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 […]
Jul 17,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby Over a week ago, a pro-Israel media monitoring group accused me of making “an unsubstantiated charge that Israel supporters are responsible” for discrimination, hate crimes, and the political exclusion of Arab Americans. Because this issue is so important to Arab Americans and […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Tyler Speegle,Contributer Husband, dad, serious coffee drinker, and inspirational blogger – Growing up my nightly bedtime routine consisted of pulling down my black leather King James […]
By Rana Husseini – Jul 18,2017 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — New regulations issued by the Cabinet on Sunday to regulate the legal age for early marriage for girls drew criticism by activists and women groups in Jordan, with many describing it as a “step backwards”. The regulations replace […]
(Letter in The Independent) Please send your letters to letters@independent.co.uk Letters a day ago 6 comments 2K I applaud The Independent for drawing much needed attention to the worsening humanitarian crisis in war-ravaged Yemen. This poor country is in the grip of man-made cholera; is sitting on the cusp […]