Can We Stop Talking About ‘Radical Islam’ and Get To The Elephant in The Room?
Epigraph: Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? (Matthew 7:3) Source: Huffington Post […]
Istanbul bomb blast kills 11 people, wounds 36 – governor
Reuters International JUN 7, 2016 – 08:49 Fire engines stand beside a Turkish police bus which was targeted in a bomb attack in a central Istanbul district, Turkey, June 7, 2016. REUTERS/Osman Orsal (reuters_tickers) ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A car bomb attack on a Turkish police bus killed 11 people, seven […]
Aga Khan award for architecture announces 2016 shortlist
aga khan award for architecture announces 2016 shortlist (above) royal academy for nature conservation, um al-yanabea (architect: khammash architects) image © AKTC / cemal emden the 19 […]
“Everyone Is A Target For Terrorists”– Head Of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad makes remarks during interview with Sweden’s Sveriges Radio. On 11 May 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad was interviewed by Sveriges Radio (Sweden Radio) at the Mahmood Mosque in Malmo, Sweden. Upon […]
Lucerne coaches asylum seekers ahead of carnival
WESTERN RULES http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/inline?urn=urn:swi:video:41927898 EMBED CODE FEB 3, 2016 – 11:00 It’s carnival season in Lucerne. The sex attacks in Cologne on New Year’s Eve have prompted the Lucerne officials to produce a leaflet informing asylum seekers about western behavioural norms. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) The Hirschpark asylum centre in Lucerne is keen on […]
Ties that could help everybody
Feb 01,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s visits to Italy and France a week ago can be viewed as a big success when measured by the multibillion-dollar business deals he reached with these two European countries. Rouhani signed trade deals worth about $18 billion with Rome, […]
Rouhani due in Paris as Iran drums up business with French
Source: BBC Iranian president Hassan Rouhani will arrive in France on Wednesday for the second leg of his state visit to Europe, after three days in Italy. Mr Rouhani is […]
Europe in a fix
PETER APPS Published — Tuesday 26 January 2016 For years, skeptics warned of multiple threats to the European project. The strains of the single currency, they said, would rip it apart. Excessive regulation was another concern, along with lack of democratic accountability. Some felt Europe’s different peoples were just too […]
UK: The Government’s shameful response to the refugee crisis in four charts
Britain’s increasingly unwelcoming approach to those fleeing war and persecution – highlighted by figures analysed by The Independent – is labelled ‘woefully inadequate’ Harry Lambert @harry_2016 96 comments If the UK had accepted its fair share of refugees, the Calais Jungle would not exist. Getty The UK has let in 170,000 fewer […]
Merry Christmas to the 300 million Orthodox Christian brothers and sisters; celebrating today
Epigraph: Muhammad, thou shalt assuredly find those who say, ‘We are Christians,’ to be the nearest of them in love to the believers. That is because amongst them are savants […]
The stunning home of a ruthless king Timur
Source: BBC By Tim Johnson Explore imperial, exotic Samarkand, home to one of the world’s most feared conquerors and kings. Tamerlane (Timur) was once one of the world’s most feared […]
Refugee crisis: Inside the Dunkirk camp where 2,500 refugees live in conditions ‘far worse’ than the Calais Jungle
At the Grande-Synthe camp, children are forced to play in the mud as a sanitation crisis looms Adam Lusher Wednesday 23 December 2015 286 comments Mohammad Faiq, four, plays outside his family’s tent at the Grande-Synthe camp, near Dunkirk, yesterday Justin Sutcliffe In front of a tent pitched beside a […]
EU gets 1 million migrants in 2015, smugglers seen making $1 billion
Reuters International swissinfo.ch DEC 22, 2015 – By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – More than 1 million refugees and migrants came to the European Union this year, while almost 3,700 died or went missing in perilous journeys which reaped huge profit for smugglers, the International Organization for Migration said […]
East-West Tensions Growing ‘Dangerous’
World Affairs: Features East-West Tensions Growing ‘Dangerous’ By: Credit Suisse Published: March 23, 2015 At Credit Suisse’s 18th Annual Asian Investment Conference, former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Dr. Bobo Lo, an independent Russian and Chinese foreign policy expert, discussed rising tensions in East-West relations. Economic sanctions, they […]
Tatar Sunni Muslims pose a threat to Russia’s occupation of Crimea
theguardian: by Andrew Wilson — Russia may be tightening its grip on Crimea, with little resistance to date, but they have yet to face the Crimean Tatar factor. There are 266,000 Crimean Tatars in Crimea, over 13% of the local population. They are Sunni Muslim, traditionally pro-Ukrainian, and much better […]
Muslim Tatars Of Crimea Lie Low Following Russia’s Seizure Of Ukrainian Peninsula
Huff Post: by Alissa De Carbonel — (Reuters) – Only five days ago, Tatars of Ukraine’s Crimea came out in their thousands, chanting Allahu Akbar in a show of loyalty to the new authorities in Kiev and opposition to separatist demands by the region’s Russian ethnic majority. But now, with […]
Quran Translation Banned By Russian Court
Huff Post – MOSCOW — Russia’s top Islamic cleric has protested a provincial court order to declare a translation of the Quran as extremist and to destroy it. Ravil Gainutdin, the head of the Council of Muftis of Russia, said in an open letter to President Vladimir Putin released Monday […]