Jordan 9th safest country worldwide, 2nd among Arab states
Pundits laud achievement, urge anti-poverty, joblessness fight By Mohammad Ghazal – Aug 12,2017 – Jordan has a long track record as a safe a country, a fact highlighted by […]
General ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis is the only one who can stop North Korea and US tensions from getting out of hand
The grown-ups in the US administration may think it wise to keep Donald Trump as far away from negotiations as possible Kim Sengupta 51 comments Donald Trump’s talk of annihilating North Korea with “fire and fury likes of which the world has never seen” – a threat delivered from his […]
A view from Saudi Arabia: Kuwait, Saudi Arabia between two crises
Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Published — Saturday 12 August 2017 Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd, may he rest in peace, could have done what Qatar’s then-Crown Prince Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa did following Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. Back then, during a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) meeting in Doha, Sheikh Hamad tried to […]
Our Sex-Obsessed American Prophets
Source: Huffington Post By Kerry Walters, ContributorProfessor Emeritus of Philosophy, Gettysburg College; Catholic priest In his 2002 book War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, war correspondent Chris Hedges argued that […]
Great memories: The old neighborhoods of Makkah
SAUDI ARABIA TARIQ AL-THQAFI | Published — Saturday 12 August 2017 A Saudi security officer sprays water over pilgrims to beat the heat in Makkah. (AP file photo) MAKKAH: Residents […]
This Is the First-Ever Photo of a Total Solar Eclipse
Source: Time By Madeline Farber Aug 11, 2017 Millions of Americans will see a total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, and many of them will point their cameras skyward to capture the celestial event. […]
Slain Palestinians’ relatives to perform Hajj as king’s guests
SAUDI ARABIA RODOLFO C. ESTIMO JR. | Published — Saturday 12 August 2017 Hundreds ofworshipperslisten toa Fridaysermon atthe GrandMosque inMakkah.(SPA) RIYADH: Preparations are complete for the arrival of 1,000 relatives of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces to perform this year’s Hajj as guests of King Salman. Abdullah Al-Madalj, secretary-general of […]
Around 4 in 5 Americans Want the Effort to Repeal Obamacare to End, Poll Finds
Source: Time By Alan Fram / AP Updated: Aug 11, 2017 11:26 AM ET WASHINGTON — Message to President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans: Stop trying to scuttle the Obama […]
Video: Bombings Of Mosques Are Acts Of Terrorism
Source: Huffington Post By Sahar Aziz, who is Professor at Rutgers Law School; Scholar at Institute for Social Policy & Understanding; Senior Fellow at Center for Global Policy And: Khaled […]
Islamabad High Court suggests making blasphemy law tougher to check its misuse
Source: Dawn ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has suggested that parliament make the blasphemy law tougher by fixing the same punishment for any person misusing it or falsely accusing someone of blasphemy. In a detailed order issued on Friday, Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui also ordered a complete ban on the […]
Rohingya plight
Source: ET For the last few years, Rohingya Muslims have found themselves in the awkward place where some of the world’s stateless peoples have lived and subsisted — largely unnoticed and unassisted by the international community. Wedged uncomfortably between the borders of their native Myanmar and Bangladesh — their first […]
Can Buddhist Practices Help Us Overcome The Biological Pull Of Dissatisfaction?
Source: NPR By Terry Gross Are human beings hard-wired to be perpetually dissatisfied? Author Robert Wright, who teaches about the interface of evolutionary biology and religion, thinks so. Wright points out […]
UK: ‘Stop Oppression of Women’, Urges Worldwide Head & Caliph of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/08/stop-oppression-women-mirza-masroor-ahmad-urges/ The Worldwide Head and Caliph of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, His Holiness, Mirza Masroor Ahmad has condemned the oppression of women accross the world saying Islam is vehemently opposed to the oppression of the female folk in all ramifications. Masroor Ahmad stated this while addressing no fewer than 15,000 Muslim […]
Women Dealing with Health during the Ottoman Reign
by: Nil Sari In the history of Islamic civilization, many hospitals were founded by women, either as wives, daughters or mothers of sultans. All health personnel were male at these […]
Statue of Chinese god stokes tension in Muslim-majority Indonesia
Reuters International AUGUST 11, 2017 A crane is used to cover the statue of Guan Yu, a Chinese deity, with a cloth in Tuban, west of Indonesia’s second-biggest […]
Wife of ousted Pakistani PM to seek his parliament seat
Reuters International AUGUST 11, 2017 By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – The wife of ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will contest a special election for the […]
Switzerland: TREASURE TROVE: Bronze Age tombs unearthed during car park construction
AUGUST 11, 2017 3:22 PMAUG 11, 2017 – 15:22 The burial site has unearthed yet more treasures (SBMA – ARIA SA) Workers digging the foundations for a new car park have unearthed the burial site of a Bronze Age warrior, revealing a rich source of artefacts including a sword, jewellery […]
Secret Russian-Kurdish-Syrian military cooperation is happening in Syria’s eastern desert
In the first of a series from Syria, Robert Fisk says that new connections, however tenuous, demonstrate that all sides are determined to avoid military confrontation between Moscow and Washington Robert Fisk Resafeh, eastern Syria @indyvoices Monday 24 July 2017 After a sweeping Syrian military advance to the edge of […]
Switzerland: AN’NUR: Controversial imam charged with inciting violence
THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 11, 2017 Public prosecutors have called for an 18-month suspended prison sentence for an imam at a mosque in the northeastern city of Winterthur, who is suspected of inciting violence. The Zurich prosecutor’s office announced on Friday that it also wanted the […]
Women recruits prepare to join Syria’s Raqqa battle
By Reuters – Aug 10,2017 -JORDAN TIMES A people protection unit (YPG) fighter takes a selfie in the old city of Raqqa, Syria, on Wednesday (Reuters photo) HASAKA, […]