Please contribute: Ahmadiyya Muslim Refugee School in Malaysia
Refugee School Fund in Malaysia Share Tweet I’m a Canadian teacher working in an international school for the past 2 years in Malaysia. Since my time here, I […]
Hijab-clad girls dance on streets of India’s Kerala to take on trolls
Source: Reuters BY Roli Srivastava MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – “Flash mobs” of young women have taken to the streets in southern India to protest against the online trolling of […]
A Mind-Bending Translation of the New Testament
Source: The Atlantic BY JAMES PARKER In the beginning was … well, what? A clap of the divine hands and a poetic shock wave? Or an itchy node of nothingness inconceivably scratching […]
‘How is my daughter a pervert?’: Alabama dad’s plain-spoken rebuke of Roy Moore strikes a nerve
Source: The Washington Post By Eli Rosenberg December 11 at 11:38 PM Nathan Mathis holds a picture of his daughter outside a Roy Moore rally in Midland City, Ala. (@VaughnHillyard/Twitter) Perhaps it […]
Subway attack worries Brooklyn’s Little Bangladesh: ‘We don’t stand behind this stupidity’
Source: The Guardian Police officers stand outside a home in Brooklyn on Monday. Public records showed that an A Ullah had been registered at an address in Kensington. Photograph: Justin […]
Scientists have discovered new fossils that change the traditional human origin story
Source: Independent Posted a day ago by Narjas Zatat in news The origin story for modern humans goes that Homo Sapiens evolved in Africa and then migrated out of the continent to the Asian continent in […]
Islam in the modern age
Source: Daily Times By Yasser Latif Hamdani His Highness Aga Khan-IV, the hereditary imam of the Ismaili Aga Khani community, is on a visit to Pakistan. To my mind he represents […]
Poll: Americans see different expectations for men and women
Source; Pew Research Center BY KIM PARKER, JULIANA MENASCE HOROWITZ AND RENEE STEPLER The public has very different views about what society values most in men and what it values in women. While […]
‘It Hurt.’ 3 Women Who Accused Trump of Sexual Harassment Want Their Stories Heard Anew
Source: Time By SAMANTHA COONEY Updated: December 11, 2017 11:44 AM ET Samantha Holvey, who said last year that Donald Trump personally “inspected” herbefore the Miss USA pageant a decade earlier, said […]
What to Know About the Attack in New York City Today
Source: Time By MELISSA CHAN Updated: December 11, 2017 10:47 AM ET Authorities said a 27-year-old man set off an explosive device that was strapped to his body at New York City’s Port […]
Prince Charles accession ‘could trigger debate on disestablishment’
Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood Prince Charles during a visit to Castell Coch, near Cardiff. Photograph: PA Prince Charles’s accession to the throne could trigger a national debate about the […]
To Some Zionist Christians And Jews, The Bible Says Jerusalem Is Israel’s Capital
Source: NPR BY TOM GJELTEN Twitter President Trump announced Wednesday that the U.S. views Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a controversial move that complicates Middle East politics. Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty […]
Jerusalem: It’s Tense, Crowded and Can Feel Like a Jail
Source: The New York Times By DAVID M. HALBFINGER DEC. 9, 2017 JERUSALEM — This is a tense city on a good day. You feel it behind the wheel: The traffic signals […]
Pakistan : Silence of the Lambs
Silence of the Lambs Anwaar Hussain November 16, 2017 Disclaimer: The Eqbal Ahmad Centre for Public Education (EACPE) encourages critical and independent thinking and believes in a free expression of one’s opinion. However, the views expressed in contributed articles are solely those of their respective authors and do not necessarily reflect […]
How clerics are using an ancient privilege to fight the German state on refugees
Holly Young news@thelocal.de @holly_young88 5 December 2017 How clerics are using an ancient privilege to fight the German state on refugees Authorities in Bavaria have started to act against the church when it shields people the state wants to deport. But clerics say they are unbending in their determination to […]
Trump’s Jerusalem Folly Time for Europe to Take the Lead on Peace
U.S. President Donald Trump prides himself on being a deal-maker. But his decision to relocate the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem will produce only losers. It is time […]
EU tells Netanyahu it rejects Trump’s Jerusalem move
By Reuters – Dec 11,2017 -JORDAN TIMES Lebanese demonstrators march with a model of the Dome of the Rock, along with their national flags and Palestinian flags as well as […]
Saudi corruption: Who’s being released and who’s going to court?
A sweeping roundup last month of Saudi princes and businessmen aimed at purging corruption has caused initial concern among potential investors, but many viewed this as a positive development. Minister […]
President Trump’s Jerusalem decision risks uniting the entire Arab world against the US
The recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital will make it easier for Tehran to call for all Muslims, Shia and Sunni, to stand together in defence of the Palestinians […]
What else to talk about ?
Dec 11,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Jawad Anani After the unsurprising announcement of President Donald Trump on Wednesday, December 6, 2017, of his decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s […]