ISIS terror has become a bigger cr-ISIS for peace
MAY 4, 2019 Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the […]
Iraq is pushing to build an isolation camp for 30,000 Iraqis who lived under ISIS in Syria
Source: The Washington Post By Louisa Loveluck and Mustafa Salim IRBIL, Iraq — Senior Iraqi officials are pressing to establish a special detention camp to isolate as many as 30,000 Iraqis who lived […]
Child sexual abuse inquiry to be held into religious organisations
Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent Child sexual abuse in a wide range of religious organisations and settings, including Jehovah’s Witnesses and Buddhists, is to be scrutinised in an […]
China is punishing Muslims for fasting. So US Muslims are fasting from China.
Source: Religion News Service BY Aysha Khan (RNS) — This Ramadan, human rights groups and Muslim organizations are urging U.S. Muslims to boycott products made in China, where authorities have […]
Italy emerges as ground zero for European extremist populism
Source: Associated Press By COLLEEN BARRY MILAN (AP) — Italy’s populist interior minister is uniting Europe’s right-wing parties under an anti-migrant, anti-Islam, anti-bureaucracy banner for this month’s European Union elections, […]
Australian prime minister rejects candidate’s Islam posts
Source: Associated Press By ROD McGUIRK CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s prime minister said his Liberal Party rejected the anti-Muslim views of an election candidate who on Friday became the […]
Sri Lanka identifies 9 Easter Sunday suicide bombers
Source: Washington Post By Joanna Slater NEW DELHI — A fanatical preacher and a man from his hometown. A man who studied in Britain and Australia. The two sons and daughter-in-law of […]
Britain’s legacy is not benign – the Cambridge slavery inquiry will show we have plenty to feel guilty for
My ancestor James Ramsay wrote a book criticising the horrors of the slave trade in the 18th century. Contrary to claims by the inquiry’s critics, racism was challenged even back then Patrick Cockburn […]
Biased social posts forcing out some Australian candidates
Source: Associated Press By ROD McGUIRK CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian political parties have cut loose or chastised several of their candidates less than three weeks before elections for sexist, […]
In India, charges against a Catholic bishop a victory for abused nuns
Source: Religion News Service By Brooke Thames KOCHI, India (RNS) — In the dirt courtyard of St. Teresa’s Women’s College, in this port city in the southern Indian state of Kerala, […]
Sudan: what future for the country’s Islamists?
Source: The Guardian By Peter Beaumontand Zeinab Mohammed Salih in Khartoum As members of Sudan’s Islamist Popular Congress party arrived for a meeting in Khartoum one Saturday afternoon, they were greeted by […]
Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day with solemn ceremony
Source: Associated Press By ISABEL DEBRE JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel ushered in its Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday in memory of the 6 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and […]
IS leader outlines path forward for his group post-caliphate
Source: Associated Press By JON GAMBRELL and ZEINA KARAM COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — No longer burdened by territory and administration, Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi outlined the […]
New attacks on Sri Lanka churches planned, cardinal says
Source: Associated Press By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s Catholic cardinal received “foreign information” that attempts would be made this week to attack a church and […]
PBS Video: Slavery in USA; Islam and Christianity
CBS Video: The Duality of President Thomas Jefferson The Holy Quran and the Seventh Century Arabian Metaphors Racism, Slavery, History, and Islam Slavery – An Anathema to Humanity and Islam Concubines and the Holy Quran […]
‘Active planning underway’: Sri Lankan officials and U.S. diplomat warn of more attacks by militant group
Source: The Washington Post By Adam Taylor and Joanna Slater More than a week after devastating bombings in Sri Lanka, a government minister and a U.S. diplomat warned that the group that carried out […]
Hardline Indian group allied with Modi calls for ban on the veil
Source: Reuters NEW DELHI (Reuters) – An Indian Hindu nationalist group allied with Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on Wednesday for a ban on veils after Sri Lanka prohibited the […]
Conservatives want Catholic bishops to denounce pope as heretic
Source: Reuters BY Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – A group of 19 Catholic priests and academics have urged bishops to denounce Pope Francis as a heretic, in the latest ultra-conservative […]
Trump Pushes to Designate Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Group
Source: The New York Times By Charlie Savage, Eric Schmitt and Maggie Haberman WASHINGTON — The White House is pushing to issue an order that would designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist […]
President Trump has made more than 10,000 false or misleading claims
Source: The Washington Post By Glenn Kessler , Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly It took President Trump 601 days to top 5,000 false and misleading claims in The Fact Checker’s database, an average of eight claims […]