Shifting sands: What is changing in Saudi Arabia?
William Maclean (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has ordered a crackdown on corruption, the latest in a wave of frenetic changes in the kingdom over the […]
You can’t fool all the people all the time, Supreme Court tells Nawaz
BY Staff Report Detailed verdict Says Nawaz Sharif was given fair chance to defend allegations but he failed; however, accountability court can examine ‘undisputable’ evidence afresh Says Maryam Nawaz is […]
Top Indonesia court overturns discriminatory religious law
By niniek karmini, associated press JAKARTA, Indonesia — Nov 7, 2017 Indonesia’s top court has overturned a law that denied recognition and legal rights to followers of indigenous faiths in a surprise advance for religious freedom in the world’s most populous Muslim nation. The Constitutional Court, in a unanimous ruling […]
As a young British Muslim, this is why I’ll be wearing my poppy with pride
The Prophet taught that loyalty towards one’s country of residence is an essential part of one’s faith. What better way to demonstrate this loyalty than to help those who have […]
Ted Talk: What separates us from chimpanzees? | Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall · Primatologist; environmentalist Jane Goodall, dubbed by her biographer “the woman who redefined man,” has changed our perceptions of primates, people, and the connection between the two. Over the past […]
This is An Apple: The First Principle in the Search of ‘the Truth!’
CNN Ad – This Is An Apple This half a minute ad should serve as the First Principle in the search of ‘the Truth,’ be it scientific, personal, social, political, […]
More than a third of adults in Switzerland have immigrant roots
The Local news@thelocal.ch @thelocalswitzer 25 October 2017 The UN in Geneva, a city where 64 percent have a migration background. Photo: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP Nearly 37 percent of adults living in […]
One-in-Five U.S. Adults Were Raised in Interfaith Homes
Source: Pew research center Roughly one-in-five U.S. adults were raised with a mixed religious background, according to a new Pew Research Center study. This includes about one-in-ten who say they […]
The Migrant Crisis Upended Europe
by Giulio Meotti November 6, 2017 https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11282/migrant-crisis-europe “The migrant crisis is the 9/11 of the European Union… That day in 2001, everything changed in the US. In a minute, […]
What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings? International Comparisons Suggest an Answer
The Interpreter By MAX FISHER and JOSH KELLER NOV. 7, 2017 The New York Times |Source: Adam Lankford, The University of Alabama (shooters); Small Arms Survey (guns). Note: Includes countries […]
The Fight for Survival Behind Saudi Arabia’s Purge
Nov. 6 2017 By Joshua Keating Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman attends the G20 opening ceremony at the Hangzhou International Expo Center on Sept. 4, 2016, in […]
Waymo is first to put fully self-driving cars on US roads without a safety driver
Source: The Verge By Andrew J. Hawkins, @andyjayhawk Nov 7, 2017, 11:00am EST Waymo, the autonomous vehicle division of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, reached an important milestone recently: since mid-October, […]
The evils of Capitalism and Communism
The biggest evil of Capitalism is that the wealth of the nation is amassed in the hands of a limited few and the rest of the nation becomes a prey to want and poverty. It was on account of this iniquity that Communism gained its roots. lt is based on […]
Iran vying for leadership of Shi’ites in Iraq
Reuters International This content was published on November 7, 2017 2:52 PMNov 7, 2017 – 14:52 Shi’ite worshippers place copies of the Koran on their heads during Ramadan at the […]
The Jewish Role in the Bolshevik Revolution and Russia’s Early Soviet Regime
Assessing the Grim Legacy of Soviet Communism by Mark Weber In the night of July 16-17, 1918, a squad of Bolshevik secret police murdered Russia’s last emperor, Tsar Nicholas II, […]
Putin, wary of political tumult, shuns Russian Revolution centenary
Reuters International This content was published on November 7, 2017 Demonstrators attend a rally held by Russian Communist party to mark the Red October revolution’s centenary in central Moscow, Russia November 7, 2017. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (reuters_tickers) By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) – Vladimir Putin stayed away from events […]
US picks Salman to struggle against Iran
İLNUR ÇEVIK @ilnurcevik Unhappy with the Baghdad administration’s cooperation with Iran, the U.S. seems to be taking sides with Saudi Arabia Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri unexpectedly announced his resignation on Saturday. So what? But where did he announce his decision to quit and what did he say as […]
Al-Azhar’s grand imam meets pope, vows to fight terrorism
Middle East Nov. 08, 2017 | 01:14 AM Agencies ROME: The Grand Imam of Egypt’s Al-Azhar institution Ahmed al-Tayeb, one of the Muslim world’s leading religious scholars, met Pope Francis […]
Yes, Daesh is beaten, but religious extremism is not
Osama Al-Sharif | Published — Tuesday 7 November 2017 Time is running out fast for Daesh, the terrorist group that first appeared in late 2013 and within months was able to claim vast swaths of Iraqi and Syrian territories on which it proclaimed its so-called caliphate. In recent days Iraqi […]
New Arab fire erupts in Lebanon
Nov 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Hasan Abu Nimah Just as hopes were rising that some of the fires raging in many parts of the Arab region were slowly beginning to die down, a new one suddenly erupted where least expected. After years of uncertainty, political stagnation and institutional deadlock, […]