Orlando shootings: Club attacker had ‘grudge in his heart’, father says
Source: BBC The father of a gunman who killed dozens of people in an Orlando gay club says he did not know that his son had a “grudge in his […]
Italian Newspaper Sparks Backlash After ‘Mein Kampf’ Giveaway
Source: Time By Katie Reilly An Italian newspaper is facing backlash after it distributed annotated copies of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” with a paid supplement in its Saturday edition. Il Giornale—a […]
Parenting Is Now Officially Impossible
Source: Time By Darlena Cunha Darlena Cunha is a contributor to TIME. The Internet has all but extinguished any hope parents ever had It’s impossible to be a parent in 2016. […]
Why some evangelicals changed their minds about evolution
Source: RNS By Cathy Lynn Grossman (RNS) Creationist Christian tourists may soon flock to the Ark Encounter, a literal vision of Noah’s story in Genesis come to life in July […]
Hillary Clinton: I’m willing to call Orlando attack ‘radical Islamism’
Source: Yahoo News By Liz Goodwin and Olivier Knox Hillary Clinton said Monday she would be willing to call the Orlando attack an act of radical Islamist terror. “From my […]
Orlando shootings: ‘No clear evidence’ of IS link
Source: BBC There is no clear evidence that the Orlando shooter was directed by the so-called Islamic State group (IS), US President Barack Obama has said. The inquiry into Sunday […]
EURO 2016 & Ramadan: Will Muslim Players Fast?
Mon 13 June 2016 – 18:38 PARIS – Coinciding with the holy fasting month of Ramadan, the Euro2016 has posed as a bit challenging to many Muslim players, with many of them choosing to delay fasting after the tournament. Many of the big names competing in this year’s tournament are […]
Dozens of migrants stuck in Greece queue for access to asylum
Reuters International JUN 13, 2016 – 15:43 Refugees and migrants are briefed by a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) staff (L) before a pre-registration process that gives them access to the asylum procedure, at the premises of the disused Hellenikon airport, in Athens, Greece, June 13, 2016. REUTERS/Alkis […]
The UN has failed to protect Syrians from war and hunger. Now it’s telling them to stop smoking
Your home may be in flames, your family enslaved, your torturers itching to pull out your fingernails – but above all you’ve got to ignore the ciggy packet in your pocket Robert Fisk @indyvoices 41 Syrians gathering at the scene of a double bomb attack outside the Sayyida Zeinab shrine AFP […]
Women’s And Men’s Brains Work Differently When It Comes To Cooperating
Huff Post: by Sara G. Miller — EGUDINKA VIA GETTY IMAGES “It’s not that either males or females are better at cooperating, or can’t cooperate with each other. Rather, there’s just a difference in how they’re cooperating When men and women work together, their brains may not take the same […]
Orlando: Afghan American’ shooter kills 50 in US nightclub
ORLANDO / CAIRO / WASHINGTON: Fifty people died and another 53 were injured early Sunday when a heavily-armed gunman opened fire and seized hostages at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, police said, in the worst mass shooting in US history. Terrified survivors – who moments before were laughing and dancing […]
Pakistan:Hamza Ali Abbasi goes where no one dares to on national tv
By Life&Style Published: June 12, 2016 The actor and social activist questioned the oppression of Ahmadis. PHOTO: FACEBOOK Hamza Ali Abbasi has arrived everyone. Practice makes perfect. After numerous social media posts that only received the ire of many, Hamza has finally done something many in his position wouldn’t dare to […]
France: Arab history: Fraxinet
Fraxinet From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The “plateau of Moors” near Fraxinet Fraxinet or Fraxinetum (Arabic: فرخشنيط Farakhshanīt or فرخسة Farakhsha, from Latin fraxinus: “ash tree“, fraxinetum: “ash forest”) was the site of a 10th-century fortress established by Muslims at modern La Garde-Freinet, near Saint-Tropez, in Provence. The modernMassif des […]
Jordan: Urgent need to fill the vacuum
Jun 11,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MUSA KEILANI One big question emerges from last week’s terrorist attack in Baqaa, where five intelligence staff officers were killed by Jordanian Mahmoud Masharfeh who used to live in the adjacent refugee camp: Who pushed a 22-year-old man to join Daesh, and betray his family […]
Amman soup kitchen spreads message of unity with iftar meals
By Suzanna Goussous – Jun 10,2016 -JORDAN TIMES In this recent photo, volunteers at the Restaurant of Mercy in Amman’s Jabal Luweibdeh prepare the iftar meal to serve underprivileged people during Ramadan (Photo courtesy of Restaurant of Mercy and Caritas Jordan) AMMAN — Delivering a message of peace, forgiveness […]
Turns Out Donald Trump Has Been Using A Prompter All Along
Source: Youtube On Stephen Colbert’s Late Show , Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made news by using a teleprompter. Up until this point, most of his speeches could get incoherent and rambling, […]
Hillary Clinton’s First Speech as Presumptive Nominee Puts ‘Women’s Issues’ Front and Center
Source: Time By Charlotte Alter In her first speech since she became the first female major party presumptive nominee, Hillary Clinton put several traditionally sidelined “women’s issues” front and center. Speaking […]
The charges against British officials have been dropped – but questions still remain about Libya
Last week the Crown Prosecution Service said that there is “insufficient evidence” to bring charges against British officials in the case of Abdelhakim Belhaj Kim Sengupta “They knew I was being tortured, I have no doubt of that,” said Abdelhakim Belhaj of MI6 agents who came to interrogate him while […]
Iraqis Who Escaped From ISIS Tell of Extreme Terror—and Extreme Boredom
Source: Time By Jared Malsin/Debaga Camp, Iraq “Everything is depressed there. Everything.” The chemical engineer escaped on a moonless night, fleeing from ISIS-held territory. As he crossed the front line, ISIS […]
The untold story of the deaths at Hajj
Iranian diplomat Ghadanfar Rokonabadi disappeared after being caught up in the mass panic on last year’s Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca Robert Fisk @indyvoices He was smart, occasionally humorous and detailed in his replies to my questions. Officially, he was an attaché at Iran’s high-walled, black-painted embassy in Beirut, but back in 1996 I […]