France police arrest woman for saying Islamic greeting ‘assalam alaykum’
October 15, 2023 at 9:03 am A woman seen passing near a squad of police during the rally on October 13, 2023 in Paris [Telmo Pinto/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images] […]
JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon warns world facing ‘most dangerous time in decades’
By Tom Espiner & Natalie Sherman BBC News The world may be facing “the most dangerous time… in decades”, bank boss Jamie Dimon has warned. The chief executive of JP […]
Germany opposes UNICEF’s call for Gaza cease-fire
BY ANADOLU AGENCY BERLIN OCT 13, 2023 – DAILY SABAH Children watch as civil defense responders search for victims in the rubble of a building after an Israeli air strike in […]
Ahmadiyya Mosque in Erfurt, Eastern Germany, nearing completion. Workers receive hate mails.
Currently, the construction work on the mosque of the Ahmadiyya community in Erfurt-Marbach is still in full swing. It is expected to be largely completed by the end of the […]
Tunisia returns €60 million to the EU as tensions over migration deal persist
Tunisian President Kais Saied at the closing session of the New Global Financial Pact Summit. AFP© LEWIS JOLY Tunisia has returned €60 million ($63 million) provided by the EU in budgetary […]
Europe’s Broken Asylum System Conditions for Migrants in Tunisia Further Deteriorate
Europe’s Broken Asylum System Conditions for Migrants in Tunisia Further Deteriorate The EU is trying to outsource its migration problems and has entered into a partnership with Tunisia. But the […]
My fond recollections of Hazrat Khalifatul Masih IV – Part 1
6th October 2023 The reminiscences shared in this piece are rooted in the author’s personal experiences. While care has been taken to convey these events accurately, personal memories can naturally […]
Dutch party drops would-be MP Turkish politician over pro-Palestine stance
BY DAILY SABAH WITH AGENCIES ISTANBUL OCT 11, 2023 Yasin Makineli, an MP for the Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB), poses for a photo during an interview with Anadolu Agency (AA) in Amsterdam, […]
Europe needs rational, not emotional, debate on immigration
NADIM SHEHADI October 10, 2023 Fairuz, the iconic Lebanese singer, puts on the melancholic tone of a lovesick girl with a dilemma who longingly appeals to her absent lover to […]
Selective empathy and double standards
Oct 09,2023 – JORDAN TIMES . Sakher ‘Moh’d Nour’ Al Shriedeh In a world witnessing movements resisting oppression, a stark hypocrisy emerges in the international treatment of struggles in Ukraine and Palestine. This article aims to expose the incongruities in responses to these movements, shedding light on the selective empathy […]
Kosovo remains in purgatory as tensions rise again
YASAR YAKIS October 08, 2023 Small problems are sometimes more difficult to solve than big ones. The formal recognition of Kosovo is one of them because Russia opposes it in […]
‘There is no migrant crisis; there is a management crisis’
Foreign affairs Externalisation of borders is back on the agenda of the European Union and Switzerland. In an interview with SWI swissinfo.ch Hasni Abidi, an expert on Middle East and […]
Fraxinetum. An Arab State in Southern France and Switzerland in the 10th century
Fraxinetum Coordinates: 43°19′17″N 06°27′50″E From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Fraxinetum or Fraxinet (Arabic: فرخشنيط, romanized: Farakhshanīt or فرخشة Farakhsha, from Latin fraxinus: “ash tree“, fraxinetum: “ash forest”) was the site of a Muslim fortress in Provence between about 887 and 972. It is identified with modern La Garde-Freinet, near Saint-Tropez. […]
The Islamic Scholar Who Gave Us Modern Philosophy
Averroës’ writings on Aristotle shaped Western philosophy as we know it. Robert Pasnau HUMANITIES, November/December 2011, Volume 32, Number 6 Abū al-Walīd Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Rushd Although Thomas Aquinas […]
BOOK REVIEW. The Thirteenth Tribe
by Arthur Koestler (Author) ORIGINAL EDITION. Koestler advances the thesis that Ashkenazi Jews are not descended from the historical Israelites of antiquity, but from Khazars, a Turkic people originating in and populating […]
Of Our Common Future and Triangulation of Eurasia: The North-South Corridor
Lorenzo Somigli 15/SEPT./23 Introduction In a fluid global order, initiatives to articulate cooperation to its best mutual outcome, as for exchange of resources and synergies are relevant more than ever. […]
Eight things to know about Islam in Germany
Emma Anderson – emma.anderson@thelocal.com Published: 12 May The Muslim community has actually had a presence – though small – in Germany for hundreds of years. Here are more facts you might […]
French schools’ ban on abayas and headscarves is supposedly about secularism − but it sends a powerful message about who ‘belongs’ in French culture
September 29, 2023 Surel Twitter Facebook81 LinkedIn Cetak France’s decision to ban public school students from wearing the abaya – a long dress or robe popular among women in certain Muslim cultures […]
France hijab ban ‘against Olympic spirit’: Islamic sports body
DISCRIMINATION The Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation says the hijab is “an aspect of many Muslim women’s identity and should be respected”, adding that the French ban could prevent some French […]