What you don’t know about U.S. Muslims
Source: Daily News BY DAVID MASCI, BESHEER MOHAMED Mohamed is a senior researcher and Masci is a senior editor and senior researcher at Pew Research Center. The recent attacks in […]
Extremists in Bangladesh publish global hit list of bloggers and writers
Source: CNN By Jethro Mullen CNN’s Saeed Ahmed and Sugam Pokharel contributed to this report. (CNN)Islamic extremists in Bangladesh appear to be taking their war on secular writers and bloggers beyond the South Asian country’s borders. A hit list purporting to be from the militant group Ansarullah Bangla Team […]
GE to Bernie Sanders: We’ve ‘never been a big hit with socialists’
Source: CNN by Matt Egan General Electric boss Jeff Immelt has fired back at Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders with an impassioned defense of his company. “GE has been in business […]
Indonesian pop star Irma Bule dies after being bitten by a cobra on stage
ibtimes.co.uk A pop star in Indonesia has died after being bitten by a cobra during a stage performance. Irma Bule, 29, was singing at a gig in a village in Karawang, West Java on 3 April when the incident occurred. The popular singer was known for her unique genre of […]
INTERVIEW: Tariq Ramadan on political Islam’s ‘necessary crisis’
Academic and author Tariq Ramadan talks to MEE about terrorism, political Islam and what is going on in the Middle East and France Tariq Ramadan during at a conference earlier this year in Bordeaux,France (AFP) Hassina Mechaï Saturday 2 April 2016 Sometimes seen as an Islamic scholar, a theologian […]
‘An unrighteous cult’: Ahmadiyya face persecution in UK
#Islamophobia Murder of a Glasgow Ahmadi Muslim raises fears over sectarian incitement in UK Alex MacDonald Wednesday 6 April 2016 The murder of Asad Shah, a 32-year old Glasgow shopkeeper, in late March shocked Scotland and the local community who had long known him as a friendly face. But […]
Palestine in the headline
Apr 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – George S. Hishmeh There is no doubt that the eight-column headline in the sports page of The Washington Post last Sunday was remarkable and unprecedented: “Palestine Marathon sparks a growing push for movement over politics.” Never before have the American media, certainly not the country’s […]
The BDS debate goes mainstream
Apr 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI The New York Times is not only considered the leading newspaper in the United States, it is also something of a bellwether of intellectual and political trends in the country. So it was noteworthy that the newspaper’s Monday opinion page feature […]
Gothenburg’s refugee youths: ‘Come and meet us – nobody is here to be violent’
Refuge cities: The sympathy of last autumn towards asylum-seeking minors in the Gothenburg suburb of Mölndal has been drowned out by anger and suspicion – but the city is working […]
Cause and effect
One evening Mulla Nasruddin quarrelled with his wife and shouted at her so fiercely that she fled for refuge to a neighbouring house, where he followed her. As it happened a wedding feast was in progress, and the hosts and guests did all they could to calm him down, and […]
Ahmadiyya Muslims’ Response to the Statement by the Muslim Council of Britain
Epigraph: Believers, be the supporters of justice and testify to what you may have witnessed, for the sake of God, even against yourselves, parents, and relatives; whether it be against […]
How to robot-proof your children’s careers
Source: Financial Times By Sarah O’Connor Employment Correspondent Pity school careers advisers. If economists are to be believed, vast numbers of jobs will have evaporated by the time today’s pupils […]
What being a minority in the US taught me about minorities in Pakistan
Source: Dawn By SALTANAT ANSARI She is pursuing a major in International Relations and a minor in Latina/o Studies at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley. Lahore is my native city — it has always been the dearest sense of love I have felt. It was the beautiful gardens and my most […]
Foreign tourists to explore Iran by luxury train
Social April 6, 2016 TEHRAN – The Golden Eagle Danube Express luxury train, carrying 74 tourists from the U.S., the Netherlands, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Australia, arrived in the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz on Tuesday. The tourists paid visits to Azarbaijan Museum, Blue Mosque, and Grand Bazaar and […]
In Pakistan, tackling extremism is a political minefield
Source: Associated Press BY KATHY GANNON ISLAMABAD (AP) — Tackling extremism is a political minefield in Pakistan, where politicians openly consort with leaders of banned militant groups and sympathy exists […]
Risk of Collapse at Jesus’ Tomb Unites Rival Christians
Source: The New York Times By DIAA HADID JERUSALEM — It was a typical day at the shrine around what many believe is the tomb of Jesus in Jerusalem’s Old […]
France: Le Pen fined over Holocaust remarks
Source: BBC Former French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen has been fined 30,000 euros (£24,000; $34,000) for calling the Nazi gas chambers a “detail” of World War Two. He was […]
First Syrians leave for US under surge resettlement program
Source: Associated Press AMMAN, Jordan — The first Syrian family to be resettled in the U.S. under a speeded-up “surge operation” for refugees left Jordan on Wednesday for Kansas City, […]
USA: The incredibly gracious way Muslims welcomed a man who had drunkenly shot their mosque
Ted Hakey, a former Marine, knelt in prayer, his forehead on the floor, beside his Muslim neighbors inside their Connecticut mosque last Saturday. The enormity of that gesture was lost on no one. Ted Hakey hugs Zahir Mannan at the Baitul Aman ‘House of Peace’ Mosque following a program at […]
Switzerland: Rejected asylum seekers who go into hiding
NO STATUS http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/inline?urn=urn:swi:video:42046214 EMBED CODE APR 4, 2016 – 15:45 Sometimes asylum seekers go underground, as they have no hope of getting official refugee status. They’re known as “sans papiers” (without papers). (SRF/swissinfo.ch) Asylum is only granted to those who face persecution or imprisonment in their country of origin for […]