Do Americans Want Their President to be Saint or Sinner?
Americans care more about having a moral, ethical president than about having a religious president The character of the person who occupies the Oval Office matters to the vast majority […]
Muslim Azaan to be broadcast in Minneapolis neighborhood, USA
Muslim call to prayer to be broadcast in Minneapolis neighborhood The Muslim call to prayer will be broadcast the traditional five times a day in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis, […]
The Coronavirus Is Empowering Islamophobes — but Exposing the Idiocy of Islamophobia
By Mehdi Hasan If anti-Semitism is the world’s oldest hatred, perhaps Islamophobia is the world’s weirdest. How else to explain the fact that a pandemic of global and historic proportions, […]
‘Guy with 100kg of flour seeking girl with 100 rolls of toilet paper’
Adnan Mahmutovic Alia Amir Ramis Orlu 8 Apr 2020 Humour helps us deal with anxiety and the current pandemic is a testament to that notion. A global pandemic is […]
Yesterday, Jews were demonised for spreading disease. Today, it’s Muslims
CJ Werleman TRT WORLD 6 days ago In countries like India and Israel Muslims are being scapegoated for the spread of Covid-19. When the Black Plague ravaged Europe in the middle of the 14th Century, killing roughly 50 percent of those infected and one-third of the continent’s […]
US and Russia blocking UN plans for a global ceasefire amid crisis
Resolution strongly supported by dozens of countries, human rights groups and charities Simon Tisdall Sun 19 Apr 2020 The US fears the measure could hinder its ability to prosecute military […]
Culture Unorthodox: a thrilling story of rebellion and freedom from New York to Berlin
Shira Haas is mesmerising as the young woman fleeing a closed Hasidic Jewish community for a new life in secular Berlin There is one indelible scene in Unorthodox that will stick in your memory long after you’ve finished watching the four-part miniseries. photo Esty, a 19-year-old Hasidic Jew, has escaped […]
Western governments are sorely underestimating how dependent they are on China
Editorial: On some measures, the country is now the world’s largest economy and can also be fairly ranked as a military superpower @IndyVoices Independent Premium As the formal but ill-defined prime ministerial stand-in, Dominic Raab has sometimes appeared hesitant to take the kind of decisions that only prime ministers can […]
Using alcohol to cope with coronavirus lockdown is exposing our class divides
Alcohol is ‘unhelpful coping strategy’ for coronavirus lockdown says WHO Alcohol is the most accessible that we can self-medicate with, and repeat prescriptions are always available. But now detox is […]
The Pandemic and the search for the Jewish Messiah
18th April 2020 Sabahat Ali Rajput, Mexico A lot of people are palpably furious right now – enraged with their governmental heads, frustrated with their Health Ministers, disappointed in their […]
Time to fire Jared and Ivanka
Source: CNN Jared Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, traveled to the Trump golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, with their three children for the first night of Passover on April 8, according to The New York Times In so doing, they ignored federal guidelines. President Donald Trump’s much-vaunted coronavirus […]
Did coronavirus come from a lab?
Source: NewScientist No, this virus isn’t a bioweapon. New diseases have emerged throughout human history, and we have seen two major coronavirus outbreaks in the last two decades: SARS and MERS. So we shouldn’t be surprised by the arrival of the covid-19 virus. However, rumours on social media suggest that […]
More than a billion Muslims anticipate ‘sad and quiet’ Ramadan in coronavirus isolation
Erwin Renaldi and Max Walden Posted about 2 hours ago Some 1.8 billion Muslims around the globe will celebrate the most important month of the Islamic calendar very differently this […]
Teacher shortage in US: AIM NEWS
By Dr. H. Koya, JD., Fell. AIM We note with deepening concern that there is a significant shortage of qualified teachers in the US. What is more concerning is that there is no proper teacher and training institute or agency that can train teachers. Mere graduate or undergraduate degree in […]
‘Liquid gold’: the rush for plasma and the Covid-19 survivors who want to help
Source: Guardian By Patrick Mulholland A single Covid-19 survivor can provide enough plasma to treat two or three sick patients. Could it help save lives? Cary Blumenfeld and his wife, […]
Like Esty in Unorthodox, I left my Chasidic community. This is what the show doesn’t tell you
The process is a lot messier than the series would have you think Chava Gourarie New York 2 days ago (the photo does not relate to the article) In […]
He’s infantile, narcissistic and foolish to pull funding — but Trump isn’t entirely wrong about the WHO
It’s true the organisation has been too close to China. Nevertheless, there will be wide-reaching global consequences now the President has shirked his responsibility to the world Emin Pasha New […]
CNN Interview: Vaccine May Be Ready for the Health Care Workers By the Fall
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred, saving one is like saving the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Anderson Cooper 360 interview Kizzmekia Corbett, the National Institute of […]
Is This Christian Shariah Law for USA?
Half of Americans say Bible should influence U.S. laws, including 28% who favor it over the will of the people Source: Pew Research Center The U.S. Constitution does not mention […]