Apr 12,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Ishac Diwan Discussion of education in the Arab world has focused only rarely on the role of schooling in changing social and political mores. This is unfortunate, because educated citizens of Arab countries tend to be much less emancipated politically and socially, on average, […]
Apr 12,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL US Secretary of State John Kerry, along with fellow G-7 foreign ministers, on Monday toured the memorial to the victims of Hiroshima, paying tribute to the 140,000 people killed on August 6, 1945, when the US dropped a nuclear bomb on the city. Kerry […]
By: Jonathan Forani Staff Reporter, Published on Mon Apr 11 2016 thestar.com 138 boys for 100 girls? Baldev Mutta (centre), CEO of Brampton’s Punjabi Community Health Services, is surrounded by his grand daughter Talon Mutta, 9 (left) and daughter Rakhi Mutta. Mutta is involved in initiatives to celebrate girls born to Indian parents. […]
Source: Time By Simon Shuster / Düsseldorf, Germany Programs to integrate Muslim communities may have helped Germany so far avoid the Islamist violence in neighboring France and Belgium During his lunch […]
Source: BBC Boko Haram’s use of child bombers has increased over the last year with one in five suicide attacks now done by children, the UN’s child agency says. Girls, […]
Khan took aim at Zac Goldsmith in Huff Post UK interview Source: Huffington Post By Owen Bennett Political Reporter Labour’s mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan has warned that his Tory rival’s negative […]
Source: Huffington Post By Umar Nasser Writer and medic The recent tragic murder of Ahmadi Muslim Asad Shah in Glasgow by another Muslim has brought much of the anti-Ahmadi prejudice latent […]
Source: BBC By Philip Ball The idea of parallel universes, once consigned to science fiction, is now becoming respectable among scientists – at least, among physicists, who have a tendency […]
April 12, 2016 TEHRAN – A top Iranian Foreign Ministry official said on Monday Iran has been seeking to strengthen the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in line with maintaining Islamic solidarity and preventing disunity among Islamic countries. Abbas Araqchi, the deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, made […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Published April 11, 2016 Photo: Khovd Museum Archeologists in Mongolia have unearthed a sixth century Turkic burial with the mummy of a woman, her horse and belongings preserved in the Altai Mountains near Kazakhstan, making it the first complete Turkic burial found in Central Asia. According to the […]
EMRE GÖNEN Illustration by Necmettin Asma – twitter.com/necmettinasma If the EU had made a deal among its member countries to find a solution for the increasing fascism in Europe, maybe their view on Syrian refugees would be something more humane After the signing of the deal between Turkey and the […]
By Jacopo Ottaviani Photography and design: Isacco Chiaf Over 40 million tonnes of electric and electronic waste (also known as e-waste) are produced worldwide every year. That is boundless heaps of refrigerators, computers, television sets, ovens, telephones, air conditioning units, lamps, toasters and other electric and electronic devices, with a […]
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‘Kill Ahmadis’ hate group Khatme Nubuwwat must be banned – campaigners By Tom Porter April 11, 2016 ibtimes.co.uk Campaigners have called on the Home Office to ban anti-Ahmadiyya group Khatme Nubuwwat (KN), following the brutal murder of Ahmadi shopkeeper Asad Shah in Glasgow. From its UK headquarters in Forest […]
Ottawa police investigate hate crime after Muslim school targeted with graffiti CBC News Posted: Apr 11, 2016 9:57 AM MT Last Updated: Apr 11, 2016 11:27 AM MT Two Syrian refugee fathers say they’re scared for their kids in Calgary after both men say they were assaulted over the weekend in Forest […]
Epigraph: There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by those who transgress, and believes in Allah, has surely […]
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A CONDOLENCE event planned for Muslim shopkeeper Asad Shah who was killed in a brutal attack in Glasgow has been cancelled after threats were made to the organiser at a MOSQUE. By ZOIE O’BRIEN PUBLISHED: 21:52, Fri, Apr 8, 2016 SWNS Asad Shah (left) was killed by Tanveer Ahmed UKIP […]
Source: RNS By Lauren Markoe (RNS) The largest gathering of Muslim leaders in the world kicks off a five-day conference that will call for a new peace process to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Other weighty issues at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation summit include combatting extremism within Muslim nations, countering Islamophobia in the rest […]
Five years of Syrian civil war A man carries a crying girl away from a bombing in Aleppo, Syria. Photo: DPA. Published: 15 Mar 2016 March 15th marks five years since protests against the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria ultimately erupted into a civil war, sending millions of refugees […]