Myanmar hardline monks vow to stay on Facebook despite ban
Source: Reuters BY Sam Aung Moon, Yimou Lee YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar’s hardline monks will dodge bans on Facebook and keep using the social media giant to “tell the truth”, they […]
Sens. Stabenow, Peters slam White House official over Michigan Muslims remarks
Source: Detroit Free Press By Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press U.S. Sens. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Gary Peters, D-Mich., are criticizing the new chief of staff of the National Security Council over his […]
‘Make Sure Not to Talk Any Arabic’: American Muslims and Their Guns
Source: The New York Times Photographs by AMR ALFIKY Text by ADEEL HASSAN When Sheima Muhammad takes her Glock pistol to her local gun range in central Ohio, she gets funny looks. […]
Austria to shut seven ‘political’ mosques and expel imams
Source: BBC News Austria has said it will close down seven mosques and expel imams who it says are funded by foreign countries. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said the move was […]
The problem with Muslims’ free-hug experiments
Januarsyah Sutan – Jakarta | Fri, June 8, 2018 | First prayer: Muslims perform tarawih (evening Ramadhan prayers) at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta on Wednesday, marking the beginning of […]
Austria to shut seven ‘political’ mosques and expel imams
Source: BBC Austria has said it will close down seven mosques and expel imams who it says are funded by foreign countries. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said the move was a […]
Islamism — the Political Islam: The Challenge for the 21st Century
Source: Muslim Sunrise Summer 2018 Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times It was 8th of June, 632 CE, Muhammad, may peace be on […]
Stockholm lorry attacker Rakhmat Akilov jailed for life
Source: BBC News An Uzbek man who carried out a lorry attack which killed five people in Sweden last year has been sentenced to life for terrorist crimes. Rakhmat Akilov, 40, had expressed sympathy for the Islamic State (IS) group before the attack in Stockholm. But prosecutors had to prove […]
Video: Being Muslim in the U.S.
Source: Pew Research Center This video offers a look inside the beliefs and attitudes of Muslims in America; it features data from Pew Research Center’s 2017 survey, as well as […]
Bill Gates Offers Every College Grad a Free Copy of His Favorite Book
Source: Time By Max Zahn Bill Gates is giving one of his favorite books to every 2018 college graduate in the United States. The volume is Hans Rosling’s Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. The billionaire co-founder of Microsoft has called […]
Islam’s New ‘Native Informants’
nybooks.com: Returning from Lebanon and Egypt in 2003, Edward Said wrote an angry dispatch in the London Review of Books on how the Iraq War as reported on Arabic TV channels portrayed a different conflict from the one reported by the American media, in which journalists were “as lost as the English-speaking soldiers they […]
Convicting the US of war crimes
Jun 08,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Jonathan Power There is a clock ticking towards July 20th. That is when the International Criminal Court (ICC) goes into its summer recess. The […]
The forgotten Muslim heroes of WWI
How Muslim soldiers helped save the allies from defeat in the First World War David Crossland June 7, 2018 A grave of a Muslim soldier who died during the First World War […]
How to get rid of stress (?)
One young man to the other: I felt very stressed ! And: what did you do? I went to Mosque. Did prayers help? Not really. I mixed up all the […]
Israelis Play Tourists in a Bedouin Town in the Negev
Source: The New York Times By Isabel Kershner RAHAT, Israel — The Bedouin town of Rahat, in the Negev desert, has a reputation among many Israelis as a wild, lawless and […]
Bermuda Just Made Same-Sex Marriage Legal — Again
Source: BuzzFeed News By Hayes Brown Bermuda’s Supreme Court had to repeat itself Wednesday, overturning a law that blocked its previous ruling making same-sex marriage legal on the island. Last year, the court declared that the North Atlantic Ocean island’s same-sex couples have the right to get married and receive all […]
Iraq arms cache explosions destroy Baghdad mosque
Source: BBC News At least 17 people have been killed and 80 wounded by explosions that destroyed a mosque in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, medical sources say. The government said […]
UK top court says it can’t demand abortion law change in Northern Ireland
Source: Reuters BY Estelle Shirbon, Amanda Ferguson LONDON/BELFAST (Reuters) – Britain’s Supreme Court expressed the view on Thursday that Northern Ireland’s strict abortion law was incompatible with the European Convention on […]
These Women Survived Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries. They’re Ready to Talk
Source: The New York Times By Ed O’Loughlin DUBLIN — They are a haunting sight in the aftermath of wars and natural disasters: the notice boards that spring up outside […]
Afghanistan calls temporary Eid ceasefire with Taliban
Source: BBC News The Afghan government has announced a temporary ceasefire with the Taliban but says fighting with other militants will continue. President Ashraf Ghani said the week-long ceasefire would coincide with the end of the Ramadan fasting month, Eid. The Taliban have yet to respond. Last week they denied […]