By Syed Muhammad Saleh Nasser & Syed Muhammad Tahir Nasser Economic inequality is bad news for both rich and poor, as economists are slowly realising. House of Debt, acclaimed by the Financial Times as the “most important economics book” of 2015, by Princeton’s Professors of Economics, Atif Mian and Amir Sufi, demonstrated […]
Clara Ho First posted: Saturday, February 20, 2016 04:58 PM MST | Updated: Saturday, February 20, 2016 10:07 PM MST A police car is is reflected in smashed-out windows at Wilma Hansen School in the Queensland area of Calgary, Alta., on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016. Many windows in the school […]
Haroon Mughal, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/20/donald-trump-pork-not-muslim-kryptonite-bigotry? On Friday night, Donald Trump recounted for his supporters an inaccurate story about John Pershing, the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, who he alleged decided to summarily execute 49 of 50 Muslim prisoners while helping to put down a rebellion in the Muslim […]
Source: Economist BY M.D. AND ERASMUS | OTTAWA SHOULD Western democracies make the defence of religious freedom around the world a separate, fenced-off part of their foreign policy? Or is […]
Trump: Iraq invasion possibly worst choice made by any U.S. president. Watch: https://t.co/HAhU3M4HnF #GOPTownHall https://t.co/uvQl5Y7fSi — CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) February 19, 2016 Suggested Reading Where are the bodies of […]
For our collection of articles to tackle Islamophobia, please click here Source: Pew Research Center Most Americans say religion doesn’t cause violence, but rather that violent people use religion to […]
Source: Huffington Post The year 2016 is one of both regression and progress, a time when anti-Muslim bigotry has reached new levels but also a time when the people speaking […]
Militants of the Daesh group. (AP) REUTERS Published — Thursday 18 February 2016 BEIRUT: At least 38 people were killed in air strikes carried out by a US-led coalition in Hasaka province in northeast Syria in the past two days, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on […]
Pope Francis questions Donald Trump’s Christianity Source: BBC The Pope has questioned US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s Christianity over his call to build a border wall with Mexico. Pope […]
Feb 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Joshua Kurlantzick Next week, at a summit in California, US President Barack Obama will meet with the leaders of the 10 countries of Asia’s most important regional grouping: the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The event, the first-ever US-ASEAN summit on American soil, is being […]
Feb 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN The US has had a long history of overthrowing regimes it does not like. Among the most dramatic examples are Mexico in 1910, Guatemala in 1954, the failed 1961 attempt in Cuba, Chile in 1973, Nicaragua in the 1980s and Panama in […]
‘A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian’, he said Andrew Buncombe New York @AndrewBuncombe AFP/Getty Pope Francis has declared that presidential candidate Donald Trump is not a Christian because of strident views on immigration and his desire to […]
Watch the video in CNN By Stephen Collinson and Theodore Schleifer Washington (CNN) President Barack Obama has a message for Donald Trump — being president is tougher than being on a […]
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Source: Breitbart Brazilian officials, including President Dilma Rousseff, took to the streets on Saturday for National Day Against Zika to raise awareness about the virus and ways to prevent it. […]
Source : The New York Times As the Zika virus spreads in Latin America, Catholic leaders are warning women against using contraceptives or having abortions, even as health officials in some countries are advising women not to get pregnant because of the risk of birth defects. The challenge posed by […]
JTA Posted on Feb. 16, 2016 Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., introducing Bernie Sanders on Sunday at the Black America Forum in Minneapolis. Photo is screen shot from YouTube Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, has endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination. “This is […]
Feb 15,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – JAMES J. ZOGBY Bernie Sanders has been unfairly criticised for being a “Johnny One Note” on foreign policy because he continually reminds voters of his early opposition to the Iraq war. To explain why he continues to emphasise the importance of his decision to […]
By FERNANDA SANTOSFEB. 16, 2016 TUCSON — Rania Kanawati, a Syrian immigrant, was walking to her car after Friday Prayer last month at the Islamic Center of Tucson when a […]
Source: Huffington Post By Gaurav Krishnan; Senior at DexterSouthfield School, Boston MA The danger of being ruled by fear is one that is all too present in the modern age. […]