Source: Reuters Saudi Arabia has put 32 people on trial, including 30 members of its own Shi’ite Muslim minority, accused of spying for Iran, several local newspapers and television reported on Monday. The 32, including an Iranian and an Afghan, were detained in 2013 sparking expressions of concern among Saudi […]
Source: The Indian express Pakistan parliament on Tuesday became the first in the world to completely run on solar power, a venture supported by China with USD 55 million funding. […]
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Source: SC Times The Minnesota Department of Public Safety apologized Monday for issuing vanity license plates containing a slur against Muslims and said it will revoke them immediately after a photo of the […]
Source: The Washington Post John Kevin Wood says his daughter’s school has banned him from campus for more than a year, illegally punishing him for raising objections to classroom lessons […]
Source: Alabama Allie Larbi of Mobile, Ala., who converted to Islam after Sept. 11, 2001, plays with children before prayers at the Islamic American Center of Mobile on December 18, […]
Source: The Guardian Laws that allow families to murder their daughters in the name of “honour” and avoid punishment will be changed as soon as possible, Pakistan’s prime minister has […]
Source: Associated Press HAIFA, Israel (AP) — Hossam Haick, whose breakthrough work in nanotechnology has garnered global accolades, says his success as an Arab citizen of Israel proves that education […]
By Chad Groening for OneNewsNow.com A Canadian activist says his country’s new prime minister has kept his campaign pledge for the country to house thousands of Islamic refugees. Justin Trudeau […]
This Thursday, February 25, 2016, the city of Ottawa will be holding a public event celebrating the hijab, to show solidarity with Muslim women and diffuse Islamophobia. The City for […]
Source: Huffington Post By Jessica Schulberg; Foreign Affairs Reporter, The Huffington Post WASHINGTON — The Pentagon released a long-anticipated plan outlining the steps the Obama administration will take to close […]
theguardian: by Jon Boone — Call for perpetrators to be ‘punished very severely’ puts Nawaz Sharif on collision course with religious conservatives Pakistan’s prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, makes a speech condemning ‘honour’ killings at an Islamabad screening of A Girl in the River: the Price of Forgiveness. Photograph: AFP/Getty Laws […]
Source: Huffington Post It is official. The voters in the Republican party believe that the war in Iraq was wrong, based on lies, and led to the birth of ISIS. […]
Source: Huffington Post By Steven Schwartzberg Ph.D. clinical psychologist, dharma student, intentional nomad I am sitting in the Forest Refuge dining hall eating my breakfast oatmeal. I’m 4 weeks into […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Belief in life after death is not only restoring order in our present life, by belief in […]
Field Notes FEBRUARY 19, 2016 | STRATFOR.COM By Jasmin Mahmoud There are no perfect measures of the toll the Gaza blockade is taking on the 1.9 million residents locked inside, but those that give a glimpse tend to be pretty macabre. The number of suicide attempts handled by Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital, […]
By SPIEGEL Staff DER SPIEGEL The New Germany: Within only 12 months, over 1 million people moved to Germany. How will they integrate? More than a million refugees are now living in Germany. The next task is to integrate them. SPIEGEL spoke with dozens of experts and people working in […]
Photo: Christophe G Published: 23 Feb 2016 More and more foreigners in Switzerland are seeking Swiss citizenship according to official figures, reversing a downward trend over the previous 10 years. Figures from the Swiss immigration office show that the number of naturalizations rose by around 20 percent in 2015, with […]
SCHOOL DRESSCODE FEB 22, 2016 – 20:54 Two young women studying in Zurich (Keystone) With an eye on Muslim hijab, Swiss People’s Party members in canton Valais have collected more than 4,000 signatures calling for a ban on headgear in public schools – despite a recent federal court decision rejecting […]
SAAD AL-DOSARI Published — Tuesday 23 February 2016 As the world governments and security agencies are stepping up their efforts to fight online terrorism, terrorist groups are actively changing and upgrading their tactics. Social media platforms have become their open playgrounds they use to recruit fighters, to communicate between cells, […]