Here are all the reasons you cant hibernate in winter
Source: BBC Many of us feel sleepy in the winter, but other species often take it a step further and hibernate. Dormice head underground to curl up tight, colonies of […]
100 Women Live:As it happened
Source: BBC Live Reporting By Pippa Stephens, Elaine Okyere, Harry Low, Josephine McDermott, Sarah Buckley, Neil Arun, Lesley Sixsmith and Jasmine Coleman All times stated are UK Thank you and […]
Seven places that hardly seem real
Source: BBC Where to go to escape the stresses of life, the bustle of the workweek and the noise of traffic? To find out, we turned to question-and-answer site Quora, […]
Islamic State: Where key countries stand
Source: BBC The lightning rise of Islamic State (IS), the jihadist militant group that has seized large parts of Syria and Iraq since 2014, has sent shockwaves around the Middle […]
Is it 1914 all over again? We are in danger of repeating the mistakes that started WWI, says a leading historian
History never repeats itself, but it sure does rhyme, it has been said. Now an internationally respected historian is warning that today’s world bears a number of striking similarities with the build-up to the First World War. The newly mechanised armies of the early 20th century produced unprecedented slaughter on […]
Richard Dawkins mansplains feminism to Muslim women, Bhutto hits back
Source: Dawn Prominent thinker Richard Dawkins stepped into yet another messy debate online when he tweeted “Islam needs a feminist revolution. It will be hard. What can we do to […]
Feminism’ Has Got to Go
Huff Post: by Kaitlyn Hatch — Right – it needs to be said: Feminism is causing problems.Not feminism, the belief that all people should have equal opportunities regardless of their sex or gender, perceived or otherwise. That’s not in contention. Feminism, the word, is causing problems. And writing this has […]
Meet The Nine Muslim Women Who Have Ruled Nations
Source: Egyptian Street By Dalia Gebrial, who is an Egyptian writer and journalist living in South-East London. Currently, she is particularly interested in raising awareness about the historical and current labor […]
Belgian Muslim Community Reminds Us That Peacefully 'Living Together' Is the Under-reported Norm
Huff Post: by Paul Brandeis Raushenbush — Have you heard the story about the Muslim community in Belgium that raised money to restore a local synagogue? Probably not. But it […]
Belgian Muslim Community Reminds Us That Peacefully ‘Living Together’ Is the Under-reported Norm
Huff Post: by Paul Brandeis Raushenbush — Have you heard the story about the Muslim community in Belgium that raised money to restore a local synagogue? Probably not. But it […]
Seven women peacemakers who should be on your radar
Global Post: The following is part of a Ground Truth initiative supported by the Ford Foundation called VOICES. The mission of VOICES is to present the ideas and opinions of […]
The world has broken its promises about rebuilding Gaza – and the children will suffer
theguardian: by Chris Gunness — Six months after international donors pledged billions after the last war, the cash has not materialised, lives remain shattered and the desperate suffering goes on Jibril, left, lost two of his four grandchildren to hypothermia in the storms last month. The family now live […]
Video: World Hijab Day 2015, Feb 1
Epigraph: And say to the believing women that they restrain their eyes and guard their private parts, and that they disclose not their natural and artificial beauty except that which […]
10 Wars to Watch in 2015
crisisgroup.org: by Jean-Marie Guehenno — From Afghanistan to Yemen, the conflicts and crises the world faces in the coming year. The last year was a bad one for international peace and security. Sure, there were bright spots in 2014. Colombia’s peace process looks hopeful. The last round of Iran’s nuclear […]
The Most Beautiful Religious Photos Of 2014
Huff Post — Celebrations of light, redemption, rebirth and honoring of the gods and goddesses. In 2014, people from faith traditions around the world gathered for religious festivals and holidays, lifting up the spirit of the divine in many different ways. These photographs capture moments from a broad array of […]
Is There Any Hope for Peace in the New Year?
Huff Post: by Tim Suttle —- The hostility we feel toward those who are not like us is acceptable in almost every other part of our society, but it is distinctly out of place in Christian worship. Any hostility toward “the other” offends God, and it offends the community. As […]
Heroes, villains and victories – the women who shaped 2014
Source: The Guardian By Bim Adewunmi The Malala award Nominees: Malala Yousafzai, Mindy Kaling (who was briefly mistaken for her at a New York party). Winner: Malala, by a landslide – for being awarded the Nobel peace prize at the age of 17 (the youngest ever recipient) but also crucially for the fact that she had […]
Superbugs to kill ‘more than cancer’ by 2050
BBC News: Drug resistant infections will kill an extra 10 million people a year worldwide – more than currently die from cancer – by 2050 unless action is taken, a study says. They are currently implicated in 700,000 deaths each year. The analysis, presented by the economist Jim O’Neill, said the […]
Too Dangerous to Fail
FP: by Barry M. Blechman — Why the failure to secure a nuclear deal with Iran could have devastating consequences for global proliferation. An agreementnt would have been preferable, of course. But it’s not all bad news out of Vienna right now. The decision to extend until July the deadline […]
Calgary’s Ahmadiyya Muslims take aim at ISIS terrorist and radicalization of youth
Calgarysun.com: by Mark Villani — Members of Calgary’s Ahmadiyya Muslim Community — Event Organizer for Stop the Crisis Farah Malik (left) and Communications Outreach Advisor Atifa Ahmed — stand in front of a poster to promote awareness against ISIS radicalization in Calgary on November 23, 2014. Love for all, hatred […]