NOV 24, 2016 – 15:08 An extended mission in Kosovo, only smaller (Keystone) After more than a decade of helping to keep the peace in Kosovo, Switzerland plans to maintain its armed contingent in the western Balkans country but is reducing the size of the force. The Swiss cabinet on […]
COMPILED FROM WIRE SERVICES CAIRO Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities Photo Egypt has unearthed a more than 7,000-year-old city and cemetery dating back to its First Dynasty in the southern province of Sohag, the Antiquities Ministry said on Wednesday. The city and cemetery – likely home to senior functionaries and grave […]
YUNUS PAKSOY@yunuspaksoy ISTANBUL Syrian children as they wait to cross the border from the northern Greek village of Idomeni to southern Macedonia in September 2015. More than 10,000 missing innocent child victims of conflicts around the world, including the Syrian civil war and the instability in Iraq and Afghanistan, are […]
HATEM BAZIAN@hatembazian Thousands of protesters marching in reaction to the election of Republican Donald Trump, Nov. 12, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. This is not the time to hide away and withdraw from civil society out of fear. The American Muslim community as a whole must develop a united front […]
Isis has attacked the nearby city of Karbala using suicide bombers Alexandra Sims click on for video report: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/20-million-muslims-march-against-isis-arbaeen-pilgrimage-iraq-karbala-a7436561.html
Anne’s father Otto sought visas to the United States and the door was slammed in their face. I do wonder what the Trump administration would have done Robert Fisk Amsterdam @indyvoices Donald Trump would do well to read Anne Frank’s diary I’ve just visited the hiding place of some troublesome […]
Nov 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – The election of Donald Trump as the next American president has opened the floodgates to wild expectations, exaggerated hopes, much speculation and a range of conflicting emotions. These include hope, prosperity and family security at one end, and terrible fears, racism and hatred at […]
Source: Daily Mail UK The head of the European Parliament has announced he is going to return to German national politics – and is hotly-tipped to be lining up a campaign to become the country’s next Chancellor. Martin Schulz said today he will be stepping down from his current role.Although he […]
Source:Daily Mail UK HAIFA, Israel (AP) — A wildfire roared through parts of Israel’s third-largest city on Thursday, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes as the country’s leaders raised the possibility that Arab assailants had intentionally set the blaze. Spreading quickly due to dry, windy weather, […]
Source: Time By Maya Rhodan A federal district court judge in Texas blocked the Obama administration’s controversial rule to expand overtime pay. The nationwide injunction affects millions of workers who would have been eligible for overtime starting Dec. 1 under the rule, which raised the salary limit for overtime pay from […]
Source: Time (WASHINGTON)—President-elect Donald Trump is calling for unity in a Thanksgiving address posted on social media. In the message released Wednesday, Trump says the nation has just finished a “long and bruising” campaign and that “tensions don’t just heal overnight.” Trump says he is praying that on Thanksgiving the […]
Source: BBC Nearly 80 people, many of them Shia pilgrims, have been killed in a truck bomb attack at a road stop in Iraq, a security official says. The blast […]
Source: Fox News GREENVILLE, Miss. – Back in the 1960s, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. observed that Sunday morning is the most segregated time of the week in America, […]
Source: Associated Press By Cindy Boren Sixteen-year-old Amaiya Zafar was about to put on her gloves Sunday at the Sugar Bert Boxing National Championships inhij, Fla., when officials called off the impending fight. Zafar, a devout Muslim from Oakdale, Minn., wears a hijab under her headgear as well as a […]
Source: RNS By Lauren Markoe (RNS) Nearly 200 religious and civil rights groups are petitioning President Obama to dismantle the regulatory framework behind a Homeland Security program critics say discriminates against Muslims and Arabs. President-elect Donald Trump has appointed one of the architects of the program, Kris Kobach, to his […]
Source: Hartford Courant BY Alaine Griffin Contact Reporter At a gathering that included refugees from Syria and their advocates, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Tuesday that he does not expect federal policies regarding resettlement to change, but promised to fight any attempt by the federal government to restrict refugees based on […]
Source: New Jersey Advance Media NEWARK – The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Bernards Township, alleging it violated federal law in its denial of the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge’s plan […]
Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/1238698/forgotten-legend-abdus-salams-death-anniversary-passes-without-mention/ By Rana Tanveer, Published: November 22, 2016 LAHORE: The 20th death anniversary of Pakistan’s first Nobel prize winner Dr Abdus Salam passed away without any significant mentions on Monday. The only event in his memory is scheduled at his alma mater, the Government College University (GCU) Lahore, and that too two […]
Source: https://www.evensi.us/coffee-cake-and-true-islam-ahmadiyya-muslim-community/192741350 Coffee, Cake, and True Islam Saturday 26 November 2016 5:00 PM Saturday 26 November 2016 6:00 PM Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Fitchburg, MA. chapter › Coffee, Cake, and True Islam AHMADIYYA MUSLIM COMMUNITY FITCHBURG, MA. CHAPTER 370 MAIN STREET, FITCHBURG, 1420, MA, UNITED STATES
Source: http://pakenham.starcommunity.com.au/gazette/2016-11-21/ahmadiyya-insight-into-islam/ 21 November 2016 10:02 AM Guests having lunch with members of the community. THE Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Victoria hosted 25 Cardinia Shire residents at its Bait-ul Salam (House of Peace) mosque in Langwarrin on Saturday 19 November. The tour, which was organised by the Cardinia Interfaith Network, aims to […]