The Idea of the Muslim World
Source: Harvard University Press By Cemil Aydin When President Barack Obama visited Cairo in 2009 to deliver an address to Muslims worldwide, he followed in the footsteps of countless politicians […]
Scientists Find a Rare Superbug In Houston
Source: Time BY Alexandra Sifferlin TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. Infections caused by an uncommon superbug—one resistant to several kinds of antibiotics—are increasingly showing up in a Houston hospital […]
HOW THE RIGHT IS PERVERTING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Source: Pacific Standard Inside the curious phrase that protects peyote and condemns LGBT people. BY REBECCA BUCKWALTER-POZA Vice President Mike Pence speaks while standing next to President Donald Trump during a ceremony […]
The Myth of the Muslim World
Source: The chronicle of Higher education By Asma Afsaruddin MAY 14, 2017 In his influential History of the Saracen Empires, the early-18th-century British scholar Simon Ockley remarks benignly about Islam […]
Trump asked FBI’s Comey to drop Flynn inquiry – reports
Source: BBC President Donald Trump asked FBI chief James Comey to drop an inquiry into links between his ex-national security adviser and Russia, US media report. “I hope you can […]
A Wonderful Description of the First Revelation of the Prophet – by an Agnostic Biographer
Mohammad -“The First Muslim” by Lesley Hazelton Lesley Hazleton tells the dramatic life story of Muhammad, the founder of Islam, in her biography “The First Muslim.” Watch an interview with […]
Controversy over Trump Israel policy ahead of visit
By AFP – May 16,2017 -JORDAN TIMES Palestinian protesters take part in a demonstration marking the 69th anniversary of Nakba, which remember those displaced at the time of the 1948 founding of Israel, near the Jewish settlement of Beit El, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, on Monday […]
Truth its three types – religious, spiritual and scientific
مذہبی سچ‘ روحانی سچ اور سائنسی سچ 15-05-2017 ڈاکٹر خالد سہیل 1,090 Views http://www.humsub.com.pk/63825/khalid-sohail-22/ بعض لوگوں کا ایمان ہے کہ ساری دنیا میں صرف ایک ہی سچ ہے. بعض لوگوں کا خیال ہے کہ دنیا میں اتنے ہی سچ ہیں جتنے انسان. اور بعض لوگ یہ سمجھتے ہیں کہ ہم سچ کو […]
Malaysia: Keep Zakir Naik out
Swarajya Staff – May 14, 2017, 6:14 pm https://swarajyamag.com/world/tell-our-government-to-keep-zakir-naik-out-malaysian-hindus-to-un#sthash.3YcMh8zt.dpufMalaysian Hindus are beginning to organise themselves politically and as a start they are trying to save their country from Zakir Naik. The Chairman of HINDRAF (Hindu Rights Action Force) in Malayasia, P Waythamoorthy, has called for the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee […]
16-year-old British Pakistani rejects £5 million offer for his website
Source: The Express Tribune A British-Pakistani schoolboy has rejected a massive £5 million offer for his website as he claims it’s worth a lot more.Mohammed Ali from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire created the price comparison website in his bedroom in six months. He was offered an exorbitant sum of money for it by […]
‘I had to choose between my faith and the sport I loved’
Source: BBC Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir was on course for a career in professional basketball, until a ban on headgear prevented her from playing and wearing her hijab at the same time.So she chose to fight to change the rule. Please watch the video clip in BBC
Insurgents attack state TV building in Afghanistan
Source: CNN A number of insurgents have attacked a building housing a state TV station in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan, police tell CNN.An explosion was heard from the vicinity after the insurgents entered the building, Nangarhar police spokesman Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal said Wednesday.The situation is ongoing. More:
Trump is in impeachment territory
Source: CNN Inside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the mood was darker still. “This is on him,” meaning Trump, a top Republican close to the White House said, after speaking with dejected advisers inside the West Wing. Even before news of the Comey memos broke, the West Wing was wallowing in despondency, […]
The insecurity of inequality
May 16,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Kaushik Basu Global inequality today is at a level last seen in the late nineteenth century — and it is continuing to rise. With it has come a surging sense of disenfranchisement that has fuelled alienation and anger, and even bred nationalism and xenophobia. As […]
Germany granting asylum to suspected coup plotters further strains ties, Turkey PM says
Reuters International MAY 16, 2017 Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim makes a speech during a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, April 19, 2017. Ali Balikci/Prime Minister’s Press Office/Handout via REUTERS (reuters_tickers) By Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) – Germany’s decision to grant asylum to Turks accused of participating in last year’s failed […]
NEW PLACE OF WORSHIP: Wil mosque attracts thousands of visitors
By swissinfo.ch, Keyston MAY 16, 2017 – 11:26 Thousands of curious visitors made the trip to a new mosque in Wil in northeast Switzerland, which was inaugurated last weekend. The […]
‘SUPPORT FOR SWISS VALUES’ Bosnian Muslims wish to strengthen European ties
MAY 16, 2017 – About 14,000 of Switzerland’s 325,000 Muslim inhabitants are of Bosnian nationality.(Keystone) Swiss and Bosnian religious leaders have signed a joint declaration aimed at affirming the […]
EXPLAINER: Syrian peace talks in Geneva: what’s going on?
By Simon Bradley May 15, 2017 Children stand among destroyed homes in Autaya in eastern al-Ghouta, Syria, on May 11, 2017(Keystone) Round six of United Nations-brokered talks aimed at ending […]
New Jersey governor refuses to ban child marriage because ‘it would conflict with religious customs’
‘An exclusion without exceptions would violate the cultures and traditions of some communities’ Andrew Buncombe New York @AndrewBuncomb A high profile Republican governor has declined to sign into law, a measure that would have made his state the first to ban child marriage without exception. Chris Christie, the governor of […]
Even when wars end in the Middle East, superbugs and aggressive cancers caused by conflict attack
Tissue samples from the three-week 2008-2009 Israeli-Hamas Gaza war shows remnants of heavy metals in the wounds of Palestinians which can lead to cancers Robert Fisk Beirut @indyvoices A doctor tends to a soldier injured in fighting in Qaraqosh in Mosul, Iraq Getty/Chris McGrath The details were horrific. Outside the besieged […]