Same Gun Was Used to Kill Two Critics of Hindu Nationalists in India
Source: The New York Times By Maria Abi-Habib The gun that was used last year to kill a prominent journalist critical of the Indian government was the same weapon […]
U.S. plans to return American ISIS suspect to Syria with $4,210, new cellphone and clothes he had when he was picked up
Source: The Washington Post By Ann E. Marimow U.S. military officials plan to release an American citizen accused of supporting the Islamic State “under safe conditions,” and with $4,210 and a […]
Priest finds €36,000 stashed in confessional box at Rome church
Source: The Guardian By Angela Giuffrida in Rome Rome police and clergy at a church near the Vatican have been left baffled after a package containing €36,000 (£31,500) was found in a confessional box. Police were called to Santa Maria delle Grazie alle Fornaci on Wednesday to investigate what priests […]
Abuse survivors launch global bishop accountability effort
Source: Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Some of the most prominent figures in the fight against sexual abuse in the Catholic Church are joining forces in a new international effort […]
Myanmar hardline monks vow to stay on Facebook despite ban
Source: Reuters BY Sam Aung Moon, Yimou Lee YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar’s hardline monks will dodge bans on Facebook and keep using the social media giant to “tell the truth”, they […]
Sens. Stabenow, Peters slam White House official over Michigan Muslims remarks
Source: Detroit Free Press By Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press U.S. Sens. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Gary Peters, D-Mich., are criticizing the new chief of staff of the National Security Council over his […]
‘Make Sure Not to Talk Any Arabic’: American Muslims and Their Guns
Source: The New York Times Photographs by AMR ALFIKY Text by ADEEL HASSAN When Sheima Muhammad takes her Glock pistol to her local gun range in central Ohio, she gets funny looks. […]
Austria to shut seven ‘political’ mosques and expel imams
Source: BBC News Austria has said it will close down seven mosques and expel imams who it says are funded by foreign countries. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said the move was […]
The problem with Muslims’ free-hug experiments
Januarsyah Sutan – Jakarta | Fri, June 8, 2018 | First prayer: Muslims perform tarawih (evening Ramadhan prayers) at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta on Wednesday, marking the beginning of […]
Austria to shut seven ‘political’ mosques and expel imams
Source: BBC Austria has said it will close down seven mosques and expel imams who it says are funded by foreign countries. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said the move was a […]
Islamism — the Political Islam: The Challenge for the 21st Century
Source: Muslim Sunrise Summer 2018 Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times It was 8th of June, 632 CE, Muhammad, may peace be on […]
Stockholm lorry attacker Rakhmat Akilov jailed for life
Source: BBC News An Uzbek man who carried out a lorry attack which killed five people in Sweden last year has been sentenced to life for terrorist crimes. Rakhmat Akilov, 40, had expressed sympathy for the Islamic State (IS) group before the attack in Stockholm. But prosecutors had to prove […]
Video: Being Muslim in the U.S.
Source: Pew Research Center This video offers a look inside the beliefs and attitudes of Muslims in America; it features data from Pew Research Center’s 2017 survey, as well as […]
Bill Gates Offers Every College Grad a Free Copy of His Favorite Book
Source: Time By Max Zahn Bill Gates is giving one of his favorite books to every 2018 college graduate in the United States. The volume is Hans Rosling’s Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. The billionaire co-founder of Microsoft has called […]
Islam’s New ‘Native Informants’
nybooks.com: Returning from Lebanon and Egypt in 2003, Edward Said wrote an angry dispatch in the London Review of Books on how the Iraq War as reported on Arabic TV channels portrayed a different conflict from the one reported by the American media, in which journalists were “as lost as the English-speaking soldiers they […]
Convicting the US of war crimes
Jun 08,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Jonathan Power There is a clock ticking towards July 20th. That is when the International Criminal Court (ICC) goes into its summer recess. The […]