A Glimpse Inside the Hidden World of Hasidic Women
Source: The New York Times Orthodox Jewish women and men live in tightly defined, and separate, spheres. The photographer Sharon Pulwer was given a rare invitation to enter the private […]
The “forced conversions” of Pakistan’s Hindu women hide a much bigger problem
Source: Quartz By Jürgen Schaflechner When I began to research the ritual journeys to the Hinglaj Devi shrine in Balochistan, I knew little about the small Pakistani Hindu community. During my […]
Letter from Africa: The link between earth tremors, God and Nigeria’s elections
Source: BBC News In our series of letters from Africa, Nigerian writer and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani considers why some earth tremors in Nigeria’s capital caused such a stir. Sometime […]
Yom Kippur and Ashoura: Are Muslims observing a Jewish holiday?
Source: Aljazeera By Hamid Dabashi On the Gregorian calendar (so named after Pope Gregory XIII) this September, two of the holiest Jewish and Islamic high holidays coincide. On September 10, […]
The Holy Quran and the Circadian Rhythms and Shift Work
Epigraph: أَلَمْ يَرَوْا أَنَّا جَعَلْنَا اللَّيْلَ لِيَسْكُنُوا فِيهِ وَالنَّهَارَ مُبْصِرًا ۚ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَآيَاتٍ لِّقَوْمٍ يُؤْمِنُونَ “Do they not see that We made the night that they may rest therein […]
The Safra Dynasty: The Mysterious Family Of The Richest Banker In The World
Flickr.com Joseph Safra is the richest banker in the world, according to Forbes. And, incidentally, the name Safra means yellow, or gold, in Arabic. Convenient. Especially since the illustrious family […]
No room for fanaticism in Islam –Sultan of Sokoto
ISLAM September 21, 2018 By Adeola Yusuf The Sultan Of Sokoto and president general, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has, again, declared that there is […]
POLL: 89% OF ISRAELI JEWS DON’T SEE PEACE IN 5779
The poll found that the older people are, the more likely they are to back a two-state solution. BY GIL HOFFMAN SEPTEMBER 5, 2018 Share on facebook Share on twitter Amid reports that US President Donald Trump’s “ultimate deal” Middle East peace plan will be postponed until after midterm elections […]
Ten things you never knew about peace
1. The theme this year is: The Right to Peace – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70. 2. In 2015, the UN adopted “17 Sustainable Development Goals” of […]
UAE tolerance: Emirates is a country for all religions, races and people, says Sheikh Nayhan
Speaking on the International Day of Peace, the minister of tolerance also said the country works to resolve crises wherever it can The National September 21, 2018 Sheikh Nahyan bin […]
PAKISTAN: Intolerance, its flavours and justifications
Source: Daily Times But being a Muslim in Pakistan does not protect one from religious extremism. As I found out in 2013, when I started working as a relief doctor […]
India slams religious bias of ‘Naya Pakistan’ at UN
Atif Mian Atif Mian was identified by the IMF as one of the 25 young economists who will shape the global economy WRITTEN BY Sidhant Sibal Updated: Sep 20, 2018, […]
Failure of the multicultural project in Europe
Sep 20,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – AKRAN AL DEEK Europe seems to feed what Samuel Huntington called in his 1992 lecture “The clash of civilisations”: a myth that assumes cultural, […]
No more Palestinian refugees
Sep 20,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – GWYNNE DYER Who said this? “The weak crumble, are slaughtered and are erased from history while the strong, for good or for ill, survive. […]
I asked Israel’s only journalist in Palestine to show me something shocking – and this is what I saw
This is the old road from Ramallah to Jerusalem, lined with lost wealth and forgotten hopes and once-loved homes. They all now end, of course, at The Wall Robert Fisk in Bir […]
‘Suicider!’ Came the Warning. For Afghans, Wrestlers’ Deaths Resound.
ImageWrestlers gather at the Maiwand Wrestling Club in Kabul on Sept. 6, the morning after a suicide bomber killed as many as 30 there.CreditCreditWakil Kohsar/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images By […]
Don’t miss this event, at least get your youth in
Dr. Mike Ghouse is a speaker on Pluralism and is the founder president of the Center for Pluralism in Washington, DC. He is committed to building cohesive societies and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeghouse/ Applications for The Global Youth Peace Conference is still open! The Center for […]
Everything you know about obesity is wrong
Source: Huffington Post For decades, the medical community has ignored mountains of evidence to wage a cruel and futile war on fat people, poisoning public perception and ruining millions of […]
At Yom Kippur, business leaders profit from reflecting on ethics
Source: Religion News Service BY Michele Chabin JERUSALEM (RNS) — Roughly one-sixth of the 613 commandments in the Torah, the Hebrew Scriptures, touch on business and monetary practices. The Talmud, the […]
Hit-and-run outside London mosque investigated as hate crime
Source: The Guardian BY Aamna Mohdin, Vikram Dodd and Jamie Grierson Three people have been injured after a car ploughed into a crowd outside a north London Islamic centre, in an incident that is being treated […]