Bigotry veiled as liberation
middleeasteye.net: Earlier this month, the European court of human rights (ECHR) issued a judgment in which it rejected a challenge to the controversial 2011 French law banning the wearing of […]
Europe’s Migrant Crisis By the Numbers
FP: In April, a 66-foot boat carrying some 850 migrants across the Mediterranean Sea to Italy capsized, killing almost all those on board. The tragedy catapulted migration issues to the forefront of Brussels’s political agenda, as ministers grappled with how to deal with Europe’s influx of asylum-seekers and migrants without […]
‘False legitimacy’: Saudi Arabia hosting UN Human Rights Council slammed by watchdog
Russia Today: The decision to hold a UN-backed human rights summit in Saudi Arabia in early June, attended by the Human Rights Council’s chief, has sparked an outcry from rights organizations, claiming that the visit gave the Gulf kingdom “false legitimacy.” The main point of the international summit held in […]
Killing in Gaza, saving in Nepal: Israel’s moral hypocrisy
Haaretz.com: The uniform is the same uniform. It’s the uniform whose wearers blew up hundreds of homes and schools and clinics in Gaza last summer. It’s the uniform whose wearers periodically shoot teenagers and children throwing stones and peaceful demonstrators in the West Bank. It’s the uniform that every night […]
Killing in Gaza, saving in Nepal: Israel's moral hypocrisy
Haaretz.com: The uniform is the same uniform. It’s the uniform whose wearers blew up hundreds of homes and schools and clinics in Gaza last summer. It’s the uniform whose wearers periodically shoot teenagers and children throwing stones and peaceful demonstrators in the West Bank. It’s the uniform that every night […]
Netanyahu sank into the moral gutter – and there will be consequences
Guardian: The result was not the worst of it. Indeed, buried in the detailed numbers of this week’s Israeli election were odd crumbs of consolation. No, what made Binyamin Netanyahu’s emphatic win so dispiriting were the depths he plumbed to secure victory. He made two moves in his desperate, and […]
Leaked cables show Netanyahu’s Iran bomb claim contradicted by Mossad
Guardian: Binyamin Netanyahu’s dramatic declaration to world leaders in 2012 that Iranwas about a year away from making a nuclear bomb was contradicted by his own secret service, according to a top-secret Mossad document. It is part of a cache of hundreds of dossiers, files and cables from the world’s […]
338 Pakistanis with $859 million in secret accounts
the News: ISLAMABAD: HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) is a subsidiary of London-based HSBC Holdings Plc, a British multinational banking and financial services company which is the world’s second largest banking entity. According to The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), 130 journalists “from 45 countries have unearthed secret bank account […]
Israel preparing major expansions in four West Bank settlements
Haaretz: On the instructions of the Netanyahu government, the Civil Administration last year prepared major expansions of the settlements of Kedumim, Vered Yericho, Neveh Tzuf and Emanuel. Some 3,740 dunams in the areas of the settlements were marked as state lands. More than 99 percent of state lands are allocated […]
An apology is not enough, Aamir Liaquat must be fired
ET: Social media is once again flooded with outrage at ‘Dr’ Aamir Liaquat – our nation’s foremost televangelist. During an episode of his morning show Subh-e-Pakistan, aired on Geo TV on December 22, one of Liaquat’s guests, Syed Arif Shah Owaisi, used inflammatory language to accuse the Ahmadi community of being responsible for terrorism […]
The Most Dangerous Time in Russian-US Relations Since the Cuban Missile Crisis
thenation.com: This is the most dangerous time for Russian-US relations since the Cuban missile crisis, according to Stephen Cohen. When Cohen joined The Young Turks this week, he explained that we are living through a new Cold War, and that those who deny it are the people who “got us into it […]
White House jabs Netanyahu over ‘American values’ critique
Yahoo.com: Washington (AFP) – The White House delivered an extraordinary public rebuke to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, after he said US criticism of Israeli settlement building ran counter to “American values.” It was another turn for the worse in the tense relationship between President Barack Obama’s administration and […]
Son Of Hamas’ Founder Fed Information To Israel For 10 Years
Huff Post: For nearly 10 years, Israel had a top informant in one of the most unlikely places — the family of one of the co-founders of the Palestinian organization Hamas. Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, worked with agents from Israel’s intelligence agency Shin […]
Son Of Hamas' Founder Fed Information To Israel For 10 Years
Huff Post: For nearly 10 years, Israel had a top informant in one of the most unlikely places — the family of one of the co-founders of the Palestinian organization Hamas. Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, worked with agents from Israel’s intelligence agency Shin […]
Modi elected, Jinnah vindicated
ET: ‘Every action,’ Narendra Modi once quoted Newton’s third law of motion, ‘has a reaction.’ Modi was referring to the murder of parliamentarian Ehsan Jafri. As blood flowed in the streets of Gujarat in 2002, a Hindutva mob had surrounded Mr Jafri’s home in Gulbarg Society. They were armed with kerosene […]
Rehman Malik’s remarks on Shah Rukh Khan are an exercise in duplicity
Source: Hindustan Times SERIOUSLY INCLINED JOURNALISTS ARE CONVINCED THAT THE ONLY TIME MALIK ISN’T PUTTING HIS FOOT IN HIS MOUTH IS WHEN HE ISN’T TALKING Pakistan’s portrayal of Shah Rukh Khan (SRK) as a victim of the majority community’s distrust of Muslims is nothing but a dogmatic reassertion of MA […]
What If Prophet Muhammad (saw) Entered Your Store?
By Suzana Nabil Saad | Freelance Writer- USA On a cold December afternoon I entered one of the Halal stores in the US to pick a can of fava beans […]
Canadian authorities summon Qadri for violating oath taken on seeking Asylum
Express Tribune: Canadian authorities on Friday summoned Minhajul Quran International (MQI) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri on February 5, and sought explanation from him for violating the oath he took while seeking asylum, Express News reported. The authorities said that Qadri violated the oath stating that he was not allowed to enter the […]
Nehru divided India, not Jinnah: Jaswant Singh
Nehru was draftsman of partition’: Kanchan Gupta | New Delhi There are now no more points left to score; all have already been scored, no great issues of partition left to resolve, except one: An ability to understand what, after all, did this partition achieve?” Jaswant Singh asks in the closing […]