Irish police allowed to wear turbans and hijabs
Source: BBC Gardaí (Irish police) are to be allowed to wear turbans and hijabs for the first time in a bid to recruit more officers from diverse backgrounds. In a […]
Book Review: Muhammad: An anticlerical hero of the European Enlightenment
Source: Princeton University Printing Press and Aeon.co By John Tolan, who is a professor of history at the University of Nantes. His latest book is Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions […]
EU Ambassador to Pakistan meets with Ahmadi officials
ASIA RABWAH TIMES European Union Ambassador to Pakistan on Monday paid a visit to the Ahmadiyya town of Rabwah and met with senior community leaders. Ambassador Jean-François Cautain described his […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat achieves a Mile Stone in Baltic States
Source: Fareed A Khalid of Germany Pictures: Fareed A Khalid Saturday 30th March 2019 proved to be an other mile stone in the history of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat. Three Baltic […]
To understand the far right, look to their bookshelves
Source: The Guardian By Elif Shafak is a novelist and political scientist From Jordan Peterson to Thilo Sarrazin, rightwing writers are bringing once fringe ideas into the mainstream used to live […]
MPs want to tackle forced marriage by raising the legal age you can wed – here’s why it won’t work
Collectively, all European countries need to tackle the issue of violence against girls and women and develop support for those at risk Rabina Khan While MPs debate whether to raise […]
Corrupt Egyptair Deal: Suspicions of Bribery Cast Shadow Over Airbus
Leaked internal documents from Airbus suggest corruption may have been involved in the sale of several aircraft to Egyptair in 2003. The issues raised by the documents threaten to overshadow […]
Germany’s AfD disappointed after database reveals no Arab, Muslim names in top 10 knife criminals
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Published30.03.2019 AFP File Photo Recent research conducted by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party on the first names and backgrounds of perpetrators of knife attacks did […]
Article 50 petition to cancel Brexit passes 6m signatures
Milestone hit a day and a half after Britain was originally meant to have left EU Guardian staff Sun 31 Mar 2019 Anti-Brexit activists wave EU flags in Parliament […]
On what should have been Brexit weekend, churches and cathedrals open their doors for prayer and dialogue
Source: CT The first weekend after the UK was supposed to leave the European Union, churches and cathedrals are offering spaces for conversation and prayer on Brexit. Many churches across the country are holding prayer vigils this weekend on what should have marked the start of a new post-Brexit era […]
Christian terrorism has an old tradition: Austrian Empress assassinated in Geneva in 1898
ANARCHISTS IN SWITZERLAND: ‘Empress stabbed in the heart’ Source: Swiss Info By Regula Bochsler In 1898, the Empress Elisabeth of Austria was murdered in Geneva. The popular “Sisi” was stabbed […]
The Growing Threat of Online-Bred Right-Wing Extremism
Source: Spiegel The gunman who killed 50 people in Christchurch, New Zealand is being celebrated by right-wing extremists around the world, including in Germany. It is a sign of how the internet has forged a new kind of terrorist threat, and an increasingly emboldened network of radicals. At around 1:30 […]
Pope to broaden Muslim dialogue with Morocco visit
By AFP – Mar 28,2019 – JORDAN TIMES African Christian migrants pray in a church ahead of the Pope’s visit, in Rabat, Morocco, on Sunday (Reuters photo) VATICANCITY — Pope Francis […]
The EU’s decision to stop rescuing drowning refugees shames us all
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred; saving one is like the saving of the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Operation Sophia represented European solidarity at its best. But […]
As leaders of the UK opposition parties, we call on the government to stop fuelling the war in Yemen
The UK has awarded at least £4.6bn of arms export licences to Saudi Arabia. Now Yemen stands on the brink of catastrophe Jeremy CorbynIan Blackford, Liz Saville Robert @jeremycorbyn, Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas, Vince […]
‘Serious’ questions over SAS involvement in Yemen war
Minister promises to investigate report of firefight involving British personnel as claims swirl about child soldiers in Saudi-led force Patrick Wintour, diplomatic editor Wed 27 Mar 2019 Soldiers with a […]
BAME groups are dying over religious falsehoods about organ donation. Why aren’t faith leaders helping?
Voices Religion and culture overwhelmingly hold black and Asian people back from donating organs. Without guidance from religious leaders, they’ll continue to suffer disproportionately low donor rates Danielle Manning @decrmanning […]
The Jewish News reports: Minister: PA terrorist payments is ‘no justification’ for Israel to withhold tax
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon made his remarks while speaking in the House of Lords, after being asked by anti-Zionist peer Baroness Tonge By JEWISH NEWS REPORTERMarch 19, 2019, Lord Ahmad A Foreign Office minister has said that Palestinian Authority payments made to convicted terrorists is “no justification” for Israel withholding […]
Christian mother sues primary school over LGBT Pride event
Source: CT A Christian mother is taking legal action against a London primary school after she says it failed to take her complaint against an LGBT Pride event seriously. Izzy Montague is one of several parents who complained after their children were allegedly forced to take part in a gay […]
‘Let my people go’ – Boris Johnson tells Theresa May to ‘channel Moses’ to end Brexit furore
Source: CT Former foreign secretary Boris Johnson was looking to the Bible for inspiration this week to end the row over Britain’s exit from the European Union. Pro-Brexit Mr Johnson said in his weekly Daily Telegraph column that after “bottling it completely”, Mrs May should lead the UK out of the […]