Istanbul’s iconic 17th-century Spice Bazaar gets facelift
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Spice Bazaar, a busy marketplace popular among tourists, has been under restoration since 2013. The restoration of the Spice Bazaar, one of the two most famous […]
Culture War Over German Identity Religious Symbols Take Center Stage
The Bavarians want crosses in public buildings, German Jews want to be able to wear kippas in public without being attacked and Muslims would like more understanding for the […]
Incompetence trumps bigotry: How NA has actually failed to rename QAU’s Dr Abdus Salam Centre
Source:Daily Pakistan The Lower Chamber of the Parliament unanimously adopted a resolution to rename the Quaid-i-Azam University’s Dr Abdus Salam Center. However, in their haste and bigotry, the members displayed their incompetence by mentioning the wrong facility. As soon as the resolution was passed, social media buffs lashed out at […]
It’s not clear if Trump and Netanyahu want a war with Iran – but they may fall into one all the same
Disastrous US interventions in the Middle East made Iran a powerful enemy – Trump shouldn’t make the same mistake with the nuclear deal Patrick Cockburn @indyworld It’s not clear if Trump […]
Ahmadi anger as Pakistan MPs drop scientist’s name
University’s physics department to be renamed as activists claim move reveals discrimination against minority Nuclear physicist Abdus Salam, pictured here in 1987, was Pakistan’s first Nobel laureate. (Photo from Wikimedia) […]
Social media reacts to NA’s resolution to drop Dr Salam’s name from QAU Physics dept
BY Staff Report The National Assembly (NA) on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution to rename the Physics department of Islamabad’s Quaid-i-Azam University in a bid to drop the name of […]
Tory council candidate Karen Sunderland suspended for ‘Islamophobic’ tweets comparing Islam to Nazi
karen sunderland Alex Finnis Tuesday May 1st 2018 A Conservative Party candidate for the 2018 local elections has been suspended pending investigation after old tweets emerged where she compared […]
Tourism push; Swiss train named after Bollywood star Ranveer Singh
This content was published on April 30, 2018 (Switzerland Tourism/Valentin Flauraud) In a bid to attract more Indian tourists to western Switzerland, a Swiss train company has temporarily named […]
Germany’s far-right AfD helping make anti-Semitism ‘presentable’ – official
Reuters International This content was published on May 3, 2018 FILE PHOTO: Alexander Gauland attends the anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD) congress in Hanover, Germany, December 2, 2017. […]
CHF18,000 per refugee: What will new asylum seeker integration funds be spent on?
By Peter Siegenthaler This content was published on May 3, 2018 In many regions asylum seekers work as volunteers, such as in Bösingen, canton Fribourg, where not enough locals are […]
Alarm Grows In France Over Anti-Semitic Violence
Source: NPR By ELEANOR BEARDSLEY In late March, thousands of people took to the streets of Paris to protest the murder of an elderly woman whose killers may have been motivated by […]
Palestinian leader Abbas offers apology for remarks on Jews
Source: Reuters BY Stephen Farrell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday offered an apology after he was accused of anti-Semitism for suggesting that historic persecution of European […]
The Quakers are right. We don’t need God
Source: The Guardian By Simon Jenkins The group is considering dropping God from its meetings guidance as it makes some feel uncomfortable. This is the new religiosity The Quakers are […]
Muslims Recoil at a French Proposal to Change the Quran
Source: The Atlantic BY KARINA PISER A manifesto published in the French daily Le Parisien on April 21—signed by some 300 prominent intellectuals and politicians, including former President Nicolas Sarkozy and former Prime Minister Manuel […]
There’s More to Being Jewish Than Fighting Anti-Semitism
Source: The Atlantic BY EMMA GREEN A Jewish journalist lives in the big city. He is largely secular and proudly defies religious traditions; he runs easily with his generation’s cohort […]
Kuala Lumpur-Singapore named busiest international air route
Source: BBC News The air route linking Singapore and the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur has become the busiest in the world, research shows. Planes made 30,537 trips between the two […]
This is what a Sikh child faces in America
Source: CNN By Winty Singh (CNN)Two decades ago, when I was in the second grade, a substitute teacher asked me to stand up in front of my class and talk […]
AP review: Judges split along party lines on travel ban
Source: Associated Press By SUDHIN THANAWALA SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Donald Trump has called courts unfair and political and repeatedly assailed the 9th Circuit, the U.S. court system’s westernmost division, where some of his key immigration policies have stalled. Other observers describe America’s judges as conservative or liberal, implying […]
The Scandal Tearing Apart America’s Largest Protestant Denomination
Source: The Atlantic By JONATHAN MERRITT Over the past 20 years, the Southern Baptist Convention has weathered an onslaught of controversies, from renaming the denomination to repudiating the Confederate flag. But […]
New executive order aims to protect religious liberty from government overreach
Source: RNS By Adelle M. Banks WASHINGTON (RNS) — President Trump plans to unveil a new initiative that aims to give faith groups a stronger voice within the federal government and serve […]