Source: Reuters By Mehreen Zahra-Malik | ISLAMABAD A Pakistani Senate committee is set to debate how to prevent the country’s blasphemy laws being applied unfairly, despite opposition from religious conservatives […]
Source: Dawn THE recent surge in sectarian violence has done two things. First, it has highlighted the challenges and vulnerabilities the country’s security and law-enforcement forces face in countering terrorism. Second, it has brought to the fore some critical, long-standing questions about the state’s resolve and efforts to counter religiously […]
WALTER IOOSS JR. Why I converted to Islam It’s not easy being Muslim in America, but my choice was a spiritual transformation March 29, 2015 2:00AM ET by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar @kaj33 I was born Lew Alcindor. Now I’m Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The transition from Lew to Kareem was not merely a […]
Mall visitors in UAE and Gulf donate toys, books, clothes and money to children Image Credit: Majid Al Futtaim More than 9,550 books, 10,200 toys, and 3,450 kilograms of clothing and electronics were collected during the campaign. Published: 16:22 January 12, 2017 Staff Report Dubai: More than 30,000 toys, […]
WORKFORCE INTEGRATION JAN 13, 2017 – Asylum seekers help in a kitchen this year at a restaurant in canton Valais employing people getting social assistance (Keystone) Swiss social aid administrators are calling on the government to act in the face of increasing numbers of refugees and asylum seekers who must […]
MIDDLE-EAST HANI HAZAIMEH | Published — Friday 13 January 2017 Palestinian children in the village of Kfar Qaddum, occupied West Bank, carry placards during a demonstration on Friday against proposed plans by US President-elect Donald Trump to move the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. (AFP) JEDDAH: In a […]
REUTERS GENEVA Refugees wait in line to receive a plate of free food during a snowfall outside a derelict customs warehouse in Belgrade, Serbia, Jan. 11. Europe’s recent cold spell left refugees and migrants in dire conditions and governments must do more to help them rather than push them back […]
MERYEM İLAYDA ATLAS@miailayda Illustration by Necmettin Asma Hegemonic masculinity continues to remain a chronic dogma within societies regardless of being secular or traditional. Thus studies have a lot to overcome When we say gender studies, we mean studies on the issues of women, men and LGBTQ. Gender studies, however, everywhere […]
Jan 12,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Jonathan Power President Barack Obama steps down at the age of 55. He will probably live, given his healthy lifestyle, until he is over 90. So what on Earth is he going to do for the next 40 years? Realistically, we do not know and […]
VICTOR KWAWUKUME 13 JANUARY 2017 Alhaji Maulvi Mohammed Bin Salih (left), Ameer and Missionary In -charge, Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission Ghana, presenting a Quran to President Akufo-Addo. President Nana Addo […]
Source: Time By John R. Kasich Kasich is the governor of Ohio. ‘We must find in ourselves once again the courage to stand up for our values internationally’ It is conventional […]
Source: Time BY Tessa Berenson Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks have been unafraid to contradict their future boss. In confirmation hearings this week, five of the President-elect’s nominees have distanced themselves from […]
Source: BBC By Linda Pressly BBC News, Dhaka When five armed Islamist militants stormed a restaurant in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 1 July 2016, 29 people lost their lives. Emerging from […]
Source: The Guardian Leading player urges contenders to look beyond hijab law, to the boost contest would give women’s sport in country Mitra Hejazipour, pictured, said: ‘These games are important […]
Somali Canadians React to Ahmed Hussen’s Appointment as Minister of Immigration Written by Chelby Daigle Published inNews In the wake of the news that MP Ahmed Hussen has been appointed to the position of Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Muslim Link reached out to first and second generation Somali Canadians from across […]
Source: The Independent I talked to Iraqi defectors in the 1990s who claimed to have plenty of information about WMDs and gossip about Hussein’s family affairs. It did not take long to work out that they were making it up when they produced convincing but uncheckable details By Patrick Cockburn […]
By Siva Sekaran, Jan 12, 2017 CHENNAI: Holding that Qazis had no power to certify the marriages of Muslims invalid after the utterance of the husbands ‘talaq’ thrice, the first […]
How, for example, would you tweet the start of World War Two? Amid the abuse of social media, how would you convince readers that, yes, the Nazis really are about to invade Poland? Robert Fisk @indyvoices What would Clare Hollingworth, who died this week, have made of Donald Trump? Or […]
GENEVA PEACE TALKS JAN 12, 2017 – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (centre), flanked by Greek Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades (right) and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci (left) (Keystone) The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres says the talks in Geneva to resolve the division of the ethnically-divided island of Cyprus […]
By Rana Husseini – Jan 12,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Prime Minister Hani Mulki addresses a meeting where a new refugee response plan was agreed with donors in Amman on Thursday (Petra photo) AMMAN — The government and the international community on Thursday endorsed a $7.6-billion three-year Jordan Response […]