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By Rafiq A. Tschannen on January 12, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Saudi teenager Rahaf offers a blueprint for others – but there will be frustration at the back of the asylum queue

Will the powerful use of social media by one savvy woman change our attitude to asylum seekers fleeing abusive families or regimes? Janet Street-Porter The Independent Voices Months on from […]

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Chinese businessman arrested in Poland for spying

Source: BBC News Poland’s security services say a Chinese businessman and a Polish man, both employed in telecoms, have been arrested for spying. The Chinese national, Wang Weijing, works for […]

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The lifesaving food 90% aren’t eating enough of

Source: BBC News By James Gallagher Health and science correspondent, BBC News If I offered you a superfood that would make you live longer, would you be interested? Naturally it […]

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Senator Faruqi: Daily Mail article misrepresented her view on Halal

Source: Australian Muslim Times Posted by Mohamed Ainullah    In a statement sent to AMUST, Senator Mehreen Faruqui has condemned a Daily Mail article by Stephen Johnson published on Wednesday 9 January as fake news implying that she opposed the halal slaughter of animals. She said that the article was false […]

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Medical aid in dying is the ultimate religious freedom

Source: Star Tribune Under current law, people who have made every life decision based on their personal values and faith suddenly become, due to a terminal illness, a victim of […]

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Moscow’s Little-Noticed Islamic-Outreach Effort

Source: The Atlantic By Hassan Hassan Russia’s growing presence in the Middle East is generally discussed in military and economic terms. Moscow’s 2015 intervention in Syria to prop up the […]

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Opus Dei paid $977,000 to settle sexual misconduct claim against prominent Catholic priest

Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein January 7 The global Catholic community Opus Dei in 2005 paid $977,000 to settle a sexual misconduct suit against the Rev. C. John McCloskey, […]

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China says pace of Xinjiang ‘education’ will slow, but defends camps

Source: Reuters BY Ben Blanchard Beijing has faced an outcry from activists, scholars, foreign governments and U.N. rights experts over what they call mass detentions and strict surveillance of the […]

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Millions of People Wrongly Believe They Have Food Allergies

Source: Time By JAMIE DUCHARME January 8, 2019 These days, it can seem like just about everybody has a food allergy. But according to a new study, about 11% of American adults actually […]

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The Shutdown Isn’t Really About the Wall. It’s About Trump’s Future

Source: Time By BRIAN BENNETT and TESSA BERENSON At several points in his brief political career, Donald Trump has tried, as he calls it, to be presidential. He’s tamped down his freewheeling speaking style to […]

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‘Buddha boy’ under investigation in Nepal over missing devotees

Source: The Guardian Agence France-Presse in Kathmandu A Nepali spiritual leader believed by his followers to be a reincarnation of Buddha is under investigation over the disappearance of several devotees, […]

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Russian church head: Smartphones could precede Antichrist

Source: Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The head of the Russian Orthodox Church says the data-gathering capacity of devices such as smartphones risks bringing humanity closer to the arrival of […]

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Saudi Arabia’s enduring male guardianship system

Source: BBC News Saudi Arabia drew international plaudits last year when it lifted a longstanding ban on women driving. However, restrictions on women remain – most notably, the “male guardianship […]

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Christian workers in Somalia worship in secret, fear al-Shabab

Source: Religion News Service BY Tonny Onyulo MOGADISHU, Somalia (RNS) — In a small single-room house in the Banaadir district of Somalia, dozens of Christians worship in secret out of fear […]

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‘You saved Rahaf’s life’: online outcry kept ‘terrified’ Saudi woman safe, says friend

Source: The Guardian BY Jamie Fullerton in Kuala Lumpur and Helen Davidson Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, the Saudi Arabian woman who fled her family and is now under UN protection in Thailand, has been […]

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India’s lower house passes citizenship bill despite protests

Source: Associated Press By WASBIR HUSSAIN GAUHATI, India (AP) — India’s lower house of Parliament approved a bill Tuesday that would grant residency and citizenship rights to non-Muslims who entered […]

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Belgium’s Kosher and Halal Ban Is Another Win for Europe’s Right-Wing Extremists

Source: GQ BY LUKE DARBY On the first day of 2019, a new ban on kosher and halal meat went into effect in Belgium. Specifically, the law bans the slaughter of […]

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Complaints prompt Amazon to remove products that are offensive to Muslims

Source: CNN By Alaa Elassar (CNN)Amazon has pulled more than a dozen products off its website after receiving complaints that the items are offensive to Muslims.   The Council on […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on January 11, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Probe over Frankfurt police neo-Nazi network widens

DAILY SABAH WITH WIRES Istanbul Amid an ongoing probe over a neo-Nazi network within the Frankfurt police force, a German police officer in Hesse was identified as a suspect for […]

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Why Trump’s absence could benefit Davos

Press Reactions Why Trump’s absence could benefit Davos This content was published on January 11, 2019 The US government has already spent millions in Davos   If this year’s World […]

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