Book […]
Syria conflict: Dozens killed near Sayyida Zeinab shrine
Source: BBC At least 45 people have been killed in three blasts near the Shia shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, south of the Syrian capital Damascus, state media say. The Islamic […]