Did a prominent wartime rabbi fail European Jews?
Source: RNS By A. James Rudin Each time I publicly speak about President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, the leader of the American Jewish community during the […]
Pakistan poll: 70% say ‘It’s NEVER permissible for a man to beat his wife’
Source: RNS By Tobin Grant A prominent group of clerics in Pakistan made international headlines today when it advised that is permissible for a husband to “lightly beat” his wife. […]
Judge sentences Catholic to Baptist church pews
Source: RNS By Chris Graves/ Cincinnati Enquirer CINCINNATI — Judge William Mallory enjoys handing out creative sentences from his bench over at the Hamilton County Courthouse. But the one he meted out in his Municipal […]
Syrian refugees assist Canada’s wildfire victims
Source: Aljazeera By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours Toronto, Canada – Tareq Hadhad knows what it means to lose everything in an instant. That’s why the 24-year-old Syrian refugee and his family did not hesitate […]
Syria conflict: First aid for Darayya since 2012
Source: BBC The besieged Damascus suburb of Darayya has received its first aid convoy since November 2012, according to the Red Cross. UN aid officials had said the town was […]
Daily Inspiration: True Islam Advocates Separation of Mosque and State
By InterFaith Works of Central New York on June 01, 2016 This feature is coordinated by The Post-Standard/Syracuse.com and InterFaith Works of CNY. Follow this theme and author posted Sunday through Saturday. Dr. Muhammad Zafar IqbalInterFaith Works of Central New York True Islam teaches complete separation of mosque and state. […]
Veiling is a choice, not a sign of oppression: Woman Muslim scholar
SINGAPORE Professor Sahar Amer talks about the “ridiculous” link often made between Muslim women’s dress and terrorism, in the season premiere of interview programme Conversation With. By Lua Jiamin Posted 01 Jun 2016 13:20 Updated 01 Jun 2016 17:52 PHOTOS Sahar Amer, Professor and Chair of the Department of Arabic […]
France Wants To Build More Than 600 Miles of Solar Roads
Source: Niume The French Minister of Ecology and Energy, Ségolène Royal, has announced that the country plans to cover 1,000 kilometres (621 miles) of roads with solar panels, according to the Global Construction Review. A single kilometre segment of the surface, called Wattway, can generate enough power for a town of […]
Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person
Source: The New York Times By ALAIN de BOTTON IT’S one of the things we are most afraid might happen to us. We go to great lengths to avoid it. […]
UK Muslim Women Have Nowhere to Turn
BY CODI ROBERTSON, Wed, June 1, 2016 clarionproject.com Questions regarding belonging and citizenship are currentlyforefront in the minds of UK Muslim women after recent critical focus from Prime Minister David Cameron and former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Trevor Phillips. To help both ensure a successful integration and fight extremism, Citizens […]
Why the election of London’s first Muslim mayor is a message of hope
DOMINIQUE MOISI The Globe and Mail Published Wednesday, Jun. 01, 2016 Dominique Moisi is a professor at L’Institut d’études politiques de Paris and visiting professor at King’s College, London. ————————————– “I feel so proud of my city,” my interlocutor said, referring to the election of Sadiq Khan as London’s first […]
Fear of Islamism in Vienna
