Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman SPA Published — Friday 12 February 2016 Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, the Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, on Thursday led the delegation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia taking part in the meeting of the international coalition […]
IMMIGRATION SATIRE Müslüm: Integration through comedy By swissinfo.ch http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/inline?urn=urn:swi:video:41947798 EMBED CODE FEB 10, 2016 – 11:00 Swiss-Turkish comedian Müslüm is using humour to raise awareness of the issues surrounding immigration in a new television series. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) Swiss public television, SRF1, is airing new series this spring looking at the country’s […]
By Gaby Ochsenbein FEB 10, 2016 – 11:00 Opinions are divided over whether students should be allowed to pray in state schools (Keystone) The decision to make prayer rooms available for Muslims in two Swiss state schools is viewed by some as a pragmatic solution. Others believe prayer rooms have […]
Epigraph: O ye who believe! be strict in observing justice, and be witnesses for Allah, even though it be against yourselves or against parents and kindred. Whether he be rich […]
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) For the first time in 450 years, a citadel of Protestant worship in England — the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace — echoed to the sound […]
Interview Conducted by Walter Mayr WWW.SPIEGEL.DE DPA/Guardia di Finanza An image provided by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza showing the rescuing of a refugee boat in the Mediterranean last April Italy is adament that the rest of the European Union must do its part to solve the […]
Getty Images The Alternative for Germany was born as an anti-euro movement. But it has since positioned itself far to the populist right. Despite its efforts at maintaining respectability, the party’s extremist flank is wide open. The settling of accounts with Frauke Petry, head of Germany’s right-wing populist Alternative for […]
Feb 09,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL As if Syrian refugees’ plight were not already unbearable, a grim dimension is added to it: the estimation that no less than 10,000 Syrian children who entered Europe are still unaccounted for, their whereabouts unknown. According to the EU criminal intelligence agency Europol, these […]
Feb 09,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Hasan Abu Nimah Not many observers were surprised by the quick collapse of the Syria peace talks last week. It would have been a bigger surprise if the Geneva talks, organised by UN special representative Staffan de Mistura, had lasted any longer, let alone accomplished […]
TENSIONS WITH TURKEY FEB 8, 2016 – 19:46 The last major incident between Kurdish and Turkish groups took place in Bern last September (Keystone) Authorities in Zurich broke up an unauthorised demonstration by a group of Kurdish activists with tear gas and rubber bullets on Monday. The group was protesting […]
WAR CRIMES FEB 8, 2016 – 21:58 Del Ponte has formerly served on tribunals related to atrocities in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia (Keystone) Carla Del Ponte, the Swiss special prosecutor who serves on the UN commission of inquiry on Syria, has said that she generally considers Russian intervention in […]
By Reuters – Feb 08,2016 – JORDAN TIMES MOSCOW — Ramzan Kadyrov, hardline leader of Russia’s Chechen region and close ally of President Vladimir Putin, said Chechen spies loyal to Moscow had infiltrated Daesh in Syria and were gathering intelligence for Russian air force bombing strikes. The assertion, by […]
BalazsPenz February 8, 2016 Slumping crude prices drain reserves, prompt devaluations President Aliyev faces worst unrest in a decade as prices jump For Azerbaijan, plunging foreign reserves and two currency devaluations last year provided a stern test for the energy-reliant nation. For its long-time leader, the economic and political challenges […]
INTEGRATION By swissinfo.ch and agencies FEB 8, 2016 – 09:51 Not everyone is happy about advice given to asylum seekers on how to behave during the Lucerne carnival (Keystone) After the sex attacks in Cologne on New Year’s Eve, officials in Lucerne, where it is currently carnival season, last week […]
UPSET: Hundreds of women in hijab protest in Sarajevo on Sunday. (AFP). The Muslim Times has most extensive collection on the subject of Hijab Source: Arab News and AFP SARAJEVO: […]
Feb 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – GORDON BROWN Buried in the declaration from the just-completed fourth United Nations’ Syria Pledging Conference in London is a little publicised but important promise: by next year, every Syrian refugee child will be offered a place in school. The world, at long last, has […]
Huff Post: by Nina Gulgowsky — “As far as the burials go, women were as prominent there as men.” Archaeologists say they have discovered the cremated remains of 14 women, believed to have been of high status, buried beneath Stonehenge. Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of 14 women, believed to […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Pope Francis will hold a historic first meeting with Patriarch Kirill, the head of Russian Orthodox Church, […]
Epigraph: All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and […]
The government’s new ‘jewellery law’ takes effect on Friday. Photo: Claus Fisker/Scanpix Published: 05 Feb 2016 Beginning Friday, Danish police now have the authority to take cash and valuables from refugees – here’s how it will work in practice. NY Times blasts ‘Denmark’s cruelty toward refugees’ (02 Feb 16) Denmark […]