Dec 11,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Joschka Fischer Now that Donald Trump has been elected president of the United States, the end of what was heretofore termed the “West” has become all but certain. That term described a transatlantic world that emerged from the 20th century’s two world wars, redefined the […]
MERVE ŞEBNEM ORUÇ@mervesebnem The Westerners will again not show Turkey, which faced twin deadly blasts in Istanbul, the same sympathy they displayed upon France’s Charlie Hebdo terror attack Articles COLUMNSNew civil society dialogues between Turkey and EU? COLUMNSWill Turkey join Shanghai Cooperation Organization? COLUMNSThe way things are going […]
Robert Wright uses evolutionary biology and game theory to explain why we appreciate the Golden Rule (“Do unto others…”), why we sometimes ignore it and why there’s hope that, in […]
Source: The Washington Post By Sudarsan Raghavan GUBAIYA, Yemen — The women in this village never earned money, never left home without the permission of their husbands. It had been […]
Source: The Washington Post By John Pomfret John Pomfret, a former Washington Post bureau chief in Beijing, is the author of “The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and […]
Source: The Guardian BY Saadiyya Khan Croydon, Surrey What does integration mean? Does it mean contributing to society? Or assimilating into British culture? If the former then I believe every Muslim […]
Source: The Guardian Germany’s highest court has ruled that ultra-conservative Muslim girls must take part in mixed swimming classes at school, finding against an 11-year-old pupil who had argued that […]
Source: The Guardian The roof of a church collapsed on to worshippers in southern Nigeria, killing at least 160 people with the toll likely to rise, according to a hospital […]
Source: BBC A dose of sugar given as a gel rubbed into the inside of the cheek is a cheap and effective way to protect premature babies against brain damage, […]
Source: Aljazeera by Barbara Bibbo As Iraqi forces continue their military operation to take Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS), another equally […]
Source: BBC A bomb explosion in the Coptic Christian cathedral complex in the Egyptian capital Cairo has killed at least 25 people, officials say. Dozens of others were injured in […]
Source: The Daily Sabah By İBRAHIM KALIN @ikalin1 Ibn Khaldun, one of the greatest minds in the Islamic intellectual tradition, who wrote more about history, culture, society, civilization and political power than […]
By Vickie Connor | AP December 8 SILVER SPRING, Md. — For the past 10 years, Dr. Ashraf Meelu has paid out-of-pocket to offer basic health care in clinics open to the public. The 64-year-old Muslim doctor from Lothian, Maryland, along with a few volunteers, spends Friday mornings providing flu shots, measuring […]
Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth Mirza Tahir Ahmad Islamic Schools of Thought HE ISLAMIC POINT OF VIEW can be presented from two different perspectives: first by analysing the work of various Muslim thinkers, and second by attempting to directly assess the Quranic stance in the light of the Sunnah which […]
The Foreign Secretary was even-handed in apportioning blame for a series of sectarian conflicts in the Middle East, also pointing out that Iran, the great Shia rival of the Sunni Saudis, was playing its part in orchestrating strife Kim Sengputa CLICK ON HERE FOR FULL VIDEO REPORT: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/saudi-arabia-boris-johnson-is-right-and-other-ministers-should-speak-out-yemen-human-rights-kim-a7467076.html
By AFP – Dec 10,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Members of the Iraqi Army ride in a tank during clashes with the Daesh terror group militants, south of Mosul, Iraq, on Saturday (Reuters photo) WASHINGTON — As President Barack Obama prepares to leave office and step down as commander-in-chief […]
Dec 10,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Kanayo F. Nwanze Development experts and policymakers understandably focus on migration to urban areas and the need for sustainable urbanisation. But they should not lose sight of the dramatic changes happening in rural areas, which are too often ignored. While the growing demand for food […]
SECURITY MEASURE DEC 9, 2016 – Refugees have been concentrating at the Swiss-Italian border in particular (Keystone) Charities and private companies that run asylum centres may be required to report on suspected terrorists as the Swiss government moves to tighten security. Swiss public television SRF has seen documents of […]
By PTI | Published: 10th December 2016 – | Image for representational purpose only. (Photo | AP) WASHINGTON: The US has expressed concern over reports of a police raid at the Ahmadiyya community headquarters in Pakistan and urged the country’s government to protect the religious freedom and basic rights of minority communities. […]