Source: The Guardian By Paul Karp Malcolm Turnbull said there were certain environments in which people’s faces shouldn’t be covered when asked about a call to ban the burqa in […]
Source: Time President-elect Donald Trump says his plan to replace the nation’s health care law will include “insurance for everybody.” Trump made the comment in an interview with the Washington […]
Source: Time Law enforcement arrested the wife of the man who carried out the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, a federal official said Monday. The FBI reportedly charged Noor Salman with obstruction in connection to the June attack on Pulse Nightclub that killed 49 people and wounded […]
Source: Time By Alice Park To the age-old question “Is coffee bad for you?”, researchers are in more agreement than ever that the answer is a resounding “no.” A new […]
Source: Fortune By Minxin Pei As Donald Trump is sworn into office this week, among many of the possible disruptive initiatives his administration may launch is a trade war with China. […]
Source: BBC By Adi Gaskell Technology of Business reporter Our voices are amazing things. We can use them to sing, shout and whisper sweet nothings. We can use them to […]
Source: BBC By Renuka Rayasam 17 January 2017 In the early 1990s Mark Channon was working at a London bar, when a friend taught him a technique to remember names. […]
Source: National Park Service Rotunda “I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” -Excerpted from a letter to […]
Source: Motto By Melinda Gates We remember Martin Luther King, Jr., of course, for his extraordinary leadership during the Civil Rights Movement, his insistence that nonviolence could be stronger than […]
newyorker.com: On June 3, 1980, at about two-thirty in the morning, computers at the National Military Command Center, beneath the Pentagon, at the headquarters of the North American Air Defense Command (norad), deep within Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, and at Site R, the Pentagon’s alternate command post center hidden inside Raven Rock […]
newyorker.com: Couple of years ago, when Coldplay’s Chris Martin was going through a divorce from the actress Gwyneth Paltrow and feeling down, a friend gave him a book to lift his spirits. It was a collection of poetry by Jalaluddin Rumi, the thirteenth-century Persian poet, translated by Coleman Barks. “It […]
Scroll.In: So about six years after their wedding, the couple was blessed with a beautiful daughter. When it came to naming the child, it was suggested by Tripta’s mother that since the child was born in her maternal house, Nanaka in Punjabi, she should be called Nanaki. Thus, Tripta’s and […]
craigconsidinetcd.com: The writings of Jalalud’din Rumi, the 13th century Sufi Muslim philosopher from modern-day Afghanistan, and the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the 19th century Christian transcendentalist from Boston, Massachusetts, are filled with lessons that enrich every human soul. Rumi’s and Emerson’s similar thoughts on religious tolerance, love, and care […]
Donna Leinwand Leger , USA TODAY Jan. 16, 2017 If you’re one of the lucky elites heading to Davos, Switzerland, for this year’s World Economic Forum, here’s what you need to know. About 11,000 people live in Davos year-round. Newslook (Photo: Laurent Gillieron, European Pressphoto Agency) DAVOS, Switzerland — The […]
Murder in the Name of Allah by Mirza Tahir Ahmad Read the book online in HTML format ordownload in PDF. Buy the book from the AlIslam Online Store. Table of Contents Editor’s Foreword Notes on This Translation Introduction 1. Religion Drips with Blood 2. The Preaching of Islam: Two […]
KATE PROCTOR Friday 13 January 2017 The Government has admitted Muslims are held back in the jobs market Shutterstock Muslims are held back in the jobs market, the Government admits — saying universities and job centres could play a big role in tackling inequality. Britain’s 2.7 million Muslims were found […]
Global Citizen: by Hans Glick — Flickr: sandeepachetan I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t always “get” the women in my life quite like I do my male friends and relatives—just ask my girlfriend, who is probably convinced I was raised by a pack of wolves considering how oblivious I […]
Source: Atlanta Black Star By Brianna Cox In her essay, “Mourning for Whiteness,” which was published in The New Yorker, Morrison’s central thesis is simple: Trump won because privileged white people, white men especially, feel threatened by a “rapidly” diversifying United States of America. Pulitzer prize-winning and prolific author Toni […]
theguardian: by Luisa Dillner — Some people can bounce back from life’s pressures, but others do not seem to have the capacity. Can anything help them to strengthen their emotional armour? How people cope with disappointment used to be considered a genetic trait, but techniques can be learned. Photograph: […]
Huff Post: by Karol Kuruwala — The video has a surprising (and haunting) twist. DONT NORMALIZE HATE / YOUTUBE Katy Perry executive produced a video telling the story of Haru Kuromiya, who was incarcerated by the American government during World War I Confronted with an increase in hate crimes and Islamophobic rhetoric, […]