Is war with Iran the next step?
BURHANETTIN DURAN @burhanduran Published 17.05.2019 Tensions between the United States and Iran have escalated dangerously over the past week. Although both sides deny that war is imminent, a violent confrontation […]
Archive Document: Queen Outed Herself as a Fan of the EU
Does Britain’s future lie in Europe? In 1988, long before the prospect of Brexit, the queen spoke about the issue with a German diplomat. A document viewed by DER SPIEGEL […]
Video: Austrian Parliament Member Wears Headscarf to Protest Hijab Ban Law
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Austrian Parliament member Martha Bissmann has worn a headscarf during her address against a controversial bill that prohibits primary school girls across the country from wearing hijab. […]
Second Ashra of Ramadan – Making hay while the sun shines
17th May 2019 http://www.alhakam.org Allah the Almighty graciously granted the Muslims a whole month, namely Ramadan, every year to reap the benefits of worship and to gain nearness to Him. […]
John Bolton: the man driving the US towards war … any war
Donald Trump’s national security adviser is stoking tensions with North Korea, Iran and Venezuela, in line with decades of taking the most hawkish position on any given issue Julian Borger […]
Sanders: Bolton hasn’t learned lessons of war in Iraq
Anderson Cooper Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders responds to a New York Times report about the Trump administration’s potential plan to send thousands of troops to the Middle East, saying […]
Ignore the Propaganda: A US War Against Iran Would Be a Costly Mistake
Democrats must make this an election issue to ensure the Trump administration keeps the country out of another war of choice by Richard Silverstein Last Sunday, four oil tankers at […]
Coca-Cola heir arrested with $1.3M in cannabis, 5K plants
Source: MSN News BY Danielle Wallace A Greek billionaire and heir to the Coca-Cola fortune was arrested on the Caribbean Islandof St. Kitts after a search of his private jet uncovered more than $1.3 million […]
NASA Takes Groundbreaking Photos of Mars’ Weirdest Moon
Source: MSN News BY Avery Thompson NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter has captured the best view of the planet’s moon Phobos yet. The image, which depicts Phobos in its full moon phase, gives us […]
If God Is Dead, Your Time Is Everything
Source: The New Yorker By James Wood At a recent conference on belief and unbelief hosted by the journal Salmagundi, the novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson confessed to knowing some good people who […]
Catholic scandals prompt some women who had relationships with priests to ponder whether they, too, were abused
Source: The Washington Post By Marisa Iati He was a 24-year-old seminarian from a blue-collar family. She was an idealistic 19-year-old psychology student. He wanted to teach. She wanted to be […]
Should this cross be removed from public land?
Source: BBC News By James Jeffrey A row in the US state of Maryland over the location of a 40ft-high cross will be resolved by the country’s top court, and […]
As Catholic-Jewish relations warm in Rome, they cool in Chicago
Source: Religion News Service BY Yonat Shimron and Emily McFarlan Miller CHICAGO (RNS) — During a standing-room-only speech at a Roman Catholic church in Chicago this week, Minister Louis Farrakhan attempted to […]
Rashida Tlaib stands by Israel and Holocaust comments despite criticism
Source: CNN By Eli Watkins and Caroline Kelly, CNN Washington (CNN) Michigan Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib defended her recent comments about Israel and the Holocaust Sunday after drawing criticism from top Republicans and Israel’s […]
Thousands of ISIS Children Suffer in Camps as Countries Grapple With Their Fate
Source: The New York Times By Vivian Yee BEIRUT, Lebanon — Many of them were barely school age when their parents took them to the Islamic State’s so-called caliphate in Iraq […]
In Bangladesh, Reimagining What a Mosque Might Be
Source: The New York Times By Michael Snyder THE AMBER DENIM mosque sits at the back of a factory compound deep in the industrial sprawl north of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s frenetic capital […]
Asia Bibi happy to be in Canada but ‘very tired’ after blasphemy ordeal, says friend
Source: Religion News Service BY John Longhurst WINNIPEG, Canada (RNS) — When he heard that Asia Bibi — the Pakistani Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy — was on her way to […]
Pope vows to fight nun abuse, urges service not servitude
Source: Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis vowed Friday to combat the sexual abuse of nuns and urged religious sisters to just say no when clergy want to […]
A blessed Friday at the new Markaz
17th May 2019 Islamabad, Surrey: 17 May Fridays are blessed anyway, but what better if they occur in the holy month of Ramadan; and what better when there happens to […]
Testing and fasting
Muslim students who observe Ramadan have found themselves fasting during the most stressful time of the academic year. How are colleges helping them? By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf May 14, 2019 […]