Source: Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Massachusetts man is accused of attacking a Muslim airline employee at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, allegedly kicking and shouting […]
Source: The New York Times By DAVID MONTGOMERY and MANNY FERNANDEZ AUSTIN, Tex. — Just over a week ago, white envelopes marked “URGENT REPLY ASAP” began arriving in the mailboxes […]
Source: Associated Press By RUSSELL CONTRERAS and JEFF KAROUB ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. Muslim and Latino advocates have joined forces in opposing changes to immigration rules by President Donald […]
Source: BBC President Donald Trump has banned the entry of Syrian refugees into the US until further notice. He has also halted the issuing of visas to the nationals of six other mainly Muslim countries, including Iran, Iraq, Yemen and Libya, for three months. Mr Trump said the measures were […]
Source: CNN Four days before showtime, “The Big Brown Comedy Hour” had sold out. “That never happens,” organizer Dean Obeidallah told the crowd at Comic Strip Live, a venerable club in Manhattan. “We’re pretty sure Homeland Security bought a block of tickets.” Like many of the night’s quips, rants, impressions […]
Source: The Local The mayor of Germany’s long-divided capital Berlin, Michael Mueller, on Friday offered some advice to US President Donald Trump: “Don’t build this wall!” The billionaire-president, holding true to his campaign promise, this week ordered US officials to begin to design and construct a wall along the 2,000-mile […]
Source: The Local There are more people living in Germany than ever before, largely thanks to immigration. Here’s an explanation of what the new numbers mean. Germany’s population reached 82.8 million at the end of 2016, according to government estimates. That’s around 600,000 more than the previous year – an […]
Source: BBC By Mark Peters Euphemisms! They’re the worst. Or I should I say they’re a negative outcome benchmark? Euphemistic language is the timeless enemy of anyone concerned with clarity. […]
Source: The Local The US leader has already told Angela Merkel what he thinks of her – albeit mainly through Twitter. What could their first presidential talk hold? US President Donald Trump will hold telephone talks Saturday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the […]
Source: Time Mikhail Gorbachev was the president of the Soviet Union and is the author of The New Russia. The world today is overwhelmed with problems. Policymakers seem to be […]
“[T]here will be Muslims coming from Canada, Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras. They will all be here. Some of them are here already and some of them will be arriving.” Times of Ahmad | News Watch | UK Desk Source/Credit: Channel 5 Belize By Channel 5 | January 25, 2017 Annual Regional Gathering of […]
Source: Time By Ioan Grillo / Mexico City The digital image shows a clenched fist bathed in the red, white and green of Mexico’s flag and decorated with the nation’s emblematic […]
Source: Time By Karl Vick We could talk all day about numbers. Were 250,000 people on hand to see Donald Trump take the oath, or more like the 1.5 million […]
by ALEXANDER SMITH Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned Friday that “it all looks as if the world is preparing for war.” Gorbachev, who was head of the socialist state when it dissolved in 1991, wrote the comments in an opinion piece for Time magazine. Mikhail Gorbachev AFP/Getty Images “More […]
Source: BBC By Vanessa Engle At exactly 11:15, the front door of a council flat in Brixton opened. Two women stepped out on to a quiet residential street. The younger […]
By Asad Jamal When a high court upholds the conviction and death sentence of a woman from a poor as well as politically and socially marginalised religious minority in a highly […]
Source: Herald By Alizeh Kohari Even though the rally had ended late, even though the night sky over Gangapur was turning translucent, Falak Sher’s wife insisted we stop by her house […]
Posted: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 An MP has urged the Scottish Government to take action after Tanver Ahmed, who killed Ahmadi Muslim shopkeeper Asad Shah, released another anti-Ahmadi recording from prison. Labour MP Siobhain McDonagh has written to the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Michael Matheson MSP, urging him to […]
MARKAZ Daniel L. Byman Wednesday, January 4, 2017 MARKAZ Editor’s Note:President-elect Donald Trump and some of his senior advisors have stressed the need to focus on radical Islam and criticized President Obama for avoiding that specific label, writes Dan Byman. It is tempting to dismiss the newcomers’ views as naïve and bigoted, but […]
ORDER FROM CHAOS Federica Saini Fasanotti Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Last week, the Italian government reopened the embassy in Tripoli, the first to do so after the majority of Libya’s embassies closed in 2015. A number of Libyans exploited the news with a media war and talk of neo-colonialism. They couldn’t […]