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By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 25, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

By Zia H Shah on April 25, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

By Zia H Shah on April 25, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 25, 2017 • ( 2 Comments )

‘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 […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 25, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

‘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 […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 25, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )

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 […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 25, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )

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 […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 25, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 25, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on April 25, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

By Zia H Shah on April 24, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )

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 […]

By rabyam on April 24, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )

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 […]

By rabyam on April 24, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

By rabyam on April 24, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

By rabyam on April 24, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )

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 […]

By rabyam on April 24, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

By rabyam on April 24, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

By rabyam on April 24, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

By rabyam on April 24, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

By rabyam on April 24, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

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’ […]

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