The daily pain of having extreme perception
Source: BBC By Emma Young From Mosaic 20 June 2016 At the age of six, Jack Craven started telling his mother he wanted to die. “God made a mistake when […]
Where Obama faltered in the Afghan war
Source: Asia Times. Obama understood that a military attack on Iran – although he had ‘all options on the table’ – would have been a historic blunder. Obama was lucky in Iraq, since the Iraqi parliament demanded an end to the occupation. In Libya, he made the mistake of allowing the […]
Obama Will Finally Own Up to Drone War Dead
Source: The Daily Beast. President Obama is expected to issue an executive order as early as next week that for the first time would call for the United States annually to disclose how many civilians it believes it has killed in its airstrikes against terrorists around the world, The Daily […]
The people who ate elephant heads
Source: BBC By Matt Walker Ancient humans dined out by eating the massive heads of now extinct elephants. According to new research, people living in Palaeolithic times, commonly known as […]
US Senate rejects terror list gun sale restrictions
Source: BBC The US Senate has rejected plans to tighten gun controls, including the restriction of weapons sales to people on terrorism watch lists. Four proposals were brought before the […]
Israel approves additional funding for settlements in West Bank
Source: The New York Times By ISABEL KERSHNER JERUSALEM — The Israeli government on Sunday approved about $20 million in additional financing for Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, […]
Orlando, Islam and the West
Source: ET A deranged, 29-year-old American man born in New York, to Afghan parents, killed 49 young men and women at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida. During the killing spree, Omar Saddique Mateen calmly called 911, the emergency line, to declare that he had acted in support of the Islamic […]
Pakistani man charged with blasphemy over shoes with Hindu symbol
Source: Reuters ISLAMABAD | BY ASAD HASHIM Pakistani police arrested a man under the majority-Muslim country’s strict blasphemy laws on Monday for selling shoes with a sacred Hindu symbol, police and Hindu leaders said. The shopkeeper, Jahanzaib Khaskhili, was arrested in the southern town of Tando Adam and the shoes, […]
Church of England aims to agree to disagree over homosexuality
Source: The Guardian By Andrew Brown The General Synod in London in February. Photograph: Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images At next month’s General Synod, the Church of England will try a new […]
World Orthodox leaders meet despite Russia’s absence
Source: Associated Press By DEREK GATOPOULOS and DEMETRIS NELLAS ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The leaders of the world’s Orthodox Christian churches have gathered on the Greek island of Crete […]
Iran ‘foils plot by Sunni militants to bomb Tehran’
Source: BBC The authorities in Iran have thwarted a plot by Sunni militants to bomb targets in the capital Tehran and other cities, the intelligence ministry says. The ministry said […]
An elite club of suicide bombers
Source: Dawn.Com It is always baffling, isn’t it, to see the yawning difference in our responses in South Asia to a gathering communal threat, for instance, as opposed to the catastrophic prospect of nuclear annihilation? Only recently, Pakistan toggled between public outcry and terrified whispers when teeming mourners showed up […]
Kidnapping of SHC CJ’s son bargaining chip for militants
Source: Dawn.Com KARACHI: Police sources suspect that Advocate Awais Ali Shah, kidnapped son of Sindh High Court’s chief justice, will be used as a ‘bargaining chip’ to ensure release of some captured militants. “So far it is kidnapping, and my professional assessment is that it is not for ransom,” Sindh […]