CNN: Who speaks for American Muslims?
Who speaks for American Muslims? The short answer is, no one. No individual or group can claim to speak for this country’s nearly 3.5 million Muslims, a diverse and dynamic […]
Book Review: The Invention of the Jewish People
By Shlomo Sand (Author), Yael Lotan (Translator) See all 6 formats and editions Kindle $15.77 Read with Our Free App Hardcover from $14.35 29 Used from $14.35 14 New from […]
Edward Said’s Orientalism: Forty years later
Forty years after the publication of Edward Said’s seminal work, Orientalism lives on in other shapes and forms. by Hamid Dabashi 3 May 2018 Orientalism was the right book at […]
Islamophobia prompts Muslims to engage in US democracy: report
Anti-Muslim measures have backfired, causing the US Muslim population to protest and run for office in higher numbers. by Dalia Hatuqa Islamophobic attacks are on the rise in the […]
Pakistan: Prof Abdus Salam Centre for Physics name change
NA calls for naming QAU physics dept after Khazini DAWN.COM A ReporterMay 04, 2018,Facebook Count30 Twitter Share 0 ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly passed a resolution on Thursday calling for the Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) physics department to be named after Abu al-Fath Abd-al Rehman Mansour-al-Khazini. The resolution was signed by […]
Hungarian ruling party wants to amend constitution to ban settlement of migrants
Reuters Staff BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party wants to amend the constitution in order to ensure that the European Union cannot force the country to resettle migrants, the […]
Hungary Is Winning Its War on Muslim Immigrants
International pressure won’t soften Hungarian hearts. The only thing that can is evidence that aging countries need foreigners. by Leonid Bershidsky 13 April 2018, Keep out. Photographer: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty […]
National Assembly of Pakistan passes resolution to rename QAU’s Abdus Salam Centre to al-Khazini Department
Source: Dawn By Nadir Guramani The National Assembly on Thursday passed a resolution to change the name of the National Centre for Physics at the Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) from the […]
Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road (Encounters with Asia)
by Johan Elverskog: In the contemporary world the meeting of Buddhism and Islam is most often imagined as one of violent confrontation. Indeed, the Taliban’s destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 seemed not only to reenact the infamous Muslim destruction of Nalanda monastery in the thirteenth century but also […]
Competing Visions of Islam Will Shape Europe in the 21st Century
Akbar Ahmed’s new book deals with how migration is reshaping the continent, and whether leaders can cope. The minaret of a mosque in Creteil near Paris, France Gonzalo Fuentes / […]
The number of refugees admitted to the U.S. has fallen, especially among Muslims
By Phillip Connor and Jens Manuel Krogstad Syrian refugee Baraa Haj Khalaf receives a kiss from her mother, Fattoum Haj Khalaf, in February 2017 shortly after the family had arrived […]
Muntader al-Zaidi: Iraq shoe-thrower standing for parliament
2 May 2018 The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former US President George W Bush is running for parliament. Muntader al-Zaidi is standing in next week’s elections as […]
Islamic State assassin: How I killed more than 100 people
Syria has been at war for seven long, deadly years. President Bashar al-Assad’s government is fighting both rebel groups and the jihadists of Islamic State. The northern city of Raqqa has been a key battleground for many factions in the conflict. This is the story of how one peaceful […]
What effect will Ramadan have on the Champions League final?
Real Madrid vs Liverpool Salah, Mane and Can all practicing Muslims José Luis Hernández Adapted by Chris Winterburn By the time May 26 arrives, Ramadan will have been underway for […]
Once the Syrian war is over, Qatar could become an empire once more
Once the Syrian war is over, Qatar could become an empire once more If Qatar was to rescue Syria when the war there is over, it would have power. And a power – with a Mediterranean coastline – that even Saudi Arabia doesn’t have Robert Fisk @indyvoices Bashar al-Assad held […]
Utah: 16,000 years old horse unearthed in Utah
Paleontologists recently determined that a skeleton discovered during a landscaping project belonged to a horse from the Pleistocene Era. NYTimes 03/05/2018An illustration of Haringtonhippus francisci, an extinct horse species that was found in North America during the last ice age. Rick Hunter, a Utah paleontologist, said the horse, whose skeleton […]
Sharp rise in aggressive brain cancer is linked to mobile phones
Sharp rise in aggressive brain cancer is linked to mobile phones with cases more than doubling over two decades Source: MSN and Daily Mail By Laura Forsyth Cases of glioblastoma […]
How to Celebrate Buddha in Sri Lanka? Stop Partying, Some Say
Source: The New York Times By MARIA ABI-HABIB COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — It was time to reclaim the holiday. To put the Buddha back into Vesak, so to speak. But as […]
‘Shocked’ by Attack on Mosque, Nigeria Tightens Security in Northeast
Source: The New York Times By EMMANUEL AKINWOTU and AURELIEN BREEDEN Suicide bombers attacked a market and a mosque on Tuesday in Mubi, Nigeria, killing at least 27 people. CreditEPA, via Shutterstock ABUJA, Nigeria […]
ISIS suicide bombers attack Libyan electoral commission, killing at least 12
Source: The Washington Post By Sudarsan Raghavan CAIRO — Islamic State suicide bombers targeted the offices of Libya’s electoral commission in Tripoli on Wednesday, killing at least 12 people in one of the most brazen assaults on the Libyan capital in years. The attackers, strapped with explosive belts, entered the building and […]