Saudi Arabia Quietly Spreads its Brand of Puritanical Islam in Indonesia
Source: New Age Islam By Krithika Varagur January 17, 2017 When Ulil Abshar-Abdalla was a teenager in Pati, Central Java, he placed first in an Arabic class held at his […]
Read President Obama’s Farewell Letter to America: ‘You Made Me a Better Man’
Source: Time By Katie Reilly President Barack Obama published a thank you letter to the American people on Thursday, his last day in office, encouraging them to stay active in democracy […]
Inflammatory pastor preached to Trump before inauguration
Source: CNN By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor (CNN)A pastor with a long history of inflammatory remarks about Muslims, Mormons, Catholics and gays preached at a private service for President-elect […]
Praying at the inaugural service: An imam, a rabbi, a Hindu priest and an abundance of pastors
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer The morning after he becomes president of the United States, Donald Trump will hear prayers at Washington National Cathedral from more than two-dozen […]
Will Trump speech meet ‘God’ average for inaugural addresses?
Source: USA Today By Paul Singer , USA TODAY If Donald Trump’s inaugural address is anything like his predecessors’, there will be a lot of God in it. A new interactive built […]
Muslim NYPD Chaplain On Faith, Fear And Getting Stopped By Airport Security
Source: NPR Imam Khalid Latif is one of the people profiled in The Secret Life of Muslims, a digital series about Islamophobia. He is also the first Muslim chaplain at New York University. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Terry Gross. My guest is the second ever Muslim […]
WHY REPUBLICANS COULD REGRET OVERTURNING ROE V. WADE
Source: The New Yorker By Eyal Press Every year around the anniversary of Roe v. Wade—January 22, 1973—protesters from across the country gather in Washington, D.C., for the March […]
Trump Renews Vow for Jerusalem Embassy, a Gift of Uncertain Value
Source: The New York Times By IAN FISHER and ISABEL KERSHNER JERUSALEM — It started, as it has in American presidential races for decades, as a campaign line, one that […]
‘Dangerous and unpredictable’: Here’s how unpopular Trump is in German polls
Source: The Local A new poll ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration shows that most Germans are pessimistic about what he will bring to Europe. According to the poll released on Friday by opinion research group Civey, very few Germans have anything positive to say about Trump. Just 5.2 percent of […]
Gambia crisis: Jammeh given last chance to resign as troops close in
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES Image captionNews of Adama Barrow’s presidency was met with celebrations in the Gambian capital Banjul West African leaders have given Yahya Jammeh a final opportunity to relinquish power after Senegalese troops entered The Gambia. Mr Jammeh has been given until noon on Friday to leave office or […]
Guantanamo Bay, the infamous jail Obama could not shut
By AFP – Jan 18,2017 – JORDAN TIMES In this February 2, 2002 file photo, a detainee from Afghanistan is carried on a stretcher before being interrogated by military officials at the detention facility Camp X-Ray on Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base in Cuba (AP photo) WASHINGTON — […]
Evaluating Obama’s foreign policy
Jan 19,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Jonathan Power When President Barack Obama leaves office, will the world be better or worse than eight years ago? Taking the big picture, so often obscured by the wars and uprisings that dominate the front page, more often than not he has resisted the foreignpolicy […]
Hello Mr President
Source: ET Like it or not Donald Trump is going to be sworn in as President of the United States of America tomorrow, Friday 20th January 2017. He comes into office with the lowest approval rating of any president since Adam was a lad. Some of the scandals that dog […]
India’s elusive ‘Cold Start’ doctrine and Pakistan’s military preparedness
Source: ET India has twice made exceptions of not appointing the senior-most lieutenant general for the covet post of chief of army staff in 33 years. This time, the Modi government superseded two lieutenant generals – Praveen Bakshi and Mohamed Ali Hariz – to elevate Bipin Rawat as army commander-in-chief. […]
Uber Dubai gets its first female limo driver
Joining the ranks of women cabbies in pink scarves you see at Dubai airport, Uber Dubai got its first female limo driver yesterday. The driver Fritzie Castro, 43, a Filipina, has been in Dubai for seven years. She works the 4am-4pm shift, waking up six days a week at 2 […]
History Channel Documentary: Banned from the Bible Secrets of the Apostles
Our favorite posts: We are all living in the Womb of God-the-Mother, 13.8 billion Years Pregnancy The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden – Wikipedia […]
AFTERMATH: SIXTEEN WRITERS ON TRUMP’S AMERICA
Source: The New Yorker Essays by Toni Morrison, Atul Gawande, Hilary Mantel, George Packer, Jane Mayer, Jeffrey Toobin, Junot Díaz, and more. A DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION By George Packer Four decades […]
Should You Give Your Baby Acupuncture?
Source: Motto By Amanda MacMillan Acupuncture may help babies who cry too much, according to a new study published in the journal Acupuncture in Medicine. Infants with colic—crying for more than […]
How Mormon Polygamy In The 19th Century Fueled Women’s Activism
Source: NPR Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich says that for Mormon women living in 19th century Utah, “plural marriages” were empowering in complicated ways. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is […]
What Thomas Merton and Muhammad Ali Had in Common
Source: The New York Times By LONNIE ALI On an afternoon in 1958, near the shopping district at Walnut and Fourth Streets in Louisville, Ky., Thomas Merton was moving about […]