Source: Gulf News Dubai: Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman Bin Abdul Aziz said he has no problem with the official religious authority on the issue of women driving. The prince told Bloomberg the problem he’s “working to resolve is with those who distort the facts of the […]
Source: Huffington Post By Kashif N. Chaudhry, Physician, writer and human rights activist An Ahmadi Muslim shopkeeper, Mr. Asad Shah, was recently stabbed to death in Glasgow, UK. Mr. Tanveer Ahmad, a […]
Source: The Tennessean Tennessee will not become the first state in the nation to make the Holy Bible its official book after an effort to override Gov. Bill Haslam’s veto failed […]
Source: RNS (RNS) Harriet Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, the Treasury Department has announced. The move will make Tubman the first African-American, the first woman in […]
Source: Associated Press By NINIEK KARMINI JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — China has asked Indonesia to extradite four Uighur men in exchange for returning a graft fugitive recently arrested in Shanghai, the top Indonesian security minister said Thursday. Coordinating Minister for Politics, Legal and Security Affairs Luhut Pandjaitan said Indonesia will […]
Source: USA Today By Patrick Winn, GlobalPost For her crime, violating the tenets of a faith she does not observe, the courts offered two punishments. Option one: time in a grim jailhouse. Option two: nearly 30 lashes with a cane wielded by a anonymous man, hooded and clad in black robes, […]
Source: Yahoo News By Shatha Yaish AFP Bethlehem (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Israeli police said Thursday a Hamas militant carried out a “suicide” bus bombing in Jerusalem that wounded 20 people, […]
Source: BBC The Queen has lit the first of more than 900 beacons lighting up across the UK and overseas as part of her 90th birthday celebrations. The monarch, accompanied […]
Source: CNN By Radina Gigova, CNN (CNN)Boko Haram is luring young people by giving them loans as a bait for membership, the Nigerian military warned. As part of the “clandestine dispensation,” the terror group is offering loans to young entrepreneurs in the country’s troubled northeast as part of recruitment, the […]
Source: CNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN White House Producer Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (CNN)A day after his longer-than-planned talks with Saudi King Salman partially eased some long-simmering tensions, President Barack Obama was working Thursday to persuade other Gulf leaders to take a more muscular role in stabilizing their region. During a […]
Source: Catholic Herald One of the curious trends of recent years has been the rise of “the radical Rich” – billionaires devoted to progressive social movements, whether it’s same-sex marriage […]
Source: BBC By Brianna Randall 21 April 2016 We saw the foam before we heard the breaking waves. My husband Rob and I squinted through the morning sun, trying to […]
Source: BBC By Christian Jarrett Do you think you’re an extravert or an introvert? To answer, you might immediately ponder how much you like going to parties and talking to […]
Source: The New York Times By RICHARD MARTYN-HEMPHILL ZAUBE, Latvia — With her niqab, a face-covering Islamic veil that reveals just the wearer’s eyes, Liga Legzdina stands out amid pine […]
Rouhani clashes with Iranian police over undercover hijab agents Source: Reuters Iran’s president criticized the use of thousands of undercover morality police in Tehran to report on young women who […]
Source: ABC News By LARRY NEUMEISTER, ASSOCIATED PRESS Members of the Muslim community asked Tuesday for more time to digest an agreement aimed at preventing illegal surveillance by the New York Police Department, saying they want to use the Ramadan season starting in early June to spread word among people […]
Source: BBC By Tessa Wong & Saira Asher A school in northern Malaysia has had to shut temporarily to handle what local media have called a case of “mass hysteria”. […]
Source: BBC By Lyse Doucet Chief international correspondent To survive any such place of profound pain is the greatest of gifts, a triumph of the human spirit. In our time, […]
Source: Time By Hannah Beech / Shanghai Any less, and you’ll get away with a lengthy jail sentence. Any more, and you could be dead How much is an errant Chinese […]
Source: CNN By Nicole Gaouette, CNN (CNN)President Barack Obama lands in Saudi Arabiaon Wednesday as the U.S. alliance with the Mideast powerhouse, long lubricated by barrels of oil, is being […]