Egypt uncovers chamber of mummies, sees life for tourism
Reuters International MAY 13, 2017 – 13:38 Skulls buried in the sand inside a newly discovered burial site in Minya, Egypt May 13, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (reuters_tickers) By […]
A scientist looked through 63 studies to conclude atheists are more intelligent than religious people
Posted by Bridie Pearson-Jones in news Picture: BRYAN BEDDER / STRINGER / GETTY Atheists are more intelligent than religious people according to dozens of studies. Miron Zuckerman, Jordan Silberman and Judith A. Hall from the University of Rochester and the Northeastern University conducted a meta-analysis (that’s a statistical analysis that […]
HEROIN DEALER TRIES ‘RELIGIOUS FREEDOM’ AS HIS DEFENSE, SENTENCED TO 27 YEARS IN PRISON
Source: World Religion News POSTED BY DEREK WELCH Timothy Anderson, a heroin dealer from St. Louis, Missouri, claimed he should be permitted to sell the opioid. His argument was that […]
“NO RELIGION IS A PROBLEM IN FRANCE” SAYS FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON
Source: World Religion News Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frederic Macron has been elected France’s President. At 39-years-old, he is one of the youngest to assume the position of the French head of […]
War over gay clergy brings a whole religion to “the brink of schism”
Source: Salon NICO LANG Bishop Karen Oliveto said she was destined to gaze up at the stars. When she was a young girl, her mother — a recent divorcée — […]
Judge Orders Trump To Turn Over Rudy Giuliani’s ‘Muslim Ban’ Memo
Source: Huffington Post By Elise Foley, Cristian Farias The Trump administration must turn over a memo and other documents from a commission led by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani […]
More Problems With The U.S. Commission On International Religious Freedom
Source: Huffington Post There is no question that in many parts of the world, including the Middle East, vulnerable religious communities are facing threats to their very survival or serious problems of discrimination. In situations such as these, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) should be able to […]
Ransomware cyber-attack threat escalating – Europol
Source: BBC Friday’s cyber-attack has affected more than 200,000 victims in 150 countries, Europol chief Rob Wainwright says. He told the BBC the act was “unprecedented in its scale” and […]
What I am learning from my white grandchildren — truths about race | Anthony Peterson
Source: Youtube This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Are we in a post-racial society? Do we want to be? Anthony Peterson, […]
The Best Ted Talk to understand Democratic & Republican divide in USA
The moral roots of liberals and conservatives Source: Ted Talks Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we’re left, right […]
USA: Do Muslims have to be Democrats now?
By WAJAHAT ALIMAY 13, 2017, NYTimes.com 13/5/2017 American Muslims face a choice: vote Democratic, or vote themselves off the island. That’s how Haroon Moghul, the author of the coming memoir “How to Be a Muslim,” put it to me this month — and how many of my fellow American Muslim […]
Video: Ted Talk: Take “the Other” to lunch
By Elizabeth Lesser, who is a bestselling author and the cofounder of Omega Institute, the renowned conference and retreat center located in Rhinebeck, New York. There’s an angry divisive tension […]
Exclusive – Indonesian Islamist leader says ethnic Chinese wealth is next target
Reuters International MAY 12, 2017 – Chairman of GNPF-MUI, Bachtiar Nasir, arrives at a police station to testify as a witness in a money laundering case at a police station […]
Myanmar arrests Buddhist nationalists accused of stoking tensions with Muslims
Reuters International MAY 12, 2017 – Parmaukkha talks to media during a press conference about a scuffle between Buddhist nationalists and Muslims in Yangon, Myanmar, May 11, 2017. REUTERS/Soe Zeya […]
RELIGIOUS INTEGRATION: New mosque spotlights Swiss fracture lines
MAY 13, 2017 – With no minaret, Switzerland’s newest mosque tries to fit into the local community(Keystone) A new prototype for mosques in Switzerland – one meant to blend in […]
6,000 migrants rescued in Mediterranean in two days
Epigraph: And whoso saves a life, it shall be as if he or she had given life to all mankind. (Al Quran 5:32/33) By AFP – May 07,2017 – JORDAN […]
Unprecedented cyber attacks wreak global havoc
By AFP – May 13,2017 – JORDAN TIMES In this posed photo, a woman points to the website of the NHS: East and North Hertfordshire notifying users of a […]
US closes in on $100bn deal to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia
Agreement believed to be close ahead of the US President’s visit to the country next week Steve Holland Washington The United States is close to completing a series of arms […]
DRUGS IN WAR: WHAT IS CAPTAGON, THE ‘JIHAD PILL’ USED BY ISLAMIC STATE MILITANTS?
BY MIRREN GIDDA ON 5/12/17 Italian Police Seize $81 Million Libya Drug Shipment http://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.168.0_en.html#goog_1472310927 In the past three months investigators across Europe have intercepted thousands of pills of the Islamic […]
Book Review: Marrow: A Love Story
Ted Radio Hour: Forgiveness When loss, violence or betrayal test our willingness to forgive — how do we do it anyway? This hour, TED speakers explore the challenges and benefits […]