Reuters International FEB 24, 2017 – FILE PHOTO: Gambian President Yahya Jammeh addresses the 68th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, September 27, 2013. REUTERS/Andrew Burton/Pool/File Photo (reuters_tickers) By Edward McAllister and Emma Farge DAKAR (Reuters) – Funds from a dollar bank account in the […]
By Saeb Rawashdeh – Feb 23,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Francois Burgat AMMAN — “Never in our recent history [has] the gap between the politically correct discourse about political Islam in France and in the Arab world been so profound,” said Francois Burgat. A French political scientist, Arabist and senior […]
Source: BBC India has expressed shock after the fatal shooting of an Indian national in the US, amid reports that the attack may have been racially motivated. Srinivas Kuchibhotla died shortly after Wednesday’s attack at a bar in Olathe, Kansas. His friend Alok Madasani, also from India, and an American […]
Feb 23,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Jonathan Power Eleven hundred years ago, Europe was a backwater. There were no grand cities, apart from Cordoba, in Spain, which was Muslim. The Middle East was much further ahead, still absorbing the intellectual delights and challenges of Greek science, medicine and architecture that Europeans […]
Reuters International FEB 25, 2017 – Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters ride their vehicles in northern Raqqa province, Syria February 6, 2017. REUTERS/Rodi Said (reuters_tickers) By Phil Stewart and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s push against Islamic State in Syria could present him with an […]
Reuters International FEB 25, 2017 – Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim addresses a crowd in Oberhausen, Germany, February 18, 2017, to promote Turkey’s constitution referendum on April 16, 2017. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay (reuters_tickers) By Ercan Gurses ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s prime minister called on the public on Saturday to back constitutional […]
Source: The Daily Beast Reporters from several news organizations were denied entry to a press briefing at the White House on Friday afternoon, in a surprising breach of protocol that spurred fervent responses from newsroom executives. Journalists from CNN, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the BBC, BuzzFeed, […]
Bloomberg FEB 24, 2017 – (Bloomberg) — The number of wealthy people granted investor visas to live in the U.K. fell by more than 80 percent last year from the peak in 2014, a sign that luxury home sales in the capital may slump further. While so-called Tier 1 […]
Source: The Daily Beast President Trump’s deputy assistant, Sebastian Gorka, developed close ties to far-right and anti-Semitic groups in Hungary, according to an investigation by The Forward. When Gorka, 46, was caught wearing a medal associated with a Nazi collaborationist regime, he told Breitbart News that he wears it to […]
Source: The Local US president Donald Trump intensified his verbal attacks on Sweden, France and Germany on Friday, painting swaths of Europe as a jihadist-infested hellscape. Firing up victory-drunk conservatives at a rally outside Washington, Trump trashed long-time allies as he sought to justify his own controversial crackdown on immigrants. […]
by Dr. Juergen Todenhoefer Syria Conflict : How the democratic protests became a merciless war in which everyone fights against each other When the history of the Syrian War will be re-written it will not have much in common with today’s media coverage. The Syrian drama ran in three acts.: The first act […]
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad – Khalifatul Masih V(aba) Address by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmadaba, Khalifatul Masih V, Head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, at the Bait-ur-Rasheed Mosque in Hamburg, Germany, On 5th December 2012 a VIP reception was held at the Bait-ur-Rasheed Mosque in Hamburg, Germany, in which Hazrat […]
by Danny Wicentowski February 23, 2017 Photo by Danny Wicentowksi The Chesed Shel Emeth cemetery was packed with volunteers on Wednesday. Despite the crush of reporters and volunteers filling the Chesed Shel Emeth cemetery Wednesday afternoon, Marc Daniels managed to slide through a gap in the crowd — and suddenly, there […]
BOOK EXCERPT Historian Audrey Truschke’s new book examines one of the convenient myths imposed by India’s colonial rules. Audrey Truschke Hindu and Jain temples dotted the landscape of Aurangzeb’s kingdom. These religious institutions were entitled to Mughal state protection, and Aurangzeb generally endeavoured to ensure their well-being. By […]
Source: Associated Press EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Suspected Islamic militants gunned down a Coptic Christian man and stabbed his daughter to death inside his home in northern Sinai, the seventh such killing in a month’s time in the restive region, officials and a Christian priest said Friday, prompting hundreds of […]
My first film job at the age of 14 – Steven Spielberg’s Munich – featured me as an Islamic terrorist’s son. When I complained about racial profiling to a director, I was told that I was lucky I could ‘use my ethnicity as a playing card’ in an industry […]
Source: The Washington Post By Pamela Constable February 23 at 2:44 PM ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — When the Pakistan army announced that it was launching a nationwide military operation to “indiscriminately” […]
Source: The New York Times By KIMIKO de FREYTAS-TAMURA A 42-year-old man who burned a Quran and posted a video of it on Facebook has been charged with blasphemy in […]
Source: NPR By LAUREN FRAYER Jewish women sing songs of worship as they march arm in arm with male supporters through an ultra-Orthodox area of Jerusalem’s Old City. They’re from a […]
Source: CNN Beirut (CNN)France’s Marine Le Pen canceled a meeting with Lebanon’s Grand Mufti Tuesday after refusing to wear a headscarf. The far-right presidential candidate is on a two-day tour […]