FORT SMITH, Ark. — Abraham Davis was sitting on a thin blue pad on the concrete floor of Cell 3 in a jail in western Arkansas when a guard came around with stamped envelopes and writing paper. The Two Americans Abraham never fit in. Hisham finally felt at home. Then their […]
Source: The Economist The auguries are mixed. “DEAD, dying or detained.” That is how a member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt describes the state of his comrades in what […]
Source: Hindustan Times BY Dhrubo Jyoti Hindustan Times “Sexual orientation is an essential attribute of privacy. Discrimination against an individual on the basis of sexual orientation is deeply offensive to […]
Source: Yahoo News Paris (AFP) – French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo published a provocative front-page cartoon about Islam and the recent terror attacks in Spain on Wednesday, sparking fears that […]
Source: Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The integration of Germany’s more than 4 million Muslims is moving ahead, especially when it comes to employment and language skills, according to a […]
Source: Reuters KABUL (Reuters) – A suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to a Shi’ite Muslim mosque in Kabul as other attackers stormed the building, killing at least […]
Source: NPR BY TOM GJELTEN Jewish groups have broadened their work to oppose all forms of bigotry. Following the violence in Charlottesville, Va., more non-Jews see the reality of anti-Semitism […]
Source: BBC News In the Netherlands, thousands of Iranian Muslim migrants and refugees are converting to Christianity, despite conversion from Islam being considered apostasy in Iran and punishable by death. […]
Source: BBC News At least 23 people have been killed in violent protests over the rape conviction of a popular religious leader in north India. The victims are believed to […]
Oslo – NNI https://www.express.com.pk/epaper/Index.aspx?Issue=NP_LHE Former Pakistani president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf was denied a meeting with the Norwegian PM during his visit to Norway last week, according to media reports. According to reports, the ex-military leader tried meeting Erna Solberg at the opening ceremony of a multicultural festival in Oslo […]
AFP | APAugust 26, 2017 Dawn.com A man wielding a knife was shot dead on Friday after wounding a soldier in Brussels in an “attempted terrorist murder”; in London, counter-terror experts were investigating a similar attack on police near Buckingham Palace. The two incidents come as much of Europe is on high […]
Source: ETonline By Liz Calvario We finally know why JAY-Z and Beyonce named their twins Rumi and Sir. The 47-year-old rapper explained the origin of their little ones’ names in […]
Source: TOI Mohammad Ismail Kawasi, a spokesman for Afghanistan’s health ministry, said authorities believe that along with the 20 dead so far, 35 people were also wounded in the attack. More explosions and gunfire echoed from inside the mosque well into the afternoon. The mosque had been packed with worshippers […]
Source: TOI White Housenational security aide Sebastian Gorka tells The Associated Press he has resigned from his position.A White House official, however, says Gorka did not resign but “no longer works at the White House.”That official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. Gorka […]
Source :ABNA The crown prince’s likely plan to appoint Khalid bin Salman, who currently serves as the Saudi ambassador to the US, is considered partly due to Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir’s “hardline” stance against Iran, reported Stratfor, an American geopolitical intelligence platform and publisher. The decision would also enable the […]
Source: ABNA (AhlulBayt News Agency) – Saudi Monarchy destroyed the most sacred stone in Islam, a rare book by an Austrian academic has revealed. The shocking discovery of a key event in Muslim history hidden for two centuries was reported by Alois Musil, a 19th century Czech-Austrian academic, explorer and […]
Source: ABNA (AhlulBayt News Agency) – “We hope that all divine religions join their efforts to spread peace worldwide, to help eradicate poverty, hunger, oppression and discrimination all around the […]
Source: Arab News ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s population has surged by more than half to 207 million, according to provisional results of the country’s first census in almost two decades released by […]
Source: BBC North Korea has fired three short-range ballistic missiles, the US military says.They were launched from a site in the North Korean province of Gangwon and flew for about 250km (150 miles), officials in South Korea said.Since firing an intercontinental ballistic weapon last month, Pyongyang has threatened to aim […]
SAUDI ARABIA Arab News | Published — Saturday 26 August 2017 Hundreds of thousands of Hajj pilgrims listen to a first Friday sermon of Dul Hajjah at the Grand Mosque in Makkah. (SPA) MAKKAH: Continuous expansion of the Two Holy Mosques and the holy sites, as well as the upgrading […]