Syrian ISIS Bride’s Escape From Terror
In light of the news that came just last week of the bombing of a camp for displaced people in north-west Syria, the attention of the UK was once again […]
British women ‘being forced into polygamous relationships’ because law lets them down, campaigners say
Source: Independent ‘The government is always perfectly happy to relegate minority women to kangaroo courts and faith-based parallel legal systems’ By Maya Oppenheim, @mayaoppenheim Women are being left to go […]
Rescue of all 60 children of the ‘caliphate’ urged as winter nears
Relatives and councils offer sanctuary to get children home before winter closes in Mark Townsend @townsendmark Sun 24 Nov 2019 A Syrian refugee child in October, after coming ashore at RAF base Akrotiri in Cyprus. Photograph: Jack Hill/The Times/PA Homes for all the 60 British children still stranded in north-east […]
What Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman could learn from Prince Andrew – and vice versa
The two princes in hot water have one thing in common: a history of terrible personal and political choices Patrick Cockburn @indyworld Prince Andrew and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia have both had a bad week. On the very same day that Prince Andrew was giving his […]
I witnessed my first real battles and saw my first corpses in Belfast. It prepared me for the Middle East – Robert Fisk
Source: Independent In an exclusive clip from This Is Not A Movie, a documentary film by Yung Chang about the foreign reporting of Robert Fisk, we see the genesis of […]
Islam and Orthodox Christianity Have the Same Values, Putin Says
Source: The Moscow Times Orthodox Christianity and Islam are based on the same fundamental values, President Vladimir Putin said in an address to a religious conference in Kyrgyzstan. The conference, […]
UK defies UN deadline to return Chagos Islands
Refusal to return archipelago to Mauritius ‘lawless’ and ‘reflects colonial mindset’ says barrister Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent @owenbowcott Fri 22 Nov 2019 Britain’s “outright defiance” of a UN […]
UK Government rescues British orphans of Isil fighters from Syria in first repatriation mission
Josie Ensor, Middle East Correspondent Charles Hymas 21 November 2019 • British orphaned children of Islamic State fighters have been rescued from Syria, in the first evacuation by the […]
Video: Man attacks pregnant Muslim woman in Sydney café
Source: Daily Sabah A pregnant Muslim woman, who is 38 weeks along, was brutally attacked by a random man at a western Sydney cafe late Wednesday, Australian media reported Thursday. […]
The new global economic crisis, a prelude to war
Nov 20,2019 -JORDAN TIMES – Shehab Al Makahleh The record debt of key world economies including the G8 is fraught with calamitous hazards for the international community. Thus, if deleverage takes place soon, this will be a prelude to a cataclysm conducive to WWIII similar to what happened when the […]
The coming nuclear crises
Nov 19,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – RICHARD N HAAS NEW YORK — Until just a few years ago, it looked as if the problem posed by nuclear weapons had been […]
I’ve been researching Islamophobia for years – don’t let anyone tell you there isn’t an epidemic within the Tory party
Mobashra Tazamal 2019 began with calls for an inquiry into Islamophobia in the Conservative Party. As we approach the final month of the year, the party is continuing to turn […]
Pope Francis Weighs Adding ‘Ecological Sin’ to Church Teachings
Epigraph: The sun and the moon run their courses according to a fixed reckoning. And the stemless plants and the trees humbly submit to His will. And the heaven He […]
Sweden Drops Investigation of Julian Assange – WikiLeaks
© Sputnik / Justin Griffiths-Williams 19.11.2019 In May, Swedish prosecutors announced the reopening of the investigation against Julian Assange over rape charges, just over a month after he was stripped […]
I fled the Taliban 20 years ago and was welcomed to the UK with open arms – I want the same for other migrants
Saturday is International Day of Tolerance, and I am asking British people to maintain their accepting attitude towards migrants. Having fled the Taliban as a little girl, I know what it is like to try to integrate into a new society. But I am now studying for a PhD at […]
The woman who said Jesus would return – to Bedford, UK
Source: BBC By By Alex Pope Two centuries ago, a 64-year-old woman called Joanna Southcott announced she was pregnant with the Messiah. She died in December 1814, months after making […]
War crimes court considers investigation into British military
Mon 18 Nov 2019 British soldiers on patrol. The international criminal court says it takes the allegations seriously. Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA The international criminal court may investigate the British military for the first time after allegations that war crimes had been committed, the BBC has reported. The broadcaster’s Panorama […]
Sod the germs and the hairs, sleeping in the same bed as your pets is wonderful and heart-warming
I recently upgraded my bed to super-king size, to accommodate more comfortably my six-year-old daughter and my two cats Shappi Khorsandi @ShappiKhorsandi I’m writing my column this week from Mumbai […]
FORMER FOREIGN SECRETARY VISITS HEAD OF AHMADIYYA MUSLIM COMMUNITY
Source: pressahmadiyya.com On 16 November 2019, former Foreign Secretary and Conservative Party leadership candidate, Jeremy Hunt visited the worldwide Headquarters of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community at Islamabad in Tilford, Surrey and had the opportunity of a personal audience with the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, His Holiness, Hazrat […]
It is worse than you think – Chief of MI6 and former Soviet leader raise alarm
15th November 2019 alhakam.org In the past week, Mikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet leader and Sir Alex Younger, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service for the UK (MI6) have both […]