Source: The Local Austria’s hard-right Freedom Party has a shot at sharing power after elections on Sunday, having narrowly lost out in a presidential vote last year. A far-right party has also had some success in Germany, in September becoming the first such party to enter the Bundestag since the […]
Source: The Local The presence of a leading member of Germany’s far-right AfD party at the Frankfurt book fair triggered protests on Saturday, with police intervening to separate rival demonstrators. Several dozen leftist protesters shouted “Nazis out” while counter-demonstrators responded with “Everyone hates Antifa” (the anti-fascist movement), DPA news agency […]
Source: BBC News We are not used to the idea of machines making ethical decisions, but the day when they will routinely do this – by themselves – is fast […]
Source: BBC News If you control public communication you can control the way people think and how they behave. That’s what Xi Jinping’s government is counting on. And it is […]
Source: The Guardian By Richard Adams Education editor Schools in Britain will no longer be able to substantially segregate boys and girls, after the court of appeal ruled that a co-educational […]
Source: The Guardian Terrorised, persecuted, stateless, homeless, and, until recently, without real international support – this is the plight of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority community being forced out of Myanmar. […]
Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood The former Golders Green Hippodrome, once graced by Marlene Dietrich, is now a focus for claims of Islamophobia Golders Green Hippodrome in north London. Photograph: […]
Source: The Guardian BY Noor Gillani Allegations of abuse, humiliation and deprivation by prison staff have been made by Muslim inmates at a correction centre in Brisbane. The Islamic Council of […]
Source: The Guardian We write to express our deep concern at the actions of senior figures within the University of Manchester in relation to an event organised by the student […]
Source: Time BY Jeffrey Kluger Oct 15, 2017 William of Occam would have hated conspiracy theories. A 14th-century philosopher and Franciscan friar, William is celebrated for developing the “law of […]
Source: Asia Times string of racial and religious incidents in Malaysia has brought concerns of rising Islamic conservatism to the fore, widening the divide between Muslims and non-Muslims as the government plays on identity issues ahead of what is expected to be a jarring and contentious election season. Two annual […]
Source: Asia Times On October 2, Pakistan’s National Assembly passed the Electoral Reforms Bill 2017 into law, to allow the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) disqualified prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, to be reelected as the party’s leader. In addition to being touted as undemocratic by opposition parties, resulting in the Pakistan […]
Source: Dawn SOMETHING old, something new and something definitely blue — much happened this week. You can decide which is which. But what does it all mean? Let’s start with this hostage business. It’s right out of the crisis playbook: find something you can offer the other side so that […]
Source:Pakistan Time LAHORE: Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah on Saturday said without going into depth of his stance [on Ahmadiyya community], a certain lobby [political opponents] twisted his stance in order to malign his reputation. Earlier, Sanaullah came under criticism when he made a controversial statement favouring the minority community. […]
The Department of Near Eastern Studies presented a Mendenhall Symposium at the University of Michigan – Law, Society, and Religion on October 6, 2016 at 7:00pm. Professor Bart Ehrman was […]
Source: The New Arab Three British judges on Friday ruled that an Islamic faith school in Britain was guilty of sex discrimination for segregating boys and girls in lessons, during breaks […]
Source: Time ‘She broke the glass ceiling.’ What a jagged image we use for women who achieve greatly, defining accomplishment in terms of the barrier rather than the triumph. There […]
Source: Time A Vatican court has convicted the former president of the pope’s children’s hospital of abuse of office for diverting $500,000 in donations to renovate a cardinal’s flat and sentenced him to a suspended one-year sentence. The court on Saturday absolved the former treasurer of the Bambino Gesu children’s […]
Source: BBC News Forty people have died and hundreds are still missing in California after six days of wildfires that have devastated swathes of countryside and destroyed thousands of homes. […]
Source: Time BY Anthea Levi / Health.com There’s no way around it: A happy relationship takes hard work. And in his new book The All-or-Nothing Marriage ($28, amazon.com), psychologist Eli Finkel tells you what […]