One Syrian lieutenant described to me how he directed his artillery fire onto an Israeli jeep in the Jabhat al-Nusra occupied town of Al-Hamidiya inside Syria and destroyed it. The jeep might have been a gift or borrowed from Israel Robert Fisk Baath City, below the Syrian Golan Heights @indyvoices Friday […]
Source: Foreign and Defense Policy, Middle East Freedom of the press has been one of the chief casualties of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s rule. He has confiscated newspapers, sued their […]
October 17, 2016 – 12:18pm | admin By Ahmet S. Yayla In late September, a Turkish hacker group, RedHack, released the emails of Berat Albayrak, Turkey’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources and the son-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Hackers have claimed that they downloaded around 20 gigabytes of data from […]
The leader of the world’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community has been visiting Canada and Canadian leaders such as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the British-based leader, sat […]
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg; Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post Egyptian-American actor Ahmed Ahmed spent the early years of his career playing terrorists and villains, dramatizing the very stereotypes […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Heather L. Weaver Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief CONTRIBUTOR Teacher To Muslim Refugee Student: You’re A Terrorist, And I Can’t Wait Until Donald Trump Deports All You Muslims. 11/03/2016 01:44 pm ET 3.5k Heather L. WeaverSenior Staff Attorney, ACLU Program on […]
Source: BBC By S.J. Velasquez Each week, the BBC Autos editors will select their favourite transport-related news stories, features and videos from around the web. We noticed a trend this […]
Source: Time By Sam Frizell As polls tighten in battleground states and Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump is less secure, Clinton’s campaign is touting early voting numbers that show her […]
Source: Time In this unprecedented exploration of 100 photographs that shaped the human experience, TIME goes behind each spectacular image to reveal how and why it changed the course of […]
Source: Time By Jeffrey Kluger Getting older? No worries If babies could gloat, they would. The rest of us may have it all over them when it comes to size, strength […]
Source: The New York Times By ALINA TUGEND It used to be that many people gave to their particular house of worship to get a prominent pew or extra blessings. […]
Source: The San Diego Union Tribune By Joshua Stewart Between requests for prayers for the sick and a notice for an upcoming chastity luncheon, a newsletter from a Catholic church in […]
Source: BBC Harvard University has suspended its men’s soccer team after players made sexual comments about members of the women’s team. A document uncovered by Harvard’s student newspaper included ratings of the attractiveness of female players as well as sexually explicit comments. University President Drew Faust called the behaviour “appalling”. […]
Source: Raw Story BY TOM BOGGIONI Responding to comments from a men’s rights activist on a posting about finding enjoyment in sex with a wife who grudgingly agrees, the host […]
Source: Jakarta Post Meanwhile, the Ahmadiyah community, an Islamic sect regarded as heretical by mainstream Muslims in Indonesia, said that they would not take part in Friday’s demonstration. Aryudi Prastowo, head of Ahmadiyah’s East Jakarta and Bukit Duri branch, said on Thursday that they would respect Ahok as the legitimate […]
Source: Leaderpost.com “It is the only mosque in North America that has been built solely by volunteers,” said Zeeshan Ahmed, the imam at the new mosque. “They’ve taken two long years off from their professions, away from their families and from their jobs to come here and solely build this […]
Ashifa Kassam in Toronto @ashifa_k http://www.theguardian.com Friday 4 November 2016 10.45 GMTLast modified on Friday 4 November 2016 17.49 GMT The optimistic prime minister has charmed Canadians, and the world, during his first year in office. Now the challenge is to prove he’s a change maker Share on LinkedIn Share on Google+ 275 The line […]
Source: RT The mayor of the popular Bavarian resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen has penned a letter to the regional government begging them to tackle the “massive problems” posed by crime rates among refugees, while police say “blacks are in charge of the town.” The letter, part warning to regional authorities, part cry […]
Source: Religion News Service By Katie Edwards and Meredith J C Warren Is God dead? Fifty years ago, on April 8, 1966, a Time magazine cover asked just that question. […]
Source: RT Whistleblower Julian Assange has given one of his most incendiary interviews ever in a John Pilger Special, courtesy of Dartmouth Films, in which he summarizes what can be gleaned from the tens of thousands of Clinton emails released by WikiLeaks this year. John Pilger, another Australian émigré, conducted the […]