What really happened when Swedes tried six-hour days?
Source: BBC By Maddy Savage Business reporter, Gothenburg Sweden has been experimenting with six-hour days, with workers getting the chance to work fewer hours on full pay, but now the […]
Trump fears terrorists, but more Americans are shot dead by toddlers
Gary Younge Gun deaths – intentional, accidental and self-inflicted – dwarf those related to terror. The talk is of secure borders but within the US many live in a state of fear ‘An American is at least twice as likely to be shot dead by a toddler than killed by […]
UK mosques open their doors as Jeremy Corbyn sends message to Trump
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood, Helen Pidd, Steven Morris, Henry McDonald and Dani Garavelli Sunday 5 February 2017 19.18 GMTLast modified on Monday 6 February 2017 09.03 GMT Jeremy Corbyn has challenged […]
4,444 victims: extent of abuse in Catholic church in Australia revealed
Source: The Guardian By Christopher Knaus The average age of alleged victims was 10.5 for girls and just over 11.5 for boys In one order 40% of religious brothers are believed […]
‘A personal attack on Muslim women’: Ms Saffaa mural defaced in Melbourne
Source: The Guardian By Sarah Malik Monday 6 February 2017 02.41 GMTLast modified on Monday 6 February 2017 02.43 GMT A Melbourne street-art mural featuring a Muslim feminist protest paste-up by prominent artist […]
The sanctuary movement: how religious groups are sheltering the undocumented
Source: The Guardian By Dwyer Gunn On a frigid Saturday night in January, Ingrid Latorre, a 33-year-old woman with dark eyes and long dark hair, kept a careful eye on her […]
Heavy lifting, shift work could harm women’s fertility, study shows
Source: CNN By Meera Senthilingam, CNN CNN)Jobs that involve heavy lifting on a regular basis could reduce a woman’s fertility, particularly among overweight and obese women, a new study shows. […]
How Trump changed Americans’ view of Islam – for the better
Source: The Washington Post By Shibley Telhami President Trump is expected to announce a ban on Muslim immigrants into the United States. However, polls conducted in the last year show […]
What Trump team has said about Islam
Source: BBC By Anthony Zurcher North America reporter Does Donald Trump believe Islam is a religion? It was a straightforward question, asked of Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to the president, during […]
Is a new Middle East war on Israel’s horizon?
Source: BBC Looking out from Israeli-held territory, the scrubby and rock-strewn ground pitches steeply downwards towards a patrol road and the border fence. The current frontier with Syria – the young lieutenant points out – is about a third of the way up the opposite escarpment. And just a couple […]
Trump’s Disregard For Islamophobic Hate Crimes Shows He Cares Little About Muslim American Lives
Source: Huffpost By Dean Obeidallah; Political comedian, SiriusXM radio show host and commentator Muslim Americans are Americans. And we are being targeted. On Sunday evening in Quebec, a 27-year-old white […]
Indonesian police ban Islamist rally ahead of Jakarta election
Source: Reuters International FEB 7, 2017 – JAKARTA (Reuters) – Police in the Indonesian capital Jakarta have banned a rally organised by Islamist groups ahead of next week’s hotly contested election to lead the city, officials said on Tuesday. The rally on Feb. 11, just four days before voting day, […]
Pope issues stinging criticism of Myanmar’s treatment of Rohingyas
Reuters International FEB 8, 2017 – Pope Francis leads the Second Vespers at the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside The Walls in Rome, Italy January 25, 2017. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi (reuters_tickers) VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Wednesday issued a stinging criticism of atrocities against Myanmar’s minority Rohingyas, saying […]
Do imams need Swiss training?
MUSLIMS IN SWITZERLAND By Peter Siegenthaler FEB 8, 2017 How does an imam understand young Muslims’ lives in Switzerland if he only spends a few years in the country and doesn’t speak one of the national languages? (Keystone) Many imams at Swiss mosques spend only a few years in Switzerland, […]
Netanyahu’s hysterical rhetoric on Iran seeks to divert attention from West Bank settlement building
Talk of a ‘two-state solution’ remains nothing more than a convenient fig leaf for Israeli authorities Patrick Cockburn @indyworld Tuesday 7 February 2017 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave Theresa May a frightening account during their meeting of the threat posed by Iranian aggression to Israel and everybody else. In […]
Wife leaves husband of 22 years because he voted for Donald Trump
Source: The Independent ‘It totally undid me that he could vote for Trump. I felt like I had been fooling myself’ John Whitesides Burning passions over Donald Trump‘s presidency are taking a personal toll on both sides of the political divide. For Gayle McCormick, it is particularly wrenching: she has separated […]
Tough questions in US appeals court over Trump travel ban
Source: BBC A US appeals court has posed tough questions at those challenging and defending President Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban. The order banned entry for all refugees and visitors […]
European Parliament’s lead Brexit negotiator warns European Union could ‘disappear’
Guy Verhofstadt says that now is ‘an existential moment for the European Union’ Josie Cox Business Editor The European Parliament’s lead Brexit negotiator has said that the European Union needs to reform or it risks disappearing completely. Speaking to the BBC World Service on Wednesday, Guy Verhofstadt said that there […]
Yemen Withdraws Permissions for U.S. Ground Operations
Source: The Daily Beast Yemen will no longer allow U.S. ground troops into the country on Special Operations counterterrorism missions, the New York Times reports. The decision is reportedly in response to a Jan. 29 raid by U.S. troops in Yemen, during which multiple Yemeni civilians were killed. It is unclear […]
Inside the Appeals Court Battle Over Trump’s Travel Ban
Source: The Daily Beast On Tuesday afternoon in San Francisco, a Justice Department lawyer argued hard that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals should reinstate President Trump’s travel ban—or, barring that, just reinstate most of it.It was the latest court skirmish over Trump’s most controversial move yet: an executive order […]