Intercultural challenges: Room to Rest or Rest-Room?
While in Bangkok my brother-in-law from USA visited me. My wife was going into a cloth-store, owned by a Thai Sikh family. My brother in law asked the shop keeper: […]
‘Presidents Are Not Kings’: Judge Orders Trump Lawyer Don McGahn To Testify Before Congress
Source: Huffington Post By Ryan J. Reilly Former White House Counsel Don McGahn must honor a congressional subpoena and testify before Congress, a federal judge in the nation’s capitol ruled […]
Video: The Real and Compassionate Face of Islam
Epigraph We have not sent you Muhammad, but as mercy for the whole of mankind! (Al Quran 21:107/108) Suggested reading by Zia H Shah MD Nobel Prize for a noble woman […]
Syrian ISIS Bride’s Escape From Terror
In light of the news that came just last week of the bombing of a camp for displaced people in north-west Syria, the attention of the UK was once again […]
Netanyahu’s real crimes
Nov 25,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby After years of investigation and months of delay, Israel’s Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit formally indicted Benjamin Netanyahu for crimes ranging from […]
The China cables Xinjiang ‘What has happened to me’: manga depicting Uighur torture hits 2.5m views
Japanese artist’s story of Xinjiang woman’s experience highlights plight of Muslim minority in China Justin McCurry in Tokyo Tue 26 Nov 2019 A manga depicting the plight of an […]
Jordan and Israel’s 25-year peace deal under more strain than ever
Unpopular but enduring treaty faces new test in form of Donald Trump’s plan for Middle EastJordan and Israel’s 25-year peace deal under more strain than ever Michael Safi in Amman […]
Why these New York Sikhs are fundraising for a mosque in India
Source: Religious News Service Darshan Singh first heard about it at the barbershop. His barber, a Muslim man living in Nadala, India, where Singh was visiting his family for two […]
In USA and Europe Younger People More Accepting of the Muslims
In the U.S. and Western Europe, people say they accept Muslims, but opinions are divided on Islamhttps://t.co/Z5lWEdZJ6R pic.twitter.com/OVAzWd2Aru — Pew Research Global (@pewglobal) November 20, 2019 Suggested reading by Zia […]
The call for a post-sectarian Middle East in Baghdad and Beirut
Zaid M. Belbagi November 25, 2019 Water, electricity and access to economic opportunities are not sectarian trophies to award, but basic human rights. What events in Baghdad and Beirut have […]
BBC Big Questions – Are Religions Unfair To Women?
Additional Reading Gender Equality in the Holy Qur’an – In the Beginning Man and Woman Were Equal British women ‘being forced into polygamous relationships’ because law lets them down, campaigners say […]
The liberal spirit captivating the Mideast’s revolutions
Abdulrahman Al-Rashed November 24, 2019 Reflecting on the three major events in the Middle East — Iran, Iraq and Lebanon — we realize that they are more than […]
Laying the ground for the new ‘peace process’
Nov 24,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh The recent indications from the United States that it no longer considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank as illegal […]
‘No alternative to UNRWA’s efforts besides refugee return’
By JT – Nov 24,2019 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL AMMAN — Heads of delegations of Arab countries hosting Palestinian refugees on Sunday highlighted His Majesty King Abdullah’s continual defence of […]
More than 1,000 patients may have been exposed to HIV and other viruses after error in sanitizing procedure
By Evan Simko-Bednarski and Mirna Alsharif (CNN) More than a thousand surgical patients at Goshen Hospital in Indiana may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B after an error […]
The China cables Uighurs ‘Allow no escapes’: leak exposes reality of China’s vast prison camp network
Documents confirm largest mass incarceration of an ethnic-religious minority since second world war Uighur’s 10-year term reveals level of repression Secret memo on how to run camps Emma Graham-Harrison and […]
The man behind China’s detention of 1 million Muslims
After bloody race riots rocked China’s far west a decade ago, the ruling Communist Party turned to a rare figure in their ranks to restore order: a Han Chinese official […]
British women ‘being forced into polygamous relationships’ because law lets them down, campaigners say
Source: Independent ‘The government is always perfectly happy to relegate minority women to kangaroo courts and faith-based parallel legal systems’ By Maya Oppenheim, @mayaoppenheim Women are being left to go […]
Islam belongs to Germany, former President Wulff says
Source: Daily Sabah Islam belongs to Germany just like Christianity and Judaism, Germany’s former President Christian Wulff said during a meeting at the Turkish-German Culture Association in the German city […]
UK: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Wolverhampton joins The Chatty Café scheme to tackle mental health awareness & loneliness
By Dr Abdul Salam, External Affair secretary By the grace of Allah on the 21st of November, 2019, the Wolverhampton council held a meeting to tackle mental health awareness and loneliness. Ingenious Smartphones and high speed fibre optic broadband internet have increased connectivity, but have they bought people together? Thousands […]