Source: BBC A French judge has ordered ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy to stand trial in an illegal campaign finance case. Mr Sarkozy faces accusations that his party falsified accounts in order to hide 18m euros (£15m; $20m) of campaign spending in 2012. Mr Sarkozy has repeatedly denied that he was aware of the […]
Source: CNN As President Donald Trump’s White House attempts to embark on a period of order and discipline, many in Washington are greeting the news with a collective eye roll. At the start of Trump’s third week in office, top advisers are trying to move beyond the infighting and feuds […]
http://rationalreligion.co.uk: By: Raden Roro, a convert to Islam Ahmadiyya Here are common allegations, memes, and popular quotes spewed by many atheists against all religions and all religious peoples. “Religions survive because they brainwash the young. Take away that brainwashing, and religions will die out” “We are all born atheists until someone […]
oveEpigraph – Quran about Jesus’ refugee status: And We made the son of Mary and his mother a Sign, and gave them refuge on an elevated land of green valleys […]
By AFP – Feb 06,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Syrian refugee Anas Modamani (right) and his lawyer Chan-jo Jun talk to the media on their way to the district court in Wuerzburg, southern Germany, on Monday (AFP photo) WUERZBURG, Germany — A Syrian refugee whose selfie with German Chancellor […]
By Reuters – Feb 06,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Displaced Iraqi children who fled the Daesh stronghold of Mosul with their families play at Khazer camp, Iraq, on Monady (Reuters photo) BAGHDAD — The World Bank plans to offer Iraq financial support in parallel with projects to foster reconciliation […]
Feb 06,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby With a stroke of the pen on a misdirected and, I believe, malicious executive order (EO), President Donald Trump unleashed a dynamic that will, I fear, have consequences as far reaching and damaging to my country and my community as the Bush […]
Reuters International FEB 6, 2017 – WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is “deeply troubled” by the findings of a United Nations report that said soldiers in Myanmar’s Rakhine State had committed atrocities against minority Muslims, the State Department said on Monday. Washington was still studying the report, but […]
Reuters International FEB 7, 2017 Najmia Abdishakur (2nd L), a Somali national who was delayed entry to the U.S. because of the recent travel ban, is greeted by her mother Zahra Warsma (L) at Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia, U.S. February 6, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (reuters_tickers) By Dan […]
BURKA BAN Few veiled women fined in Ticino FEB 6, 2017 – 21:41 This billboard from the conservative Swiss People’s Party urges voters not to make it easier for third generation immigrants to become citizens. (Keystone) Six women have been fined since a so-called burka ban went into effect in […]
By Saeed Qureshi Mr. president God bless you but the start of your tenure of four years as the president of the United States of America seems to be thorny. […]
A good resource to tackle Islamophobia John Louis Esposito (born May 19, 1940) is an American professor of International Affairs and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He […]
Source: Associated Press By HAMZA HENDAWI Today CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s top Islamic authority on Sunday rejected President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s suggestion that legislation be adopted to invalidate the practice of […]
Source: Yahoo News By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — Conservative criticism of Pope Francis intensified Saturday after his intervention in the Knights of Malta order, with posters appearing around Rome […]
Source: BBC An inquiry examining institutional sex abuse in Australia has heard 7% of the nation’s Catholic priests allegedly abused children between 1950 and 2010. In one religious order, over […]
Source: The Wall Street Journal By JENNIFER LEVITZ and IAN LOVETT MALDEN, Mass.—A mother of three in this Boston suburb, Nichole Mossalam had never planned to run for office. But […]
Source: The New York Times By JONAH ENGEL BROMWICH Returning home on Saturday night after a dinner in Manhattan with some longtime friends, Gregory Locke boarded a No. 1 subway […]
Ibrahim Noonan; Galway – Ireland Maryra, also known as Hazrat Mariam by Muslims, is one of the most popular names given to Christian girls living in Western Europe. If you are firmly established in your Christian faith, then as a girl you would know that you had been named after […]
Source: BBC US President Donald Trump has attacked the judge who blocked his travel ban, saying Americans should blame the courts “if something happens”. Mr Trump also said he had […]