Source: USA Today By Gregory Korte , USA TODAY WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s stunning victory Tuesday was nothing less than a repudiation of the Obama presidency. “Elections have consequences,” as President Obama himself said after his 2008 win. And for Obama, it’s hard to imagine a more consequential outcome Tuesday night. With […]
Darrell M. West Wednesday, November 9, 2016 The 2016 election produced another shocker for the world with the presidential victory of Donald Trump. Following on the heels of many other surprises in recent years such as the Great Recession, the rise of ISIS, Brexit, and Trumpism itself, it demonstrates that […]
Nov 09,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen At long last the campaign to drive Daesh from Raqqa, the cult’s self-proclaimed capital, has begun. Daesh seized this north Syrian city from Al Qaeda’s Jabhat Al Nusra and groups claiming affiliation with the Free Syrian Army in January 2014. Until insurgents captured […]
Nov 09,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Daoud Kuttab At about 2:40am Wednesday, Donald J. Trump, the US president elect, spoke to his supporters, the American people and the world. He praised Hillary Clinton, spoke about how he will make America great and then addressed the world. “I want to tell the […]
Some parts welcome victory with calls for Trump to take action, others express alarm By AFP – Nov 09,2016 – JORDAN TIMES An Iraqi man follows the US presidential elections on television at his home in Baghdad on Tuesday (AFP photo) BEIRUT — Uncertainty spread across the Middle East […]
Reuters International NOV 10, 2016 – U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump arrives to speak at his election night rally with his son Barron and wife Melania in Manhattan, New York, U.S., November 9, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri (reuters_tickers) By Steve Holland and John Whitesides (Reuters) – Republican Donald Trump […]
Source: NY Times Interview by ANA MARIE COX It seems as if what you’re best known for, at least in pop culture, is being the guy Glenn Beck hounded out […]
Source: USA Today BY Jesse Yomtov , USA TODAY As Donald Trump closed in on victory Tuesday night, Muslim and Arab-Americans took to social media to express their fear of what the future may hold. In the wake of the Paris attacks last December, Trump called for a ban of all Muslims […]
Source: Denver Post By JENNIFER BROWN | jbrown@denverpost.com PUBLISHED: November 8, 2016 at 12:00 pm | UPDATED: November 9, 2016 at 8:04 am Colorado passed a medical aid in dying measure Tuesday that will allow adults suffering from terminal illness to take life-ending, doctor-prescribed sleeping medication. The ballot initiative passed […]
Even though the video does not have a face picture, but it works well. His speech starts at 9.50 minute mark. A less than 10 minute speech from the oval […]
Source: Star Tribune By Faiza Mahamud and J. Patrick Coolican Star Tribune Ilhan Omar made history Tuesday night as the nation’s first Somali-American legislator, with a commanding win in a state House race. Omar, who faced only nominal Republican opposition in a heavily DFL Minneapolis district, continues an unlikely political […]
Source: BBC World leaders are reacting to the triumph of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in the US presidential election. As news of the result was confirmed, they began to […]
Source: Associated Press LOURDES, France (AP) — France’s Roman Catholic Church is trying to make amends for years of silence surrounding pedophilia among priests with a day of prayer and fasting for victims of sex abuse — and to fix the problem, notably with a prevention program for priests. Bishops […]
Source: Associated Press AYA BATRAWY In this Saturday, May 7, 2016 photo, Saudi women’s rights activist Souad al-Shammary puts on a head… Read more JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — When Souad al-Shammary posted a series of tweets about the thick beards worn by Saudi clerics, she never imagined she would […]
Source: RNS By Tom Heneghan (RNS) While Americans watch Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump fighting to the finish in a noisy and polarized campaign, Germans are quietly debating their own […]
Hillary Clinton Concession Speech Live Stream: Watch Her Speak For First Time After Loss To Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton Post-Election Remarks Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton delivers remarks in New […]
by Harriet Marsden in news Picture: GETTY IMAGES / WPA POOL “Take back control”: we heard it throughout the EU referendum here in the UK. Now that Donald Trump has won the US election, Americans are wondering whether the UK can do the same to their country. Americans declared their independence almost 250 […]
What does Trump actually do when these lands present a “threat” to the West? Dust off his anti-Muslim hatreds? Call up his mate Vladimir? Ask for an atlas? Robert Fisk in Beirut @indyvoices Of course, it will be no change in the Middle East. The one thing which always united […]
SHAWN LOGAN Published on: November 8, 2016 | The Caliph, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad arrives at the Baitun Nur Mosque arrives in Calgary, Alta., on Tuesday November 8, 2016. Leah Hennel/Postmedia SHAREADJUSTCOMMENTPRINT Thousands of Calgary’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community gathered at Canada’s largest mosque to welcome their religion’s top […]
Epigraph: “Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.” (Exodus 22:21) Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I have […]