Muslim Comics in a Mordant Act of ‘Resistance’
Source : The New York Times By Sopan Deb “Look at how many brown people are here!” Dean Obeidallah said to cheers after taking the stage Sunday at the Comic […]
World Leaders Push Israel and Trump to Forge a 2-State Deal
Source: The New York Times By ALISSA J. RUBIN, BENOÎT MORENNE and ISABEL KERSHNER PARIS — An effort by France to give impetus to the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process through […]
Studying at the Bahai secret university
Source: BBC By Lipika Pelham|New York “I remember my father showing me the scars he had on his head from when he used to be beaten up by the children […]
CIA releases 13m pages of declassified documents online
Source: BBC About 13 million pages of declassified documents from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have been released online. The records include UFO sightings and psychic experiments from the […]
President Obama designates historic civil rights sites including black churches
Source: Religion News Service By Adelle M. Banks (RNS) In one of his last official acts, President Obama has designated Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and other civil rights landmarks in […]
Did God choose Trump? What it means to believe in divine intervention
Source: RNS By Lauren Markoe (Editor’s note: Since Donald Trump’s victory in last year’s election, many Christians became convinced he was chosen by God to be president even though he […]
U.S. Abortion Rate Falls To Lowest Level Since Roe v. Wade
Source: NPR By SARAH MCCAMMON The abortion rate in the United States fell to its lowest level since the historic Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalized abortion nationwide, a new report finds. The report by the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports legalized abortion, puts the rate at 14.6 […]
Farewell to Eugene Cernan, the Last Man to Walk on the Moon
Source: Time Jeffrey Kluger Gene Cernan never knew about the plan NASA approved to cut him loose in space — or at least he didn’t know about it at the […]
5 Ways America Changed During Obama’s Presidency
Source: Time BY Ryan Teague Beckwith@ryanbeckwith Chris Wilson@chriswilsondc The country that Donald Trump will assume leadership of on Jan. 20, 2017 looks vastly different from the one that President Obama […]
Get rid of the burqa existing stock within 48 hours
Source: Dawn Last week, officials from Morocco’s interior ministry took to the markets. There they visited some merchants and handed them a letter. “We notice that you sell the burqa,” the letter noted, before asking the merchants to get rid of the existing stock within 48 hours and to not […]
Court rejects Muslim teacher’s discrimination case over headscarf
Source: The Local Despite a major 2015 Constitutional Court ruling striking down absolute headscarf bans in schools, a lower court has rejected a case brought by a woman who was not allowed to teach due to wearing the garment. An Osnabrück court on Wednesday dismissed a complaint filed by a […]
Ways to Establish World Peace by the Worldwide Leader of Ahmadiyya Muslims
Source: Review of Religions ADDRESS BY WORLDWIDE HEAD OF THE AHMADIYYA MUSLIM COMMUNITY AT THE CALGARY PEACE SYMPOSIUM IN CANADA On 11th November 2016, the Worldwide Head of the Ahmadiyya […]
Moscow helps heal factions among the Palestinians
Palestine: Fatah and Hamas to form unity government Source: Al Jazeerah Agreement reached after three days of talks in Moscow paving the way for the formation of a new National […]
Anti-Ahok sentiment helps ex-president’s son take the lead: Survey
Margareth S. AritonangThe Jakarta Post Jakarta | Tue, January 17, 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial candidate Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono (gesturing) speaks during a visit to The Jakarta Post on Dec. 28, 2016. (JP/Wienda Parwitasari) The former president’s son, Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, and his running mate Sylviana Murni would have won the Jakarta […]
Indonesia widens arms for refugees
Tama Salim, Haeril Halim and Hans Nicholas JongThe Jakarta Post Jakarta | Wed, January 18, 2017 Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi (left, seated) talks to Rohingya Muslims at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar, beside Bangladesh’s border with Myanmar on Tuesday. (Courtesy of Foreign Ministry/File) The government has […]
Screwed?: 4 Top International Crises we have to depend on Trump to Resolve
By Juan Cole | Jan. 18, 2017 | By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) Within months of taking office, President Donald Trump is likely to face one or more major international crises, possibly entailing a risk of nuclear escalation. Not since the end of the Cold War has a […]
Indonesia’s police deny they are afraid to tackle hardline Islamic leader
Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies16 Jan 2017 Tens of thousands take part in a prayer at Jakarta’s National Monument during the December 2 rally against Jakarta’s governor Ahok. Photo: Dewi Nurcahyani Jakarta: About 5000 members of the Islam Defenders’ Front (FPI) turned up outside Indonesian police headquarters on Monday morning, […]
Gambian President Jammeh declares state of emergency
Reuters International JAN 17, 2017 FILE PHOTO – Gambia’s President Al Hadji Yahya Jammeh attends the plenary session of the Africa-South America Summit on Margarita Island September 27, 2009. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/File Photo (reuters_tickers) BANJUL (Reuters) – Gambian President Yahya Jammeh declared a state of emergency on Tuesday after refusing […]
Initiative targets Swiss nursing shortage
GROWING DEMAND JAN 17, 2017 – Switzerland has some 10,000 fewer nurses than it needs. Supporters of a new initiative hope to encourage more young people to enter the field by improving working conditions and training opportunities. At a press conference in Bern on Tuesday, the Swiss Association of […]
Obama shortens sentence of Manning, who gave secrets to WikiLeaks
Reuters International JAN 18, 2017 – Chelsea Manning is pictured in this 2010 photograph obtained on August 14, 2013.Courtesy U.S. Army/Handout via REUTERS (reuters_tickers) By Roberta Rampton and Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Tuesday shortened the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. military intelligence […]