Aljazeera: Reports emerged last week that Saudi Arabia intends to imminently execute more than 50 people on a single day for alleged terrorist crimes. Although the kingdom hasn’t officially confirmed the reports, the evidence is building. Okas, the first outlet to publish the report, has close ties to the Saudi […]
By Iram Ahmad MD In his 1580 essay, “On Presumption,” French essayist Michel de Montaigne wrote: … It is that I lower the value of the things I possess, because I possess them, and raise the value of things when they are foreign, absent, or not mine… between two similar […]
ZUHAIR AL-HARTHY Published — Thursday 3 December 2015 In her book titled “Islam: A Short History,” renowned British author and commentator Karen Armstrong writes, “Islam is the most misunderstood religion…The Qur’an gave Muslims a historical mission. Their chief duty was to create a just community in which all members, even […]
middleeasteye.net: He offered rare praise for his former nemesis Angela Merkel for her decision to allow hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria’s war to come to Germany, but said that “Europe has lost its capacity to respond rationally to common problems” over the refugee crisis. Merkel had done more than […]
662. Commandment – when death comes to any one of you, if he leave much wealth, that he make a will to parents and near relatives to act with fairness; it is an obligation on those who fear God [2:181] It is prescribed for you, when death comes to any one of you, if he […]
Businessinsider.com: A year after his 700-page opus“Capital in the Twenty-First Century” stormed to the top of America’s best-seller lists, Thomas Piketty is out with a new argument about income inequality. It may prove more controversial than his book, which continues to generate debate in political and economic circles. The new […]
By JT – Nov 29,2015 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Sunday stressed that the Palestinian cause still represents the essence of conflict in the Middle East. In a letter sent to Fodé Seck, chairman of the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights […]
Commandment – Regarding Kalalah – If a man dies leaving no child [4:177] They ask thee for instructions. Say, Allah gives you His instructions concerning ‘Kalalah’: If a man dies leaving no child and he has a sister, then she shall have half of what he leaves; and he shall inherit […]
Source: Pew Research Center Recent attacks in Paris, Beirut and Baghdad linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have once again brought terrorism and Islamic extremism to […]
The Independent: Any military success in Syria will unravel because of new territory Britain is helping to create for Isis who have taken advantage of the instability and wide-spread civilian destruction caused by months of a Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen, according to senior Foreign Office lawyers and former diplomats. In […]
Source: Time Among them are political activists who were arrested before they turned 18. Authorities in Saudi Arabia are preparing to behead 50 men convicted on charges of terrorism, the […]
Kamel Daoud, The New York Times | November 26, 2015 | Last Updated: Nov 27 12:12 PM ET Black Daesh, white Daesh. The former slits throats, kills, stones, cuts off hands, destroys humanity’s common heritage and despises archaeology, women and non-Muslims. The latter is better dressed and neater but does the same things. The […]
By Anthony Cuthbertson November 25, 2015 12:35 GMT, IBTimes.co.uk An Islamic State (Isis) propaganda website on the dark web has been taken down by hacktivists and replaced with an advert for a site selling Prozac and a message telling would-be IS supporters to calm down. Ghost Sec, a faction of the […]
agsiw.org: A growing trope in mainstream Western analysis, which is also present in some parts of Arab and Muslim discourse, casts the kingdom of Saudi Arabia as the political and moral equivalent of the terrorist group ISIL (also known as ISIS, the “Islamic State,” and Daesh). This conflation is wrong […]
How we respond to recent attacks will shape our future for generations to come By Umar Nasser PUBLISHED23/11/2015 Retribution bombing may well destroy ISIL, but that victory will only last as long as the short time it will take for the next extremist outfit to organise itself, writes Umar Nasser […]
Nov 25,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – Editorial The shooting down of a Russian fighter jet by Turkish warplanes along the Syrian-Turkish border on Tuesday shows how fragile peace and security in the region are. Ankara said that the Russian SU-24 had crossed into Turkish airspace many times and had been warned […]
Nov 25,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN Photos of Paris street memorials for the 132 people killed by Daesh on November 13 show flowers, pictures of victims, drawings, and, even, a bottle of red wine. The refrain adopted by mourning Parisians is: “They want to destroy our way of […]
By Reuters – Nov 25,2015 – JORDAN TIMES A Turkish army truck loaded with a tank heading to the Syrian border near Yayladagi, Turkey, Wednesday (AP photo) ISTANBUL/NIZHNY TAGIL, Russia — Russia sent an advanced missile system to Syria on Wednesday to protect its jets operating there and pledged its […]
‘It was definitely the perfect way to start our marriage,’ the pair say Ashley Cowburn; for Independent @ashcowburn Monday 23 November 2015 32 comments Samantha Jackson and Farzin Yousef had a […]
Dr Irfan Malik, secretary of Nottingham branch of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, said diplomacy was the only way forward. “There are so many different countries involved so I think the better […]