Plan to construct Hindu temple in Bekasi met with protest
Vela AndapitaThe Jakarta Post Jakarta / Tue, May 7, 2019 / 06:45 pm Hindus from Greater Jakarta pray at the Aditya Jaya Hindu temple in Rawamangun, […]
Healthy nutrition tips for those fasting in Ramadan
DAILY SABAH WITH IHA ISTANBUL Published06.05.2019 Vegetable dishes should be preferred for both suhoor and iftar meals. Muslims around the world will be fasting for a month as of May […]
Finding some solace amid the bloodshed in Christchurch and Colombo
THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON MAY 3, 2019 FILE PHOTO: A police officer inspects the site of a gun battle between troops and suspected Islamist militants, on the east […]
Pakistan’s Ahmadi community faces growing discrimination, report says
By Reuters• last updated: 06/05/2019 – 12:02 By Saad Sayeed ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Ahmadi community faces growing institutionalised discrimination fanned by last year’s election campaign by Prime Minister Imran Khan, […]
Ramadan 2018: Annoying questions people ask Muslims every year about fasting
A guide to the holy month for the well-intentioned but clueless Shehab Khan @ShehabKhan, Joe Sommerlad @JoeSommerlad Friday 18 May 2018 00:17 Editor’s Note: Old article, still acute topic […]
How Muslims with type 2 diabetes can navigate fasting for Ramadan
Source: Independent Understanding people’s different cultural backgrounds, lifestyles and religious practices plays an important role in their healthcare, and this time of year is no different Ahmed Hussein and Sue Lynn Lau […]
Istanbul’s mayoral election re-run will only make Erdogan weaker
Opposition candidate Ekrem Imamoglu has become even more confident in the weeks after the election. Now that protests have emerged over the election do-over, voters will double down on their […]
Trump doesn’t want a war with Iran – but he might get one anyway
Today’s political climate in the United States is different from the pre-Iraq war era — but the ambitions of some of the people in Congress are the same Negar Mortazavi […]
King of Jordan makes donation for restoration of Jerusalem’s Holy Sepulchre
SOURCE JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem, All Palestine and Jordan Theophilos III on Monday thanked His Majesty King Abdullah on behalf of the […]
Playing 20 questions to figure out the ‘deal of the century’
May 06,2019 -JORDAN TIMES – JAMES J. ZOGBY I believe that it was Henry Kissinger who described his approach to running Arab-Israeli negotiations as creating the illusion of momentum to compensate […]
Human society under urgent threat from loss of Earth’s natural life
Scientists reveal 1 million species at risk of extinction in damning UN report Jonathan Watts Global environment editor @jonathanwatts Mon 6 May 2019 Forest clearance in Indonesia. Scientists have […]
Revealed: new evidence of China’s mission to raze the mosques of Xinjiang
Xinjiang Guardian and Bellingcat investigation finds more than two dozen Islamic religious sites partly or completely demolished since 2016 Lily Kuo in Beijing Tue 7 May 2019 Keriya Aitika […]
A petulant Donald Trump requires an adult response from China and Iran
It is not so much a matter of appeasing Trump as of retaining some composure and indulging this unpredictable figure when he gets out of the wrong side of bed Editorial […]
Bangladesh: Ahmadiyya leaders allege police of discrimination
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in Bangladesh yesterday alleged that police in Panchagarh are showing discriminatory attitude towards them. Leaders of the community were speaking at a press conference at its headquarters in Dhaka, where they also alleged that police did not register a case in two and a half months […]
Equality of citizenship
OP-ED Equality of citizenship Yasser Latif Hamdani @theRealYLH MAY 6, 2019 90 years ago when Jinnah stood up to speak on the Child Marriages Restraint Bill in […]
Kushner hopes Israel will look at peace plan before any West Bank moves
MAY 3, 2019 White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, speaks during a discussion on “Inside the Trump Administration’s Middle East Peace Effort” at a […]
Monstrous rumours stoke hostility to Pakistan’s anti-polio drive
MAY 3, 2019 – A boy receives polio vaccine drops by anti-polio vaccination workers at a booth outside a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan April 30, 2019. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz (reuters_tickers) By […]
Sri Lanka imposes curfew in Negombo after clashes, bans social media
THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON MAY 5, 2019 FILE PHOTO: A soldier stands guard outside St. Sebastian Church, days after a string of suicide bomb attacks across the island on Easter Sunday, in Negombo, Sri Lanka, May 1, 2019. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/File Photo (reuters_tickers) COLOMBO (Reuters) – The Sri Lankan […]
CORONATION OF RAMA X: The new Thai king’s Swiss childhood
By Olivier Grivat, Bangkok MAY 3, 2019 The Thai royal family walking by Lake Geneva in Lausanne in summer 1960. The future king Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarang is wearing the cap of a local school. (Archive Yves Debraine) In 1960 and 1961, Thailand’s new king lived with his parents and sisters in […]
A 2000-year-old guest from Pakistan comes to Switzerland
By Anand Chandrasekhar MP3 FILE DESCRIPTION THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON MAY 5, 2019 11:00 AMMAY 5, 2019 – 11:00 Convincing Pakistan to lend an ancient Gandhara Buddha statue to […]