BY TAREK FATAH, TORONTO SUN TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2016 Muslims pray during a protest in front of the U.S. embassy on September 22, 2012 in Vienna. (DIETER NAGL/AFP/GettyImages) Article https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?action=recommend&app_id=162622253780945&channel=http%3A%2F%2Fstaticxx.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter.php%3Fversion%3D42%23cb%3Df7bb6d97516b7%26domain%3Dwww.torontosun.com%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.torontosun.com%252Ff4fc3fb21165%26relation%3Dparent.parent&container_width=190&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.torontosun.com%2F2016%2F05%2F31%2Ffear-of-islamism-in-vienna%3Ftoken%3D51733cd0e3dbf94b9861cb8bd120616e&layout=button_count&locale=en_US&sdk=joey&share=false&show_faces=false http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.39afe30e4ea19923747f60ae86f0f1e8.en.html#dnt=false&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.torontosun.com%2F2016%2F05%2F31%2Ffear-of-islamism-in-vienna%3Ftoken%3D51733cd0e3dbf94b9861cb8bd120616e%26utm_source%3DaddThis%26utm_medium%3Daddthis_button_gmail%26utm_campaign%3DFear%2Bof%2BIslamism%2Bin%2BVienna%2B%257C%2BFatah%2B%257C%2BColumnists%2B%257C%2BOpinion%2B%257C%2BToronto%2BSun%23.V05PkPaiWDI.gmail&size=m&text=Fear%20of%20Islamism%20in%20Vienna%20%7C%20Fatah%20%7C%20Columnists%20%7C%20Opinion%20%7C%20Toronto%20Sun&time=1464798365167&type=share&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.torontosun.com%2F2016%2F05%2F31%2Ffear-of-islamism-in-vienna%3Ftoken%3D51733cd0e3dbf94b9861cb8bd120616e https://apis.google.com/u/0/se/0/_/+1/fastbutton?usegapi=1&size=medium&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.torontosun.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.torontosun.com%2F2016%2F05%2F31%2Ffear-of-islamism-in-vienna%3Ftoken%3D51733cd0e3dbf94b9861cb8bd120616e&gsrc=3p&ic=1&jsh=m%3B%2F_%2Fscs%2Fapps-static%2F_%2Fjs%2Fk%3Doz.gapi.en.xy89OxEVWPY.O%2Fm%3D__features__%2Fam%3DAQ%2Frt%3Dj%2Fd%3D1%2Frs%3DAGLTcCOmpuqbTKRzoDhewE6nBmjsxTNbeA#_methods=onPlusOne%2C_ready%2C_close%2C_open%2C_resizeMe%2C_renderstart%2Concircled%2Cdrefresh%2Cerefresh&id=I0_1464798364863&parent=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.torontosun.com&pfname=&rpctoken=75273471 Change text size for the story Print this story Report an error It was on 9/11, but not in 2001 […]
Marriage a union of three: the man, the woman and the mullah.
Source: Dawn The writer is an attorney teaching constitutional law and political philosophy. A HUSBAND and wife in Pakistan can never be alone again. In between them sit the clerics of Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology (CII). However small the space may be, the mullah in the middle would like […]
Hillary Clinton might not be nominee, ‘this is not just a theory anymore’: Report
Source: TOI WASHINGTON: As the US presidential election draws closer, political commentators have begun to speculate upon likely scenarios with the passage of each day — and the newest theory is very interesting. A recent comment by political analyst Douglas E. Schoen, writing in The Wall Street Journal, says there was […]
Gotthard Base Tunnel: The world’s longest rail tunnel
Source: TOI At a length of 57 kilometres (34.5 miles) the GBT will overtake Japan’s 53.9-kilometre Seikan tunnel as the longest rail tunnel in the world. The 50.5-kilometre Channel Tunnel that links England and France will be bumped into third place. More:
The day I declared my best friend kafir just so I could get a passport
Source. Dawn If you are a conscientious Pakistani, or if you don’t live under a rock, it is hard to ever forget or ignore the kind of infuriating discrimination and shameful persecution that members of the Ahmadiyya community suffer in our country. You console yourself by thinking, “at least I […]
Multi-Trillion Dollar Bridge to Nowhere in the Greater Middle East
By contributors | Jun. 1, 2016 | By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – We have it on highest authority: the recent killing of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistanmarks “an important milestone.” So the president of the United […]
AZERBAIJAN: State tells Muslims when to pray
By Felix Corley, Forum 18 “If we pray according to the calendar we believe is correct, they’ll arrest us,” one Muslim tells Forum 18 about the Shia-oriented unified calendar the state imposes on all Muslims. Azerbaijan’s Georgian Orthodox – after nearly a year – should soon have a resident priest […]