Why It’s So Important to Have Long-Distance Friends
Source: Motto The best friend you grew up with who now lives a few states away. Your camp friend with whom you shared a bunk bed every summer, without fail. […]
7 Ways Body Language Can Help You Get Your Next Job
Source: Motto Got a job interview coming up? You can run through practice questions until your tongue goes numb, select the perfect Olivia Pope-meets-Alicia Florrick outfit and send out a […]
7 Amazing Things You Probably Didn’t Know About REM Sleep
Source: Huffington Post The mysterious phase of deep sleep when our most vivid dreams occur has long fascinated scientists and artists. But it wasn’t until the 1950s that sleep period — […]
Religion may explain why people are so weirdly cooperative
Source: arstechnica The level of altruism that humans display is an anomaly in the animal world. Most species don’t interact peacefully with strangers every day or build large, stable societies […]
Children with a Religious Upbringing Show Less Altruism
Source: Scientific Amercan Organized religion is a cornerstone of spiritual community and culture around the world. Religion, especially religious education, also attracts secular support because many believe that religion fosters morality. A majority of the United States believes that faith in a deity is necessary to being a moral person. […]
Sindh plans to regulate Friday sermon
Dawn; KARACHI: In an attempt to “maintain sectarian harmony” among different schools of thought, the Sindh government is planning to table in the provincial assembly a bill which will allow only government-approved Friday sermons in all mosques, according to a key member of the provincial cabinet. “The move is […]
Charlie Hebdo anniversary cover disrespects all faiths, Vatican newspaper says
theguardian — Osservatore Romano says cartoon shows sad paradox of world that is increasingly careful to be politically correct yet does not respect believers’ faith The anniversary edition of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo at a printing house near Paris. Photograph: Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images The Vatican’s newspaper on Tuesday […]
How To Break The Cycle Of Negative Thoughts In Your Head
Source: Huffington Post Who doesn’t know that thrumming, repetitive thinking that plays on an endless loop in our brains? It can start with anything — a grouchy look from someone […]
It Is Safer To Be A Cow Than A Muslim In India, Says Shashi Tharoor In Lok Sabha
By Adrija Bose Huff Post: NEW DELHI–In a sharp attack, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor blamed the government for the ‘rising intolerance in the country’ on Tuesday. Addressing the Lok Sabha, […]
Anti-Islam group publishes addresses of Muslims and ‘Muslim sympathisers’
Guardian: An anti-Islam group which staged an armed protest outside a Dallas Islamic centre has posted names and addresses of Muslims and “Muslim sympathisers” on its Facebook page, adding to growing tensions in north Texas following the Paris terror attacks. The group, which calls itself the Bureau of American Islamic […]
This Little Boy Emptied His Piggy Bank To Help A Defaced Mosque
Source: Huffington Post A string of Islamophobic incidents have been reported since the massacre in Paris last week, but at least one little boy in Texas knows the attackers don’t […]
I will not apologize!
Nov 22, 2015 Khaled Almaeena Khaled Almaeena The Paris attacks that killed 130 people and injured hundreds of others are still capturing headlines. They also occupy the top spot in social media the world over. The attack came days after suicide bombers blew up about 40 people in a Beirut […]
Study Shows Non-Religious Kids Are More Altruistic and Generous Than Religious Ones
Source: Time A new study published by Current Biology (hat tip: OregonLive) explores the degree to which religion is linked to children’s generosity to strangers. “While it is generally accepted that religion contours people’s moral judgments and prosocial behavior, the relation between religiosity and morality is a contentious one,” researchers […]
Dawn Op Ed: A vulnerable minority
PERSECUTION can be overt at times, subtle and insidious at others; and most people would likely agree that it is an ugly, despicable thing. However, there is one minority community in Pakistan — the Ahmadis — against whom persecution of both kinds not only exists but is celebrated as a […]
What Mahatma Gandhi Said to Those Who Wanted Beef Banned in India
The Wire: The following is an excerpt from Gandhi’s prayer discourse of July 25, 1947, from the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 88, as published online by the Gandhi Heritage Portal. Today is Gandhi Jayanti and The Wire is publishing it in the light of this week’s shocking incident […]
White Americans are the biggest terror threat in the United States
Global Post: White Americans are the biggest terror threat in the United States, according to a study by the New America Foundation. The Washington-based research organization did a review of “terror” attacks on US soil since Sept. 11, 2001 and found that most of themwere carried out by radical anti-government […]
75 percent of Republicans say they’re ‘less likely’ to vote for a Muslim: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Global Post: WASHINGTON — Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon seeking the Republican presidential nomination, drew fire last month when he said he would not “advocate” for a Muslim president, but it turns out that most Republicans agree with him. In a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted Sept. 23-30, 75 percent of Republican voters […]
Saudis win, humanity loses: US, UK, France protect it from UN scrutiny re war crimes in Yemen
NY Times: Saudi Objections Halt U.N. Inquiry of Yemen War The aftermath of an airstrike Sept. 5 in Sana, Yemen. The Saudi-led air campaign has caused heavy civilian casualties. Credit […]
Secret UK deal to back #Saudi Arabia as head of UN Human Rights Council
UK deal to back Saudis exposed Secret cables reveal the British government negotiated with Saudi Arabia to back its elevation to the world’s top human rights body, the UN Human […]
As Baitul Futuh Burns, the Bigotry of Some Muslims Towards Ahmaddiyas Comes Out
http://tellmamauk.org/: “Love for All, Hatred for None“, is the motto of the Ahmaddiya community globally. It is a community that is openly persecuted in Pakistan where the State structures are built to discriminate against them after the dictator Zia Ul Haque introduced stringent laws into the country as a way of […]