Muslims, Jews have higher COVID death rate, UK figures indicate
LONDON (Reuters) – The death rate from COVID-19 in England and Wales is higher among people who identify as Muslims, Jews, Hindus or Sikh than Christians or those with […]
Calls To Make Juneteenth A Federal Holiday Gain Momentum
Source: NPR By Marisa Peñaloza, who is a senior producer on NPR’s National Desk. Corporate executives and sports officials are joining a growing number of elected officials who want to […]
If We’re Going To Talk About Systemic Racism, We Need To Talk About Christianity
By gelerick Last updated: 19 Jun 2020 America is a Christian nation. This is usually touted as a badge of honor for many Americans. But, the history of Christianity will demonstrate that […]
Winston Churchill has as much blood on his hands as the worst genocidal dictators, claims Indian politician
‘This is a man the British would have us hail as an apostle of freedom and democracy,’ says author Maya Oppenheim @mayaoppenheim Friday 8 September 2017 An Indian politician has put […]
Hamilton Is Hot in Europe (The Debt Policy, Not the Musical)
Source: WSJ By Daniel Michaels European Union leaders are talking about jointly issuing hundreds of billions of euros in debt, and to some fans of American history, it looks a […]
Look behind the ‘lockdown’ cliches and you’ll see what really scares Boris Johnson about coronavirus
An infantilised society will not be able to imagine a new future, nor answer the demands of future generations of society of every origin which – far from being ‘distanced’ – […]
Facebook removes Trump ads containing symbols used by Nazis to identify political prisoners
Source: CNBC By Salvador Rodriguez; @SAL19 KEY POINTS Facebook removed Trump campaign ads that contained a symbol associated with Nazis. The ads featured red downward-pointing triangles, which the Nazis used […]
US Supreme Court Defying Trump and Favoring ‘Dreamers’
Supreme Court rules against Trump’s bid to end program shielding ‘Dreamer’ immigrants Source: CNBC The Supreme Court ruled against President Donald Trump on Thursday in a set of cases over […]
Op/Ed: The Wheat Fields Still Whisper: Forgotten Human Rights Stories from Punjab, 1984-2020
By Mallika Kaur – June 7, 2020 As I was completing my MPP, a faculty member at Harvard Kennedy School had written to the chair of a prominent North American foundation, […]
After 73 years of Indo-Pak partition, Muslim owners still await Hindu tenant to come back and open lock of his shop
By Sikh24 Editors – June 14, 2020 CHANDIGARH, Punjab—At the time of India-Pakistan partition in 1947, a Hindu shopkeeper doing business on a rented shop was forced to leave his shop […]
Burkini ban brings fine to condo administration in Turkey
BY DAILY SABAH WITH AA The state-run Turkish Human Rights and Equality Agency (TIHEK) slapped a TL 5,000 ($729) fine on the administration of a condominium that banned women from […]
Israel’s Netanyahu mulls two-phase West Bank annexation, newspaper says
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (AP) Short Url https://arab.news/p9p2f Netanyahu is trying to confuse the international position which rejects annexation REUTERS June 18, 2020 JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is weighing […]
Trump signs Uyghur human rights bill on same day Bolton alleges he told Xi to proceed with detention camps
(CNN) President Donald Trump has signed a bill that aims to punish China for its human rights abuses against the Uyghur Muslim population on the same day his former national […]
MIT Catholic chaplain forced out after message on Floyd killing and protest
Source: Boston Globe By Deirdre Fernandes An MIT chaplain was asked to resign last week after he sent a message to the university’s Catholic community suggesting that George Floyd’s killing by […]
Netflix CEO to donate $120M to historically black colleges
Epigraph: O people! We created you from a male and a female, and made you races and tribes, that you may know one another. The best among you in the […]
An American Civil War
Voices Our Rights Have Been Stripped Credit: Dave Granlund, PoliticalCartoons.com By Osaama Saifi Sun Jun 14, 2020 d have conceived that America — the greatest country in the world — could […]
Our God
Mirza Kaleem Ahmad ISLAM • RELIGIOUS CONCEPTS Our God 11th June 2020 Shutterstock ID 528203005 Mirza Kaleem Ahmad, Virgina USA Since time immemorable, humans have been in quest to understand whether there […]
How Exactly Do You Catch Covid-19? There Is a Growing Consensus
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred and saving one is like the saving of the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: WSJ By Daniela Hernandez, Sarah Toy […]
Power struggle in East Med and Turkey’s position
BY BURHANETTIN DURAN COLUMNS JUN 17, 2020 12:05 AM GMT+3 Turkey’s drilling vessel, Fatih, sails through the Bosporus as it leaves for the Black Sea, Istanbul, Turkey, May 29, 2020. (Reuters […]
The ‘Palestinian Chair’: Exposing Israel’s direct role in US violence
Jun 16,2020 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMZY BAROUD The banning of deadly police practices by many American states and cities following the murder of an African American man, George Floyd, […]