Muslims, Jews and women in America
Source: The Economist However toxic the climate, some Muslims and Jews try harder to get along As President Donald Trump engages in his own, idiosyncratic kind of religious and cultural […]
Trump Changed His Tone on Islam—Will He Change Strategy?
Source: The Atlantic BY MICHAEL LEITER To say that candidate Donald Trump adopted a sharply critical and un-nuanced tone on Islam would be the grossest of understatements. Campaigner-in-Chief Trump proclaimed the […]
Trump administration wavers on location of Western Wall
Source: Associated Press By VIVIAN SALAMA and JOSEF FEDERMAN JERUSALEM (AP) — As President Donald Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the hallowed Western Wall on Monday, […]
In Israel, Trump urges new Middle East harmony but faces old suspicions
Source: The Washington Post By Karen DeYoung, Philip Rucker and William Booth May 22 JERUSALEM — President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sketched the broad outlines of a […]
Greece: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community organizes 3rd National Peace Symposium (Press Release)
Source: Press Office, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Greece “MANCHESTER ARENA ATTACK – AN ATTACK ON HUMANITY” Greece: Leaders from Religious, Political, Civic & Academic backgrounds condemned the attack in that took place in Manchester on Monday 24th May 2017 in the strongest possible terms during their speeches at the 3rd National Peace Symposium […]
UK: Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Association Tooting Organizes Multi-faith event – A Report
News courtesy: Shakeel Ahmed Ahmadiyya Muslim Women Association of Tooting Chapter which is a part of Ahmadiyya Muslim Association UK, organises Multi-faith event in Tooting on 19th May 2017 at Tooting Grove Club Room. Many guests of different backgrounds attended this successful event. We enjoyed learning about each other and the […]
Kurdish independence in Iraq likely ‘not if but when’ – U.S. general
Reuters International MAY 23, 2017 By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An Iraqi Kurdish push for independence from Baghdad appears likely to be a question of “not if but when,” in a significant challenge to Iraq’s stability, the head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency said on Tuesday. Iraq’s main […]
Trump’s Riyadh farce exposed in Manchester
BY TAREK FATAH, TORONTO SUN……………FIRST POSTED: TUESDAY, MAY 23, 2017 05:58 PM EDT | UPDATED: TUESDAY, MAY 23, 2017 06:04 PM EDT U.S. President Donald Trump has accomplished the impossible. After correctly diagnosing the ailment that afflicts the Muslim world, he has prescribed the wrong medicine as the cure, thus ensuring the epidemic will thrive. […]
One in five children in the UK are said to be negatively affected by their parents’ drinking
When mum or dad is an alcoholic Source: BBC One in five children in the UK are said to be negatively affected by their parents’ drinking, and the effects can […]
Donald Trump is approaching peace between Israelis and Palestinians like a business deal – and it isn’t working
His brash language is toned down, and the rictus grin of the shiny reality TV star replaced with a sort of cock-eyed mask of sympathy. But the tactics he’s using […]
They sat across from each other in the pontiff’s study as though one was going for a job interview.
Source: BBC Ever so slowly and flanked by the Swiss Guard the leader of the world’s pre-eminent superpower walked through the Vatican to meet the leader of one of the world’s pre-eminent religions. And were there ever two more different people? Pope Francis with just the merest hint of a […]
Martial Law in South Philippines
Source: The Daily Beast Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law in his country’s south on Wednesday before cutting a visit to Moscow short to rush home and deal with a terrorist siege. Militants linked to the self-proclaimed Islamic State reportedly took over a hospital, jail, and other buildings overnight, […]
NO GIRLS ALLOWED
Source: The Daily Beast. In Rome, there was that awkward moment Wednesday morning when the first lady stood rather uncomfortably dressed in black with her dark mantilla veil on her head in the grandiose corridor of the Apostolic Palace as her husband met with Pope Francis for 29 minutes behind […]
In the Middle East, Trump Turns Back the Clock
Source: Stratfor After four months in office, U.S. President Donald Trump is beginning to hone his policy on the Middle East. As the weeks have worn on, his priorities for the region have started to emerge, and for the most part they seem to be focused on matters of security. […]
A dangerous coalition
Source: Dawn THE obscenely opulent reception arranged in Donald Trump’s honour, with Arab autocrats lining up to pay homage to the American president, forgetting his inflammatory anti-Muslim rhetoric and his likening of the Saudi royal family to ‘slaveholders’ in the past, did not come as a surprise. Nor did the […]
The secular myth
Source: Dawn IN a recent address, Chaudhry Nisar hit out at political opponents by classifying them as ‘secular’ and equating the term with ‘non-believing’. Clearly, the interior minister needs tuition in history and political philosophy. There is no simple thing, place or peoples called the ‘secular’, the ‘religious’, the ‘West’, ‘good’ […]
USA: U.S. House Introduces Resolution (Again) Calling for Global Repeal of Blasphemy Laws
While the current Republican leadership in Congress is working to make rich people richer while taking away health care access and vital programs for the poor, Democrats can still try and pass resolutions that carry symbolic weight. Rep. Jamie Raskin has just introduced H.Res. 349 which calls for the “global repeal of blasphemy, heresy, and […]
USA: Warning: President Pence Would Be Worse Than President Trump
President Trump may be a buffoon, but a President Pence would bring ruin upon the nation and turn the U.S. into a Christian theocracy. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2017/05/warning-president-pence-worse-president-trump/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=BRSS&utm_campaign=Nonreligious&utm_content=367 As Trump’s troubles continue to grow, conservatives and liberals alike are wrestling with the very real possibility that Trump will be forced out of office […]
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
NPR interview of the author above Book review from Amazon Book Written by Thomas M. Nichols People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology […]
The Best Quote from George Orwell’s ‘1984’
“I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting and complete silence where hundreds of men have been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as […]