Pakistani-American to become first Muslim US federal judge
BY ANADOLU AGENCY CHICAGO AMERICAS JUN 10, 2021 Zahid Quraishi, nominated by U.S. President Joe Biden to be a U.S. District Judge for the District of New Jersey, is sworn in during […]
RED ZONE FILES: Leaking capitals in a diplomatic monsoon
RED ZONE FILES: Leaking capitals in a diplomatic monsoon Fahd Husain Published June 10, 2021 It is the season for leaks. No wonder Washington DC and Islamabad are dripping wet. With […]
Blinken says ‘hundreds’ of US sanctions to remain on Iran
By AFP – Jun 08,2021 – JORDAN TIMES An Iranian man walks by posters of presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi outside a campaign office in Tehran, on Monday (AFP photo) WASHINGTON — Secretary of […]
How Pakistanis Are Reacting to the Hate Crime that Killed a Family in Canada
Some shared loving memories of the family murdered in the Islamophobic attack, some brought up Pakistan’s own record of hate crimes By Pallavi Pundir DELHI, INJune 9, 2021 THOUSANDS GATHERED TO […]
Video: Canada PM Trudeau calls killing of Muslim family ‘terrorist attack’
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred and killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: Arab News OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday […]
Supreme Court to rule on FBI’s move to block Muslim civil rights suit
The case involves the FBI’s use of an informant who posed as a convert to Islam after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and attended mosques in California. The FBI headquarters […]
Muslim group urges members to remain vigilant after four killed in what police believe was targeted attack
The driver of a truck struck five people, killing four and injuring another seriously, in London, Ont., on Sunday.Author of the article:Joanne LauciusPublishing date:Jun 07, 2021 • Article content A Toronto-based […]
Report: Number of mosques in US grows overall, but African American mosques in decline
The majority of America’s new purpose-built mosques are found in suburban areas, a shift that reflects the demographic footprint of Muslims in America. Worshippers, socially distanced due to COVID-19 concerns, […]
Maybe You Have to Be Disagreeable to Convert
Muslim converts tend to be less religious than their non-convert peers. So what explains their overrepresentation among jihadists? JUNE 6, 2021 Graeme Wood Staff writer at The Atlantic The invitation to convert to Islam comes frequently if you travel in the Muslim world and are not visibly Muslim. Parts of the United States […]
A curse worse than cash
Jun 06,2021 – JORDAN TIMES – Kenneth Rogoff CAMBRIDGE — Ransomware — a type of malicious software that restricts access to a computer system until a ransom is paid — […]
Daesh is defeated, but their ‘brides’ are still an issue
DALIA AL-AQIDI June 05, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/zdgme The Daesh “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria has vanished, the vast majority of its terrorists either killed or captured, and their threat […]
UN chief praises Saudi Arabia’s role in establishing a global anti-corruption network
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the “Riyadh Initiative” establishes a global platform that links anti-corruption agencies around the world. (File/AFP) Short Url https://arab.news/vukbn Main objective of the Riyadh Initiative […]
Folk singer Mustafa: ‘I’m trying to preserve the memories of young Black Muslims’
Interview Aina J Khan The poet, a songwriter for artists including the Weeknd, explains how music helped him explore the loss of friends to inner-city violence: ‘Sorrow is meant to […]
The Role of the Churches
This content is also available in French. View the French version of the Stolen Lives book. The Christian denominations supported the boarding or residential schools over themodel (though they also ran many of the […]
Discovery of children’s remains reopens wounds among indigenous survivors of colonial Canadian schools
Previous 1 / 3A makeshift memorial for the dead 215 children is seen outside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, Canada. (AFP / Cole Burston) Short Url https://arab.news/vdpxk […]
Redefining Pak-US relations
Redefining Pak-US relations Zahid Hussain Published June 2, 2021 WITH the last of the American soldiers packing to leave Afghanistan, post-9/11 US-Pakistan relations have come full circle. Originally touted as a […]
This terrible, horrible, no good very bad alliance
Big brother is watching you Politics June 1, 2021 – TEHRAN TIMES TEHRAN – Last year in February, the world was shocked when it came to light that the CIA used Swiss-made encryption machines to spy on governments all over the world for more than half a century. The machines […]
Palestinians are determined to defeat the Oslo culture
RAMZY BAROUD May 31, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/ns8fr The political discourse of Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank, is similar to that of […]
The lies and conspiracy theories from neocon ‘crazies’ that fueled Iraq war are subject of new history
BY PHILIP WEISSMAY 12, 2021 SCOTT HORTON, FROM APPEARANCE AT ISRAEL LOBBY CONFERENCE, APRIL 24, 2021. SCREENSHOT. ENOUGH ALREADY: TIME TO END THE WAR ON TERRORISMby Scott Horton318 pp. The Libertarian […]
Muslim pride Gay people are reclaiming an Islamic heritage
In the old days Muslims were quite tolerant of homosexuality Middle East & Africa May 29th 2021 edition May 27th 2021 For decades regimes in the Middle East have alleged that homosexuality […]