Mormon church leader excommunicated for 1st time in decades
Source: Associated Press By BRADY McCOMBS SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Mormon church leader was removed from his post and kicked out of the religion Tuesday for the first […]
‘God has given Trump authority to take out Kim Jong Un,’ evangelical adviser says
Source: The Washington Post By Sarah Pulliam Bailey August 9 at 11:28 AM President Trump, left, greets pastor Robert Jeffress on July 1 during the Celebrate Freedom Rally at the John F. […]
A Top Trump Adviser Says The Minnesota Mosque Bombing May Be A “Fake Hate Crime”
Source: Independent Trump still hasn’t said anything about the bombing, which tore through part of the mosque on Saturday while people were arriving for prayers. Posted on August 9, 2017, at […]
Iran’s Rouhani appoints female vice-presidents after criticism
Source: BBC News Iran President Hassan Rouhani has appointed three women as vice-presidents and one as a civil rights assistant following criticism of his all-male cabinet. Iran’s 12 vice-presidents run […]
Talks are only way for India, China to end standoff, Dalai Lama says
Source: Reuters By Malini Menon NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India and China will have to resolve their prolonged military standoff in a remote Himalayan region through talks, the Dalai Lama […]
Saudia Airlines warn passengers of strict dress code
Source: BBC News By Sherie Ryder BBC News Image copyrightREUTERS Image captionThe niqab is worn by many women in Saudi Arabia Some may not be surprised to see a strict […]
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Is No Joke
Source: Time BY Emily Dixon Aug 09, 2017 IDEAS Dixon is a post-graduate Fellow in Narrative Nonfiction at the Columbia Journalism School. The biggest lie about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is that it’s funny, […]
Adam Grant: The Differences Between Men and Women Are Vastly Exaggerated
Source: Time BY Adam Grant / LinkedIn Aug 08, 2017 Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist, Wharton’s top-rated professor and a New York Times bestselling author who shares insights every month in GRANTED. […]
Why Inflammation in Your Mouth May Raise Your Risk of Cancer
Source: Time BY Amanda MacMillan Women with gum disease are 14% more likely to develop cancer than those with healthy teeth and gums, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & […]
Sabah bans Hizbut Tahrir, Shiah, Ahmadiyya… also liberalism, pluralism
Source: Malaymail Online KOTA KINABALU, Aug 8 — The Sabah state fatwa council has today banned 16 “deviant teachings”, which not only included hardliners Hizbut Tahrir and the minority Shiites […]
Assessing the Value of Buddhism, for Individuals and for the World
Source: The New York Times By ANTONIO DAMASIO CreditAnthony Gerace WHY BUDDHISM IS TRUE The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment By Robert Wright 336 pp. Simon & Schuster. $27. […]
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 that […]
Syria’s traditional oud-making on the decline
By AFP – Aug 08,2017 – Antoun Tawil, one of Syria’s last traditional lute makers, tunes an oud, an instrument his country was once renowned for producing, at his workshop in Tekkiyeh Sulamaniyeh, in the capital Damascus, on July 9 (AFP photo) DAMASCUS — Antoun Tawil, one of Syria’s […]
Woe betide the Kurds of northern Syria when the war is over
One Syrian told me, ‘These Kurdish groups are liars. We gave them weapons to fight the terrorists – now we no longer give them weapons to protect themselves. We did not give them weapons so that they could make states. Now they are fully supplied by the Americans’ Robert Fisk […]
Move over T-Rex, there’s a bigger fossil in town
Suggested Reading Encyclopedia Britannica: Just How Old Is Homo sapiens? The Single Quranic Verse that Can Convince You about Evolution Meeting the Quranic Adam with Charles Darwin TheQuran.Love: Surah Baqara (The Cow): Section […]
‘The Palestine Exception’: War on BDS is now a war on American democracy
Aug 08,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – There is something immoral in WaRamzy Baroudshington DC, and its consequences can be dire for many people, particularly for the health of US democracy. The US government is declaring war on the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The fight to defeat BDS […]
When you watch Dunkirk, remember that it’s a whitewashed version which ignores the bravery of black and Muslim soldiers
Even in this early stage of the Second World War, ethnic minority British citizens did show enormous courage – one of the bravest ARP men during the Blitz was black, although we have yet to see a film about him Robert Fisk @indyvoices In my mother’s family scrapbook, there is […]
Sikhs in America: A History of Hate
Source: ProPublica Demonized as immigrants. Mistaken for Muslims. For more than a century, Sikhs in the U.S. have faced suspicion and violence. by A.C. Thompson, ProPublicaAugust 4, 2017 THE 1907 EPISODE in […]
Atheists tend to be seen as immoral – even by other atheists: study
Source: The Guardian Religious belief widely viewed as safeguard against ‘grossly immoral conduct’, according to new research Many still hold the view that people will do bad things unless they […]
Charity run by Pakistani Islamist with $10 million bounty launches political party
Source: Reuters BY Asif Shahzad (Reuters) – A Pakistani charity that the United States accuses of being a front for anti-India militant group that staged the 2008 Mumbai attacks has […]