How to robot-proof your children’s careers
Source: Financial Times By Sarah O’Connor Employment Correspondent Pity school careers advisers. If economists are to be believed, vast numbers of jobs will have evaporated by the time today’s pupils […]
What being a minority in the US taught me about minorities in Pakistan
Source: Dawn By SALTANAT ANSARI She is pursuing a major in International Relations and a minor in Latina/o Studies at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley. Lahore is my native city — it has always been the dearest sense of love I have felt. It was the beautiful gardens and my most […]
Foreign tourists to explore Iran by luxury train
Social April 6, 2016 TEHRAN – The Golden Eagle Danube Express luxury train, carrying 74 tourists from the U.S., the Netherlands, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Australia, arrived in the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz on Tuesday. The tourists paid visits to Azarbaijan Museum, Blue Mosque, and Grand Bazaar and […]
In Pakistan, tackling extremism is a political minefield
Source: Associated Press BY KATHY GANNON ISLAMABAD (AP) — Tackling extremism is a political minefield in Pakistan, where politicians openly consort with leaders of banned militant groups and sympathy exists […]
Risk of Collapse at Jesus’ Tomb Unites Rival Christians
Source: The New York Times By DIAA HADID JERUSALEM — It was a typical day at the shrine around what many believe is the tomb of Jesus in Jerusalem’s Old […]
France: Le Pen fined over Holocaust remarks
Source: BBC Former French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen has been fined 30,000 euros (£24,000; $34,000) for calling the Nazi gas chambers a “detail” of World War Two. He was […]
First Syrians leave for US under surge resettlement program
Source: Associated Press AMMAN, Jordan — The first Syrian family to be resettled in the U.S. under a speeded-up “surge operation” for refugees left Jordan on Wednesday for Kansas City, […]
USA: The incredibly gracious way Muslims welcomed a man who had drunkenly shot their mosque
Ted Hakey, a former Marine, knelt in prayer, his forehead on the floor, beside his Muslim neighbors inside their Connecticut mosque last Saturday. The enormity of that gesture was lost on no one. Ted Hakey hugs Zahir Mannan at the Baitul Aman ‘House of Peace’ Mosque following a program at […]
Switzerland: Rejected asylum seekers who go into hiding
NO STATUS http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/inline?urn=urn:swi:video:42046214 EMBED CODE APR 4, 2016 – 15:45 Sometimes asylum seekers go underground, as they have no hope of getting official refugee status. They’re known as “sans papiers” (without papers). (SRF/swissinfo.ch) Asylum is only granted to those who face persecution or imprisonment in their country of origin for […]
Arab-Jewish segregation comments spark furore in Israel
By Reuters – Apr 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinian children gather in a playground during a celebration for Palestinian Child Day, in the West Bank town of Salfit on Tuesday (AP photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — A far-right Israeli politician has been admonished by his party and roundly condemned by […]
First Syrian refugee family departs to US after new procedure applied
By Khetam Malkawi – Apr 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A Syrian family is escorted at the airport to catch a flight to the US, where they will have a refugee status as part of a programme to host 10,000 Syrians in America, on Wednesday (Photo by Osama Aqarbeh) […]
The ‘one for one’ refugee policy means we’re picking and choosing among desperate people
Voices As the journalist Wolfgang Bauer reminds us, the Syrian people witness the horrors of the Paris and Brussels attacks every single day Robert Fisk @indyvoices 11 comments The most relevant newspaper cartoon on the asylum story popped up on the front page of The Irish Times this week, for […]
Secular Bangladeshi writer murdered in the street & TMT leading discusion on Free Speech
Epigraph: Do they say, ‘He has forged it?’ Say, ‘Bring then a Surah like unto it, and call for help on all you can besides Allah, if you are truthful.’ […]
The Reason
The Mulla went to see a rich man. ‘Give me some money.’ ‘Why?’ ‘I want to buy … an elephant.’ ‘If you have no money, you can’t afford to keep an elephant’. ‘I came here’, said Mullah Nasrudin, ‘to get money, not advice.’
Religious freedom wins in Malaysia, both Islam and Christianity win, it is a landmark ruling
Epigraph: Those who believe, then disbelieve, then again believe, then disbelieve, and then increase in disbelief, Allah will never forgive them nor will He guide them to the way. (Al […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at celebrates 50 years in Canada
Cumberland mosque members host celebration at city hall Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, based on Dunning Road in Cumberland, gathered at city hall on April 5 to celebrate 50 […]
Prime Minister Trudeau on 50 Years of Service by The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at Canada
Source: Northumberland View Congratulatory Message from Prime Minister Trudeau on 50 Years of Service by The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at Canada The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at held a special celebratory event to […]
Bosnia becomes home to radical Islamists
Source. neurope.eu Bosnia has reportedly become a hub for radical Islamists. They recruit fighters, promote jihad and preach a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam — just across the border from the European Union, according to a report published by Germany’s Spiegel online. As many as 300 Islamist radicals have left Bosnia-Herzegovina […]
UK: Bradford man admits to murdering Asad Shah
Source: BBC The man accused of murdering Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah has issued a statement saying he carried out the killing because he believed Mr Shah had “disrespected” Islam. Tanveer […]