India citizenship law protests spread across campuses
Dec 16, 2019 – swissinfo.ch By Sankalp Phartiyal NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Protests over a new Indian citizenship law based on religion spread to student campuses on Monday […]
Indonesian Muslims: Believers in Islam or cultural Muslims?
Patrik K. Meyer New America Security fellow PREMIUM Yogyakarta / Fri, December 13, 2019 In the Quran, Muslims can find guidance to successfully overcome all kinds of challenges — […]
ISRAEL HAYOM NEWS: ‘ Roots of Islamic terrorism run deep ‘
Editor’s Note: Yes, we should know and read what the Israelis are taught by their ‘scholars’. Here an article from Israelhayom.com Yoram Ettinger Yoram Ettinger is a former […]
Niqab ban debate shows Jokowi’s tough stance on Islamic hard-liners
Indonesian president risks alienating nonviolent groups, experts warn ERWIDA MAULIA, Nikkei staff writer December 16, 2019 JAKARTA — Just a week after he was named Indonesia’s new religious affairs minister, […]
Afghanistan papers detail US dysfunction: ‘We did not know what we were doing’
A key theme of the trove of documents published this week was the lack of coherence in Washington’s approach to Afghanistan from the outset by Peter Beaumont Sat 14 […]
Ahmadiyyas were at the forefront of creation of Pakistan, an Ahmadiyya Unit fought against India in Kashmir in 1947-48
While the persecution of the community is tragic, it is indeed an internal problem of the Islamic community. With respect to the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan, a fact that […]
INDIA: Punjab Congress leader urges Modi to amend CAB to allow Ahmadiyyas to return to Qadian
Chandigarh (Punjab) December 13, 2019. Congress leader Pratab Singh Bajwa on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Modi regarding the persecution faced by Ahmadiyyas in Pakistan and urgend that the recent […]
Citizenship Amendment Bill: A new lease of life for the two-nation theory (of India and Pakistan)
Introduction of a religious test for citizenship signals a u-turn from our Constitutional ideals and independence movement Ankur Bhardwaj Last Updated at December 10, 2019 Jinnah’s two-nation theory lay […]
Did Modi Government Ignore The Most Persecuted Minority In World Under New Citizenship Bill?
Published on December 13, 2019 By EurAsian Times With the Citizenship Amendment Bill, the Modi Government had laid a path to grant Indian citizenship to persecuted migrants i.e. Hindus, […]
Ahmadi, A dangerous word to utter in Pakistan: AC Attock had to apologize
Some topics in Pakistani society are too sensitive to be discussed openly. However, is there any policy to de-radicalize the youth to enable them for peaceful dialogue and logical […]
Turkey urges Islamic cooperation to help needy Muslims
December 08 2019 ISTANBUL-Anadolu Agency Turkey’s president on Dec. 8 urged Muslim countries to work harder together to help millions of Muslims facing economic hardship. “21 percent of the population […]
Iraq between total chaos and slow recovery
Dec 04,2019 -JORDAN TIMES – OSAMA AL SHARIF The line between total chaos and a semblance of a political process has been blurred following Sunday’s acceptance by the Iraqi parliament […]
BOOK OF THE DAY: The Far Right Today by Cas Mudde review – an alarming new mainstream
India, the US, Brazil … a study of the journey of far-right populists from the fringes to the heart of the world’s democracies Paul Lewis @PaulLewis Email Thu 12 Dec […]
India passes controversial citizenship bill that excludes Muslims
Source: CNN India‘s parliament has passed a bill that would give Indian citizenship to immigrants from three neighboring countries — but not if they are Muslim. The controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) will fast-track citizenship for religious minorities, including Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians, from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and […]
Iran will bypass U.S. sanctions or overcome them through talks – Rouhani
Dec 11, 2019 – http://www.swissinfo.ch DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran will overcome U.S. sanctions by either bypassing them or through negotiations, and it will not cross its red lines in any […]
Suu Kyi tell U.N.’s top court charge of Rohingya genocide is “misleading”
Dec 11, 2019 – 13:14 By Shoon Lei Win Naing and Toby Sterling THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday rejected accusations of genocide committed […]
Why a Deal with the Taliban May Be Inevitable
Source: Spiegel It’s a clear, warm autumn morning, and hundreds have gathered to pay their last respects to Najmullah, the revered commander of the militia in the village of Warduj, who fell in the battle against the Taliban. It is said that Najmullah never showed fear, that he always encouraged […]
Op-Ed Shireen Mazari and human rights
Yasser Latif Hamdani @theRealYLH December 9, 2019 No one gave Shireen Mazari the memo that she is neither the Foreign Minister nor the Defence Minister of Pakistan. She holds […]
Can Pakistan escape its economic curse?
“In the last 60 years Pakistan’s economy has crashed 13 times,” explained Professor Atif Mian during a talk at the University of California, Berkley, on October 25, “and every […]
In warning to Netanyahu, US House endorses two-state solution
By AFP – Dec 07,2019 – JORDAN TIMES WASHINGTON — The US House of Representatives on Friday threw its weight behind a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians, in a […]