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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
25 INFLUENTIAL AMERICAN MUSLIMS By Daniel Burke and Madeleine Stix, CNN.com 4/5/2018 We asked American Muslims to name the most influential people in their fields. Here’s what they said 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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]