Mahita Gajanan @mahitagajanan Helen H. Richardson—Denver Post/Getty ImagesNorth Dakota national guardsmen stand guard on Turtle Island watching activists and native americans at Oceti Sakowin Camp on the edge of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation outside Cannon Ball, North Dakota on Dec. 3, 2016. Construction of the pipeline will be halted […]
Source: Reuters International By Kanupriya Kapoor and Agustinus Beo Da Costa JAKARTA (Reuters) – When Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama had some of the capital’s sprawling slums levelled this spring, Muslim […]
From the Traditions of the Holy Prophet it is evident that the Promised Messiah was to be a follower of the Holy Prophet. One Tradition tells us that ‘the Mahdi is no other than the Messiah’ [Ibn-e-Maja] Another Tradition says: ‘How would it be with you when the son of […]
Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth Mirza Tahir Ahmad The ‘Blind Watchmaker’ Who Is Also Deaf and Dumb N KEEPING with the promise made in our introductory remarks we now turn to the book entitled The Blind Watchmaker 1 by Richard Dawkins—now Professor Dawkins. At first it was rather discomforting to […]
DEC. 3, 2016 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Two Palestinian brothers in the neighborhood of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem were forced to demolish their own homes on Saturday in compliance with an Israeli court order.One of the owners, Said al-Abbasi, told Ma’an that he and his brother Nasser had built their […]
Dec 04,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Dani Rodrik Global governance is the mantra of our era’s elite. The surge in cross-border flows of goods, services, capital and information produced by technological innovation and market liberalisation has made the world’s countries too interconnected, their argument goes, for any country to be […]
Suggested Reading How Islam has Influenced Christian understanding of God God of Islam: God of Nature and the Creator of our Universe
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg; Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post What does it mean to be Muslim? There are more than a billion answers. Common media representations and political […]
Source: Duluth News Tribune By M. Imran Hayee After a surprise election win, President-elect Donald J. Trump acknowledged the need to “bind the wounds of division” and pledged to be “the president for all Americans” in his short victory speech. This was a refreshing detour from his earlier campaign rhetoric […]
Source: Time For every year since 1927, TIME has selected the most influential person of the year. From presidentstoprotesters, astronauts to activists, each selection reflects the person—or idea—who has most influenced the news and our world in the past year, for good or ill. In 2016, the news and our world […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY CARY FUNK AND BRIAN KENNEDY Food has become a flashpoint in American culture and politics. In the past generation, Americans have witnessed the introduction of […]
Source: The Guardian Almost a year after her father was killed in the San Bernardino terror attack last December, Kate Bowman etched the word “love” in yellow chalk on the […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Sarah Ruiz-Grossman Associate Editor, The Huffington Post The Women’s March On Washington is happening come hell or high water, march leaders say, and it’s largely thanks to […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Cole Delbyck Entertainment Writer, The Huffington Post Here’s something we can hopefully all agree on: we’ve seen enough Muslim terrorists on TV. Whether it’s reinforcing the threat-next-door […]
Source: BBC By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News website A drug that dramatically reduces the risk of being infected with HIV will now be given to patients […]
Source: BBC Italians are voting in a referendum which is being closely watched for further signs of anti-establishment sentiment in Europe. The vote, called by centre-left Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, is formally on plans to streamline parliament but is expected to be used by many as a chance to register […]
Source: Time By Katie Reilly With just over two days of voting remaining, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi maintains his lead in TIME’s Person of the Year Reader’s Poll, earning 18% of all “yes” votes as of Friday. Those who come closest to Modi’s lead are U.S. President Barack Obama, President-elect […]
Source: Time By Andrew Nusca / Fortune Attendees of the Fortune-Time Global Forum, held Friday and Saturday this week in Rome and the Vatican, were treated to an audience with His Holiness Pope Francis Saturday. Here is what he said, translated to English. (His original Italian remarks follow.) Dear Friends, I […]
AFP news@thelocal.ch 3 December 2016 The artefacts were apparently deposited in the free ports in 2009 and 2010. Photo: Louai Beshara/ AFP Swiss authorities said Friday they had seized cultural relics looted from Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra, as well as from Libya and Yemen, which were being stored in […]