How Hanukkah came to America
Source: The Conversation Hanukkah may be the best known Jewish holiday in the United States. But despite its popularity in the U.S., Hanukkah is ranked one of Judaism’s minor festivals, […]
More than 30,000 Indian-American Sikhs have entered the trucking industry in 2 years
Source: CBS News LARAMIE, Wyoming — Here’s what you might expect to see driving I-80 near Laramie, Wyoming: long stretches of highway framed by rolling hills and trucker after trucker making […]
A storm brews over the formation of a new church in Ukraine
Source: The Economist PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW I (pictured), the “first among equals” in the stormy world of Orthodox Christianity, seemed like a model of composure as he prepared this week for […]
This self-driving hotel room could revolutionize travel
Source: CNN By Sarah Lazarus (CNN) — Question: What do you get if you cross a hotel room with a self-driving vehicle?Answer: The Autonomous Travel Suite (ATS). A hotel room on wheels, the […]
My Evangelical Church Is Gaslighting Me, But I Refuse To Fall For It Anymore
Source: Huffington Post By Elizabeth Baker I don’t sleep through the night anymore. I suffer from near daily panic attacks and almost constant anxiety. The source of my joy, my […]
Sir David Attenborough On Climate Change
“If we don’t take action the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon … time is running out,” Sir David […]
Video and Book Review: The Leadership of Muhammad by Prof. John Adair
Epigraph: Indeed, the Messenger of God is an excellent model for those of you who put your hope in God and the Last Day and remember Him often. (Al Quran […]
Flatshare bias: room-seekers with Muslim name get fewer replies
‘Muhammad’ less likely than ‘David’ to get a positive response, Guardian investigation finds • How we carried out the survey Haroon Siddique and Pamela Duncan Mon 3 Dec 2018 Minority […]
Reifying the divide – Ahmadis in Pakistan
Source: The News on Sunday By Ali Usman Qasmi The widespread hatred against Ahmadis is the result of decades of relentless campaigns and one-sided propaganda, which even the abolishment of […]
Conservative Indonesian Muslims hold big rally in Jakarta
Source: Reuters International and Swiss info JAKARTA (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Indonesian Muslims held a rally in Jakarta on Sunday led by hardline groups who had agitated to […]
The perils of a ‘German Islam’ project
Source: Daily Sabah BY BURHANETTIN DURAN; @burhanduran The German government’s ‘secular Islam’ project only serves to make the Muslims in Europe become more radicalized, but not more integrated into their […]
UK’s single-sentence Islamophobia definition feels inadequate
Chris Doyle December 03, 2018 Protesters holds a sign which reads “Islamophobia is not freedom” in London. (File Photo/AFP) Even the most hard-nosed, empathetically challenged Brits must have been shocked […]
Arab Journalism: ‘Who did not die from bullets, died of hunger’
By Rana Husseini – Dec 02,2018 DEAD SEA — Journalists, many of whom worked in conflict zones, shared their experience with over 400 participants of an investigative reporting forum […]
No more excuses – the Saudi-led war in Yemen must end now
Please send your letters to letters@independent.co.uk The Independent Voices Finally, the Senate is flexing its atrophied muscles by voting to advance a resolution to end military support for the Saudi-led […]
Is seeing believing? How documentaries are taking liberties with historical truth
Recreating ‘authenticity’ to engage audiences risks undermining a proper reliance on archive sources, says Robert Fisk @indyvoices The Independent When I was five years old, my parents arranged for a local photographer in Maidstone to take a portrait picture of their beloved son. A tall gentleman arrived at our home […]
Don’t Waste Your Pain — Joel Osteen
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Joel Osteen has no less than a thousand, half hour wonderful presentations, about positive thinking, hope, optimism and success. […]
A fine Swiss model
Dec 01,2018 -JORDAN TIMES – WALID M. SADI An interesting referendum took place in Switzerland on “sovereignty”. In specific terms, the referendum was about the conflict, if any, between international […]
Khadim Rizvi booked: ‘No U-turns this time please’
by Shahab Omer LAHORE: The government’s decision of registering cases against Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) chief Khadim Hussain Rizvi under charges of treason and terrorism has received mixed reactions from the […]
US Fifth Fleet commander found dead in Bahrain residence, suicide suspected
COMPILED FROM WIRE SERVICES ISTANBUL The commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command and the U.S. Fifth Fleet has been found dead in his residence in Bahrain. Chief of […]
Science & Environment, Climate change: ‘World at crossroads’ warning as key talks begin
By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, Katowice Four senior figures behind efforts to limit climate change have warned that the planet “is at a crossroads” as key talks opened a […]