The disestablishment of the church is now necessary and inevitable
Source: The Guardian By Giles Fraser The Church of England is woefully unprepared for the ideological winter that is to come. For too long we have been made content by […]
‘Anti-Semitic’ gang robbed Paris Jewish family
Source: BBC News French police are trying to find a gang who took a Jewish family hostage in their suburban Paris home, in what is seen as an anti-Semitic attack. […]
Shattered by war, Sunni Arabs despair over future in Iraq
Source: Associated Press By HAMZA HENDAWI Sep. 10, 2017 KHAZIR CAMP, Iraq (AP) — Fawaz Saleh Ahmed has been secretly sneaking into his own village in northern Iraq to visit […]
India raises ‘offensive’ lamb advert with Australia
Source: BBC News India has lodged a diplomatic protest with Australia over an advert depicting the Hindu god Ganesha enjoying lamb. The TV advert, by a meat industry lobby group, […]
Afghan Anger Simmers Over U.S. Leaflets Seen as Insulting Islam
Source: The New York Times By MUJIB MASHAL, FAHIM ABED and FATIMA FAIZISEPT. 8, 2017 Photo Afghan anger over offensive American leaflets spilled over into protests against the killings of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. CreditGhulamullah […]
Bangladesh slams Myanmar for ‘atrocities’ against Rohingya
Source: Associated Press By AL-EMRUN GARJON and TOFAYEL AHMEDo COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — The Bangladeshi prime minister was traveling Tuesday to struggling refugee camps that have absorbed hundreds of […]
Are you a sleep procrastinator?
Source: BBC News By Richard Gray 12 September 2017 What was the last thing you did before drifting off last night? You were probably on a device: reading emails, surfing […]
North Korea slapped with UN sanctions after nuclear test
Source: BBC News The United Nations has imposed a fresh round of sanctions on North Korea after its sixth and largest nuclear test. The measures restrict oil imports and ban textile exports – an attempt to starve the North of fuel and income for its weapons programmes. The US had […]
Hurricane Irma: More than 100 high risk prisoners escaped
Source: BBC News More than 100 prisoners escaped when Hurricane Irma hit the British Virgin Islands, Foreign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan has confirmed. He told MPs there had been […]
Singapore all set to nominate first female Muslim president
SINGAPORE: tribune.com.pk A Muslim Malay, Halima Yacob is set to be formally nominated as Singapore’s first female president on Wednesday. Halimah Yacob, a former speaker of parliament from the city-state’s Muslim Malay minority, will be the first woman to hold the largely ceremonial role if – as expected. But the 63-year-old […]
Canada: Hate is wrong, says Canadian Sikh politician after racist heckling
Brampton (Ontario), September 12 http://tribuneindia.com/news/diaspora/hate-is-wrong-says-canadian-sikh-politician-after-racist-heckling/465920.html Indo-Canadian politician Jagmeet Singh has opened up on his reaction, which earned him plaudits, after a video, showing a heckler spewing ugly remarks at him during a meet and greet event, went viral. The New Democratic Party (NDP) leadership contender explained what was going through his […]
All the records Irma has already broken
Source: CNN Consider these stats from CNN’s meteorology team: Irma is the strongest Atlantic basin hurricane ever recorded outside the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea It spent three days as a Category 5 hurricane, the longest Category 5 hurricane since satellite storm-tracking began No storm on record has […]
German job centres discriminate against people with foreign-sounding names: study
The Local news@thelocal.de 8 September 2017 File photo of the job centre in Leipzig: DPA. When dealing with inquiries, employees at job centres in Germany tend to discriminate against people with names that sound foreign, according to a report released on Friday. Researchers from the Social Science Research Centre in […]
Hostility towards Muslims on the rise in Switzerland
Photo: kagemusha/Depositphotos Hostility and discrimination towards Muslim people in Switzerland is on the rise, the Federal Commission against Racism (FCR) said on Monday during a conference at the University of Fribourg. The conference, organized by Fribourg University, religion researchers at the University of Lucerne and the Swiss Centre for Islam […]
The Perilous Condition of the Muslims and the British Government
O Bedouin! I wonder how you can reach the Ka‘bah, When the road you have taken leads to Turkistan. The laxity, lack of concern, and neglect shown these days by our brothers in faith—the Muslims—with regard to fulfilling their religious obligations, fostering brotherhood among Muslims, and nurturing nationalsympathy, is such […]
AfD leader called Merkel ‘a pig tasked by WWII victors to keep Germany down’: report
Source: The Local Alice Weidel is supposed to be the moderate face of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. But newspaper Welt am Sonntag claims to have seen an email which shows her true face.The Welt am Sonntag reports that a former associate of Weidel’s forwarded them an email […]
Read George W. Bush’s “Islam is peace” speech, delivered days after 9/11
Source: Quartz It has been 16 years since New York City woke up to a terror attack that changed America and the world. Less than a week after the attacks […]
A Sinner in Mecca review – Islam, homosexuality and the hope of tolerance
Source: The Guardian BY Charles Kaiser Sunday 10 September 2017 13.29 BSTLast modified on Monday 11 September 2017 14.33 BST Parvez Sharma is a proud gay Muslim whose first film, A Jihad For Love, was the first ever […]
Stemming the Flow Why Europe’s Migrant Strategy Is an Illusion
Europe hopes that the fates of African migrants will soon be decided at facilities in Chad or Niger. It is a wonderful idea, but also a misleading illusion. In truth, Europe’s primary focus is on shutting down the Mediterranean route. By Mirco Keilberth, Peter Müller and Maximilian Popp […]
Where Dreams Come to Die Migrant Path in Europe Ends at Brenner Pass
Migrants who make it across the Mediterranean to Italy dream of continuing on to northern Europe. Most, though, are unable to make it past the Brenner Pass. A visit to Europe’s waiting room. By Fiona Ehlers Photos Gianmarco Maraviglia / DER SPIEGEL September 07, 2017 The train station […]