‘Fire and Fury’: Trump book sold out on first day following legal threats
Bookstores in major US cities report selling out of the initial order of a book about the Trump White House on the first day. January 5, 2018 President Donald Trump’s […]
Trump Has Created Dangers We Haven’t Even Imagined Yet
By Jonathan Chait@jonathanchait Trump. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images When the president tweeted out a boast claiming credit for the lack of commercial airplane fatalities in 2017, it seemed like a […]
Tapes Reveal Egyptian Leaders’ Tacit Acceptance of Jerusalem Move
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK JAN. 6, 2018 Photo Arab governments publicly condemned President Trump’s statement on Jerusalem but criticism in state-owned and pro-government media across the Arab world was muted. […]
Israel grants bail to Palestinian woman in ‘slap video’ case
AFP | Published — Friday 5 January 2018 RAMALLAH: Israel on Friday released a Palestinian woman on bail after she was charged with assaulting an Israeli soldier in the […]
Special treatment for pilgrims to Islam’s holiest city
Saudi Arabia TARIQ AL-THAQAFI | Published — Friday 5 January 2018 MAKKAH: More than 100 Muslim men and women pilgrims and visitors from Germany, Turkey and Europe yesterday […]
US blackmail continued
Jan 03,2018 -JORDAN TIMES – Daoud Kuttab The problem with the current resident of the White House is that he seems to have forgotten the very ideas that he has espoused in his book “The Art of the Deal”. Even though politics is the art of the possible and politics […]
The historical enigma of Arab-American relations
Jan 03,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Marwan M. Obeidat Up to 1699, the year that witnessed the culmination of the centuries-long Ottoman threat to Europe, when the Treaty of Karlowitz between the Ottoman Empire and Austria, Poland and Venice was signed, it was through hostility and suspicion the […]
The Trump-Netanyahu nexus is bad news
Jan 03,2018 – Jordan Times – Michael Jansen The Trump-Netanyahu nexus is, on the basic level, bad news for Palestine, Israel, the US, the region and the international community. Trump’s latest outrage is his threat to cut financial aid to the Palestinian Authority and to UNRWA unless Ramallah returns to […]
20 couples wed at Ahmadiyya convention January 5, 2018
January 5, 2018 Islamic News NO fewer than 20 couples were joined in marriage at the 65th annual convention of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Nigeria, held in Ilaro, Ogun State. […]
USA: Secretary Tillerson places Pakistan on special watch list for ‘religious freedom violations’
“Today, the Department of State announces that the Secretary of State re-designated Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan as Countries of Particular Concern […]
Hard-line cleric says social media fed Iran protests, unrest
Source: Associated Press By JON GAMBRELL DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A hard-line cleric leading Friday prayers in Iran’s capital called on the Islamic Republic to build its own […]
The Secular Republic of Iran
Source: Th Wall Street Journal By Reuel Marc Gerecht Jan. 4, 2018 7:11 p.m. ET Coverage of the recent tumult in the Islamic Republic of Iran has focused on how […]
TV is showing us the dark side of playing God
Source: The Washington Post By Noah Berlatsky January 5 at 6:00 AM Kristen Bell stars in the comedy “The Good Place.” (Colleen Hayes/NBC) Theologians and other thinkers have described God in several […]
Egyptian Parliament considers outlawing atheism
Source: Religion News Service By Kimberly Winston (RNS) — It may soon be a criminal offense to be an atheist in Egypt. Shortly before New Year’s Day, the Egyptian Parliament considered […]
How I let drinking take over my life
Source: The Guardian I had my last drink five years ago, in the early hours of the morning on 1 January 2013. I think it might have been around 2am. I […]
Largest group of Mennonite churches leaves denomination
Source : Religion News Service By Kimberly Winston | January 2, 2018 (RNS) — The Lancaster Mennonite Conference, the largest group of Mennonite congregations in the U.S., has officially separated from the broader Mennonite […]
Ancient Rome’s sinful city at the bottom of the sea
Source: BBC News By Adrienne Bernhard Rome’s ultra-wealthy took weekend trips here to party. Powerful statesmen built luxurious villas on its beach, with heated spas and mosaic-tiled pools where they […]
Is Germany’s new hate speech law killing press freedom?
Source: CNN by Ivana Kottasová Germany’s tough new social media law was meant to rid Twitter and Facebook of hateful and illegal content. But critics say that at just 96 […]
Eating fish improves kids’ IQ scores and sleep, study says
Source: CNN By Susan Scutti, CNN (CNN)Children who eat fish once a week or more sleep better and score higher, on average, on IQ tests than children who never eat […]
Turkey’s Religious Affairs Agency Promotes Child Marriage
JANUARY 4, 2018 BY MICHAEL STONE, 2 COMMENTS Aisha was a child bride: Under Islamic law girls as young as nine may marry, according to Turkey’s religious affairs state agency. Earlier this week Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs – or Diyanet – which is responsible for administering religious institutions and […]