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 […]
Trump’s actions ‘leading himself’ to impeachment
Source:CNN “I have not called for the impeachment yet. He’s doing it himself,” Waters said when asked about the statement at a news conference. “Let me just say that the statement I made is a statement in response to questions and pleas that I’m getting from many citizens across this […]
Male contraceptive gel effective in monkeys, but will it work in humans?
Source: CNN “What was important here was that this worked and was safe in animals similar to humans,” said Elaine Lissner, executive director of the Parsemus Foundation, the medical research organization behind Vasalgel that is also leading the trials. A new study, published Tuesday, involved 16 male monkeys receiving injections […]
Dramatic Syrian art installation in central Dresden enrages far right
Source: The Local Manaf Halbouni’s “Monument” in Dresden. Photo: DPA A Syrian-born artist was on Tuesday to open an eye-catching installation in Germany – three passenger buses placed vertically like sniper barricades – but the artwork has drawn fierce criticism from far-right groups.Dubbed “Monument”, the mega-sculpture in the eastern city […]
No plan for travel ban on Pakistanis: US
Source: Dawn WASHINGTON: The Trump administration has no plan to ban Pakistani citizens from travelling to the United States because Pakistan is providing the data they need to vet a visitor, US officials say. In recent briefings to various media outlets, White House officials also said the administration had no plan […]
Another law to curb extremism
Source: Dawn UPDATING and strengthening laws dealing with religiously motivated crimes, especially sectarianism and violence against non-Muslims, is a sensible and necessary move by the government. The Criminal Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2016, is set to become an Act of Parliament after the National Assembly once again voted to approve the […]
Military jets escort Pakistan International Airlines flight into London Stansted
A man has been arrested after a passenger jet flying from Pakistan to Heathrow had to be diverted when police received an anonymous threat regarding the aircraft. RAF Typhoon jets were scrambled to escort the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight to Stansted Airport in Essex following reports of disruption on […]
The media is ignoring leaked US-government documents on Syria
Homepage : Comment : The media is ignoring leaked US-government documents on Syria Ian Sinclair Former Secretary of State John Kerry speaking about US policy in Iraq and Syria [Getty] Date of publication: 6 February, 2017 Comment: Disclosures reported by the media about US policy in Syria were quickly forgotten, […]
Morocco’s High Religious Committee Says Apostates Should Not Be Killed
By Ezzoubeir Jabrane – February 6, 2017 , 6:09 am Casablanca – Morocco’s High Religious Committee has retracted its Islamic ruling stating that apostasy is punishable by death and has decided to permit Muslims to change their religion. The High Religious Committee in charge of issuing Fatwas (Islamic rulings) released […]