Almost half of all heart attacks are ‘silent’
Source: CNN By Nadia Kounang, CNN (CNN)Every 43 seconds, an American has a heart attack. Most people immediately recognize chest pain as a symptom of heart attack, but only 27% […]
Meet Jewish America’s first ambassador to Muslims
Source: RNS By Lauren Markoe (RNS) Bob Silverman, a Jew who spent most of his diplomatic career in Muslim-majority nations, will now reach out to Muslims in his own country. […]
Watch Muslim kids read letters from Japanese internment camp survivors
Source: Los Angeles Times By Sonali Kohli The Japanese American children who spent years in World War II internment camps were hopeful. Some thought racial discrimination would end after the […]
Ahmadis have it the worst: Asma Jahangir
Source. Rabwah Times Pakistan’s leading Human Rights activist Asma Jahangir has said that Ahmadiyya Muslims are the most persecuted religious minority in Pakistan. Jahangir made the remarks while speaking at the Hudson Institute on May 18th, in Washington D.C. The event was moderated by Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani. Answering a […]
Smoke reported on Egyptair flight prior to crash
Source.dpa.international.com By Ramadan Al-Fatash and Gerd Roth, dpa Paris/Cairo (dpa) – Smoke was detected on the doomed Egyptair plane shortly before it crashed over the Mediterranean Sea, the French air accident investigation agency BEA said on Saturday. But the agency cautioned that no conclusion could yet be drawn as to what caused […]
The Meaning of Jihadist Silence on the EgyptAir Crash
Source. Stratfor As the investigation into the crash of EgyptAir Flight 804 continues and searchers begin to find evidence, the jihadist world has been strangely silent. Air traffic controllers lost contact with the aircraft early May 19 and we are now nearly outside the timeframe in which jihadist groups have […]
No country for minorities: ‘National Action Plan has failed’
Source.ET The conference was organised by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) in collaboration with the European Union. PHOTO: AFP LAHORE: The National Action Plan—formulated to eradicate terrorism—has failed to curb religious extremism and hate speech, speakers at a conference organised on Friday observed. They made the remarks while speaking […]
Canadian Forces to look at technology -drones
Canada’s defence minister says a long-awaited review on the future of the Canadian Armed Forces will look into potential investments in technology, including drones. ‘We do need to look at technology,’ Harjit Sajjan says of pending review of military | Toronto Star ‘We do need to look at technology,’ Harjit […]