Reuters International FEB 8, 2017 By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) – Egypt has eased restrictions at a tightly-controlled border with the Gaza trip in a sign of improved relations with the Palestinian territory’s Islamist rulers. Truckloads of goods ranging from steel to fish have rolled into the enclave in […]
Roy Greenslade And why it’s also wrong to refer to ‘Muslims’ as if they are a single entity Tuesday 24 November 2015 There is an insistent call for Muslims to condemn Isis. (I’ll come back to that groupist description in a moment). The Sun’s leading article a week ago (17 […]
SIX KILLED FEB 8, 2017 ICRC President Peter Maurer condemned the attack in Afghanistan (Keystone) Swiss Foreign Minister, Didier Burkhalter, has condemned an attack on humanitarian workers in Afghanistan that left six International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) staff dead on Wednesday. Burkhalter expressed condolences to the families of the […]
Saddam Hussain of Iraq no doubt was not a holy man. On the other hand, his last words, when being executed, were: [Saddam] There is no God but Allah and I testify that Muhammad is the messenger of God. There is no God but Allah and I testify that Muhammad… […]
Posted on 07 February 2017 Singaporeans know she will be the one. Singaporeans from all walks of life, who can see the future without even having to see it, are lining up to take turns to congratulate Halimah Yacob. This after they know that Halimah Yacob will be the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]