Posted Jul 2, 2019 By Other Voices Independence Day is around the corner. As a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, this day makes me even more aware of the […]
When a Muslim lawyer in Virginia was threatened by a stranger on Twitter last year, he reported it to the social media company and to the federal authorities. The […]
Source: Physics.org In a world of sympathetic villains and flawed heroes, people still like fictional characters more when they have a strong sense of morality, a new study finds. Researchers found that people best liked the heroes they rated as most moral, and least liked villains they rated as […]
June 5, 2019 by Roger E. Olson Why Not Polygamy? A Question to Progressive Churches Recently several churches with which I have friendly relations and that I respect as […]
London, Washington under pressure to halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia and UAE after new report finds their weapons were used in 27 apparently unlawful coalition airstrikes which killed over […]
This content was published on June 30, 2019 JERUSALEM (Reuters) – U.S. envoys attended the inauguration of a Jewish heritage site in East Jerusalem on Sunday, signalling support for […]
Israel may be celebrating the seemingly friendlier relations with Bahrain, but the conference did nothing to solve the Israel-Palestine conflict Bel Trew @beltrew The Independent Voices It felt more like […]
Source: The New York Times By Olivia Goldhill CONSCIENCE – The Origins of Moral Intuition By Patricia S. Churchland In “Conscience,” Patricia Churchland recounts a conversation with Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of DNA, in which he laments moral philosophers’ focus on reason. “Surely,” he said, “philosophers must know about biological […]
Source: CNA International Edition Source: Mubeen Saadat SINGAPORE: Not politics, not secularism and not even extremism. Religion’s biggest enemies in today’s world are unkindness, selfishness and heedlessness, according to reknowned […]
US president ignores media questions about murder of Jamal Khashoggi in meeting with Saudi crown prince at G20 Agencies Sat 29 Jun 2019 Donald Trump says the Saudi crown […]
Jun 27,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – Ahmad Y. Majdoubeh The popular response in our part of the world to the Trump administration’s approach, or “claim” to wanting to achieve peace […]
After tonight, we have to ask ourselves: does Biden really have that ‘electability factor’ his competition supposedly doesn’t? Michael Arceneaux New York The Independent Voices Joe Biden was presumably […]
Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, is absolutely right about Donald Trump. One wonders how he might describe Boris Johnson Robert Fisk @indyvo President Hassan Rouhani of Iran got it right on […]
Senior adviser to Trump found no interest in his proposals for ending Israel/Palestine conflict Martin Chulov Middle East correspondent Wed 26 Jun 2019 In the end, the ‘deal of […]
Source: Religion And Politics By Myriam Renaud Beth Seversen rarely saw young adults at the evangelical church in Kansas where she served as an associate pastor until 12 years ago. But […]
Source: Associated Press By JOHN O’CONNOR SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A Bible given to Abraham Lincoln in the final months of the Civil War ties together the 16th president’s budding […]
Jun 25,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – OSAMA AL SHARIF Reading through the document, which the White House has released few days before the convening of the Bahrain workshop, one would […]
By AFP – Jun 26,2019 – JORDAN TIMES MANAMA — Jared Kushner on Tuesday called for the Palestinians to accept the “Opportunity of the Century” that he says will […]
Richard Wolffe The Saudis are good customers, Trump says – which evidently outweighs the fact they murdered and carved up a Washington Post journalist @richardwolffedc Tue 25 Jun 2019 […]
No Israelis or Palestinians present for launch of plan that shreds decades of diplomacy Martin Chulov Middle East correspondent Tue 25 Jun 2019 The first phase of the Trump […]