Learning about Mormonism from a Ted Talk with a sense of humor
Ted Talk: Letting Go of God When two young Mormon missionaries knock on Julia Sweeney’s door one day, it touches off a quest to completely rethink her own beliefs, in […]
What Really Happens When You Don’t Turn Off Your Cell Phone on a Plane?
Source: Time BY Jordi Lippe-McGraw / Travel + Leisure Cell phone use on planes has been heavily debated as the airline industry attempts to keep up with ever-changing technology. It’s standard […]
Forget millennials. How will churches reach Generation Z?
Source: Religion News Service By Jonathan Merritt | 23 hours ago For the last decade, church experts have been wrestling over the best ways to reach and retain “millennials,” which is a […]
Indonesians Seek to Export a Modernized Vision of Islam
Source: The New York Times By JOE COCHRANE Photo Members of Nahdlatul Ulama in Jakarta in 2011, during a commemoration of the group’s founding in Indonesia in 1926. Its youth […]
Special Report: Islamic State seeks to impose religious rules in Egypt’s North Sinai
Source: Reuters By Ahmed Mohamed Hassan and Lin Noueihed | ARISH, EGYPT One Monday in early April, Shaher Saeed was driving south of the city of Arish in Egypt’s North […]
In Palestinian Power Struggle, Hamas Moderates Talk on Israel
Source: The New York Times By IAN FISHER JERUSALEM — Hamas, the militant group built around violent resistance to Israel, sought on Monday to present a more moderate public face, […]
Spread of Hate Crimes Has Lawmakers Seeking Harsher Penalties
Source: The New York Times By AUDRA D.S. BURCHAPRIL 30, 2017 The Victoria Islamic Center mosque in Victoria, Tex., was gutted by an arson attack in January.CreditMohammad Khursheed/Reuters The anonymous […]
Meet the activist who calls Trump an anti-Semite using Anne Frank’s name
Source: The Washington Post By Avi Selk Steven Goldstein couldn’t stop watching himself, but who could blame him? He says CNN wouldn’t stop running the clip. CNN commentator: “You think the president does […]
U.S. top court rejects ‘gay conversion’ therapy ban challenge
Source: Reuters By Andrew Chung The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left intact California’s ban on “gay conversion” therapy aimed at turning youths under age 18 away from homosexuality, rejecting […]
China to launch Wikipedia rival in 2018
Source: BBC China is to launch an online version of its national encyclopaedia next year, to compete with Wikipedia. Officials said more than 20,000 people had been hired to work […]
Sweden ends ID checks on ‘The Bridge’ with Denmark
Source: BBC Sweden is ending identity checks on border crossings with Denmark that were instituted early last year as thousands of migrants arrived seeking asylum. A major crossing point is […]
‘We are not burqa’: German government sets out 10-point plan to define national identity
Source: Independent Germany’s government has launched a 10-point plan to define the country’s culture, starting with the statement: “Wir sind nicht Burka” (“We are not burqa”). The interior minister, Thomas […]
The Negative Politics of the Opposition Parties in Pakistan
By Saeed Qureshi The next general elections in Pakistan are due to be held within three months after June 4, 2018. It means that hardly a year is left for […]
Looks aren’t everything. Believe me, I’m a model
Cameron Russell admits she won “a genetic lottery”: she’s tall, pretty and an underwear model. But don’t judge her by her looks. In this fearless talk, she takes a wry […]
Prophecies of a Third World War
During his historic tour to Europe in 1967, Khalifatul Masih III warned Europe: “The Promised Messiah also prophesied that a third world war of even bigger dimensions would follow the second. The two opposing Camps will clash with such suddenness that everyone will be caught unaware. Death and destruction will […]
Behind the belief: The Ahmadis of Singapore
Suggested reading by the Muslim Times: We have the best collection of articles about the holy Quran Source of the news: Yahoo News Singapore May 2, 2017 By Nicholas Yong View photos (L-R) Retiree Syed Ali, religious teacher Ataoul Qudus and retiree Sulaiman Adnan are part of Singapore’s tiny Ahmadi community. […]
Leaked details from May’s disastrous dinner with Juncker suggest Brexit could be far worse than anyone imagines
Denis MacShane Europe is waking up on May Day to the most devastating document published so far on Brexit. In what appears to be an almost verbatim account of the […]
Ups and downs in Far East foreshadowing another world war
BERIL DEDEOĞLU According to a British newspaper, people are increasingly interested in acquiring nuclear bomb shelters to install in their homes. If ordinary people are interested in spending money on such a thing, they are probably thinking that a war is approaching. They must imagine that even a nuclear war […]
FBI agent married Daesh terrorist she was assigned to investigate, CNN says in report
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Daesh militant Cuspert (L) and Greene Daniela Greene, a translator working for the U.S. domestic security agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), married a Daesh terrorist […]
Pride or shame in Balfour
Chris Doyle | Published — Monday 1 May 2017 British Prime Minister Theresa May expects the British public to be proud of one of their most terrible colonial disgraces and to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Balfour Declaration. The then British government promised to support a national home […]
