Guardian: Beach lovers on the French Riviera expressed their anger on Sunday over the imminent arrival of the Saudi royal family, who have ordered a long stretch of beach to […]
Pewglobal.com: As the Islamic militant group ISIS continues to entrench itself in Syria and Iraq, and instigate terrorist attacks around the world, concerns about Islamic extremism are growing in the West and in countries with significant Muslim populations. Since 2011, the percentage saying they arevery concerned about Islamic extremism in […]
Firstbook.org: Retired Army Gen. Mike Flynn, a top intelligence official in the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, says in a forthcoming interview on Al Jazeera English that the drone war is creating more terrorists than it is killing. He also asserts that the U.S. invasion of Iraq helped create the Islamic […]
Slate.com: Here’s the thing to keep in mind about most critics of the Iran nuclear deal that was signed Tuesday morning: Their objections have nothing to do with the details of the deal. The most diehard opponents—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Saudi King Salman, and a boatload of neocons led […]
Salon.com: In his Nobel lecture on Dec. 11, 1950, British logician and philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.” Noble motives, he added, deserve our inquiry, for they’re often but façades. The revival in recent months of public appraisals of […]
Journal-Neo.org: Late last year, Germany’s broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) investigated what turned out to be hundreds of trucks a day carrying billions of dollars in supplies, flowing across the Turkish border into […]
Source: Christian Today By Carey Lodge 07 July 2015 A number of Islamic terms have been banned from translation into English under a new law introduced by the Pakistani government. The […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Kashif N. Chaudhry; Physician, writer and human rights activist A one-liner by Indian actor Kamal Haasan caught my eye on social media recently. It read, “I […]
The Friday Times: “India grants citizenship to 4300 refugees from Afghanistan and Pakistan” read a recent news headline circulating in the media. As a Pakistani, this headline carried more heartache than surprise. At a time when the Pakistani social media is abuzz with underlining the plight of the minority Rohingya-Muslim […]
Tribune: BAHAWALPUR: An anti-terrorism court on Friday sentenced a prayer leader to 10 years and four months imprisonment after he was convicted of making hate speeches after Fajr prayers. Judge Khalid Arshad also fined Abdul Ghani Rs750,000. Prosecution said Ghani had delivered provocative speeches following Fajr prayers at a mosque in […]
Wikleaks: New Delhi, June 27: How much of an influence does Iran have over the Sufi Muslims in India? A recent wikileaks cable suggested that Saudi Arabia wanted to match Iran’s influence over India. Read more: Wahabism, Terrorism and the 10 billion dollar India funding The Shia community says that […]
Guardian: The anti-Muslim drumbeat has become deafening across the western world. As images of atrocities by the jihadi terror group Isis multiply online, and a steady trickle of young Europeans […]
NY Times: WASHINGTON — In the 14 years since Al Qaedacarried out attacks on New York and the Pentagon, extremists have regularly executed smaller lethal assaults in the United States, explaining their motives in online manifestoes or social media rants. But the breakdown of extremist ideologies behind those attacks may […]
Christian Post; As Pakistani lawmakers consider legislation to reform the nation’s corrupt blasphemy laws, Islamic clerics are bashing the government for even considering such an option, and are calling for the release of the murderer of the Punjab governor who advocated for blasphemy reform in 2011. Asia News reports that 10 […]
Christian Post; As Pakistani lawmakers consider legislation to reform the nation’s corrupt blasphemy laws, Islamic clerics are bashing the government for even considering such an option, and are calling for the release of the murderer of the Punjab governor who advocated for blasphemy reform in 2011. Asia News reports that 10 […]
wikileaks: On Monday, Saudi Arabia celebrated the beheading of its 100th prisoner this year. The story was nowhere to be seen on Arab media despite the story’s circulation on wire services. Even international media was relatively mute about this milestone compared to what it might have been if it had […]
Tribune: UNITED NATIONS: United Nations peacekeepers commonly pay for sex with cash, dresses, jewelry, perfume, cell phones and other items, despite a ban on such relationships with people the world body is trying to help, a draft UN report concluded. The draft study by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services […]
Tribune: UNITED NATIONS: United Nations peacekeepers commonly pay for sex with cash, dresses, jewelry, perfume, cell phones and other items, despite a ban on such relationships with people the world body is trying to help, a draft UN report concluded. The draft study by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services […]
Russia Today: The decision to hold a UN-backed human rights summit in Saudi Arabia in early June, attended by the Human Rights Council’s chief, has sparked an outcry from rights organizations, claiming that the visit gave the Gulf kingdom “false legitimacy.” The main point of the international summit held in […]