Huff Post: by Severin Carroll — Just over half of practising solicitors are women, but they are still under-represented in senior roles Senior judges at the Court of Session in […]
theguardian: by Joe Williams, Tshepo Mokoena, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, Homa Khaleeli and Nosheen Iqbal Chi Onwurah Chi Onwurah. Photograph: James Drew Turner The MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central joined the shadow cabinet following Jeremy Corbyn’s victory: she had nominated him for the Labour leadership, but you wouldn’t call her […]
Huff Post: by Antonia Blumberg & Carol Kuruvilla — The world is a difficult and scary place to be, but we are continually floored by the way human beings to […]
theguardian: by Daniel Hurst — In rebuke to Tony Abbott, Concetta Fierravanti-Wells argues ‘megaphone politics’ could jeopardise Australia’s relations with neighbours such as Indonesia Concetta Fierravanti-Wells also chides MPs who indulged in a ‘public flogging’ of Australia’s grand mufti. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP A federal government frontbencher has warned against “simplistic” […]
Huff Post: by Yasmin Nouh — “We want to show that Muslim women are not afraid.” A steady stream of Muslim women filled a large studio in Manhattan on Saturday evening, awaiting an introductory lesson in self-defense. Most of them wore colorful headscarves and long skirts or loose, […]
Source: The Guardian By David Mitchell — How should we respond to would-be President Trump’s latest outrage? Point a figure and shout Eeeeuuuurrrggghhh! Figure of fun: a rally in New […]
Huff Post: by Jawed Kaleem — “ISIS wants to create a division between Christians and Muslims.” Following last week’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, which was carried out by Muslims who FBI officials say were Islamic State supporters, American mosques and Muslims have been hit with threats and attacks. […]
Source: The Guardian By Owen Jones The Republican presidential frontrunner’s call to stop Muslims from entering the US adds to mounting Islamophobia. He’s no longer a clown but a serious […]
theguardian: by Harriet Sherwood — Influential report urges end to religious assemblies and raises concern over segregation Schools should no longer face a legal requirement to provide daily acts of worship of a Christian character, under radical reforms being proposed by a top-level inquiry into the place of faith in […]
Huff Post: by Michael Stark — Action is not separated from prayer. If we pray without action, we aren’t really praying. Another day has brought forth further tragedy at the hands of mass shooters, this time in California. We’ve sadly grown accustomed to mass shootings in America. Our response, while […]
Source: The Guardian By Miqdaad Versi If military action were enough to destroy Isis, Sunni and Shia communities would support it. But there is no shortage of concerns – or alternatives On the fateful night when MPs voted to extend airstrikes over Syria, Shabana Mahmood, the Labour MP for Birmingham […]
theguardiaan: by Jason Wilson — Calls for a reformation are cynical, counterproductive and ignore the bloody facts of history ‘It started with Josh Frydenberg saying over the weekend that the more recent massacre in Paris was down to a “problem within Islam”’ Photograph: Jonny Weeks for the Guardian On the […]
theguardian: by Michael Safi — Survey of 600 Muslims finds they are three to five times more likely to experience extreme levels of bigotry compared with other Australians Muslims in Sydney face high levels of racism, yet still believe Islam is compatible with Australian norms Muslims in Sydney are three […]
Huff Post: by Antonia Blumberg — What is “the Tao,” exactly? The Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese text that puts forth a set of practices and guidelines for […]
theguardian: by Simon Jenkins — A tale of 12th-century monks peddling sanctity for cash holds a lesson for today’s fearful Christians The truth is out and in the headlines. Back in 1184 the monks of Glastonbury fabricated an edifice of myth about their monastery’s past for pecuniary gain. No, Christ […]
theguardian: by Roy Greenslade — New York Times article questions the west’s support for the Wahhabist kingdom One of the commenters to my posting, UK newspapers call on Vladimir Putin to keep calm over downed jet, asked: “What irreconcilable opposing interests do Russia and the west have? Excuse the […]
Huff Post: by Jessica Marglin — It is hard to know what to say in the wake of the terrible violence that recently engulfed Paris and Beirut. What follows is by no means an attempt to explain the attacks — nor to justify them — but rather to tease out […]
The Washington Post: by Edward E. Curtis IV, editor of the Bloomsbury Reader on Islam in the West. On Oct. 19, 2008, former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman and secretary of state Colin Powell went on NBC’s “Meet the Press” to endorse Barack Obama for president. Troubled by accusations that Obama […]
Huff Post: by Mathieu Ricard — “No matter who it is you meet, know that they have already walked several times through hell,” writes French poet Christian Bobin. Our Parisian […]
Huff Post: by Zeena Mubarak — “And when the baby girl buried alive is asked For what sin was she killed” (81:8-9) These verses, which stop me hard every time I get to them and dance uneasily in my stomach, are part of a gorgeous eschatological passage in the 30th […]
