Swiss canton St Gallen votes for ban on burqas in public
Source: DW The canton of St Gallen has become the second in Switzerland to vote in favor of a ban on facial coverings in public. The Swiss also voted against […]
Muslim rapper cancels Paris Bataclan concert after far-right protests
Source: Reuters PARIS (Reuters) – A French Muslim rapper said on Friday he was cancelling two gigs at a Paris concert hall attacked by Islamist militants three years ago, saying […]
Catholic bishop in India arrested after being accused of raping nun
Source: CNN By Manveena Suri, CNN New Delhi (CNN)A Catholic bishop in India’s southern state of Kerala was arrested Friday in the alleged rape of a nun, according to a […]
Pope battered by abuse scandal gets warm welcome in Baltics
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD and PIETRO DE CRISTOFARO VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Tens of thousands of Lithuanians lined the narrow streets of the Old Town of Vilnius and […]
Vatican, China make breakthrough deal on bishop appointments
Source: Associated Press By FRANCES D’EMILIO VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican and China said Saturday they had signed a “provisional agreement” over the appointment of bishops, a breakthrough on […]
What draws women to a religion that says men should be in charge?
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer September 21 NEW ORLEANS — Growing up in rural Mississippi, Gracie Robinson decided early on that she would never get married. In her Baptist […]
Muslims in India have the worst upward mobility
India’s growth story is leaving out its Muslim minority Source: Quartz By Maria Thomas India may have lifted at least 170 million people out of poverty since 1990, but new research suggests overall […]
Rare Tibet Trip Shows China Only Wants a Dalai Lama It Can Control
Source: Bloomberg For three centuries, a succession of Tibetan spiritual and political leaders known as Dalai Lama ruled from a crimson-and-white castle overlooking the city of Lhasa. The Potala Palace […]
San Francisco museum shows off modern Muslim women’s fashion
Source: Associated Press By JANIE HAR SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The head covering is among the most identifiable elements of Muslim women’s dress and most likely to be portrayed as […]
Manto Is Not Only Worth Watching, It Is Also Worth Remembering
Source: Center for Pluralism Kudos to Dr. Shah Alam Khan for such a beautiful review of the film. It one of the best literary pieces on films I have read […]
A deadly storm is coming in Syria
Source: CNN In a Salisbury restaurant — not far from the where the nerve agent Novichok had been used by what Britain suspects were Russian operatives — I had dinner where a man I at first took to be a bouncer turned out to be a magician. Several times during […]
Dr Abdus Salam’s biopic is a happy film… if you don’t have a conscience
Source: Dawn It wasn’t planned to be this way, but the coincidence is almost too perfect: the biopic Salam – The First ****** Nobel Prize Winner played at the DC South Asian Film Festival (DCSAFF) on the day that the newly-elected government of Pakistan asked distinguished economist Atif Mian to […]
Compassion is at the core of every religion, but we don’t hear about it: Karen Armstrong
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’The World Is Changing Dramatically’
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 […]
Switzerland: REFUGEE INTEGRATION: Solomon wants to start a new life
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, […]
The U.S.’ grand security strategy for Middle East in crisis
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 […]
King Salman to inaugurate Saudi Arabia’s Haramain high-speed railway today
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 […]
As US sanctions near, Europe fails to protect Iran deal
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 […]
Syrian army transfers hundreds of Daesh terrorists to Idlib — monitor
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 […]
‘Preventing Palestine’: A must read history of failed peacemaking
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 […]