Why ‘Why Buddhism Is True’ Is True
Source: NPR BY ADAM FRANK Here is one thing author Robert Wright and I agree on when it comes to Buddhist meditation: It’s really, really boring. At least, it’s boring in the beginning. […]
Kosher? Historic ruling lets Israeli diners decide
Source: Religion News Service By Michele Chabin | September 26, 2017 JERUSALEM (RNS) — For decades, Israeli restaurateurs who served kosher food but who did not want to submit to the authority of […]
Toronto: ‘We are living through an all-out assault on truth and reason,’ Hillary Clinton
By VICTORIA GIBSONStaff Reporter Thu., Sept. 28, 2017 thestar.com Former U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took to a Toronto stage Thursday night in front of a cheering audience of thousands, a scene reminiscent of the campaign trail she left behind on Nov. 8, 2016. Her electoral loss was almost a year […]
Christian to head Syria parliament for first time in decades
Sabbagh is first Christian to hold the post since Fares Al Khoury served sporadically between 1920-1946 Image Credit: AFP Newly elected Syrian parliament speaker Hammoudeh Sabbagh delivers a speech on Sept 28, 2017 in Damascus. Published: 18:50 September 28, 2017 AFP Damascus: A Christian legislator was Thursday elected […]
King Salman meets Russian realism
Dr. Manuel Almeida Five decades of broken diplomatic ties between Saudi Arabia and the Soviet Union (1938-1992) offer some perspective into the significance of King Salman’s expected visit to Moscow next week, the first ever by a Saudi monarch. In 1926, after Moscow recognized King Abdul Aziz Al-Saud’s conquest of […]
Why Arabs in the US are their own worst enemy
The Arab and Muslim community in America has many problems. They are often the same problems that Arabs and Muslims face around the world, including the Arab and Muslim worlds. In America, many Arabs and Muslims are there physically, but their thoughts, hearts and minds are “back home.” In other […]
Toddler shoots two children with handgun in daycare centre
Police are determining whether to file charges in the case Emily Shugerman New York Thursday 28 September 2017 Two children were shot by another toddler at an informal daycare centre in Michigan YouTube/WXYZ-TV Detroit Two children are in serious but stable condition after allegedly being shot by another toddler at […]
Kurdistan has voted overwhelmingly for independence – so what happens next?
The most pressing problem is funding. Much of Kurdistan’s domestic economy is dependent on Turkey, which has threatened to cut off the flow of goods and stop exporting oil because of the referendum Rebecca Richards, Robert Smith Thursday 28 September 2017 Over 92 per cent of votes were cast for independence […]
I’m all for war crimes trials in The Hague – so long as we agree to prosecute every possible war criminal
Reflect on the fact that Rifaat al-Assad had been in Europe for decades after he was first accused of sending his Defence Brigades to massacre civilians in Hama. He was worth millions. He lived in luxury in London at a time when I was asking why Scotland Yard didn’t pay him […]
Book Review: One Billion and One Arabian Nights
by Dr. Salee’ Amina Mohammed One Billion and One Arabian Nights documents the extraordinary experiences of Dr. SaLee’ Amina, an American convert to Islam, throughout 27 years of working with Royal families in the oil wealthy Arab countries. After achieving a high level of accomplishment in the private wealth management and […]
No Place for an Ahmadiyya Cemetary
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Germany is looking for a Central Cemetary. The search is not really progressing: the Ahmadiyya community plans to set up its own cemetery in the Rhine-Main area. It has the permission to do so, but it depends on the property. In Frankfurt and Offenbach the place […]
Saudi Arabia in huge new bond sale to finance deficit
Agence France Presse RIYADH: Saudi Arabia Thursday announced it had undertaken another multi-billion dollar bond sale to finance a persistent budget deficit left by low oil prices. The world’s top crude oil exporter raised $12.5 billion in its third international bond issue, the finance ministry said. It comes as Saudi […]
Daesh releases alleged audio message from leader al-Baghdadi
ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO Daesh terrorist group on Thursday released what it said was a new audio recording of its top leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in which he vows to continue fighting and lavishes praise on his fighters despite their loss of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Mosul was […]
‘Rain begins with a single drop’: Saudi women rejoice at end of driving ban
By Reuters – Sep 27,2017 – JORDAN TIMES A Saudi woman drives her car along a street in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah on Wednesday (AFP photo) RIYADH — Saudi Arabian women rejoiced at their new freedom to drive on Wednesday, with some taking to the roads even […]
What if President Trump is starting a trade war with Canada ?
President Donald Trump’s administration fired its first shot in a potential trade war, but it’s not Beijing or Mexico City in the cross hairs. The target: our friendly neighbor to the north, Canada. Trump has escalated what were modest and longstanding frictions with Ottawa over U.S. dairy products and Canadian […]
Aarzu Singh is Miss India Australia 2017
Melbourne, September 28http://tribuneindia.com/news/diaspora/aarzu-singh-is-miss-india-australia-2017/474378.html Aarzu Singh of Gold Coast, Queensland, has been crowned Miss India Australia 2017 in Sydney, an organiser said on Thursday. Mallika Raj from Canberra was the runner-up. Aarzu Singh, 20, won the beauty pageant title on the basis of overall performance at official auditions and talent workshops held […]
Videos: The Rise of Scientific Atheism
The Muslim Times has the best collection of articles and videos on Religion and Science Paul Davies: The Best 5 Minute Video for the Argument from Design Prof. Paul Davies – […]
As a woman who lived in Saudi Arabia, here’s how I feel about them letting women drive for the first time
Mobility is powerful – feeling as though you have the ability to escort yourself, plan your own day and give yourself permission to leave the house without making a single phone call Nour Hassan Being a woman in Jeddah meant that you became accustomed to relying on others to […]
A more complicated situation
Sep 27,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen Whenever the US attempts or effects “regime change”, disaster follows. North Korea is the latest country where Washington would like to oust the leadership, perhaps because its ruler, Kim Jong-un, called Donald Trump a “dotard”, a senile old man, after he dubbed […]
Saudi Arabia lifting the driving ban is little more than a glitzy distraction from its continued geopolitical problems
King Salman signs the decree; but the world knows that the Crown Prince is behind all this, just as he was behind the ambitious new economic plan to move away from […]