The Ilhan Omar anti-Semitism controversy, explained
Source: Vox By Zack Beauchamp The long-simmering controversy over Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN)’s heated language on Israel has reached a boiling point — with House Democrats weighing a plan to vote […]
U.N. religious freedom expert seeks visit to China’s Xinjiang
Source: Reuters By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations investigator on religious freedom said on Tuesday he has asked China to let him visit its Xinjiang region where some […]
Europeans, Canada, Australia issue first rebuke of Saudi Arabia at UN rights forum
Council calls for release of 10 Saudi activists including women By Reuters – Mar 07,2019 – People attend a symbolic funeral prayer for Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi […]
New Pakistani leader’s education aims may include reining in religious schools
Source: Religion News Service By Naila Inayat LAHORE, Pakistan (RNS) — Like several Pakistani leaders before him, Prime Minister Imran Khan came into office vowing to reform the country’s 38,000 […]
Iran lawyer convicted after defending women protesters
Source: Associated Press By JON GAMBRELL DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A prominent human rights lawyer in Iran who defended protesters against the Islamic Republic’s mandatory headscarves for women […]
Narendra Modi and the struggle for India’s soul
Source: The Economist When the world’s biggest electorate handed Narendra Modi a thumping victory five years ago, India seemed poised for far-reaching change. His party had won an outright majority of […]
Journalists Who Reported On A Cardinal’s Sex Abuse Verdict Could Face Jail Time
Source: NPR BY Sasha Ingber Dozens of journalists and media outlets that reported on the sex abuse conviction of the world’s most high-ranking Catholic cleric ever charged with such crimes […]
Trump is trying to pay his way to an annihilation of Palestinian statehood, and an erasure of Israel’s crimes
Donald Trump and Jared Kushner This was the first time in modern Arab history that America has offered the bribes before anyone has agreed to the terms Robert Fisk @indyvoices “Palestine” […]
Imran Khan Says No Terror Groups Will Be Allowed To Operate On Pak Soil
Pakistan began a crackdown against terror groups this week amid growing international pressure in the wake of the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama in which 40 CRPF soldiers […]
Exclusive: Andrea Leadsom Accused Of Undermining Fight Against Far-Right With Islamophobia Comments
Labour MP Naz Shah said Commons leader “played into the idea that Muslims are less British” and said she must apologise. By Arj Singh Andrea Leadsom has been accused of […]
WATCH: Tory minister Andrea Leadsom thinks Muslims are a case for “foreign ministers”
Apparently, to the Leader of the House of Commons, Muslim equals foreign. BY MEDIA MOLE PARLIAMENTLIVE.TV SCREENGRAB Going down like a Leadsom balloon. The Conservative party absolutely does not have a […]
The next Nobel laureate of Pakistan
Source: UCA News By Kamran Chaudhry, Lahore A shared prize for Asma Jahangir and Asia Bibi would be a huge boost to minorities It is the world’s most prestigious award, […]
Islam and Women: International Women’s Day
Epigraph: But whoso does good works, whether male or female, and is a believer, such shall enter Heaven, and shall not be wronged even as much as the little hollow […]
Religion Versus Atheism: Dawkins Interviewed by Mehdi
Suggested reading and viewing Video: The world’s best known atheist, Richard Dawkins does seem to believe in a Creator God How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution We are saving this video […]
Most churches are losing members fast — but not the Mormons. Here’s why.
In an era of declining faith, Mormon membership is holding steady. By Daniel Cox Mar 6, 2019, The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square performs during the twice-annual conference of […]
What Turks say: The S-400 story and the end of US influence
MELIH ALTINOK@melihaltinok Published06.03.201923:54 President Erdoğan meets with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia, Jan. 23, 2019. If the U.S. does not want to lose Turkey’s […]
First ever prayer held at Turkey’s largest mosque in Istanbul
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Published 07.03.2019 AA Photo Hundreds of people attended the first ever prayer at the Çamlıca Mosque in Istanbul, following completion of its construction that started in 2013. […]
Kazakhstan comes to the rescue of its nationals caught in a crackdown on Muslims in China
An ethnic Uighur man talks on the phone in front of the Id Kah Mosque in the old town of Kashgar in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, March 22. […]
The Mongol Sack of Baghdad in 1258
TRANSCRIPT FROM A LECTURE SERIES BY PROFESSOR EAMONN GEARON, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY The Mongol conquest of the Abbasid Caliphate culminated in the horrific sack of Baghdad that effectively ended the Islamic Golden Age. […]
15th-century manuscript reveals links between Gaelic Ireland and Muslim world
Source: Irish Examiner By Olivia Kelleher A previously undiscovered 15th-century Irish vellum manuscript, reveals a connection between Gaelic Ireland and the Muslim world and indicates that medieval Ireland was once […]