Ex-Israeli spy chief: Netanyahu planned Iran strike in 2011
Tamir Pardo served as head of the Israeli intelligence agency from 2011 to 2016. (AP) AP May 31, 2018 Netanyahu said Israel will not allow Iran to arm itself […]
Saudi law making sexual harassment a crime to take effect within days
Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki and other officials field questions during a press conference on Thursday on the newly approved law against sexual harassment. (SPA) NOOR NUGALI June […]
Denmark’s Parliament bans wearing of face veils in public
Source: CNN Denmark’s parliament banned the wearing of face coverings in public spaces Thursday in a move that critics say will criminalize Muslim women who choose to wear the niqab […]
Rajoy forced out as Spain’s Prime Minister in confidence vote
Source: CNN Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was toppled by a corruption scandal Friday, becoming the first leader in Spain’s modern democracy to lose a vote of no-confidence in Parliament. Rajoy’s demise paves the way for Pedro Sanchez, the leader of the main opposition Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), to […]
Ed Husain: from Islamist radical … to champion of liberal Muslims
Guardian: The house of Islam is on fire and its Muslim arsonists must be expelled. So comes the provocation from Ed Husain, self-proclaimed former Islamist radical, who puts much of the blame for Isis, Syria, Hamas and beyond on Saudi-sponsored Salafism and the export of Wahhabism across the world. “We can’t blame the […]
Turkey eyes larger share in global halal tourism
BETÜL ALAKENT Istanbul Turkey’s tourism sector representatives have said that the country currently holds a 2 percent share in the $226 billion global halal tourism market but looks to raise […]
Bangladeshi plan to relocate Rohingya to remote island ‘unrealistic’: UN
GERMAN PRESS AGENCY – DPA DHAKA AFP Photo A Bangladeshi plan to relocate 100,000 Rohingya refugees from crowded mainland camps to an island in the Bay of Bengal was deemed […]
Turkey sends out first drilling vessel to eastern Mediterranean Sea to find oil, natural gas
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Energy Minister Berat Albayrak addresses press members at the ceremony for Turkey’s first drilling vessel Fatih. Turkey sent its first drillship to the Mediterranean for deep-sea well […]
Swiss criticism: ‘The Brexit vote wasn’t direct democracy – it was drivel’
’ By Sibilla Bondolfi, Thomas Stephens This content was published on May 30, 2018 German subtlety: a Brexit float at a carnival parade in Düsseldorf in February (Reuters) The British referendum in […]
Cambridge Analytica’s Parent Company Helped Shape Saudi Arabia’s Reform Movement
Source: The New York Times By Danny Hakim The price of oil was in free fall and a youthful population restive. So the government of Saudi Arabia turned in […]
Never again: Pope denounces ‘culture of abuse, cover-up’
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD and EVA VERGARA VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis became the first pope to publicly denounce a “culture of abuse and cover-up” in the Catholic Church, saying Thursday he was ashamed that neither he nor Chile’s Catholic leaders truly ever listened to victims as […]
Rabbinical court in Israel rejects ‘liberal’ American rabbis
Source: Religion News Service By Michele Chabin Students attend a lecture at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, located at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. Photo courtesy of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah JERUSALEM (RNS) […]
Jeremy Corbyn’s views ‘could drive Jewish people from UK’
Source: The Guardian By Jessica Elgot British Jews are asking ‘Do we have a future?’ says outgoing president of board of deputies Jonathan Arkush speaks to reporters after the meeting […]
Faith-based groups ‘increasingly stepping in to plug gaps in NHS’
Source: The Guardian By Nicola Slawson Faith-based organisations are increasingly stepping in to support the overstretched NHS, research has found. More than 3,500 churches and 200,000 volunteers are working on […]
Crosses Go Up in Public Offices. It’s Culture, Bavaria Says, Not Religion.
Source: The New York Times By Katrin Bennhold DEGGENDORF, Germany — When the order came to hang a cross in the entrance of every state building in Bavaria, the mayor […]
Killings by Belgian inmate treated as terror; IS claims role
Source: Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A Belgian prison inmate who killed four people while on furlough committed “terrorist murder” and likely intended to cause more harm, prosecutors said Wednesday […]
Quebec mosque attack survivors demand ban on assault weapons
Source: Aljazeera By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours Montreal, Canada – Boufeldja Benabdallah knows the shooting at his mosque could have been much worse. When a gunman entered the largest mosque in […]
For some French officials, the headscarf is such a threat they are attacking a teenager
Source: The Washington Post by James McAuley PARIS — She is a 19-year-old student union president who never wanted to be a culture warrior. But this is France, and Maryam […]
The Mali ‘Spider-Man’ Was Offered French Citizenship. What About the Muslim Migrants Who Aren’t Superheroes?
Source: Time By H.A. Hellyer Hellyer is a senior non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Royal United Services Institute in London, and the author of “A Revolution Undone: […]
Danish parliament bans the wearing of face veils in public
Source: Reuters BY Emil Gjerding Nielson, Teis Jensen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Denmark has banned the wearing of face veils in public, joining France and other European countries in outlawing the […]