Ted Talk: The history of our world in 18 minutes
Speaker: David Christian Backed by stunning illustrations, David Christian narrates a complete history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the Internet, in a riveting 18 minutes. This is […]
USA:The 19 strangest things Donald Trump said in his surreal 100-days interview
Thestar.com 2017/04/24 Trump’s Associated Press interview is replete with lies, exaggerations, rambles and strange non-sequiturs. By DANIEL DALEWashington Bureau Mon., April 24, 2017 WASHINGTON—U.S. President Donald Trump did an Oval Office interview with Associated Press reporter Julie Pace to discuss his first 100 days in office. He made some news, offering […]
NO Joke: S. Arabia elected to UN women’s rights commission
The Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch condemned the U.N.’s election of Saudi Arabia, “the world’s most misogynistic regime,” to a 2018-2022 term on its Commission on the Status of Women, the U.N. agency “exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.” “Electing Saudi Arabia to protect […]
A PLACE BETWEEN TWO PLACES: The Quranic Barzakh
The Quranic Barzakh By George Archer Previous product Next product Picture of A Place Between Two Places For believers in a resurrection of the body, there arises the question of what happens after death but before the Last Day: the intermediate state. For most Muslims, the intermediate state is the […]
In Pakistan, a student’s lynching for alleged blasphemy was a new low — but no surprise
Source: The Washington Post By Haq Nawaz Khan and Pamela Constable April 24 at 6:01 AM ZAIDA, Pakistan — Even in his ancestral village here in northwestern Pakistan, where 23-year-old […]
In the rush to blame radical Islamists for terror incidents, we are inadvertently handing them more power
Source: Independent By Sunny Hundal @sunny_hundal Isis needs European leaders to overreact and polarise people. They want to inspire terror, they want us to cower in their influence and power You […]
‘WITH SYRIA IN PIECES, IT’S TIME TO RECOGNIZE ISRAEL’S ANNEXATION OF THE GOLAN’
Source: Jerusalem Post BY SETH J. FRANTZMAN APRIL 20, 2017 Deputy minister for diplomacy Michael Oren stresses that Israel sought peace before the 1967 Six Day War. IDF tanks are seen […]
‘Others’ in Europe and their influence on elections
BERIL DEDEOĞLU Muslim populations in Europe have become one of the most important variables in elections in the European Union in some time. Right-wing and extreme-right politicians have developed three main attitudes toward them: “Muslims should go,” “if they stay, they shouldn’t act like Muslims” and “no more Muslims should […]
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 […]