Our political masters are in league with the Syrian rebels, and for the same reason as the rebels kidnap their victims – money Robert Fisk @indyvoices Western politicians, “experts” and journalists are going to have to reboot their stories over the next few days now that Bashar al-Assad’s army has […]
Source: Los Angeles Times BY Jaweed Kaleem A group of teens and twentysomethings gathered in a nondescript meeting room at the Long Beach Convention Center, hoping for a chance to say a […]
Source: The Washington Post By Abigail Hauslohner December 12 at 10:40 PM Outgoing Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch on Monday urged Americans, and specifically American Muslims, to have faith and […]
Source: BBC Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionMohammed Ali Malek had denied being captain of the boat A Tunisian man has been found guilty by a court in Sicily of causing the sinking […]
Source: Time BY Simon Shuster / Berlin Merkel needs to hang onto power before she can fight Trump German Chancellor Angela Merkel knows what it’s like to be underestimated. Her political […]
Source: BBC By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent, San Francisco Scientists say they have a clue that may enable them to find traces of the asteroid that wiped out the […]
Source: Times of Israel. Trump said during the campaign he would tear up the nuclear deal, calling it a “disastrous” and one of the worst agreements in history and has vowed to take a harder line with Tehran.This has led to concern among the Iranians and in the wider region, […]
Iranian Women Sent To Prison For Not Wearing Headscarves On Instagram The search for incriminating photos on social media continues in Iran. As of last March, authorities launched an operation called “Spider II” with the goal of monitoring images published online. While Facebook and Twitter are banned in Iran, Instagram […]
Indonesia blasphemy case: Emotional scenes as Ahok trial begins Source: BBC There were emotional scenes in court on the first day of the blasphemy trial of Jakarta’s governor, a Christian […]
Source: Huffington Post By Hayley Miller; Reporter, The Huffington Post “When one of us is threatened, we all have to speak out.” U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch called a spike in anti-Muslim […]
Source: The Guardian As well as an attempt to remove a student’s hijab at the University of New Mexico, books across the country have been defaced A spate of racist incidents has been reported by US librarians in the aftermath of the presidential election. According to data gathered by the […]
Source: CNN Satellite images could prove that villages in Myanmar’s restive Rakhine State were deliberately burned to the ground, according to Human Rights Watch. The organization claims that the timing of the various incidents and their “spacial trends” offer evidence of a pattern that is “consistent with military operations and not […]
Source: The Local By the end of 2018, some 410,000 refugees will have jobs in Germany, newspaper Bildreports, citing a new study from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) scheduled for publication this Thursday. Of the 396,000 refugees not working, 192,000 will be signed up for integration courses or […]
Source: BBC The UN and Red Cross have appealed for civilians to be protected, as fighting in Syria’s Aleppo nears its end. The International Committee of the Red Cross […]
Source: Pew Research Center The public makes clear distinctions in assessing the extent to which some groups in the society face discrimination today. A large majority of Americans (82%) say […]
Source: Los Angeles Times Amid a rise in anti-Muslim hate crimes since the presidential election, U.S. Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch plans to make her first visit to a mosque while […]
Source: Chicago Tribune BY Manya Brachear Malik Gillani remembers the first day his world turned upside down. It was Sept. 11, 2001, the day terrorist attacks cast a cloud of […]
Source: Los Angeles Times A 29-year-old Simi Valley man has been arrested and booked on suspicion of committing a hate crime after he stabbed an apparent worshiper near a mosque, […]
Source: ET In this atmosphere, my wife and I watched David Sedaris, a writer/comedian, at Beniroya Hall in downtown Seattle. Before the introduction, the host ranted against Trump, the audience groaned and moaned, and the show went on. Sedaris delivered his trademark monologue, balancing tragedy and comedy, his sister’s suicide and the idyllic Carolina […]
Source: ET Autocratic regimes within the Muslim world have long practiced a contrived and self-serving anti-Semitism. They use state-controlled media and politicised clergies to cultivate anti-Jewish animus in their citizenry. It is taught in schools and mosques through selective and acontextual readings of both scripture and history. This de rigueur hatred serves such regimes several uses. It provides them with […]