Trump’s Lawyer Claims the President Is Above the Law
Source: New York Times By Jonathan Chait, @jonathanchait Republicans have tended to dismiss Donald Trump’s attacks on the rule of law as the naïve utterances of a political novice. When […]
Qatar to meet milk needs by 2018 amid Gulf crisis
28 Nov 2017 – AFP Doha: Qatar will be self-sufficient in milk by next July, thanks to blockade-busting cows flown in to boost supplies after some neighbouring Gulf states severed […]
GCC summit cut short by a day
05 Dec 2017 – 14:26 Kuwaiti and foreign journalists gather in the media centre hall during the GCC summit in Kuwait City on December 5, 2017. / AFP / Yasser Al-Zayyat Al Jazeera / Agencies Doha: A key regional summit of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries has been […]
The rise of Barelvi politics could be a double-edged sword for society
Source: Dawn “Barelvis have been subjected to suppression for over a century and a reversal to this phenomenon has started,” contends Rizvi. “Though it will take time but eventually the voice of the majority will prevail.” Referring to Deobandi political parties, he notes: “We have learned a lot in the recent […]
Recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is a dangerous gambit
Source: CNN by Aaron David Miller Having worked at the State Department on Arab-Israeli negotiations for the better part of a quarter century, I came up with more than my fair share of half-baked ideas. But the one issue I was smart enough to avoid — and I advised every […]
UK: Liverpool University Theology Students Visit Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s Bait-ul-Atta Mosque
Report by Toby, National Outreach Co-odinater Pan African Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK On 30th Nov 2017 a group of 21 students and 2 lecturers – Mr Yazid Said and head of department Mr Peter – visited the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s Bait-ul-Atta Mosque in Wolverhampton. They were recieved by the local […]
Anniversary: Ibn Rushd
Full name: Abū al-Walīd Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Rushd Arabic name: أبو الوليد محمد بن أحمد بن رشد Latin name: Averroes Date of birth: 1126 Date of death: 10 Dec, […]
Organization of Islamic Cooperation says no compromise on Jerusalem
Arab News | Published — Tuesday 5 December 2017 JEDDAH: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has deplored attempts to change the historical and legal status of the occupied city of Jerusalem. In an extraordinary meeting of the OIC’s Committee of Permanent Representatives on Monday, a statement was issued expressing […]
Travel agencies can now issue Saudi tourist visas
ARAB NEWS | Published — Tuesday 5 December 2017 JEDDAH/RIYADH: Travel agencies in category D can now issue visas for tourists and for educational or medical treatment purposes inside and outside the Kingdom. The Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage (SCTH) in Jeddah has issued the first license allowing […]
Syrian boy wins Children’s Peace Prize for building refugee school in Lebanon
Kieran Guilbert LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A teenage Syrian refugee won a prestigious international prize on Monday for building a school and providing an education to hundreds of children […]
What the Russian Revolution can teach us about the Middle East today
The Bolshevik demonisation of the ‘White’ Russians in the ferocious anti-religious, anti-capitalist posters on display in Paris at the Musee de l’Armee are not dissimilar to the “war against terror” which Bashar al-Assad and the Russians think they are fighting in Syria today Robert Fisk Paris The casualty figures don’t […]
Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen’s former leader, killed in Sanaa
Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been killed amid fighting between his supporters and their former allies, the Houthi rebel movement. Officials from Mr Saleh’s General People’s Congress party […]
Taiwan rainbow ‘lasts record-breaking nine hours’
Source: BBC News By Cindy Sui A rainbow may be a wondrous sight but for most people it’s also a fairly fleeting one. But last week, professors and students of […]
Pope Francis: popular worldwide, but some young conservatives question his approach
Source: BY Peter Smith STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — The Catholic university overlooking the Ohio River here, with a campus abounding in images of St. Francis of Assisi and a replica of his medieval […]
Pakistan is making concessions to religious extremists. What’s the cost?
Source: The Washington Post By Pamela Constable December 3 at 7:00 AM ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In the past 10 days, two dramatic events — the government’s capitulation to a violent protest by radical […]
Motives in Egypt’s Deadliest Terrorist Attack: Religion and Revenge
Source: The New York Times By NOUR YOUSSEF CAIRO — One day in early November, a small group of elders in a dusty town in the northern Sinai Peninsula handed over […]
Canada: University student al-Hasanawi shot dead
A 19-year-old had just left a neighbourhood mosque and stepped forward to intervene in a dispute when two men turned their attention to him. A 19-year-old “Good Samaritan” was shot dead in central Hamilton after trying to stop two men from harassing an older man on the street outside his […]
Greek Orthodox Church Sells Land In Israel, Worrying Both Israelis And Palestinians
Source: NPR By DANIEL ESTRIN Secretive real estate deals in the Holy Land are putting one of Jerusalem’s most powerful and ancient churches in the spotlight. The Greek Orthodox Church calls […]
How Ireland Moved to the Left: ‘The Demise of the Church’
Source: The New York Times By LIAM STACK DEC. 2, 2017 Photo A vigil in Dublin in October commemorating the fifth anniversary of the death of Savita Halappanavar, who died after she […]