Posted by: Vicky Nanjappa Tuesday November 17, 2015Read more at: http://www.oneindia.com/india/chittoor-mayor-anuradha-shot-dead-her-husband- Hyderabad, Nov 17: In a shocking incident, Anuradha the Mayor of Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh was shot dead on Tuesday. Her husband Mohan who was also shot at is said to be in a critical condition. The police have launched an investigation and […]
Huff Post: by Matthew D. Taylor — In the third Democratic primary debate on Saturday, moderator John Dickerson asked Hillary Clinton a pointed foreign policy question about the apparent ISIS attacks in Paris: …you gave a speech at Georgetown University in which you said, that it was important to show, […]
Source: The Times of Israel Claire Hajaj’s autobiographical novel is inspired by the marriage of her British Jewish mom and Jaffa-born Muslim dad BY RENEE GHERT-ZAND August 21, 2014, 2:10 […]
Huff Post: by Qasim Rashid — As I left my mosque in Philadelphia Friday afternoon my phone lit up with texts and tweets about attacks in Paris. Muslims have been conditioned on how to respond to these attacks. First, we feel pain for the loss of life. And most certainly […]
[6:151] Say, ‘Bring forward your witnesses who testify that Allah has forbidden this.’ If they bear witness, bear thou not witness with them, nor follow thou the evil inclinations of those who treat Our Signs as lies and those who believe not in the Hereafter and who set up equals to […]
Source: Belfast Telegraph By Adam Walker Over the past two weeks the world has been witness to a series of terrorist attacks. Lebanese army and civilians gather near the site […]
http://lauraturner.religionnews.com/: In light of Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris, a number of US governors have chosen to close their doors to Syrian refugees. The logical inconsistency of this decision baffles the mind; consider, for instance, that the two masterminds of the attacks were a French national and a Belgian national. […]
Nov 16,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Everyone made nice when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to Washington last week. It was make up time. The administration sought to demonstrate that despite what the president referred to as their “minor difference” over the Iran deal, there were no remaining hard feelings. Three quarters […]
By Laila Azzeh – Nov 16,2015 – Last updated at Nov 16,2015 JORDAN TIMES DEAD SEA — UNRWA continues to offer a safe haven for Palestinian refugees, despite operating at a time of regional turmoil that complicates its mission, the agency’s commissioner general, Pierre Krahenbuhl, said Monday. After surviving a […]
By Lydia Wilson OCTOBER 21, 2015 No sooner am I settled in an interviewing room in the police station of Kirkuk, Iraq, than the first prisoner I am there to […]
French Muslims leaders on Sunday gathered outside the Bataclan concert hall to honour the 89 people who were killed when four men brandishing AK-47 assault rifles opened fire in the hall. Muslims leaders, who were accompanied by the French capital’s Jewish leaders, brought white roses to the site of the incident. […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Faisal Kutty; Associate Professor of Law & Director of the International LL.M. Program, Valparaiso University, Adjunct Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall and counsel to KSM Law […]
Religion and Radicalism: ‘Religion, Scripture Doesn’t Have Its Own Voice, Human Interpretation Is Everything’ By Irshad Manji 11 November 2015 Islam and the Future of Tolerance A Dialogue Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz Harvard University Press Pages 138; price $17.95 —– Not In God’s Name Confronting Religious Violence Jonathan Sacks […]
Floowers and candles left near the scene of one of the attacks in Paris. (Photo: © Reuters) Clarionproject.org In the wake of the terrorist attacks which killed at least 129 in Paris on Friday, people are asking why France in particular was targeted by the Islamic State. The Islamic State detests the […]
Huff Post: by Dave Norman — Early Saturday morning I was sitting in a meeting with leaders of the church that I pastor. We discussed the painful acts of terrorism […]
Fire marshal has ruled blaze set deliberately, police say CBC News Posted: Nov 15, 2015 2:37 PM ET Last Updated: Nov 15, 2015 2:37 PM ET Peterborough police are investigating a suspected case of arson at the city’s only mosque. The fire broke out at the Kawartha Muslim Religious Association’s mosque around […]
Source: The Guardian By Seumas Milne, a Guardian columnist and associate editor. He previously worked for the Economist and is the author of The Enemy Within and The Revenge of […]
Source: Huffington Post Majestic and unusual rock formations have long evoked strong feelings of awe and wonder. As a result, these strange and beautiful natural structures were often weaved into ancient […]
Huff Post: by Rev Dr. Chuck Currie — “Nous sommes tous des Français aujourd’hui.” Across the world, we watch with sadness the news from Paris. The people of France are hurting and so we are hurting too. Nothing can justify the attacks which occurred today. They are, as President Obama […]
Source: BBC Vinod Nelson had just barely left Bern, Switzerland when the train came to an unexpected halt, and terrible news came over the speakers. The train would not be […]