Source: Quartz This article was updated at 6pm in Hong Kong with additional analysis of what the new rules may mean. In the latest sign that China’s long-touted “opening up” is reversing into a “closing down,” a Chinese ministry has issued new rules that ban any foreign-invested company from publishing […]
Source: BBC Austria’s daily cap on the number of migrants and refugees allowed into the country has come into force. Just 80 asylum applications will be accepted each day at Austria’s southern border, after which it will shut. The European migration commissioner has described the measure as “plainly incompatible” with […]
Source: BBC App-based car-hire service Uber is losing more than $1bn (£699m) a year in China, as it struggles against what it called a “fierce competitor”. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick […]
Source: Pew Research Center Views of Immigration’s Impact on U.S. Society Mixed Fifty years after passage of the landmark law that rewrote U.S. immigration policy, nearly 59 million immigrants have […]
Source: The Guardian I was looking at Romer’s Gap the other day. No this isn’t a dirty confession, although I did come back with sand in my hiking boots. Just […]
Source: CNN CNN)Shortly after Pope Francis called Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border “not Christian,” the GOP front-runner’s campaign was ready with a response: Isn’t […]
Source: Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A U.S. Army reservist from Tulsa asked to leave a gun range in eastern Oklahoma after identifying himself as a Muslim sued the […]
Source: Crux ON BOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — While strongly rejecting abortion as a solution to the Zika virus now sweeping across Latin America and elsewhere, Pope Francis nonetheless appeared […]
Source: The New York Times PARIS — Depending on who is telling the story, Daoud Muradyan, a blind 21-year-old, is either a potential terrorist or a harmless immigrant who embodies everything that is wrong with France’s broad new antiterrorism powers. Mr. Muradyan came under suspicion after having contact with a […]
CBC Information Morning broadcasting live from Ummah Mosque The program will focus on the Muslim community, which consists of more than 25,000 people in Halifax. It’s one of the fastest […]
By Noha Medhat A startling new study of the Christian and Islamic texts has revealed that violence and anger are more common in the Old and New Testaments than in […]
Source: Business Insider No religion is unified. How Catholicism, for example, is practiced in rural Italy differs from the way this is done, say, in New York city. Language, culture, […]
Science can help save lives — and destroy future generations The most vulnerable among us are in danger when it comes to advances in scientific genetic modification. The Human Fertilization […]
Trump: Iraq invasion possibly worst choice made by any U.S. president. Watch: https://t.co/HAhU3M4HnF #GOPTownHall https://t.co/uvQl5Y7fSi — CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) February 19, 2016 Suggested Reading Where are the bodies of […]
For our collection of articles to tackle Islamophobia, please click here Source: Pew Research Center Most Americans say religion doesn’t cause violence, but rather that violent people use religion to […]
Lankaweb: In Pakistan organisations like Khatme Nubuwwat have been allowed to grow and flourish and they now yield considerable power and influence over the government. Their religious ideology is now intrinsically woven into the political structure leading to extremism that has now spiralled out of control. “…..it is now beyond […]
NY Times: ABOARD THE PAPAL AIRLINER — Inserting himself into the Republican presidential race, Pope Francis on Wednesday suggested that Donald J. Trump “is not Christian” because of the harshness of his campaign promises to deport more immigrants and force Mexico to pay for a wall along the border. “A […]
“Personally, I’ll admit that I was a bit surprised that the concept of ‘Mercy’ was most prevalent in the Quran.” —Tom H. C. Anderson upon completion of his analysis assessing if the Holy Quran were more violent than the Holy Bible. As the fear of Islam continues to permeate society, […]
http://amsa.org.uk/: This series, entitled ‘Islam and Slavery’ will examine the practice of the Prophet Muhammadsa with regards to the institution of slavery. It will compare the success of his policies and […]