The evidence we were never meant to see about the Douma ‘gas’ attack
The OPCW has opened the door to ridicule, when the simple truth would have been enough Robert Fisk @indyvoices The Independent Voices We like to take the Big Boys on […]
Silence is golden but it can also be elusive
Source: The National By Justin Thomas is a professor of psychology at Zayed University On a five-day silent retreat in Liwa, there were only the sand dunes for company. Aside from one daily call to the organiser, I was not to converse with anyone. Instead, I had an hour-by-hour schedule […]
How Right-Wing Extremism Has Changed the Lives of Canadian Muslim Women
Source: Vice.com From mosque shootings to Quebec’s anti-religious symbols bill, more Muslim women are living in fear. “Do you force her to wear that?” a waitress asked Stephanie Roy’s fiance one day, pointing at Roy’s hijab. Roy, a convert to Islam just a few years ago, who always leaves tips […]
UN human rights observers warn Quebec about secularism bill
Source: CBC High-ranking human rights monitors with the United Nations are concerned the Quebec government will violate fundamental freedoms if it moves ahead with legislation to limit where religious symbols can be worn. Three UN legal experts, known as rapporteurs, signed and sent a letter written in French last week […]
Why Do Volunteers Live Longer?
Source: Psychology Today By David Fryburg M.D. Research suggests that volunteerism is associated with a lower risk of dying. Once a month, I volunteer at a meal center to help serve food to people who are in need. Prepping and serving the dinner is a busy yet fun team activity […]
How Western Career Women Create Motherless Villages At Home And Abroad
Source: The Federalist By Libby Emmons While leftist women in the West push for less family structure and more centralized child support, they disrupt not only their own families but also families around the world. There are motherless villages in Indonesia where so many women have entered domestic service overseas […]
Trump Says the Military Industrial Complex is Pressuring him Into a War With Iran
May 21, 2019 With a thirty year Boeing veteran at the Pentagon, Patrick Shanahan as Acting Secretary of Defense, and with John Bolton and Mike Pompeo at the helm, […]
Russia jails Dane for six years in Jehovah’s Witnesses purge
By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court on Wednesday found a Danish adherent of the Jehovah’s Witnesses guilty of organizing a banned extremist group and jailed him for […]
Iraq weighs captives’ rights against fear of new Islamic State
May 23, 2019 By John Davison AL-HOL CAMP, Syria (Reuters) – Iraqi farmer Shaker Salih says he feared Islamic State, but feared its defeat even more. His problem is […]
The Indian Dalit man killed for eating in front of upper-caste men
By Vineet Khare; BBC Hindi, Uttarakhand A helpless anger pervades the Dalit community in the remote Indian village of Kot. Last month, a group of upper-caste men allegedly beat up […]
Secret spectacles – The story of a migrant spy
By Joel Gunter BBC Africa Eye It was close to midnight when the young man crawled into the desert. All around him was darkness. A hundred metres away, a handful […]
French Senate votes to ban mothers who wear headscarves from accompanying children on school trips
Source: The Independent By Jon Stone France’s Senate has voted to ban mothers who wear Islamic headscarves from accompanying children on school trips, in the latest extension of the country’s […]
Nearly 50% of Canadians think racist thoughts are normal
Source: The Global News By Josh K. Elliott Almost half of Canadians will admit to having racist thoughts, and more feel comfortable expressing them today than in years past, a new Ipsos poll revea The results land amid an uptick in the number of people who reported facing racism first-hand. […]
Church offered to ‘cover up’ Jesus for Ramadan
Source:The Times By Nicholas Hellen A Church of England vicar has provoked controversy by organising a celebration to mark the Muslim fast of Ramadan in a parish church. Men who worship at a nearby mosque were invited to pray in the aisle of the church, while Muslim women were offered […]
A Journey to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Where Sleeping Beauty Awakens
Source: The New York Times By Sarah A. Khan More than 20 years after war upended this breathtakingly beautiful land in the Balkans, a writer explores her faith, and the challenges of history. Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there stood emerald peaks woven with crystalline […]
How the Deprivation of Ramadan Helps Care for the Spirit
Source: The New York Times By Fariha Roisin For Muslims, the afterlife guides much of our spirituality. “Die before you die,” the Prophet Muhammad once said. As in: Let that ego go, divorce yourself from your earthly body, seek oneness with God and radiate kindness, humility and compassion. Rabia of […]
The power of giving Ramadan
Source: Arabian Business By Dr. Mona S. Al Munajjed Zakat is a major tool of Islamic social financing and a foundation for promoting sustainable community development In the month of Ramadan, when more than 1.8 billion Muslims fast and strive to give charity, it seems timely to look at traditions […]
U.N. deals diplomatic blow to Britain and U.S. over Indian Ocean islands
Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly demanded on Wednesday that Britain give up control over the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean within […]
Iranians tense and apprehensive as whispers of war spread
Bozorgmehr Sharafedin LONDON (Reuters) – Iranian and U.S. leaders have reassured their nations that they do not seek war. But among ordinary Iranians who already face hardship from tightening […]
Artificial intelligence diagnoses lung cancer better than radiologists
Artificial intelligence diagnoses lung cancer Source: BBC By James Gallagher, Health and science correspondent, BBC News Artificial intelligence is better than specialist doctors at diagnosing lung cancer, a US study suggests. […]