Friday prayers held during class hours at the Valley Park Middle School, Toronto. Boys pray in front, girls pray behind them separated by a barrier and menstruating girls are obliged to sit at the very back to observe the service but not participate Student Islamists are mounting a coordinated campaign […]
Source: RNS By Emily McFarlan Miller STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION, N.D. (RNS) In the Sioux creation narrative, water was one of the first beings the Creator made, and it became a […]
Source: BBC A white man accused of killing nine black people at a South Carolina church will be allowed to represent himself at trial, a federal judge has said. US […]
Source: NPR Ginella Massa is the first person to wear a hijab, the traditional head covering worn by Muslim women, and anchor a major nightly newscast in Canada. She did […]
Source: NPR A Scottish archbishop designed the app. It helps you find the closest spot to go to confession and Mass. The head of the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communication called the app “imaginative.” DAVID GREENE, HOST: Good morning. I’m David Greene. If you are Catholic and have sinned, well, there’s […]
Source: The Atlantic By LEIGH ERIC SCHMIDT For over a decade, Fox News has made it a talking point that Christmas is under siege from liberals. Bill O’Reilly has promoted the […]
Source: Longreads Why did the forced removal of African Americans seem so plausible in Forsyth County, Georgia in 1912? Was it because it had all happened before? Detail from a map of Cherokee territory over time. The green line designates their territory at the point of their forced removal. Red […]
Source: The Atlantic By ANDREW MCGILL By now, you’ve heard about the great American divide that ushered Donald Trump into office. It’s probably been pitched as a matter of money and wealth— prosperous city dwellers against the rural poor, or the white working class versus everyone else. But that’s the wrong […]
Source: Quanta Magazine By Carl Zimmer Kevin Laland looked out across the meeting room at a couple hundred people gathered for a conference on the future of evolutionary biology. A colleague sidled up next to him and asked how he thought things were going. “I think it’s going quite well,” […]
Source: The Atlantic By JAMES FALLOWS What if china is going bad? Since early last year I have been asking people inside and outside China versions of this question. By “bad” […]
Source: The power of the unaided mind is highly overrated… The real powers come from devising external aids that enhance cognitive abilities. —Donald Norman Algorithms are a fascinating use […]
Source:CNN Something’s happening at the lowest point on our planet, some 1,388 feet below sea level.The Dead Sea, a salt lake nestled by Israel, Jordan and the West Bank, is shrinking at an alarming rate — about 3.3 feet per year, according to the environmentalist group EcoPeace Middle East. And […]
Source: BBC Seven people have been taken to hospital with injuries after a reported shooting at Ohio State University. The university placed the campus on lockdown and sent a tweet to students warning them to “Run Hide Fight”. “Continue to shelter in place in north campus area. Follow directions of Police on […]
Source: TOI NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s newly appointed army chief Qamar Bajwa was chosen because of the pro-democracy credentials he so ably demonstrated despite being pushed to the limit during a […]
Source: The Local. The report further looked into the various factors that had led to fighters becoming radicalized in Germany, listing multiple reasons for each person evaluated. More than half (54 percent) had been at least partially radicalized through friend groups, 48 percent through radical mosques, 44 percent through internet […]
Source: The Local Francois Fillon, frontrunner to become France’s next president, is known for his pro-Russian stance in international politics. He wants closer ties with the Kremlin and has called for the European Union to lift its sanctions on Moscow imposed after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014. “François […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832), the most celebrated philosopher of Germany, once said: “As often […]
Source: The New York review of Books My Dear Li: Correspondence, 1937–1946 by Werner and Elisabeth Heisenberg, edited by Anna Maria Hirsch-Heisenberg and translated from the German by Irene Heisenberg. Yale University Press, 312 pp., $40.00 Almost as soon as World War II ended in Europe, and with redoubled intensity […]
Source: The Quint.Com After much speculation, Pakistan has appointed General Qamar Javed Bajwa as the new army chief. But even before his appointment, controversy surrounded Bajwa when he was one […]
Police finish Ahok probe as Dec. 2 rally looms Source: The Jakarta Post By Callistasia Anggun Wijaya and Agnes Anya Jakarta | Sat, November 26, 2016 | 07:49 am The […]