Sri Lanka’s decision to make cremations mandatory for COVID-19 victims is an act of institutionalised Islamophobia. by Omar Suleiman 21 hours ago Two Muslim women wearing protective masks stand on […]
By Raza Habib Raja Published: May 18, 2020 PHOTO: MAKHZAN-E-TASAWEER This is the first part of a two part series. Read part two here. ~ Although Pakistan is no […]
Source: The Express Tribune By Raza Habib Raja, who is a recent Cornell graduate and currently pursuing his PhD in political science at Maxwell School, Syracuse University. This is the […]
By DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press 2 hrs ago © Provided by Associated Press This undated family photo by Fizza Khan provided on Monday, May 18, 2020, shows her uncle […]
Source: CNN Tedros Adhanom-Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, on Wednesday said that more cases had been reported to the agency in the past 24 hours than any time since the novel coronavirus pandemic began. “We still have a long way to go in this pandemic,” Tedros said at […]
News Room May 20, 2020 On 28 January President Donald Trump formally unveiled his plan for Middle East peace, authored by a team led by his son-in-law and senior […]
May 19, 2020 Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator MIDEAST DISCOURSE Apache helicopters of the US occupation forces flew low Sunday morning, according to residents of the Adla village, in […]
Iranian authorities were surprised by the unrest that followed the shooting down of a Ukrainian airline in ‘human error’. They can’t risk the political fallout of another crisis at a […]
Source: BBC France’s administrative court has ruled that the government must lift a blanket ban on meetings at places of worship within eight days. The ban was put in place […]
ZAKAT A MANDATORY REQUIRED NOT PAID BY MILLIONS OF MUSLIMS. THEY CONFUSE IT WITH FITRANA By Dr. H. Koya The question of Zakat has been raised by many Muslims on Facebook comments. I have posted the answers in various pieces from which I wish to put a collective views here […]
19 May 2020 Brussels, [Belgium] May 18 (ANI): The coronavirus crisis, sweeping the world has been used by Pakistan as a cover for increased human rights abuses in many forms, […]
WASHINGTON – Leaders of Pakistan’s Ahmadi community fear a recent debate surrounding the group’s Muslim status and potential membership in a newly formed minority commission could put the group’s security […]
Source: CNBC By Sam Shead; @SAM_L_SHEAD The University of Cambridge has no plans to put on any face-to-face lectures in the next academic year. Lectures will be available online and […]
By Gregory Lemos and Brian Ries (CNN) A church in Houston has canceled mass indefinitely after one of its priests died and five others subsequently tested positive for the coronavirus. […]
Source: CNN Chinese President Xi Jinping speaking via video link to the World Health Assembly, on a giant screen beside a street in Beijing on May 18, 2020. But Xi’s offerings weren’t just about taking the lead in Africa: they were about securing support at a critical and precarious juncture […]
Arab News Wednesday . May 20, 2020 https://arab.news/cqtuk TAREK ALI AHMAD May 20, 2020 Hanan Ashrawi has blamed international inaction for ‘reign of terror’ over Palestinians LONDON: Israeli expansionism and […]
Lockdowns around the world are helping us to defeat the virus that causes Covid-19, but they may also unleash an even bigger public health crisis Bilal Hassam @bilalhassam 12 hours […]
The move comes in response to the possible West Bank annexation promised by the Netanyahu government, which was also condemned by U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden Palestinian President […]
Declaration follows the creation of a new Israeli government which is officially contemplating annexation of some areas of the West Bank Julian Borger in Washington Wed 20 May 2020 […]
Source: Bloomberg Researchers are finding evidence that patients who test positive for the coronavirus after recovering aren’t capable of transmitting the infection, and could have the antibodies that prevent them from falling sick again. Scientists from the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied 285 Covid-19 survivors who had […]