What Is Easter Without the Resurrection?
Source: Huffington Post By Christian Chiakulas; Writer, activist, and musician from Chicago John Dominic Crossan closes the main text of his 1994 book Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography with the question: […]
ISIS Brussels Attack Video Stars Donald Trump
Source. The daily Beast. A new video released by a pro-ISIS media platform on Thursday uses Donald Trump’s words on the Brussels attack to illustrate the group’s success in attacking Europe. “Brussels was one of the great cities, one of the most beautiful cities of the world 20 years ago,” […]
Why Belgium is Europe’s front line in the war on terror
Source. CNN Brussels: It’s a quaint but bustling city, famed for its picture postcard squares, its chocolate and its beer. But it is rapidly becoming infamous, too, asa fertile recruiting ground for jihadi fighters. For months, Belgian authorities and the public here had lived in fear of attack by home-grown […]
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools
Source: Hamilton Spectator ByAhmed Sahi “Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.” Since the dreadful attacks in Brussels, there’s been a barrage of pundits and political figures throughout […]
Karadzic guilty of Bosnia genocide, jailed for 40 years
Reuters International MAR 24, 2016 – 16:22 By Thomas Escritt and Toby Sterling THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was sentenced to 40 years in jail by U.N judges who found him guilty of genocide for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and of nine other war crimes […]
Daily life in the Piraeus refugee camp
MIGRATION CRISIS By Gaby Ochsenbein, Piraeus, Greece MAR 24, 2016 – 11:02 Kristina Häsler tries to improve the situation of refugees living in an improvised tent camp in the Greek port of Piraeus (swissinfo.ch) The Greek port of Piraeus is currently home to 4,000-5,000 refugees, who live in warehouses and […]
The Latest: Karadzic Sentenced to 40 Years in Genocide Case
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Mar 24, 2016 The Associated PressDemonstrators gather outside the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia before the trial of former Bosnian […]
Report: world’s happiest countries are also least religious
Report: World’s Happiest Countries Are Also Least Religious March 17, 2016 by Michael Stone 42 Comments The world’s happiest countries are also the world’s least religious countries according to a new report released by the World Happiness Index. Science Alert reports that every year, the World Happiness Index surveys numerous people from various countries around the world […]
Muslims have a moral responsibility to address Isis’s bastardisation of Islam
By Ro Waseem March 23, 2016 17:34 GMT ibtimes.co.uk “Isis has nothing to do with Islam!” has become the mainstream response by Muslims to jihadist attacks. As a Muslim myself, I find it grotesque to observe the impunity with which jihadists murder innocent civilians, chanting the name of God who, in […]
American Muslims Defy Sen. Ted Cruz’s Call for Surveillance
By gillian flaccus, associated press ANAHEIM, Calif. — Mar 24, 2016, 12:00 AM ET abcnews.go.com Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s call for patrolling Muslim neighborhoods in the wake of the Brussels terror attacks has sparked a backlash on Twitter.The trending hashtag #MyMuslimNeighborhood calls out the latest controversial remarks made by the […]
Is the Arab world losing its diversity?
Mar 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – DAOUD KUTTAB The airlifting of a dozen-and-a-half Yemeni Jews to Israel last Monday received wide coverage. The action to evacuate 19 Yemenis to Israel is said to have included four stops and was done in cooperation with the US State Department. What happens to […]
Holier than thou
Mar 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Front-runner Democratic candidate to the White House Hillary Clinton gave the world, in general, and the Arab countries, in particular, especially the Palestinian people, a hint at what her foreign policy would be if she were elected US president in November. Addressing the packed […]
JIHADI COOL: BELGIUM’S NEW EXTREMISTS ARE AS SHALLOW AS THEY ARE DEADLY
BY KURT EICHENWALD ON 3/22/16 NEWSWEEK.COM Police control access to the central train station following the bomb attacks in Brussels on March 22.REUTERS Anyone surprised by the murderous attack in Brussels has not been paying attention. On a per capita basis, Belgium has been Europe’s hotbed of young Muslims who travel […]
Syrian army expects to retake Palmyra ‘within hours’ —TV
By Reuters – Mar 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES This file photo taken on March 14, 2014, shows a partial view of the ancient oasis city of Palmyra, 215 kilometres northeast of Damascus (AFP photo) BEIRUT — Syrian soldiers and their allies advanced to within 1km of Palmyra on Thursday and […]
Happy Holi to All Those Celebrating Today
Holi, the Hindu festival of colours celebrated in South Asia, marks the beginning of spring and is being celebrated today on March 24. Holi holds a mythological importance – that […]
Muslim Leader Condemns West’s Regime Change Policies, Supports Russia’s Approach to Islamic World
This sane voice sounded last Saturday from one of the western Europe’s largest mosques in London Taalay Ahmed Tue, Mar 22, 2016 Subtitles by Julia Rakhmetova Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the spiritual leader of millions of Muslims belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community made the remarks during a March 19 […]
Op-Ed: The Middle East is now Europe’s backyard
Source: BBC By Jonathan Marcus; Diplomatic correspondent We are accustomed to thinking about policy in binary terms – domestic politics on the one hand, foreign affairs on the other. But […]
#STOPISLAM WILL NEVER BE THE ANSWER TO EXTREMISM
Newsweek: In the wake of the tragic Brussels attacks, the world has been flooded with familiar knee-jerk, emotional responses. Symbolic of this superficial divide has been the Twitter hashtag #StopIslam, emerging as a conduit for polarized views. But, facing down extremism—one of the challenges of our age—requires level heads and sombre […]
Video: The True Meaning of ‘Allahu Akbar’
Source: Huffington Post By Princess Ameerah Al-Taweel; Humanitarian, public speaker and businesswoman The phrase “Allahu Akbar” is commonly used by Muslims to remind themselves of God’s vastness and power. It […]
Brussels attacks: Irish Muslim leaders offer condolences
Backlash and blame in the wake of terror attacks too often falls on the wrong people and this “perpetuates the narrative of the extremists”, a Muslim group in Ireland has said. The Irish Muslim Peace and Integration Council said the attacks in Brussels on Tuesday “once again reiterate that the […]