EMPTY PEWS: One in four shuns religion in Switzerland
By Susan Misicka MAR 31, 2011 – A quarter of Swiss don’t attend church at all(Keystone) The role of organised religion in Switzerland is an increasingly small one, according […]
SAFETY CONCERNS: Building owner blocks Islamist conference
APR 24, 2017 – Members of the Islamic community in Switzerland demonstrate “against terrorism and Islamophobia”(Keystone) The owner of Zurich’s World Trade Center will not allow the Islamic Central […]
From aspiring stylist to extremist widow: one woman’s Syria story
By AFP – Apr 24,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Twenty-three-year old Islam Maytat from Morocco poses for a photo with her children Maria (left) and Abdullah in the Kurdish-majority city […]
Terrorism for financial gain is a real threat – but it’s also nothing we haven’t seen before
Relying on the stock market to react rationally to a terrorist attacks is hardly a sound investment strategy. Borussia Dortmund shares actually rose the day after the attack Tom Smith 7 […]
Marine Le Pen may have progressed this far, but it is a Macron presidency that will present a new start for France
Yet what exactly that change will look like remains to be seen Mary Dejevsky @IndyVoices Macron mobilised support with his En Marche! movement AFP Not, perhaps, the best of results for France and Europe, but by no means the worst either. The far-right National Front candidate, Marine Le Pen, appears […]
The Nature of Reality: A Dialogue Between a Buddhist Scholar and a Theoretical Physicist
Suggested Reading and Viewing Nova Documentary on Mystery of Mathematics 2016 Nobel in Physics Shows Again: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the […]
The Rancorous Politics of Meat in India
Source: The Wall Street Journal By Sadanand Dhume Updated April 23, 2017 5:21 p.m. ET Is it acceptable for vigilantes to beat a man to death for transporting cattle? In […]
America is abandoning independent Christians in China
Source: Religion News Service By Chloë Starr | April 21, 2017 (RNS) When Xi Jinping and Donald Trump had their first face-to-face meeting earlier this month in Mar-a-Lago, the plight of […]
Why Native Americans do not separate religion from science
Source: The Conversation BY Rosalyn R. LaPier Research Associate of Women’s Studies, Environmental Studies and Native American Religion, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University Last year five Native American tribes in Washington […]
Outspoken Maldives Blogger Who Challenged Radical Islamists Is Killed
Source: The New York Times By HASSAN MOOSA and KAI SCHULTZAPRIL 23, 2017 Photo Yameen Rasheed in Malé, the capital of the Maldives, in February. CreditAdam Dean for The New […]
Trump condemns anti-Semitism on Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day
Source: Reuters By Julia Edwards Ainsley | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said anti-Semitism should be defeated and called the Holocaust the “darkest chapter of human history” in a video […]
Pope likens migrant holding centers to ‘concentration camps’
Source: Reuters By Philip Pullella | ROME Pope Francis urged governments on Saturday to get migrants and refugees out of holding centers, saying many had become “concentration camps”. During a […]
Is there such a thing as a ‘Muslim vote’ in France?
Source: The Conversation On April 8, the well-known French television show Salut les terriens turned sour when guests discussed the very sensitive topic of the so-called “French Muslim vote”. One […]
Malaria: Kenya, Ghana and Malawi get first vaccine
Source: BBC By James GallagherHealth and science reporter, BBC News website Image copyrightD POLAND/PATHImage captionThe vaccine has been tested extensively in more than 15,000 children The world’s first vaccine against […]
France Throws the Bums Out and Votes for a New Political Reality
Source: Time BY Vivienne Walt / Paris 11:01 PM ET No matter whether centrist economist Emmanuel Macron or far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen wins France’s presidency in two weeks’ […]
Find Out If a Robot Will Take Your Job
Source: Time BY David Johnson Updated: Apr 21, 2017 5:30 PM ET | Originally published: Apr 19, 2017 At a community college in upstate New York, 12 cafeteria workers recently learned […]
Does the Dubai Frame depict an ugly picture?
Source: CNN (CNN) The United Arab Emirates is an architectural playground. Its existing man-made wonders include the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, and the sail-shaped Burj Al Arab Jumeirah, while […]
Turkey only received €790M of €3B pledged by EU, Presidential Spox Kalın says
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL AA Photo Presidential Spokesman İbrahim Kalın urged the European Union to fulfill its obligations within the scope of the migration deal reached between the bloc and Turkey. Kalın told a news conference that Turkey only received 790 million euro of 3 billion euros pledged by the bloc […]
Kashmir: The forgotten cause!
HATEM BAZIAN@hatembazian The image of Farooq Ahmad Dar, a Kashmiri shawl weaver, bound as a human shield on the bumper of an Indian military jeep is an atrocious display of an army that has become well-accustomed to human rights violations. On April 9, Mr. Dar was detained for no […]
Important in calculating the risk of Daesh
JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh Since the appearance of Daesh in Iraq and Syria, over the last few years, journalists have been analysing the situation, but much of the coverage has focused on the number of fighters and their nationalities, which suggests a misunderstanding of the region and its […]