MIGRATION CRISIS By Gaby Ochsenbein, Piraeus, Greece MAR 24, 2016 – 11:02 Kristina Häsler tries to improve the situation of refugees living in an improvised tent camp in the Greek port of Piraeus (swissinfo.ch) The Greek port of Piraeus is currently home to 4,000-5,000 refugees, who live in warehouses and […]
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Mar 24, 2016 The Associated PressDemonstrators gather outside the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia before the trial of former Bosnian […]
BY KURT EICHENWALD ON 3/22/16 NEWSWEEK.COM Police control access to the central train station following the bomb attacks in Brussels on March 22.REUTERS Anyone surprised by the murderous attack in Brussels has not been paying attention. On a per capita basis, Belgium has been Europe’s hotbed of young Muslims who travel […]
This sane voice sounded last Saturday from one of the western Europe’s largest mosques in London Taalay Ahmed Tue, Mar 22, 2016 Subtitles by Julia Rakhmetova Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the spiritual leader of millions of Muslims belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community made the remarks during a March 19 […]
Source: BBC By Jonathan Marcus; Diplomatic correspondent We are accustomed to thinking about policy in binary terms – domestic politics on the one hand, foreign affairs on the other. But […]
by Louis Doré in tech Maalbeek underground, Brussels, 22 March 2016 (Picture: SEPPE KNAPEN/AFP/Getty Images) At least 30 people killed in terror attacks in Brussels on Tuesday morning. Two explosions occurred at the city’s international airport, killing 11 people and injuring 81, while a third explosion occurred at Maalbeek Metro station, where […]
by Narjas Zatat in news Some People have begun blaming refugees for the attacks that killed an estimated 30 people in Brussels on Tuesday morning. According to Amnesty International’s figures, there are more than 50 million people who have been forcibly displaced from their homes. Refugees, by nature of their circumstance […]
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad says media should highlight peaceful teachings of Islam practiced by majority of Muslims. Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community says he is in favour of UK remaining part of the European Union. On 19 March 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa […]
WWW.SWISSINFO.CH : MAR 20, 2016 – 12:00 Here are the stories we will be watching in the week of March 21: (Keystone) Tuesday When you put an actor in the […]
Reuters International MAR 22, 2016 – 09:45 LESBOS, Greece (Reuters) – The United Nations refugee agency has stopped transporting migrants arriving on Lesbos from Turkey to a reception facility as their subsequent freedom of movement is no longer guaranteed, a UNHCR spokesman said, referring to last week’s EU-Turkey deal. The […]
Mure Dickie in Edinburgh ©Getty The Church of Scotland says it shares many values with Islam Sharia law and Scottish Presbyterian morality may have more in common than previously thought. The Church of Scotland has joined forces with Islamic finance experts to draw up a “practical ethical financial solution” […]
Out of media player. Press enter to return or tab to continue. Media captionJames Reynolds watched the first group of migrants arriving on Lesbos as the new rules came into force Turkish observers have arrived on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios to oversee an EU deal on sending […]
The fixation on jihadists is distracting attention away from the troubling rise of far-right extremism in Europe. 17 Mar 2016 07:23 GMT | The exaggerated hype around jihadists makes ordinary Europeans feel much less safer than they actually are and shakes their trust in their Muslim compatriots, writes Diab [The […]
Reuters International MAR 18, 2016 – 03:31 By Humeyra Pamuk and Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders will try to convince Turkey’s prime minister to help end Europe’s migration crisis in return for financial and political concessions but they remain unsure if Friday’s Brussels summit can clinch a […]
SWISS TERRORISM TRIAL Islamic State verdicts mark ‘turning point’ By Simon Bradley MAR 19, 2016 – 15:24 Some of the accused in the courtroom via a sketch artist (Keystone) Leading Swiss papers have welcomed the Federal Criminal Court’s ‘exemplary’ convictions of foreign Islamist militants, accused of planning a terror attack […]
Our favorite post: The Muslim Times Recommending Universal BCG Vaccination to Fight the Pandemic Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Palm Sunday is this weekend, […]
By Hasnain Kazim DPA Hasnain Kazim, SPIEGEL’s correspondent in Turkey, was forced to leave the country after his press credentials were not renewed. For three years, Hasnain Kazim reported for DER SPIEGEL from Istanbul. Now, he has been forced out of the country. His impressions from a place where press […]
Source: Swiss Info As part of an international project called “Inside Out” by the French street artist JR, Geneva-based photographer Mark Henley shot 51 portraits of asylum seekers in their […]
” Unconstitutional ” MAR 18, 2016 – 17:10 The committee handed in the initiative against the Centre for Islam and Society in July 2015 (Keystone) People in canton Fribourg will not be voting on whether the university should have a Centre for Islam and Society. The cantonal parliament threw out the […]
By Reuters – Mar 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Refugee children walk along railway tracks at a makeshift migrant camp in the northern Greek border post of Idomeni, on Thursday (AP photo) BRUSSELS — European Union leaders met on Thursday seeking agreement with Turkey to stop migrants reaching Greece […]