US military ending role in hunt for elusive African warlord Joseph Kony
By Ryan Browne, CNN Updated 1810 GMT (0210 HKT) May 2, 2017 Story highlights The number of fighters in Kony’s forces have dropped from nearly 2,000 to under 100 Outside […]
TIME TRAVEL IS MATHEMATICALLY POSSIBLE WITH NEW MIND-BOGGLING MODEL
BY HANNAH OSBORNE ON 5/2/17 What Are Gravitational Waves? Updated | Many have dreamed of figuring out how to travel in time—and dismissed it as impossible. Now, researchers have proposed a mathematical model that makes time travel possible, using concepts of Einstein’s theory of general relativity coupled with the hypothesis that […]
Democracy – Justice: How are they related? (update)
Democracy – Justice: How are they related? by Hakan Erten INTRODUCTION Welcome to democracy-justice.com, dedicated to explaining the relationship between democracy and justice, based on two specific […]
Islam needs Islamophobia right now
BY Omar Mahmood, April 21, 2017 In Pakistan, a mob killed a journalism student because he didn’t believe. That could have been me. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/04/21/apostate-pakistan-lynched-islamophobia-blasphemy-column/100708734/#sthash.tSsNfeVU.dpuf (Photo: Abdul Majeed, AFP/Getty Images) 18477CONNECTTWEET 7LINKEDIN 101COMMENTEMAILMORE Last week, a 23-year-old journalism student was beaten to death by a mob outside the cafeteria of Abdul Wali Khan University […]
Pakistan: why they lynched university student Mashal Khan
DAWN.COM 29/04/2017 By Pervez Hoodbhoy, Islamabad THE mental state of men ready and poised to kill has long fascinated scientists. The Nobel Prize winning ethologist, Konrad Lorenz, says such persons experience the ‘Holy Shiver’ (called heiliger Schauer in German) just moments before performing the deed. In his famous book On […]
Learning about Mormonism from a Ted Talk with a sense of humor
Ted Talk: Letting Go of God When two young Mormon missionaries knock on Julia Sweeney’s door one day, it touches off a quest to completely rethink her own beliefs, in […]
What Really Happens When You Don’t Turn Off Your Cell Phone on a Plane?
Source: Time BY Jordi Lippe-McGraw / Travel + Leisure Cell phone use on planes has been heavily debated as the airline industry attempts to keep up with ever-changing technology. It’s standard […]
Forget millennials. How will churches reach Generation Z?
Source: Religion News Service By Jonathan Merritt | 23 hours ago For the last decade, church experts have been wrestling over the best ways to reach and retain “millennials,” which is a […]
Indonesians Seek to Export a Modernized Vision of Islam
Source: The New York Times By JOE COCHRANE Photo Members of Nahdlatul Ulama in Jakarta in 2011, during a commemoration of the group’s founding in Indonesia in 1926. Its youth […]
Special Report: Islamic State seeks to impose religious rules in Egypt’s North Sinai
Source: Reuters By Ahmed Mohamed Hassan and Lin Noueihed | ARISH, EGYPT One Monday in early April, Shaher Saeed was driving south of the city of Arish in Egypt’s North […]
In Palestinian Power Struggle, Hamas Moderates Talk on Israel
Source: The New York Times By IAN FISHER JERUSALEM — Hamas, the militant group built around violent resistance to Israel, sought on Monday to present a more moderate public face, […]
Spread of Hate Crimes Has Lawmakers Seeking Harsher Penalties
Source: The New York Times By AUDRA D.S. BURCHAPRIL 30, 2017 The Victoria Islamic Center mosque in Victoria, Tex., was gutted by an arson attack in January.CreditMohammad Khursheed/Reuters The anonymous […]
Meet the activist who calls Trump an anti-Semite using Anne Frank’s name
Source: The Washington Post By Avi Selk Steven Goldstein couldn’t stop watching himself, but who could blame him? He says CNN wouldn’t stop running the clip. CNN commentator: “You think the president does […]
U.S. top court rejects ‘gay conversion’ therapy ban challenge
Source: Reuters By Andrew Chung The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left intact California’s ban on “gay conversion” therapy aimed at turning youths under age 18 away from homosexuality, rejecting […]
China to launch Wikipedia rival in 2018
Source: BBC China is to launch an online version of its national encyclopaedia next year, to compete with Wikipedia. Officials said more than 20,000 people had been hired to work […]
Sweden ends ID checks on ‘The Bridge’ with Denmark
Source: BBC Sweden is ending identity checks on border crossings with Denmark that were instituted early last year as thousands of migrants arrived seeking asylum. A major crossing point is […]
‘We are not burqa’: German government sets out 10-point plan to define national identity
Source: Independent Germany’s government has launched a 10-point plan to define the country’s culture, starting with the statement: “Wir sind nicht Burka” (“We are not burqa”). The interior minister, Thomas […]
The Negative Politics of the Opposition Parties in Pakistan
By Saeed Qureshi The next general elections in Pakistan are due to be held within three months after June 4, 2018. It means that hardly a year is left for […]
Looks aren’t everything. Believe me, I’m a model
Cameron Russell admits she won “a genetic lottery”: she’s tall, pretty and an underwear model. But don’t judge her by her looks. In this fearless talk, she takes a wry […]
Prophecies of a Third World War
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