Source: Dawn Compassion requires you to dethrone yourself from the centre of your world and put others in your place. This was the point that eminent historian and author Karen Armstrong focused on and kept coming back to in her lecture titled ‘The need for compassion in a fractured world’ […]
Former German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel speaks to DER SPIEGEL about his call for the country to take on a new global role and why Germans are underestimating the dangers […]
By Luca Beti THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 24, 2018 Eritrean refugee Solomon Aklilu is learning the roofing trade in Bern.(Luca Beti) Like many refugees in Switzerland, […]
MOJTABA BARGHANDAN A cleric and a woman walk past an anti-U.S. mural painted on the wall of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran. U.S. foreign policy and a wider anti-Middle […]
Source: Arab News The 450 kilometer train line connects the holy cities of Makkah and Madinah with stations at Jeddah, King Abdul Aziz International Airport, and King Abdullah Economic City […]
By Reuters – Sep 25,2018 – JORDAN TIMES UNITED NATIONS/BRUSSELS — At a meeting in Washington after Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal in May, a senior […]
Militants were ferried overnight from Deir Ezzor By AFP – Sep 25,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Syrians wave flags during a demonstration in the rebel-held northern Syrian city of Idlib on […]
Sep 24,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – JAMES J. ZOGBY Seth Anziska’s “Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo” is a deeply insightful and profoundly disturbing book that […]
https://players.brightcove.net/624246174001/BJXA5Px6f_default/index.html?videoId=5838203230001&customParams=videoID%3A5838203230001%3BarticleId%3A8552281%3Bgs_channels%3ANONE%3Bplayertype%3Aautoplay%3Btopictags%3Aungeneral_assembly%2Cinternallydisplaced_people%2Ctyphoonmangkhut&customTargeting=%2F71347885%2F_main_independent%2Fin_voices%2Fin_voices_article&playsinline=true In 2005, my stepfather in Zambia, David Busiku Mainza contributed to a pamphlet on the Tonga people, some 57,000 of whom were resettled in 1957 and 1958 from the Zambezi […]
‘Just because [Jared Kushner’s] Jewish, it doesn’t mean he would protect us’ Robert Fisk Beit El, West Bank @indyvoices The Independent Voices Beit El Jewish settler Chaim Silberstein stands in his home […]
Source: Washington Post By Dana Milbank My rabbi, Danny Zemel, comes from Zionist royalty: His grandfather, Rabbi Solomon Goldman, led the Zionist Organization of America in the late 1930s, and […]
Friday Sermon: Harmful innovations in religion October 29th, 2010 Hudhur gave an exposition on harmful innovations in religion in his Friday Sermon today. He began by reciting the following Quranic […]
Source: The Guardian By Jason Webster Jason Webster on why the republication of Idries Shah book about Sufism – whose enthusiasts have included Winston Churchill, Ted Hughes and Doris Lessing – […]
indiaspend.com: Mumbai: In July 2018, when the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) announced its intention to expand a little-known 25-year-old network of around 50 darul qazas (counselling centres based on the teachings of sharia or Islamic law) to every Indian district, right-wing Hindu commentators were outraged. Meenakshi Lekhi, a Bharatiya Janata […]
The study only includes Jews who define their religion as Judaism, or “Jews by religion.” BY JTA, JEREMY SHARON AUGUST 30, 2018 Share on facebook Share on twitter An American […]
Deborah Ramirez, 53, alleges incident took place while both were Yale students – Mr Kavanaugh denies the accusation, calling it a ‘smear’ Chris Stevenson The Independent US A second woman has come […]
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Sep 18, 2018 A Facebook and Twitter meme in circulation these days holds that the only thing any American need know about Muslims can be summed up in the 9/11 […]
Source: Aljazeera.com The Swiss region of St Gallen has voted in favour of a “burqa ban”, prohibiting all face-covering garments in public spaces, a decision that a local Islamic organisation has termed “Islamophobic”. In a referendum on Sunday in the northeastern canton of St Gallen, nearly 67 percent of voters approved […]
FARID HAFEZ@ferithafez Published September 21, 2018 A Turkish-run mosque damaged by an explosion in Dresden, Germany, which is one of many attacks in the country that comes amid concerns of rising […]