By: Jonathan Forani Staff Reporter, Published on Mon Apr 11 2016 thestar.com 138 boys for 100 girls? Baldev Mutta (centre), CEO of Brampton’s Punjabi Community Health Services, is surrounded by his grand daughter Talon Mutta, 9 (left) and daughter Rakhi Mutta. Mutta is involved in initiatives to celebrate girls born to Indian parents. […]
Ottawa police investigate hate crime after Muslim school targeted with graffiti CBC News Posted: Apr 11, 2016 9:57 AM MT Last Updated: Apr 11, 2016 11:27 AM MT Two Syrian refugee fathers say they’re scared for their kids in Calgary after both men say they were assaulted over the weekend in Forest […]
Source: BBC US Secretary of State John Kerry has spoken of the personal impact that his historic visit to the Hiroshima memorial in Japan has had on him. He is the first US secretary of state to ever visit Hiroshima, where around 140,000 were killed when the US dropped an […]
Source: Time By David Johnson Fifty years after TIME posed the question Is God Dead? on the cover of the magazine, Americans’ belief in a supreme deity appears to be declining. The article, which focused on a group of Christian theologians grappling with the idea of a world without an active […]
Source: Reuters BY ROBERTA RAMPTON President Barack Obama on Friday told donors that Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz were doing Democrats a “favor” by exposing extreme views […]
Source: Time By Katie Reilly The President is viewed more favorably than any of the presidential candidates A new poll shows that President Barack Obama’s approval rating has increased and he […]
Apr 09,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – GORDON BROWN We are at risk of producing a lost generation of young Syrians. Nearly six years of civil war have displaced them from their homes, denied them the chance to plan for their future and stolen their hopes. And in hopelessness, as we […]
Apr 09,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL Of all US presidential candidates, be they Democrat or Republican, ironically, the Jewish senator from Vermont seems to have the most balanced position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Bernie Sanders has made no secret of his belief that Israelis and Palestinians can and should coexist […]
Source: BBC By Jennifer Keishin Armstrong Two light-haired, deadly serious anchors sit behind a news desk, delivering the latest on the race for the US presidential nominations in Finnish, with […]
Source: Time By Julie Pace & Emily Swanson / AP (WASHINGTON) — For Americans of nearly every race, gender, political persuasion and location, disdain for Donald Trump runs deep, saddling the […]
Source: Huffingtonpost.com The media owes all of us the truth and nothing else. In other words they have a journalistic duty to portray the facts as they are. But sadly they have become disingenuous in carrying out their duty when it comes to viewing the truth about Islam. According to […]
Source: The New York Times By HANNAH FAIRFIELD and TIM WALLACE Republican leaders have blocked the closing of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, because they say they do not […]
Source: Reuters The Tennessee House passed a bill on Wednesday allowing mental health counselors to refuse service to patients on religious grounds, the latest in a list of U.S. state […]
Source: The Washington Post By Colby Itkowitz Ted Hakey, a former Marine, knelt in prayer, his forehead on the floor, beside his Muslim neighbors inside their Connecticut mosque last Saturday. […]
Source: The New York Times By Gail Collins Amid all the truly awful things state legislatures do, one of the rare bright spots has been the naming of official symbols. Who was ever made unhappy by the designation of a state rock? Tennessee, alas, is screwing up the record. The governor […]
Source: Daily News BY DAVID MASCI, BESHEER MOHAMED Mohamed is a senior researcher and Masci is a senior editor and senior researcher at Pew Research Center. The recent attacks in […]
Source: CNN by Matt Egan General Electric boss Jeff Immelt has fired back at Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders with an impassioned defense of his company. “GE has been in business […]
Apr 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – George S. Hishmeh There is no doubt that the eight-column headline in the sports page of The Washington Post last Sunday was remarkable and unprecedented: “Palestine Marathon sparks a growing push for movement over politics.” Never before have the American media, certainly not the country’s […]
Apr 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI The New York Times is not only considered the leading newspaper in the United States, it is also something of a bellwether of intellectual and political trends in the country. So it was noteworthy that the newspaper’s Monday opinion page feature […]
Source: Dawn By SALTANAT ANSARI She is pursuing a major in International Relations and a minor in Latina/o Studies at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley. Lahore is my native city — it has always been the dearest sense of love I have felt. It was the beautiful gardens and my most […]