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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]