Setting an example of communal harmony, the residents of Jogirampuri village in Bijnore district on Sunday resolved the dispute over the use of loudspeaker at a Shiv temple. Tension prevailed in the village after the police dismounted the loudspeaker from the temple on Ram Navmi after the Muslims objected to […]
President Carter, Am I a Christian? Source: The New York Times By Nicholas Kristof, New York Times’ columnist on human rights, women’s rights, health, global affairs Christians celebrate Easter on […]
I can understand his parents’ rage and their determination to fight for their child, because my nephew was brain-damaged and trapped in a coma last year from which he never recovered Janet Street-Porter Friday 7 April 2017 Charlie Gard’s parents want to take their son to the US for treatment […]
Paul Mason As Trump faces down North Korea, it’s alarming to think that most of the world’s nuclear warheads are now in the hands of men who are prepared to use them ‘This sudden mania for speaking of nuclear warfare, among men with untrammeled power, should be the No 1 […]
Apr 18,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Ramzy Baroud Back in the Middle East for a few months, I find myself astounded by the absence of strong voices of Arab intellectuals. The region that has given rise to the likes of Michel Aflaq, George Habash, Rached Al Ghannouchi, Edward Said and numerous […]
Apr 18,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Nadeem ul Haque A longstanding debate in economics — and among social scientists more broadly — centres on how best to deliver international aid to developing countries. Should these countries’ governments rely on top-down wisdom from donor capitals? Or should they focus more on funding bottom-up […]
By declaring emergency laws, the President is proving to the world that private investment in his country cannot increase. Who wants to invest in a nation whose capital is ‘invested’ by Isis? Robert Fisk @indyvoices Monday 10 April 2017 09:30 BST Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has introduced emergency laws following […]
Lettre ouverte à Mohamed Aïssa: les Ahmadis en Algérie souhaitent également lutter contre le Takfir ! The Minister for Religious Affairs, You have not answered my last letter to ask you for an interview on the question of the Ahmadis, and we do not blame you. We understand that judicial […]
Source: BBC By Alina Dizik 18 April 2017 If you can’t seem to resist a scroll through your Facebook or Instagram feed during working hours, or if you feel anxious […]
‘This whole bloody place is a disgrace.’ 17/04/2017 12:05 Chris York Senior Editor, Huffington Post UK Britain First has “invaded” an Islamic bookshop in Birmingham prompting localChristians, politicians and the police to spend Easter Sunday “uniting in peace”. Members of the far-right group filmed themselves in the store on Alum […]
Source: BBC By Rachel Nuwer 18 April 2017 The political economist Benjamin Friedman once compared modern Western society to a stable bicycle whose wheels are kept spinning by economic growth. […]
Source: BBC Australia will introduce stricter visa requirements for skilled workers from overseas, the government said. The 457 visa programme is used mainly to hire foreign workers in the restaurant, […]
April 18, 2017, A retired Punjab University professor belonging to the Ahmadi community was found murdered at her house in Lahore today. According to police, retired professor Tahira of […]
Source: BBC UK Prime Minister Theresa May has announced plans to call a snap general election on 8 June. She said Britain needed certainty, stability and strong leadership following the […]
Source: Reuters By Lisa Fernandez | BERKELEY, CALIF. The second mosque in the United States led solely by women held its inaugural service in California on Friday, but unlike a […]
Source: The New York Times By PATRICK KINGSLEY APRIL 17, 2017 ISTANBUL — Merve Arslan, a teacher, struggles to reconcile her own perception of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey […]
Source: Los Angeles Times By Tom Kington Of all the recent attacks launched by conservatives against Pope Francis, one stood out more than most. It came from a German cardinal […]
Source: BBC By Reevel Alderson BBC Scotland’s social affairs correspondent Gay marriages may soon be able to take place in the Church of Scotland. A report to be debated at […]
Source: Reuters By Tom Allard and Gayatri Suroyo | JAKARTA Jakarta voters head to the polls on Wednesday to elect a governor for Indonesia’s teeming capital after a campaign that […]
DAILY SABAH WITH ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL Anadolu Agency Photo The Turkish-Muslim Equality and Justice Party (PEJ), which mainly consists of young immigrants, will participate in France’s June parliamentary elections. The party was founded in January 2015, however some of its members had previously run in Municipal elections as independents. The […]