Why I As A Muslim Will Never Hide My Faith At Work
Source: Huffington Post By Areeb Siddiqui; Financial consultant, Physicist, Amateur Zoologist “Well as long as your imam doesn’t have a hook for a hand I won’t get worried!”. A strange thing to […]
Zarif: Iran not seeking tension with Trump
April 3, 2017 TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said his country will not give the Trump administration any pretext that can be used against it. “The establishment in its entirety has reached the conclusion that we shouldn’t give them (the Americans) any excuse,” Zarif said […]
World’s oldest university, library, meets 21st century with massive restoration
Natasha Maguder and Tom Page, CNN Updated 0846 GMT (1646 HKT) April 3, 2017 Source: CNN It is officially the oldest university in the world Rare color images from 1899 offer glimpse into a lost North Africa So goes an old Moroccan proverb. For centuries, wise men have flocked to […]
Urdu Video: Hindu Sadhu about the Prophet Muhammad
This Hindu Sadhu is Acharya Pramod Krishnan Ji Suggested Reading How can Hindus think like a Muslim or a Jew, despite the mention of 330 million gods?
Different but same
Source: Dawn HE arrived to the usual frenzy of curiosity, though some of it was unusual. Most powerful man in Pakistan — the very job description attracts it.But Bajwa was more. Victim of an ugly hit job while still candidate. Lampooned as Nawaz’s man when he got the nod. Architect […]
Iran concerned over Raheel’s appointment as head of Saudi-led military alliance: envoy
Source: Dawn Iran has expressed its reservations regarding the appointment of the former army chief, retired Gen Raheel Sharif, as head of the Saudi-led 39-nation Islamic military alliance, saying it is not ‘satisfied’ with the coalition. “We are concerned about this issue… that it may impact the unity of Islamic countries,” […]
President Trump, what’s your endgame?
Source: CNN Donald Trump’s biggest problem isn’t health care or the Freedom Caucus, not Russia or even his flailing White House bureaucracy. It’s something far more fundamental — and more dangerous. The President, quite simply, has no concept of an endgame, or even a long game. Certainly, it’s an idea […]
Muslim immigrant to run for California lieutenant governor and vows to fight ‘Donald Trump’s hate’
Dr. Asif Mahmood, a pulmonologist born in Pakistan, opposes President’s anti-immigration measures and move to repeal Obamacare Christopher Weber A Pakistani-born doctor has announced that he is joining the 2018 race for lieutenant […]
Russia: 10 dead in St. Petersburg metro explosion
Source: CNN At least 10 people have been killed in twin blasts on a metro in the Russian city of St. Petersburg, state-run TASS reported. The explosions took place on a subway car at the station. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said President Vladimir Putin was aware of the reports of […]
Muslim family’s home vandalized; Quran torn, green cards stolen
By Shachar Peled, CNN (CNN) A Muslim family returned from a weekend getaway to find their home vandalized. Shoaib and Mahrukh — who asked to be identified only by their […]
Unitarian Universalist president resigns amid diversity controversy
By Adelle M. Banks | March 31, 2017 (RNS) The president of the Unitarian Universalist Association has resigned three months short of the end of his second term, declaring that someone else needed to address the religious movement’s diversity problems. The Rev. Peter Morales, the first Latino president of the liberal and […]
Credit Suisse’s Khan Says He’s `Surprised’ by Timing of Raids
Bloomberg APR 1, 2017 – (Bloomberg) — Iqbal Khan, Credit Suisse Group AG’s head of international wealth management, said he’s surprised by the timing of a tax evasion investigation […]
New Egypt court ruling backs islands’ transfer to Saudi Arabia
Reuters | Published — Sunday 2 April 2017 (AFP) RELATED ARTICLES CAIRO: Egypt’s Court of Urgent Matters ruled that a judicial decision to block the transfer of two Red Sea […]
Britain apologizes for attack on Saudi Gen. Al-Assiri
AFP | Published — Monday 3 April 2017 Britain’s Foreign Minister Boris. (AP) RELATED ARTICLES RIYADH: Britain has apologized after an egg was thrown at a Saudi military official during […]
REVOLUTIONARIES AND SPIES: When Swiss neutrality hurt the Indian freedom struggle
By Anand Chandrasekhar APR 2, 2017 – The Café de la Couronne along with Hotel Bristol in Geneva were favoured hangouts for anti-colonial activists and foreign agents(by courtesy) A forgotten […]
As ideologies shift in Europe
Apr 02,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh The world is facing several crises today. In the Middle East, so far, there is a security crisis; other countries around the world are facing a serious ideological threat. Europe’s problems are, in part, related to external factors such as refugees, but […]
Ghosts of Mosul stalk Iraq’s fleeing children
By AFP – Apr 02,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Displaced Iraqi people who fled their homes stand in a queue to receive aid in the city of Mosul, Iraq, on […]
Croydon ‘hate crime’: Teenage girl among three more arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after attack on asylum seeker boy
The 17-year-old among three more people picked up by police, bringing the total number of arrests to nine Chantal Da Silva @chantaladasilva A teenage girl was among three more people arrested over a “brutal” suspected hate crime which left a teenage asylum seeker with a fractured skull and a blood […]
What life is like for Isis’s 400,000 ‘human shields’ in west Mosul
Endgames: inside Iraq In an exclusive dispatch on the climax of the battle for Mosul, Patrick Cockburn speaks to one of 400,000 desperate civilians for whom the besieged city has become like an underground prison Patrick Cockburn Irbil, Iraq @indyworld Isolated in their houses and short of food and water, […]