India records its hottest day ever
Source: BBC A city in India’s Rajasthan state has broken the country’s temperature records after registering 51C, the highest since records began, the weather office says. The new record in […]
Egyptian Army Says It Has Found Debris From Missing Flight MS 804
Source: Time BY Simon Lewis The Egyptian army says it has discovered debris it believes is from EgyptAir Flight MS 804, whichwent missingfrom radar screens in the early hours Thursday. The […]
What Science Says About the Bathroom Debate
Source: Time By Jeffrey Kluger Your genes don’t care who you share a bathroom with, but your politicians do Want to see a living experiment in what happens when traditional gender […]
Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump Is Not Qualified to Be President
Source: Time By Daniel White Hillary Clinton said Thursday that presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump’s “divisive and dangerous”behavior is a telltale sign that he’s not qualified to be president. Speaking with CNN on Thursday, the Democratic front-runner went on the offensive against Trump, who has gone after her — and her […]
Waleed Aly and Sadiq Khan: Role Models of Integration
Source Australasian Muslim Times by Zia Ahmad Zia Ahmad is the Managing Editor of the Australasian Muslim Times AMUST and is based in Sydney. Waleed Aly, the recipient […]
WHAT CAN THE U.S. LEARN FROM RADICALIZATION IN THE FRENCH-SPEAKING WORLD?
Source: The New Yorker By Benjamin Wallace-Wells Benjamin Wallace-Wells began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007, and joined the magazine as a staff writer in 2015. He writes mainly […]
Headstones smashed in ‘sickening antisemitic act’ at Jewish cemetery
Source: The Guardian By Josh Halliday North of England correspondent Vandals have destroyed 14 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in Manchester, in what police called a sickening act of antisemitism. The […]
A Week of Terror Attacks in Baghdad That Killed Hundreds
Source: The New York Times By SARAH ALMUKHTAR Terrorists killed more than 200 people in a surge of bombings across Baghdad over the past week. The attacks, many of […]
‘His beliefs are total opposite’: Republican tries to block nominee from office because he is a Muslim
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer A Christian pastor in the nation’s third-most-populous county tried to stop a Muslim man from serving in the local Republican Party because of his religion. The massive jurisdiction of Harris County, Tex. — with 4 million residents in the city of Houston and its surroundings […]
Dying GOP Senator Apologizes to Muslims for Donald Trump
Source: The Daily Beast By Tim Mak Bob Bennett spent his last days letting Muslims know how sorry he was that an Islamophobe had become his party’s all-but-certain nominee. Former […]
The Real Source of Terror in Bangladesh and Our Solution
National Monument of Bangladesh The Real Source of Terror in Bangladesh Source: NY Times By William B. Milam, who is a senior policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington […]
From ‘Fire’ to ‘Darkness’: The Story of a Pakistani Christian Journalist
Francis George Gill, commonly known as Dr. Sodagar Gill, is a renowned Christian Pakistani journalist who fled to Thailand with his family after he was charged in a false blasphemy case. Gill was working for Community Advance Program, a faith-based Christian organization of Lahore. Christian Monitor, a weekly newspaper, was one […]
57 Islamic countries block LGBT groups from UN conference
https://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/57-muslim-states-block-lgbt-groups-aids-conferenceIn Iran, gay people are routinely hanged from cranes. (Photo: © Reuters) Groups advocating for gay and transgender rights have been banned from an upcoming meeting at the UN following the intervention of acoalition of Muslim states. The conference will take place from June 8 to June 10 and aims […]
Why Is Washington Supporting Fundamentalist Jihadis in Syria?
Nation: The peace negotiations between the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad and the insurgents seeking to topple him and his one-party Baath state were headed on the rebel side by Mohammad Alloush, leader of the Saudi-backed Army of Islam (Jaysh al-Islam, or JI). Russia and the Syrian government objected to […]
Is Bangladesh turning fundamentalist?
Guardian: I am a novelist. I look around at the world and I make up stories about people, families, lovers and friends. More often than not, the stories take place in Bangladesh, where I was born. When I close my eyes and think of home, it’s the peaty smell of […]
Canada apologizes for century old snub of Sikh migrants
Source: The Express Tribune OTTAWA: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a formal apology today for an incident in which a shipload of Indians were refused entry into Canada more than […]
Sikh preacher Dhadrianwale escapes murderous attack in Ludhiana
SAssociate shot dead Ranjit Singh Dhadrianwale’s cavalcade was on its way to Isewal village when it was attacked near Ludhiana by 15 assailants, most of them baptised Sikhs. Dhadrianwale ducked for cover as his driver sped away. His associate was shot dead. The police said at least 50 shots were […]
Justin Trudeau apologizes in House for 1914 Komagata Maru incident
‘No words can erase the pain and suffering they experienced,’ Trudeau says of victims Source: CBC Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has formally apologized in the House of Commons for the […]
GOP Senator Bob Bennett Apologized to Muslims for Trump While on Deathbed
NBC News By Frank Thorp V In the final days of his life, former Utah Republican Senator Bob Bennett turned to his son and asked him, “Are there any Muslims […]
Canadian Morley Safer 84 dies days after retiring
Morley Safer, a CBS television correspondent who brought the horrors of the Vietnam War into the living rooms of America in the 1960s and was a mainstay of the network’s news magazine “60 Minutes” for almost five decades, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 84. NYTimes.com […]