Sep 25,2018 -JORDAN TIMES – RAMZY BAROUD The US government’s decision to slash funds provided to the United Nations agency that cares for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, is part of a new American-Israeli […]
Sep 25,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – HASAN ABU NIMAH The split between the Palestinian administrations in the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip has been going on for […]
By JT – Sep 26,2018 – JORDAN TIMES His Majesty King Abdullah addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday (Photo courtesy of Royal Court) AMMAN — […]
Voices The president’s new approach isn’t just lacking in compassion; it’s lacking in any common sense Holly Baxter @h0llyb4xter The Independent Voices https://players.brightcove.net/624246174001/BJXA5Px6f_default/index.html?videoId=5839845737001&customParams=videoID%3A5839845737001%3BarticleId%3A8554831%3Bgs_channels%3ANONE%3Bplayertype%3Aautoplay%3Btopictags%3Adonaldtrump%2Cunitednations%2Cmakeamerica_great_again%2Cimmigration%2Crefugeecrisis&customTargeting=%2F71347885%2F_main_independent%2Fin_voices%2Fin_voices_article&playsinline=true The politics of foreign aid are a […]
Holocaust expert Israel Charny’s new book makes uncomfortable reading, as he asks us to examine ‘a truth we haven’t faced fully enough’ Robert Fisk in Jerusalem @indyvoices The Independent Voices […]
BBC Documentary about Reincarnation of Khensur Rinpoche Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Many in the West may not be able to locate Tibet on […]
Source: The New York Times By Ian Johnson BEIJING — Over the last two years, China’s estimated 60 million Christians have felt the power of a newly assertive government eager […]
Source: The Washington Post By Anna Fifield September 21 BEIJING — One of the most senior Uighur officials in the Chinese government is being investigated for corruption, the Communist Party’s anti-graft agency […]
Source: The Washington Post By Joanna Slater September 21 NEW DELHI — The strident Hindu nationalist organization that helped propel Prime Minister Narendra Modi to power is attempting a makeover to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]