Why you think you’re right — even if you’re wrong | Julia Galef
Perspective is everything, especially when it comes to examining your beliefs. Are you a soldier, prone to defending your viewpoint at all costs — or a scout, spurred by curiosity? […]
PROBLEM SOLVING : The designers making life better at an asylum centre
By Carlo Pisani http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/inline?urn=urn:swi:video:43323830&locale=en EMBED CODE JUL 14, 2017 Find and execute a design concept that solves a concrete problem, with minimal resources, in one month, inside a transit centre for asylum seekers. That’s the challenge facing students at the Zurich University of the Arts. (Carlo Pisani, swissinfo.ch) […]
Qatar crisis, where to?
Jul 16,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Sabaileh A few months ago when Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries took a stand against Qatar, it was clear that the crisis is not a short-term one. The countries involved have a long history of conflict with Qatar, including recent attempts to influence their […]
Syrian army takes more oil fields from Daesh in Raqqa and eastern desert
By Reuters – Jul 16,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Children walk at a camp for displaced people who fled fighting in the Daesh stronghold of Raqqa, in Ain Issa, Syria, on Friday (Reuters file photo) BEIRUT — The Syrian army backed by heavy Russian air strikes seized a string […]
Christian conservatives don’t support Donald Trump despite his vulgarity – they support him because of it
Likewise, the reason people came around to the idea of voting for Jeremy Corbyn is different to what you might intuitively think Slavoj Zizek 31 comments How to account for the strange fact that Donald Trump, a lewd and morally destitute person, the very opposite of Christian decency, can function […]
Video: Justice, Kindness & Kinship: An Islamic & American Imperative
Epigraph: Indeed, Allah enjoins justice, and the doing of good to others; and giving like kindred; and forbids indecency, and manifest evil, and wrongful transgression. He admonished you that you […]
A New Commentary of the Holy Quran Emphasizing Compassion, Justice and Human Rights Launched
Source: TheQuran.Love Here are some details from the Homepage and About Us page of the website: The very first verse of the Holy Quran is, “I begin in the name […]
Only woman to win math equivalent of Nobel Prize dies
In 2014 Mirzakhani was one of four winners of the Fields Medal, which is presented every four years and is considered the mathematics equivalent of the Nobel Prize Image Credit: […]
A view from Teheran: Is a new plot against Iraq being hatched?
By Hassan Lasjerdi Is a new plot against Iraq being hatched? June 18, 2016 As Iraqi forces along Popular Mobilization Forces also known as al-Hashd al-Shaabi are engaged in fierce clash with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Daesh) terrorist group and have so far been able to […]
Canada: Ahmadiyya Muslims donate $2M to Mackenzie Health Foundation
COMMUNITY Jun 30, 2017 by Ali Raza Vaughan Citizen President and CEO of Mackenzie Health Altaf Stationwala will join the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at and other dignitaries at the pledge celebration on July 1 at the Baitul Islam Mosque in Vaughan. – Steve Somerville/Metroland The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Canada […]
United States Commission on International Religious Freedom: Re: Abdul Shakoor
Abdul Shakoor Country: Pakistan Key Fact: 80-year-old Ahmadi manager of a bookshop and optician store Detained Since: December 2, 2015 Charges: Propagating the Ahmadiyya faith and stirring up “religious hatred” […]
Stop selling arms to help Saudi Arabia wage war and reveal its links to extremists, British public urges May
Exclusive: Poll reveals deep unease about Britain’s close relationship with an autocracy embroiled in a devastating war Rob Merrick Deputy Political Editor @Rob_Merrick 34 comments Britain must end arms sales to Saudi Arabia while the country is accused of the large-scale slaughter of civilians in Yemen’s civil war, Theresa May […]
Rohingya villagers tell media of abuses during army crackdown
Reuters International JULY 15, 2017 A Rohingya boy walks at a refugee camp in Sitwe, in the state of Rakhine, Myanmar March 2, 2017. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun (reuters_tickers) By Simon Lewis KYAR GAUNG TAUNG, Myanmar, 2017 – Rohingya Muslim women lined up to tell reporters of missing husbands, mothers […]
After deadly shooting, Israel says Jerusalem’s Noble Sanctuary to reopen Sunday
Reuters International JULY 15, 2017 FILE PHOTO – An aerial view shows the Dome of the Rock (R) on the compound known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary […]
Lest we forget — Christian Palestinians of Jerusalem
Jul 15,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Hazem Nusseibeh In my memoirs “Jerusalemites… a Living Memory”, I made reference to Talbiya quarter in West Jerusalem, which in the 1930s and 1940s of the last century, was the most fashionable Christian Arab quarter, outside the Old City, along with Qatamon and upper and […]
Workshop for Muslim, Christian research students concludes
By Rula Samain – Jul 16,2017 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies (RIIFS) has recently concluded a week-long workshop for Muslim and Christian research students. The Muslim-Christian workshop titled “Abrahamic Reflections on Philosophy, Science and Religions” was held last week in cooperation with Kaufman […]
Theresa May isn’t releasing the Saudi report because they’re obviously innocent – much better to blame trade unions
There should be a formula in which the amount of terrorism a country is allowed to promote depends on how many weapons they buy. For $4.2bn you can blow up a couple of public buildings, as long as you help sweep up Mark Steel @mrmarksteel It’s always encouraging when people you’d […]
Speech: Prophet Muhammad Congeniality in the Face of Hostility
By Amjad Mahmood Khan in annual convention of Ahmadiyya Muslims, 2017 The Muslim Times has the best collection of articles about the prophet Muhammad, from different Muslim and non-Muslim sources
Don’t underestimate Iraq’s historic victory against Isis – though the human cost was great
The crass response of the leaders of the US-led coalition who orchestrated the attack on west Mosul shows that we are back in the Vietnam era when American officers were happy to volunteer that they were destroying populated areas in order to save them Patrick Cockburn Erbil @indyworld Northern Iraq is […]
Iranian Maryam Mirzakhani dead at 40 – won Math’s Fields Medal
Source: BBC Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to receive the prestigious Fields Medal for mathematics, has died in the US. The 40-year-old Iranian, a professor at Stanford University, had breast […]