Kuala Lumpur Summit to address Muslim issues
By New Straits Times – December 16, 2019 @ 12:30pm KUALA LUMPUR: The Kuala Lumpur Summit (KL Summit) 2019 can potentially take cooperation between Muslim nations to new heights, ultimately […]
WAR ON TERROR: US send experts to raise oil output in southeastern Syria
ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL Published 16.12.2019 The U.S. has sent a group of experts to Syria’s biggest oil field in Deir el-Zour, a province currently under the occupation of the YPG/PKK […]
Turkey’s Erdogan meets Libyan leader as regional tensions rise
By AFP – Dec 15,2019 – JORDAN TIMES ISTANBUL — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held talks with Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Al Sarraj in Istanbul on Sunday, just days after […]
A global network of pro-Indian fake websites and think-tanks is aimed at influencing decision-making in Europe, researchers say.
The co-ordinated network of 265 sites operates across 65 countries, according to a report by EU Disinfo Lab, a Brussels-based NGO, The researchers traced the websites to an Indian company, […]
Michael Bloomberg’s Surveillance Of Muslims Sets Dangerous Precedent For His Presidential Run
Source: Huffington Post By Rowaida Abdelaziz “How would he distinguish himself from Trump if he has some of these similar leanings?” one Muslim New Yorker wanted to know. As a […]
U.S. has world’s highest rate of children living in single-parent households
Pew Research Center BY STEPHANIE KRAMER For decades, the share of U.S. children living with a single parent has been rising, accompanied by a decline in marriage rates and a rise in […]
Landmark forum seeks ‘better answers’ to refugee response
International Geneva Global Refugee Forum Landmark forum seeks ‘better answers’ to refugee response By Simon Bradley Dec 16, 2019 – 06:00 The first-ever “Global Refugee Forum” opens in Geneva on […]
Lebanon #Disinformation: the online threat to protest in the Middle East
Social media users face attacks from influencers and fake accounts at home and abroad Ruth Michaelson in Cairo and Michael Safi in Amman Sun 15 Dec 2019 When […]
India citizenship law protests spread across campuses
Dec 16, 2019 – swissinfo.ch By Sankalp Phartiyal NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Protests over a new Indian citizenship law based on religion spread to student campuses on Monday […]
Indonesian Muslims: Believers in Islam or cultural Muslims?
Patrik K. Meyer New America Security fellow PREMIUM Yogyakarta / Fri, December 13, 2019 In the Quran, Muslims can find guidance to successfully overcome all kinds of challenges — […]
ISRAEL HAYOM NEWS: ‘ Roots of Islamic terrorism run deep ‘
Editor’s Note: Yes, we should know and read what the Israelis are taught by their ‘scholars’. Here an article from Israelhayom.com Yoram Ettinger Yoram Ettinger is a former […]
Niqab ban debate shows Jokowi’s tough stance on Islamic hard-liners
Indonesian president risks alienating nonviolent groups, experts warn ERWIDA MAULIA, Nikkei staff writer December 16, 2019 JAKARTA — Just a week after he was named Indonesia’s new religious affairs minister, […]
Ever wondered why we dream?
Dreams can be wacky, but they may actually help you learn or cope. Source: The Washington Post By Jason Bittel Dreams are weird. Most of them seem to contain a […]
Why are we letting the defence industry hijack the EU?
Source: The Guardian By Apostolis Fotiadis Away from public scrutiny, France is pushing Europe into prioritising increased arms spending over political alliances Wed 11 Dec 2019 For three years now, […]
New Jersey attack ‘may be domestic terror fuelled by anti-Semitism’
Epigraph Every human life is precious and sacred and killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: BBC A gun attack on a Jewish supermarket in New […]
Video: Muslims find compassion for the homeless in Toronto
Video courtesy of Dr. Naseer Tahir, Rochester, NY Suggested reading by Zia H Shah MD Nobel Prize for a noble woman Refuting Islamophobia: Demystifying ‘the Other’ by Harris Zafar PM New […]
China accuses US of double standards on anti-Muslim bigotry, counterterrorism
(RNS) — As Washington ramps up pressure on Beijing to end its extrajudicial mass detention of up to 3 million Uighur Muslims, Chinese officials are accusing the U.S. of hypocrisy […]
Afghanistan papers detail US dysfunction: ‘We did not know what we were doing’
A key theme of the trove of documents published this week was the lack of coherence in Washington’s approach to Afghanistan from the outset by Peter Beaumont Sat 14 […]
Switzerland: Outright burka ban faces opposition in parliament
Dec 12, 2019 – 16:45 A campaign for a n outright burka ban in public collected enough signatures for a nationwide vote in 2017. Parliament is opting for a […]
Mosque to be built in Belize
By Courtney Menzies Posted on December 13, 2019 History is being made in Belize with the construction of a mosque. History is being made in Belize with the construction of […]