Twelve questions Turkey’s journalists can’t ask
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 […]
Hacked Emails Link Turkish Minister to Illicit Oil
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 Globe and Mail interviews the worldwide leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community
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 […]
New Series On ‘The Secret Life Of Muslims’ Aims To Subvert Stereotypes
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 […]
Teacher To Muslim Refugee Student: You’re A Terrorist, And I Can’t Wait Until Donald Trump Deports All You Muslims.
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 […]
Why grabbing bags during a plane emergency is dangerous
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 […]
Hillary Clinton Campaign Touts Early Voting Results
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 […]
100 Photographs: The Most Influential Images of All Time
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 […]
Good News: You’ve Got a Better Brain Than You Think
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 […]
Donations to Religious Institutions Fall as Values Change
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. […]
Catholic parish’s bulletin says Democratic voters are doomed to hell, Clinton is satanic
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 […]
Harvard soccer team suspended over sex comments
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”. […]
Christian marriage adviser: Use ‘fear and dread’ to control your wife — as God intended
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 […]
Ahmadiyya Muslims not part of anti-Ahok demonstration of Indonesia on Friday
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 […]
World leader for Ahmadiyya Muslims inaugurates mosque in Regina
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 […]
Tru love: Canada’s year of Justin Trudeau has been a honeymoon, but will it last?
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 […]
‘Blacks are in charge of German town’
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 […]
Is God really dead? How Britain lost faith in the church
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. […]
Clinton is a cog for Goldman Sachs & the Saudis
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 […]
Clinton resisted FBI, and now they’re out for payback
Source: RT Hillary Clinton sparked an FBI backlash, which is now surfacing, when she stonewalled the Feds, who were trying to investigate her private server, Julian Assange said during the John Pilger Special, courtesy of Dartmouth Films, which is now available in full on RT. “If you go to history […]