Seven places that hardly seem real
Source: BBC Where to go to escape the stresses of life, the bustle of the workweek and the noise of traffic? To find out, we turned to question-and-answer site Quora, […]
Take a journey through the sleeping mind
Source: BBC As you drift to sleep tonight, your mind will be doing some remarkable things : charging its batteries, saving your memories and taking you on a trip deep into your imagination Touch the ‘Zzz’ icons to reveal what is happening inside your mind at each stage of sleep. […]
Muslim community group joins in planting peace trees
Source: Slough and South Bucks Observer MEMBERS of a Muslim community spent the day planting 200 trees as a mark of peace. More than 40 members including men, women and […]
Muslim Taxi Driver Shot In Pittsburgh On Thanksgiving Day
Source: Huffington Post A man shot a Muslim taxi driver in Pittsburgh in the early hours of Thanksgiving Day, and local authorities say the incident may have been a hate crime. The driver, who has chosen not to be identified in the media because he fears for his safety, is […]
Texas: $15 Million Sought for Boy Arrested for Clock
Source: The New York Times Lawyers for the 14-year-old Muslim boy who was arrested after taking a homemade clock to his Dallas-area school say he was publicly mistreated and deserves […]
Why I Miss George W. Bush
Source: The New York Times By Mehdi Hassan is the host of the Al Jazeera English show “UpFront.” WASHINGTON — AS a Briton who, like millions of my compatriots, opposed […]
Nigeria: Muslims hit out amid national-service hijab row
Source: The Muslim News LAGOS, (AA) – Nigerian Muslims have rejected a ban on a ‘long hijab’ for female college graduates enrolling for national service. One Muslim group has described the […]
The demand for Islamic reformation is just another brand of Islamophobia
theguardiaan: by Jason Wilson — Calls for a reformation are cynical, counterproductive and ignore the bloody facts of history ‘It started with Josh Frydenberg saying over the weekend that the more recent massacre in Paris was down to a “problem within Islam”’ Photograph: Jonny Weeks for the Guardian On the […]
Why a ‘war’ on terrorism will generate yet more terrorism
Source: The Guardian By Roy Greenslad, who is is professor of journalism at City University, and was editor of the Daily Mirror from 1990-91 US academic puts the west’s political reaction to […]
The demand for Islamic reformation is just another brand of Islamophobia Jason Wilson
Source: The Guardian By Jason Wilson On the topic of Parisian massacres, consider this. On 24 August 1572, Charles IX of France ordered the assassination of prominent Huguenot Protestants […]
As a Muslim woman I was never fearful in Britain. But today I’m afraid Masuma Rahim
Source: The Guardian BY Masuma Rahim I have despaired at much of what I have seen and heard over the past 15 years. There was a time when people asked […]
Bid to drill deep inside Earth
Source: BBC Scientists will set out this week to drill a hole into the Indian Ocean floor to try to get below the Earth’s crust for the first time. They […]
Taj Mahal: India monument ‘not a Hindu temple’
Source: BBC India’s government has rejected claims by a group of lawyers that the Taj Mahal monument was a Hindu temple. Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma said the government had not […]
Islamic State: Where key countries stand
Source: BBC The lightning rise of Islamic State (IS), the jihadist militant group that has seized large parts of Syria and Iraq since 2014, has sent shockwaves around the Middle […]
Syria conflict: German cabinet approves IS mission
Source: BBC The German cabinet has backed plans for military support in the fight against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria. Tornado reconnaissance aircraft, a naval frigate and a 1,200-strong […]
Turkey challenges Russia over IS oil trade claim
Source: BBC Turkey has challenged Russia to prove its claim that Ankara shot down a Russian plane in order to protect its oil trade with Islamic State (IS). “If you […]
Intolerance Debate: Shahrukh Khan finally breaks silence on Aamir Khan
Mumbai, Dec 1: After a long debate and controversy, Aamir Khan finally received support from the King Khan of Bollywood — Shahrukh Khan (SRK). The superstar of Hindi cinema finally broke his silence on the controversy related to Aamir Khan and his statement on growing intolerance in the country. Shahrukh, […]
Misreading the Intifada
RAMZY BAROUD Published — Tuesday 1 December 2015 Israeli commentators, Yaron Friedman, of “Ynet News” and Haviv Rettig Gur, of the “Times of Israel” are clueless about the driving force behind the Palestinian mobilization and collective struggle. In two recent articles, and with unmistakable conceit, they attempted to […]
Further descent into madness
Nov 30,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby The roots of our nation’s current descent into madness can be traced back to a series of unresolved catastrophic traumas Americans experienced during the Bush administration. In the short span of eight years, we suffered a collective loss of confidence in American […]
To lower Russian-Turkey tension
Nov 30,2015 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL It is encouraging to see that Russian President Vladimir Putin stopped short of taking military action against Ankara, which could have escalated into a much larger confrontation, a fear expressed by many these past days. To be sure, the punitive measures Moscow is […]