Israeli settlements: UN Security Council calls for an end
Source: BBC The UN Security Council has passed a resolution urging an end to illegal Israeli settlements after the US refused to veto it, instead abstaining. The motion was passed […]
Berlin truck attacker Anis Amri killed in Milan
Source: BBC The Berlin market attacker, Anis Amri, has been shot dead by police in Milan. The Tunisian criminal fired on police who asked him for ID during a routine […]
Why U.S. Babies Are More Social Than Other Kids
Source: Time By Belinda Luscombe@luscombeland Babies born in the United States are more social and impulsive than those from some other countries, a new study has found. They’re also, according to […]
Woman Targeted In Islamophobic Attack Delivers Powerful Message To Her Assailant
Source: Huffington Post By Hayley Miller Reporter, The Huffington Post A Minnesota woman attacked at an Applebee’s for speaking a foreign language delivered a powerful message to her assailant in court […]
Why do birds have beaks and not teeth? This dino may have the answer
Source: CNN (CNN)A group of 13 dinosaurs that died in a mud pit in China has yielded an unprecedented discovery. The 154 million-year-old limusaurus had tiny, sharp teeth as a […]
Why Pan-Islamism Is the Biggest Roadblock for Muslims’ Integration with Modernity
Why Pan-Islamism Is the Biggest Roadblock for Muslims’ Integration with Modernity By Arshia Malik December 05, 2016 Pan-Islamism is a political movement advocating the unity of Muslims under one Islamic state – often a Caliphate – or an international organization with Islamic principles. As a form of religious nationalism, Pan-Islamism […]
Why It’s Not Wrong to Wish Muslims Merry Christmas
NYTimes.com Mustafa Akyol DEC. 23, 2016 ISTANBUL — Billions of Christians around the world are excited to celebrate Christmas this weekend. Those in the world’s second-largest religious community, Muslims, don’t share quite the same excitement. In a few Muslim-majority countries, like Saudi Arabia, Brunei and Somalia, Christmas celebrations are banned. In […]
This Lahore to Karachi PIA Flight Ended Up Landing in Muscat
In what is probably the most ridiculous news you will hear today, a PIA flight has taken its passengers for a wild ride, literally. PIA flight PK307, which was bound to go from Lahore to Karachi, actually ended up in Muscat, Oman. The aircraft in question was a Boeing 777-340(ER) jet. […]
Isis is using terror to eliminate multicultural countries like Germany – and the far-right is helping them
The intention of Isis’ terror attacks is to provoke European states to ‘persecute’ Muslims within their frontiers in acts of reprisal for the mass killing of western Europeans Robert Fisk @indyvoices There is something infinitely naive in our pursuit of the identity of those behind the massacres which Isis is […]
Berlin Christmas terror suspect Anis Amri shot dead in Milan after pulling out gun during 3am police stop
Mirror Scott Campbell The Berlin Christmas market massacre suspect has been shot dead in Milan by police after pulling out a gun during a 3am stop. Anis Amri reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar”, or god is great, and shot an officer in the shoulder just moments after getting off a […]
Vatican bureaucracy & resistance to reforms ‘inspired by devil’ – Pope Francis
Russia Today: In his annual Christmas speech, Pope Francis slammed Vatican officials for pushing back against reforms that the pontiff has been pushing forward since 2013, saying that those taking part in “malicious resistance” have been inspired by the devil. “The absence of reaction is a sign of death! Consequently, […]
Rabbi Sharon Brous: It’s time to reclaim and reinvent religion – Ted Talk
At a moment when the world seems to be spinning out of control, religion might feel irrelevant — or like part of the problem. But Rabbi Sharon Brous believes we […]
An Attempt to Understand Ahmadiyyas by a Group of Muslims
An Attempt to Understand Ahmadiyyas By Asif Merchant, New Age Islam 13 December 2016 We learn that the National Centre for Physics at Islamabad’s Quaid-e-Azam University will be renamed after […]
Registry used to track Arabs and Muslims dismantled by Obama administration
Source: The Guardian The Obama administration is dismantling a discriminatory surveillance system that was used after 9/11 to keep tabs on Arabs and Muslims across the US, in a move […]
Obama bans oil drilling ‘permanently’ in millions of acres of ocean
Source: BBC Image copyrightAPImage captionArctic rigs like the “polar pioneer” were never actually deployed Outgoing US President Barack Obama has permanently banned offshore oil and gas drilling in the “vast […]
Multiple sclerosis drug ‘a landmark’
Source: BBC By James GallagherHealth and science reporter, BBC News website Health Share Image copyrightSPL A drug that alters the immune system has been described as “big news” and a […]
Berlin attack: Family urge suspect to surrender
Source: BBC The family of Anis Amri, the Tunisian man suspected of driving a lorry into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin, have urged him to surrender. His brother, Abdelkader […]
Donald Trump: US must greatly expand nuclear weapons
Source: BBC Donald Trump has called for the US to “greatly strengthen and expand” its nuclear arsenal. The president-elect, who takes office next month, said the US must take such […]
Trump’s inaugural to include interfaith prayer service
Source: Associated Press By RACHEL ZOLL Donald Trump’s Inaugural weekend will include an interfaith prayer service at Washington’s National Cathedral, a customary event but complicated this year by anger over […]
Trump Suggests Berlin Attack Affirms His Plan to Bar Muslims
Source: The New York Times By MARK LANDLER WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump seemed to suggest on Wednesday that the deadly truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin […]