Oct 03,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Ramzy Baroud The BDS movement (boycott, divestment and sanctions), was the outcome of several events that shaped the Palestinian national struggle and international solidarity with the Palestinian people following the second Intifada in 2000. Building on a decades-long tradition of civil disobedience and popular […]
(Editor: if they can prove they are Myanmar citizens…) By AFP – Oct 02,2017 – Jordan Times In this photo taken on Sunday, a Rohingya Muslim refugee holds her child as she waits to see a doctor at a medical centre at Balukhali refugee camp near the town of […]
I was greatly grieved to hear of the full-face veil ban being criminalised in Austria. It is estimated that of the nearly 9 million people of Austria, this will actually apply to a mere 150 women. Certainly forcefully removing the garment from these 150 women will not solve Austria’s problems. […]
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood; Religion correspondent Most of 43 countries with a state religion are in Middle East and North Africa with majority Muslim, according to research More […]
Epigraph: Allah is He Who raised up the heavens without any pillars that you can see. Then He settled Himself on the Throne. And He pressed the sun and the […]
Source: BBC As details emerge about the Las Vegas gunman who killed at least 59 people and injured more than 500 others, an online debate has begun about why Stephen […]
Shaun King October 3 2017, Last night, the United States experienced the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. At least 58 people are dead and over 500 more wounded. No, that’s not a typo: More than 500 people were injured in one single incident. As tens of thousands enjoyed a […]
Source: BBC News By Amanda Ruggeri 3 October 2017 Millennials may be the world’s most hated generation – at the moment. But is disdain towards youth a new dynamic? By […]
Source: BuzzFeed News BY Aisha Gani Zamzam Ibrahim was sitting at a coffee shop on 1 July when her phone started vibrating. It was 11:30am and she had travelled to London for […]
Source: Associated Press By PHILIPPE SOTTO PARIS (AP) — More than five years after a French-Algerian extremist killed three children and a teacher at a Jewish school and three soldiers […]
Source: The Washington Post By Max Bearak KUTUPALONG REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh — Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s de facto leader, recently claimed that an unprecedented exodus of half a million Rohingya Muslims from […]
Source: The Washington Post By Khaled Beydoun In what police call the deadliest attack in modern American history, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on concertgoers at a country music festival in […]
Source: Orlando Sentinel By Paul Brinkmann Contact ReporterOrlando Sentinel A former professor at University of Central Florida in Orlando, Vibert White, has sued the university, claiming he suffered discrimination — and ultimately […]
Source: The Economist SINCE the horrific massacre in Las Vegas, the word “evil” has been heard with unusual frequency, on the lips of political leaders as well as clerics. This […]
Source: Associated Press By JULIET LINDERMAN BALTIMORE (AP) — A coalition of Muslim and Iranian-American advocates and a nonpartisan legal institute filed the first lawsuits against the Trump administration’s new […]
Reuters International This content was published on October 2, 2017 7:58 PMOct 2, 2017 – 19:58 Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif speaks during a news conference in Islamabad, […]
Reuters International This content was published on October 3, 2017 12:13 PMOct 3, 2017 – 12:13 ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region plans to hold presidential and […]
Reuters International This content was published on October 3, 2017 (reuters_tickers) BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgium took steps to expel a Saudi imam who preaches at the country’s biggest mosque for […]
Reuters International This content was published on October 3, 2017 1:21 PMOct 3, 2017 – 13:21 FILE PHOTO: French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb speaks to the media outside the Saint-Charles train station after French soldiers shot and killed a man who stabbed two women to death at the main train […]
By Simon Jäggi This content was published on September 29, 2017 A Swiss-based researcher is one of several from all over Europe who are concerned about the unpredictable future of research freedom in Turkey. (Keystone) The tense situation in Turkey is making it increasingly difficult to conduct research there. Foreign scientists working in […]