By AFP – Oct 14,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Members of Iraqi security forces gesture as a convoy advances on the outskirts of Mosul, to fight against the Daesh terror group militants in Kirkuk, Iraq, Wednesday (Reuters photo) BAGHDAD — The Iraqi foreign ministry summoned the Turkish ambassador on […]
The city of Gaziantep and the ‘Liberation’ mosque is a milestone on the journey between one great crime of the 20th century, and another seen during the Second World War Robert Fisk Gaziantep @indyvoices The ‘Liberation’ Mosque is a fine, neo-classical, almost Gothic construction with striped black-and-white stone banding, unusual […]
Source: The Local The threat from Volker Kauder, a key member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party, follows a similar warning by Justice Minister Heiko Maas, in a growing sign of German politicians’ frustration with such websites.”The time for round-tables is over. I’ve run out of patience,” said Volker Kauder, chairman […]
Source: The Local She hosted Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, having also met Chad’s head of state Idriss Deby two days earlier following a three-day whirlwind tour of Mali, Niger and Ethiopia, the seat of the African Union. As Germany, Europe’s top destination for people fleeing war and misery, looks to chair […]
Source: Dawn THE corps commanders have spoken. They have expressed concern over the “feeding of a false and fabricated story” that appeared in Dawn on Oct 6 as a breach of national security. At the same time, the government “as a gesture of goodwill” has removed the travel ban on […]
Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws Chapter 1 – Origin Story of 295C from Pakistans Blasphemy Laws on Vimeo. Source: Dawn BY ARAFAT MAZHAR A few days ago, a video of erstwhile pop icon […]
Source: ET It’s a sad little word ‘tawdry’. Dictionaries, my own old-fashioned print variety and the online version all concur — cheap shoddy and tasteless they say. I got 90 minutes of full-on tawdry last Monday morning when I grumped before the TV set with my cereal and the first […]
It was just one year after the second world war ended, which brought death and destruction over Europe, when three young Muslim Missionaries from British India, arriving via England, stopped over in Switzerland on 13th October 1946. The actual destination was Germany, but at that moment the entry was […]
Source: Huffington Post By Craig Considine; Sociologist at Rice University As an advocate of interfaith dialogue, particularly between Christians and Muslims, I’m often faced with the issue of conversion. People […]