Shalts and Shalt-Nots
Source: Slate Why do the Ten Commandments occupy such a lofty place in the American sensibility? By Ruth Graham Sam Octigan In the midst of chaos—a classroom, a courtroom, a […]
Israel wants White House to explain U.S. official’s Western Wall comment
Source: Reuters By Ori Lewis | JERUSALEM Israel wants the White House to explain why a U.S. diplomat preparing President Donald Trump’s visit to Jerusalem said Judaism’s Holy Western Wall […]
Studying the Koran, and also Einstein
Source: The Hindu BY Jyoti Shelar Jameas, community-run schools of Dawoodi Bohras, offer religious education that embraces and teaches secular worldview When it comes to Muslim religious schools, the word that […]
Exercise Makes You Younger at the Cellular Level
Source: Time Amanda MacMillan May 15, 2017 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. The more exercise people get, the less their cells appear to age. In a new study […]
Remote island has ‘world’s worst’ plastic rubbish density
Source: BBC An uninhabited island in the South Pacific is littered with the highest density of plastic waste anywhere in the world, according to a study. Henderson Island, part of […]
The Asian city that caters to everyone
Source: BBC By Lindsey Galloway 15 May 2017 With its 26 million people, Delhi has been described as a microcosm of India, with trappings from the country’s many cultures, religions […]
Ford ‘set to shed 10% of workforce’
Source: BBC Ford is planning to cut around 10% of its global workforce in an attempt to boost profits, according to reports. Chief executive officer Mark Fields also wants to […]
US teen died after drinking caffeine too quickly, coroner says
Source: BBC A healthy teenager in the US state of South Carolina died from drinking several highly-caffeinated drinks too quickly, a coroner has ruled. Davis Allen Cripe collapsed at a high school in April after drinking a McDonald’s latte, a large Mountain Dew soft drink and an energy drink in […]
Americans No Longer Believe the Bible to be Literal Word of God
Record Few Americans Believe Bible Is Literal Word of God Source: Gallup Story Highlights 24% believe Bible is literal word of God, the lowest in Gallup’s 40-year trend View of […]
India: 24 youths who travelled from Kerala to Afghanistan to join the Islamic (IS) State were regulars at IRF’s office in Mumbai.
KUALA LUMPUR: A special judicial tribunal in India has upheld the government’s ban on Zakir Naik’s Islamic Research Foundation (IRF). The tribunal found there were sufficient reasons, including a threat to India’s security, to outlaw it. The IRF had petitioned the judicial tribunal against the Nov 17, 2016 ban under […]
John Safran: ‘In Australia we don’t get religion’
Guardian: John Safran has made a career of taking a sharp stick to the slumbering bear of Australian identity politics. So it’s not a surprise to learn that he has been reporting his way through the rise of our extremist fringe. His new book, Depends What You Mean By Extremist, […]
Pakistan daily leaks plans for China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
Two versions of the plans, running to 231 pages, are with the government. A shortened version, which has 30 pages of only broad descriptions of the plan, were circulated to […]
In travel ban case, U.S. judges focus on discrimination, Trump’s powers
Reuters International MAY 15, 2017 – People protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban outside of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Seattle, Washington, U.S. May 15, 2017. REUTERS/David Ryder […]
One in four children in Arab world live in poverty — UNICEF
By Thomson Reuters Foundation – May 15,2017 – JORDAN TIMES An Iraqi woman sits with children at a camp for internally displaced people in Hammam Al Alil on Sunday, […]
Some problems with USCIRF
May 15,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby 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 […]
Ahraristan not Pakistan
It is quite a popular thing to trample on religious liberty of the citizens of Pakistan provided it is done in the name of Islam By: Yasser Latif Hamdani 15-May-17 I hate to keep repeating myself, but repeat myself I must so long as necessary. Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam was a party founded […]
37 alleged of attack on Ahmadi place of worship released on bail
37 alleged of attack on Ahmadi place of worship released on bail National MAY 12, 2017 BY PAKISTANTODAY 37 men arrested for attacking an Ahmadi place of worship last year […]
Indian Goverment shows Constitution to Supreme Court, says ‘your job is not to interpret Quran’
Epigraph: “But whoso does good works, whether male or female, and is a believer, such shall enter Heaven, and shall not be wronged even as much as the little hollow […]
Yemen war: Emergency in Sanaa as cholera kills scores
Source: BBC A state of emergency has been declared in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, after an outbreak of cholera killed scores of people. Hospitals in the city, which is controlled […]
We deserve a secular State for a pluralist people
Source: the Irish Times Ireland’s population has moved on from the church but our politicians have not By Michael Nugent TDs Ruth Coppinger and Mick Barry hold signs saying […]