Project aims to grow a ‘city of trees’
Source: BBC By Mark Kinver Environment reporter, BBC News A project aims to plant three million trees – one for every man, woman and child – in Greater Manchester over […]
British Police Tasered Their Own Race Relations Adviser
Officers said they mistook the man for a wanted suspect. 01/20/2017 06:39 pm ET | Britain’s police watchdog is to hold an investigation after officers were filmed firing a stun-gun at their own local black race relations adviser who they apparently mistook for a wanted suspect, the force involved said […]
Gambia’s Leader Has Been Told to Cede Power or Be Forced Out
Babacar Dione / AP Jan. 20, 2017 Marco Longari—AFP/Getty ImagesDefeated Gambian President Yahya Jammeh listens to one of his aides in Banjul on Nov. 29, 2016. His successor has already been sworn in, but Yahya Jammeh refuses to relinquish power (DAKAR, Senegal) — Gambia’s defeated President Yahya Jammehmust cede […]
Why do US ex-officials keep peddling their same failures?
Jan 19,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI We have just passed through quite an extraordinary period of international activity on how to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict. The UN Security Council resolution declaring Israeli settlements as illegal under international law was followed by the US forcefully speaking out against […]
Trump’s WhiteHouse.Gov Disappears Civil Rights, Climate Change, LGBT Rights
Source: Daily Beast WhiteHouse.gov immediately wiped pages on LGBT rights, civil rights, climate change, and health care from its “issues” section after Donald Trumptook the oath of office. More:
Muslim Americans have every reason to worry about the Trump presidency
Source: Dawn Donald Trump, who mocked a disabled reporter, said he would ban Muslims from entering the United States, referred to Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists, and made countless sexist statements, is now the 45th President of the United States. Where do Muslim Americans go from here and what […]
German far-right party hosts ‘European counter-summit’
Source: The Local French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen will headline a European gathering of eurosceptic and far-right leaders in Germany on Saturday as they seek to put on a united front in a year of high-stakes elections. Billed as a “counter-summit”, organisers said the parties would use the event […]
Donald Trump’s Presidency-by-tweets will be bad for Muslims, but great for Isis
Compared to the platitudinous, snide, divisive, war-mongering rant the world received from Trump, George W Bush was a visionary Robert Fisk @indyvoices A bad day for Muslims, I’d call it. The only mention they got in the inaugural tweet was pure Hollywood, and very dangerous. “Radical Islamic terrorism we will […]
Donald Trump begins overhaul as first executive orders signed
Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionDonald Trump intends to roll back many of his predecessor’s policies Trump elected Can Obamacare be repealed? Ethics concerns swirl around Trump team What do the Trump tweets reveal? Full coverage Donald Trump has taken his first steps as president, signing an executive order which targets the signature […]
The Gambia crisis: Yahya Jammeh says he will step down
Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionMr Jammeh had said there were irregularities in the presidential election The Gambia’s long-term leader Yahya Jammeh says he will step down, after refusing to accept defeat in elections. In an announcement on state TV, he said it was “not necessary that a single drop of blood be […]
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 […]