Three Reasons France Became a Target for Jihad
Source: Time By John R. Bowen Jihad seems to hit France harder than other countries, with more than 1,000 young people leaving to fight on the side of ISIS or […]
Where the water is too pure to touch
Source: BBC By BBC’s Travel Show Natural caves exist throughout Hungary, but a cave system in the small town of Tapolca has an especially memorable method of exploration. The around […]
As many as 84 dead as truck hits crowd in Nice, France
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred, killing one is like triggering a genocide. ( Al Quran 5:32/33) Many dead as lorry hits crowd in Nice Source: BBC A […]
Senior EU lawyer backs French woman sacked for wearing hijab
A French design engineer who was dismissed for wearing an Islamic headscarf should have been allowed to cover her head at work, a senior EU lawyer has said.A French woman at a protest against the banning of headscarves in state schools. Photograph: Alamy In an influential preliminary opinion, an advocate […]
Fraudulent geopolitical wars
Source: The Express Tribune By Imtiaz Gul If we ever needed a damning indictment of ugly geo-politically motivated military interventions, Sir John Chilcot delivered it on July 6 — The […]
Italy economy: IMF says country has ‘two lost decades’ of growth
Source: BBC Italy’s economy will not return to the levels seen before the 2008 financial crisis until the mid-2020s, the IMF has said, implying “two lost decades”. By the mid-2020s, […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in Croatia arranged lectures on Muslim Heritage and refuting Islamophobia
By Zubair Khan This time it was in famous Caffe Bar Skrabatorij at Trg Katarine Zagreb, where Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat organized two lectures. Lecture delivered by Ms Tina Hrubi highlighted the biased attitude of Media while reporting the crimes committed by those resembling Islamic Names viz a viz those having […]
First Eid Milan Party by Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in Croatia
By Zubair Khan Bundek is one of the most famous and prestigious leisure resort of Zagreb in Croatia. Here many events take place. On 09.07.2016 Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Croatia organized a small Eid Milan Party in Bundek. Total 18 participants attended. Mr Ivan played the main role with reserving the […]
Police blame worst rise in recorded hate crime on EU referendum
Source: The Guardian By Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent Police believe the spike in hate crime following the EU referendum was the worst on record. Mark Hamilton, head of the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), said: “I believe the referendum debate has led to an increase in reporting of hate […]
Muslim girls fence against Islamophobia in the UK
Source: Aljazeera By Zab Mustefa London, United Kingdom – Under the bright lights of a northeast London school sports hall, a group of Muslim girls sit on wooden benches, awaiting […]
The persecution of the Ahmadis must not be allowed to spread
theguardian: by Giles Fraser — Driven out of Pakistan, the Muslim Ahmadiyya community now have their global headquarters in the UK. They deserve our protection and respect Asad Shah, an Ahmadi Muslim shopkeeper who was stabbed to death in Glasgow after posting a message of Easter greetings on his Facebook […]
No Iraq exit plan then, no EU Brexit plan now – 13 years later our politicians are still infantile and inadequate
If the British public’s reflexive distrust of establishment politicians came into riotous bloom in June, it was Tony Blair who sowed the seed in 2003. The similarities between these twin catastrophes are overwhelming Matthew Norman @IndyVoices Wednesday 6 July 2016 Curiously enough, considering the avalanche of criticism about the endless […]
I’m already tired of the ‘lessons’ of Chilcot. What can we learn from a report that ignores Iraqis?
Source: Independent If Blair and Bush were sincere about the dangers of weapons of mass destruction, they would have invaded North Korea By Robert Fisk @indyvoices So where are the Titans […]
Conservative leadership: Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom in battle to be Prime Minister after Michael Gove eliminated from contest
Live Conservative leadership: Theresa May and May: I’m delighted to have won so much support from my colleaguesPlay!01:33 Danny Boyle Ben Riley-Smith, political correspondent 7 JULY 2016 • 6:34PM Michael Gove elimated from Conservative leadership bid Andrea Leadsom faces Theresa May in two-horse race to be PM May […]
The Crimea Complex: A Crisis of Identity Where East Meets West
The Crimea Complex: A Crisis of Identity Where East Meets West By Erich Follath Yuri Kozyrev / DER SPIEGEL It’s been two years since Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine. Since then, President Vladimir Putin has been cheered for liberating the peninsula and scorned for usurping it — depending on who […]
Tony Blair says world is better as a result of Iraq War
Source: BBC Tony Blair says the world would be “in a worse position” had he not taken the decision to invade Iraq. The former PM said despite the “terrible consequences”, removing Saddam Hussein “moved with the grain” of what was to come in the region. He also said it would […]
What will happen to the UK’s European farm workers?
Source: BBC By Camila Ruz and Susannah Stevens Thousands of foreign farm workers come to the UK every year. But in the wake of the UK vote on 23 June to leave the EU, they find themselves in uncertain times. Some EU workers fear they may soon need visas Some […]
We ignored the rule of law – the result was Iraq
Elizabeth Wilmshurst By acting in defiance of the UN charter, as I warned when I was a Foreign Office lawyer in 2003, we put our reputation at risk. So it has proved ‘Lord Goldsmith, who as attorney general constitutionally had the last word, had given a provisional view that a […]
A new take on old ghost stories
PODCAST A new take on old ghost stories By Celia Luterbacher http://www.swissinfo.ch SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES DOWNLOAD MP3 FILE JUL 3, 2016 – 11:00 A University of Bern researcher argues that Victorian ghost stories can shed light on our understanding of culture, religion, and even modern-day science’s struggles with the mysteries […]
EU opens new chapter in Turkey membership talks
By AFP – Jul 01,2016 – JORDAN TIMES BRUSSELS — The EU opened a new negotiating chapter with Turkey on Thursday on its long-stalled bid for membership, a week after […]