By AFP – Dec 27,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Demonstrators, most of them angry against Muslim residents, march in Ajaccio, on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, on Saturday (AP photo) AJACCIO, France — France banned demonstrations in part of the Corsican capital Ajaccio on Sunday following two days of anti-Arab […]
AFP — DAWN.COM 43 COMMENTS A picture taken on December 25, 2015 shows a devastated Muslim prayer hall in Ajaccio, after protesters vandalised it and tried to set fire to copies of the Holy Quran.—AFP AJACCIO: Demonstrators ransacked a Muslim prayer hall and attempted to burn copies of the […]
Source: The Guardian By Hicham Yezza It’s the stuff of farce. A Muslim postgraduate student of counter-terrorism, spotted reading a textbook entitled Terrorism Studies in the library, isaccused by his own […]
Source: Daily Star By Alex Hickson BRITISH Muslim cabbies and shopkeepers have defied negative stereotypes of Islam by handing out Christmas cards to their customers. The cards have pictures of […]
Huff Post: by Severin Carroll — Just over half of practising solicitors are women, but they are still under-represented in senior roles Senior judges at the Court of Session in […]
Reuters International DEC 24, 2015 – swissinfo.ch JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A record number of French Jews moved to Israel this year, an immigration official said on Thursday, citing anti-Semitic violence […]
Dec 24,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – Robert Skidelsky Donald Trump’s call to bar Muslims from the United States provoked the following exchange with two young friends of mine: “If the choice was between Muslim immigration and preserving liberal moral values,” I asked, “which would you choose?” They both denied the question’s […]
By GREGORY KATZ and SYLVIA HUI Dec. 23, 2015 11:00 AM EST LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister David Cameron’s office said Wednesday he will look into claims that U.S. officials prevented a British Muslim family of 11 from flying to Disneyland for a planned holiday. The issue is sensitive because […]
Lyse Doucet Chief international correspondent 23 December 2015 Jump media player Media player help Out of media player. Press enter to return or tab to continue. Media captionThe girls were reunited in Newcastle, as Lyse Doucet reports “Are two Malalas better than one?” I ask, only partly in jest, of two […]
By Stephen Fottrell BBC News 23 December 2015 From the sectionWorld Image copyrightAP, AFP, Getty From the devastating gun attacks in Paris and Tunisia to the crippling earthquake in Nepal and the unprecedented migrant crisis in Europe, 2015 was a year in which human stories and experiences came to the fore. […]
By Sean CoughlanEducation correspondent Out of media player. Press enter to return or tab to continue. Media captionThe ancient Koran in Birmingham is giving up some its secrets Knowledge economy Vocational education’s global gap US universities gripped by identity crisis UK student numbers surge in Netherlands Online schools ‘worse than […]
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 […]
Source: The Guardian More than a million people have now reached Europe through irregular means in 2015, the International Organisation for Migration has announced, in what constitutes the continent’s biggest […]
theguardian: by Joe Williams, Tshepo Mokoena, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, Homa Khaleeli and Nosheen Iqbal Chi Onwurah Chi Onwurah. Photograph: James Drew Turner The MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central joined the shadow cabinet following Jeremy Corbyn’s victory: she had nominated him for the Labour leadership, but you wouldn’t call her […]
Epigraph: “Christians and Muslims are brothers and sisters, and we must act as such.” Pope Francis Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Most […]
Source: Sputnik International 21.05.2015; it is an old news Athens plans to hold parliament voting on recognition of the State of Palestine because the new Greek government does not want […]
An Editorial by Klaus Brinkbäumer SPIEGEL.DE REUTERS A boat full of refugees on the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece. What would we do in their situation? The debate over refugees in Germany has grown divisive. Those in favor are unwilling to recognize the difficulties ahead while those opposed too […]
Rachid Nekkaz: on crusade for state religious ‘neutrality’. Photo: Denis Charlet/AFP Businessman vows to pay burqa ban fines Published: 11 Dec 2015 11:00 GMT+01:00 A ban on wearing niqabs or burqas in public has yet to be implemented in the canton of Ticino but an Algerian businessman is already vowing […]
Voices Meet the British physicist who ignored Taliban death threats to teach in the badlands of Pakistan David Gosling spent four years as principal of University of Peshawar – “When you have education in its totality, it enables our students to see what should be obvious: we are all one” Robert […]
Source: The Guardian By Henry Zeffman Despite rising fears of western hostility toward Muslims, new research shows British liberal views have strengthened since last month’s events in France Last month’s terrorist […]