Donald Trump’s Best Legal Strategy: An Apology
Source: Time BY Samuel Breidbart and Vinay Nayak Breidbart and Nayak are students at Yale Law School. It’s time for Donald Trump to do something he’s pretty much never done before: […]
Gene Editing: Promise & Peril
Source: Common Weal Magazine By Gilbert Meilaender March 13, 2017 Several of my children, in the summer before they began kindergarten, participated in a program called “safety city.” Among the […]
Swiss senate refuses nationwide burqa ban
The Local news@thelocal.ch 9 March 2017 Photo: AFP The upper house of parliament has rejected the idea of a nationwide ban on the Islamic face veil and other face coverings. […]
Mennonites seek to come to terms with Nazi collaboration
Source: Religion News Service By Ben Goossen SHARETWEET EMAILPRINTMORE FILADELFIA, Paraguay (RNS) Violence tore through this close-knit, traditionally pacifist community on the night of March 11, 1944. All the more remarkable, […]
Friday Sermon: 3rd March 2017 Friday Sermon delivered by Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
03/03/2017 MTA International Urdu Available Translation Arabic, Bengali, Bosnian, English, French, German, Indonesian, Malayalam, Pashtu, Russian, Sindhi, Swahili, Tamil, Turkish Friday Sermon delivered by Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Recorded on 3rd March 2017. CHECK HERE IN YOUR LANGUAGE: http://www.mta.tv/friday-sermon/friday-sermon-3rd-march-2017 Editor’s Note: The […]
Australia’s Anglican church gets 1,115 child abuse complaints
Source: BBC More than 1,100 complaints of child sexual abuse have been made against the Anglican Church of Australia, a royal commission inquiry has heard. The allegations, dating from 1980 […]
In first Trump-Merkel meeting, awkward body language and a quip
Reuters International MAR 17, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S. March 17, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (reuters_tickers) By Jeff Mason and Andreas Rinke WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The first face-to-face meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump […]
Chechnya’s first daughter shows off fashion collection
Reuters International MAR 18, 2017 Aishat Kadyrova (front), head of the Firdaws fashion house and daughter of the Chechen Republic leader Ramzan Kadyrov, attends the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia in […]
Pope’s Egypt visit offers chance to improve Catholic-Muslim ties
Reuters International MAR 18, 2017 Pope Francis arrives during the penitential celebration in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican March 17, 2017. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi(reuters_tickers) VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis […]
‘ISLAM HATES US” IS TROUBLING: FIJISUN USA
As an American Muslim and interfaith leader here in SFO Bay Area, I find Mr. Trump’s statement on national TV “ISLAM HATES US” very troubling . Much like Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and several faiths, Islam does not teach hate. Quran does not speak in such terms and language that would […]
Me, Myself and My Hijab
OXFORD, England — One of the many issues that have been raised here in the aftermath of the Brexit vote revolves around identity. What does it mean to be British, to look British, to sound British? Shaista Aziz, UK March 17, 2017 NYTimes.com I was born and raised here. I […]
Muslim presenter sparks uproar
Source: The Daily Mail The BBC‘s Asian Network has provoked uproar by asking its Twitter followers ‘what is the right punishment for blasphemy?’A video posted on its account shows Muslim activist Shazia Awan asking followers to get in touch and offer their opinions on how blasphemy should be dealt with.Her […]
Attacker killed at Orly airport France:
Source: BBC A man has been shot dead after trying to seize a soldier’s weapon at Orly airport in Paris, French officials say.He was killed by the security forces in a shop after the attack in the airport’s southern terminal. The airport has been shut after what the authorities described as […]
Secret Service laptop containing Trump Tower evacuation and floor plans stolen
Source: CNN A laptop with highly sensitive information was stolen from a Secret Service agent’s car Thursday morning in Brooklyn and has not been found, according to two senior New York law enforcement officials. The officials said the laptop, which was highly encrypted and contained floor plans and evacuation protocol […]
Who’s enemy number one?
Source: Dawn ASK people around you to identify the three greatest threats facing Pakistan. Ordinary people, chatterbox anchors, mullahs, generals and politicians will name everything from corruption, bad governance and religious terrorism, to Indian and American conspiracies, and general moral decay. But few, if any, waste sleep worrying about the […]
An employer who bans all religious clothing at work is not one I’d want to work for
The European Court of Justice ruled this week that employers can refuse to employ staff who insist on wearing headscarves – but the implications of the ruling are complex and do not necessarily constitute an attack on one particular faith Janet Street-Porter 16 hours ago Halima Aden appeared on the […]
Wilders vs Spinoza
Mar 16,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Steven Nadler A Dutch demagogue stirs up his followers in a campaign against immigrants. Appealing to the public’s fears and nativist passions, he declares the culture of the immigrants antithetical to Dutch values and denounces their religion, which “scandalises Christians”, as a kind of infectious disease. […]
More Honey, More Money: Iraqi MP Wants to Pay Men for Polygamy
© AFP 2017/ STR MIDDLE EAST 17.03.2017 An Iraqi MP has proposed reducing the number of widows in the country by providing financial incentives for polygamous marriages. © AFP 2017/ […]
America’s responsibility toward Syrian refugees
Greg Shupak The Electronic Intifada 16 March 2017 US policy has played a role in creating the mass flight of refugees from Syria. Oren ZivActiveStills President Donald Trump’s second major executive order on immigration bans people from six countries with Muslim majorities from entering the United States: Iran, Yemen, Somalia, […]