Source: Arab News Anti-Muslim hate crimes in the US have nearly doubled in the first half of 2017, increasing by 91 percent compared to the same time in 2016, according to a report published by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). The spike marked a sizeable increase on 2016, which […]
July 14, 2017 by Michael Stone 41 Comments A Florida youth pastor is under arrest after hundreds of thousands of sexually explicit pictures and videos of young girls were found on his laptop. 36-year-old Chad Robison, youth pastor and music director of Seven River Presbyterian Church in Lecanto, Florida, is under arrest after a coworker […]
Source: The Local Germany has for years longed for a stronger French partner, but may have got more than it bargained for as the self-confident Emmanuel Macron takes Europe’s spotlight. Striking images from Paris this week offered signs of how Europe’s de-facto leadership has started to mutate in the two […]
Source: The Local There are currently more than 13,000 girls in Germany whose families plan to have them circumcised – an increase of 4,000 over last year – women’s rights group Terre des Femmes claims. “Due to the arrival of migrants from countries such as Eritrea, Somalia and Iraq, we […]
Source: The Local A court in eastern Germany has told a Syrian woman that she is not allowed to appear in court for divorce proceedings against her husband unless she takes off her headscarf, Tagesspiegel reports. The woman’s lawyer received a letter from the presiding judge at the district court […]
Source: BBC Some 49 members of the Catholic Church are accused of carrying out the abuse between 1945 and the early 1990s, according to the report’s findings. Victims said the experience was like “a prison, hell and a concentration camp”. A 2016 report into the allegations said that 231 children […]
Posted: Thu, 06 Jul 2017 11:00http://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2017/07/nss-joins-calls-for-inquiry-into-funding-of-islamist-extremism The National Secular Society has joined calls for a public inquiry into the funding of Islamist extremism in Britain after a damning investigation by a prominent think tank. In a report published yesterday, the Henry Jackson Society said there was “a growing body of evidence” that […]
Source:BBC A North Carolina man whose heart stopped for about 40 minutes has paid tribute to the emergency workers who brought him back from the dead. John Ogburn, 36, suffered a cardiac arrest while working on his laptop near his Charlotte home on 26 June. Two police officers who happened to be […]
Source: BBC The authorities in Saudi Arabia are investigating a young woman who posted a video of herself wearing a miniskirt and crop-top in public.The woman, a model called “Khulood”, shared the clip of her walking around a historic fort in Ushayqir. The footage sparked a heated debate on social media, […]
Source: The Daily Times By Farhan Janjua Nobel Peace Prize winner education activist Malala Yousafzai has joined the microblogging site Twitter on Friday, she announced by saying “Hi, Twitter.” Malala’s […]
A group of professed Muslim radicals “had no basic knowledge about Islam,” according to a new study. By Antonia Blumberg WACHIWITResearchers analyzed 5,757 WhatsApp messages found on a phone seized by police following a terrorist attack in the spring of 2016. Extremists and Islamophobes alike have attempted to paint violent […]
The ranges are offering tourists the chance to behave like IDF fighters The two-hour sessions include a simulated suicide bomber and a live attack dog situation JULIA BUCKLEY Caliber 3, which is based in the West Bank and run by a former member of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), […]
Source: The Washington Post Fundamentalists in Israel are shunning open-minded Jews from the rest of the world. By Gil Steinlauf July 13 Gil Steinlauf is the senior rabbinic adviser at Adas Israel Congregation in […]
Source: The Atlantic A small, vocal group of Conservative rabbis is pushing the movement to accept marriages between Jews and non-Jews. The fight is really about the future of the […]
Source: The New York Times Photo Defendants in the 2015 killing of an Egyptian prosecutor flash the Rabaa sign, symbolizing support for the Muslim Brotherhood, while being held in a […]
BY JACK MOORE ON 7/17/17 Israeli authorities on Sunday charged an Israeli Christian father with murder for allegedly killing his teenage daughter because she was having a relationship with a Muslim man. According to the charges, as reported in Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Sami Karra is accused of murdering his 17-year-old daughter Henriette […]
Source: The Denver Post By GRAHAM AMBROSE By 10:30 a.m., the assembly room has filled with people. They’re four dozen strong, swirling about the long rectangular hall like in a hive, […]
Source: The New York Times By SHARON OTTERMAN Two very different books about being Roman Catholic and gay were released recently, each with an endorsement from a cardinal who oversees an archdiocese along the Hudson River. Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, the archbishop of Newark, endorsed “Building a Bridge,” calling it “brave, […]
Jul 17,2017 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Israel’s recent closure of Al Aqsa Mosque signaled a dangerous development in Tel Aviv’s encroachment upon the holy site. The occupation authorities readily seized […]
Source: Associated Press By ALICIA A. CALDWELL and ELLIOT SPAGAT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is seeking to close a legal window opened for tens of thousands of refugees […]