Source: BBC A 6.8-magnitude earthquake in central Myanmar on Wednesday killed four people and damaged dozens of ancient structures dotting the plains of Bagan. President Htin Kyaw visited the area […]
Source: BBC By Caroline Parkinson A drug that destroys the characteristic protein plaques that build up in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s is showing “tantalising” promise, scientists say. Experts […]
Source: BBC Lenovo’s latest tablet computer can take a digital copy of handwriting as it is jotted down on a paper notepad placed on top of the machine. The Yoga […]
Source: BBC Brazil’s Senate has voted to remove President Dilma Rousseff from office for manipulating the budget. It puts an end to the 13 years in power of her left-wing […]
Source: Independent By Jon Stone The British public want to ban Muslim women from wearing the Islamic veil or burqa by an overwhelming margin of more than two-to-one, a poll has […]
Source: RNS By Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News Dapinder Ahluwalia’s 14-year-old son starts high school next month. Like many parents, she’ll spend the last days of summer ensuring he has the […]
Source: The Guardian By Paul Valley Mother Teresa once went to a cash-and-carry-in London. She filled a huge trolley with food for her hostel for homeless men in Waterloo. At […]
Source: The Guardian By Maria Jaschok Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford When I informed some of the female imams in Henan, central China, of the opening of women’s mosques in the US […]
Source: The Guardian While the burkini debate has stoked considerable coverage and discussion abroad, the debate is nothing new at home. To me, it seems to be a follow-up in […]
Source: The guardian By Dr Melissa Crouch, a senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of Law and Religion in Indonesia: Conflict and the […]
Source: Time Chinese authorities have charged an American woman with espionage, after holding her since March last year. Sandy Phan-Gillis, 56, denies committing any crimes, reports Reuters, citing a letter the Texas businesswoman gave to a U.S. consular official in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. Her husband, Jeff Gillis, […]
Source: Time By Zeke J Miller Republican nominee Donald Trump will make a hastily scheduled trip to Mexico Wednesday to meet with President Enrique Peña Nieto just hours before he is scheduled to attempt to clarify his controversial, and sometimes conflicting, positions on immigration. The trip is a high-stakes gamble by […]
Source: Muftah By Qasim Rashid After intense international pressure, France’s highest court overturned the “Burkini” ban on Friday, August 26, 2016. Before the move, over a dozen French cities had banned the burkini. Most recently, armed officers forced a Muslim woman to dress down under threat of pepper spray and arrest, […]
Source: BBC One of the longest-serving and most prominent leaders of so-called Islamic State (IS) has been killed in Syria, IS-affiliated media say. In a statement distributed by the group’s supporters, Amaq News Agency reported that Abu Muhammad al-Adnani died in the province of Aleppo. He was “martyred while surveying […]
Source: Associated Press By ELAINE GANLEY PARIS (AP) — France’s interior minister said Monday that the country is at war with an enemy trying to pit Muslims against non-Muslims, making […]
Source: The Guardian The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, told an audience this weekend that he was ‘consumed with horror’ at the church’s treatment of gay people. Photograph: Frank Augstein/AP […]
Source: The New York Times MITZPE DANNY, West Bank — One night in the fall of 1998, a self-professed “outpost entrepreneur” brought three trailers to a rugged hilltop in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and established his first pirate settlement. Dozens of youthful supporters came to cheer on the entrepreneur, Shimon […]
Source: The Washington Post By Ali al-Mujahed and Paul Schemm SANAA, Yemen — A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle packed with explosives Monday in a mustering area for army recruits […]
Source: Chicago Tribune By Manya Brachear Pashman Contact Reporter When Imam Nazim Mangera arrived at Chicago’s Muslim Community Center in December, he immediately encountered a feeling of deja vu. In his […]
Source: The New York Times WASHINGTON — In the four years that he ran the Revolution Muslim website out of his walk-up apartment in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Jesse Morton became one of the most prolific recruiters for Al Qaeda, luring numerous Americans to the group’s violent ideology. The men and women […]