Google Reviewed 2017 And It’s Enough To Make Us All Cry
Source: Huffington Post By Lee Moran 5.4k It’s been quite a year. And Google’s stirring review of 2017 will make you laugh, cry and experience pretty much every emotion in between: The […]
In pictures: The Caledonian Forest
Source: BBC News Cairngorms Connect is a new project in Scotland bringing together land-owning NGOs, public bodies and private landowners to work on nature conservation in one of the biggest […]
Deadly attack on Methodist church in Pakistan
Source: BBC News A suicide bomb and gun attack on a Methodist church in Pakistan has killed at least eight people, officials say. Militants stormed the church, which was packed […]
Pakistan: Quetta church hit in suicide attack by Asad Hashim
by Asad Hashim Gunmen attacked the Bethel Memorial Methodist Church in Quetta on Sunday [Naseer Ahmed/Reuters] Islamabad – A suicide attack on a church in the western Pakistani city of […]
Children force you to be in the moment – we need a bunch of four-year-olds in every old people’s home
Source: Independent By Sappi Khorsandi; @ShappiKhorsandi Children brighten up the place. Especially very little ones with those turns of phrase which you don’t correct because they are too cute. ‘My top […]
ISIL weapons traced to US and Saudi Arabia
14 Dec 2017 Iraqi security forces display weapons confiscated from ISIL fighters [Wissm Al-Okili/Reuters] Weapons supplied by the United States and Saudi Arabia to opposition fighters often fell into the […]
Daesh: What happened to all the foreign fighters?
By AFP – Dec 16,2017 – JORDAN TIMES This file photo taken on February 8 shows members of the Syrian Democratic Forces , made up of US-backed Kurdish and Arab […]
Jerusalem can still be the city of peace
Dec 16,2017 -JORDAN TIMES – Adnan Abu-Odeh Editor’s note: The following article was written by Adnan Abu-Odeh in 1991 and published by Foreign Affairs in its issue of Spring 1992 […]
Jordanian tycoon ‘detained in S. Arabia’
By Reuters – Dec 16,2017 – JORDAN TIMES By Suleiman Al Khalidi AMMAN — Sabih Al Masri, one of Jordan’s most influential businessmen and the chairmen of its largest lender […]
The Trump declaration
Dec 16,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Kamel Abu Jaber The Trump declaration should have come as no more than a disappointment to us Arabs, as it was no more than […]
Clerics help Pakistan pedophiles target minor Hindu, Christian girls
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/detail.php?articleid=3049 Pakistan pedophiles, who believe having sex with minors enhances their sexual prowess and stamina, routinely abduct minor Hindu and Christian girls, have sex and convert the girls to Islam and marry them, all within 24 hours. Muslim clerics in the length and breadth of Pakistan aid the culprits while […]
Inside Australia’s most Muslim suburb: Lakemba residents speak out about racism and same-sex marriage in one of the country’s most diverse areas
One of Australia’s most diverse suburbs has been explored after tumultuous year Lakemba in the western part of Sydney is Australia’s most Muslim suburb A white man living in the […]
Revisiting Dictatorship in Indonesia: The “Good Old Days”?
December 12, 2017 Endy Bayuni The late Soeharto has become something of a poster boy for leadership as the nation searches for a president who can effectively deliver the […]
Six Ahmedis booked in Sialkot
BY Staff Report SIALKOT: The police in Bambanwala have registered a case against six people belonging to Ahmadiyya community for registering as Muslim voters in 2015 local bodies’ election. Police registered […]
Human Rights Not Yet Protected in Indonesia
Tuesday, 12 December 2017, 8:56 am Press Release: Asian Human Rights Commission Human Rights Merely Acknowledged, Not Yet Protected in Indonesia On the occasion of international human rights day, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) observes the major human rights issues of concern in Indonesia. Impunity and a fragile criminal […]
52% of U.S. Muslims say that traditional understandings of Islam must be reinterpreted to address modern-day issues
U.S. Muslims are religiously observant, but open to multiple interpretations of Islam Source: Pew research center By Elizabeth Podrebarac Sciupac, who is a research associate focusing on religion at Pew […]
Faith leaders say Trump’s anti-Muslim tweets violate constitutional protections
Source: The Washington Post By Ann E. Marimow December 15 at 6:00 AM Thousands gathered in Lafayette Square in February to protest the first version of the Trump administration’s travel ban on […]
Who Owns the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Source: Wall Street Journal By Charlotte Allen Dec. 14, 2017 6:26 p.m. ET Israel had long planned to take part in a major exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls in […]
How did Victorian Muslims celebrate Christmas?
Source: AlJazeera By Tharik Hussain 15 Dec 2017 At 6am on December 25, 1888, the winter sun was yet to rise over the English city of Liverpool. A Victorian terrace […]
Minarets on New Haven mosque to be reduced, solving long simmering problem
Source: New Haven Register By Mary E. O’Leary Published 6:24 pm, Thursday, December 14, 2017 Photo: Peter Hvizdak / Hearst Connecticut Media NEW HAVEN — A contractor has pulled a permit […]