CHOOSING BETWEEN SHADOWS: PART II
BORDER CROSSINGS JUNE 9, 2016 CHOOSING BETWEEN SHADOWS: PART II RICHARD POTTER Editor’s Note: This essay is the second in a two-part series on persecuted religious minorities fleeing Pakistan and seeking […]
Prayut: Prince asks for time
13 Oct 2016 at 18:20 WRITER: AEKARACH SATTABURUTH Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said he had been granted an audience with the crown prince, who told him he would like to take some time to grieve with the nation before accepting the invitation to become the new king. “His Royal Highness would […]
White Christian Male America’s Sad Final Stand
Source: Huffington Post Paul Brandeis Raushenbush; Former Executive Editor Of Global Spirituality and Religion, The Huffington Post The results of the Presidential elections of 2008 and 2012 demonstrated a consensus […]
Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej dead at 88
Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world’s longest-reigning monarch, has died after 70 years as head of state, the palace says. The 88-year-old king was widely revered but had been in poor health in recent years, making few public appearances. He was seen as a stabilising figure in a country hit […]
Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Inaugurates Baitul Afiyat Mosque in Scarborough, Canada
New Mosque majority funded by Ahmadi Muslim Ladies. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is pleased to announce that on 11 October 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the […]
Ahmadiyya Caliph calls for peace, love around the world
Celebrating 50 years Nouman Khalil/Metroland The Caliph of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Mirza Masroor Ahmad delivers the Friday sermon at the International Centre in Mississauga. Friday, Oct. 7 Mississauga News By Nouman Khalil The Caliph of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad has called upon all communities to reject hatred […]
From Sarajevo to Aleppo: Lessons on Surviving a Siege
In Bosnia and in Syria, the tactic has been used to destroy bodies—but it’s really an attempt to annihilate the spirit. JANINE DI GIOVANNI OCT 12, 2016 Beginning in 1992, the siege of Sarajevo lasted a total of three miserable years, plus 10 months, three weeks, and three days. It […]
How Burkina Faso’s different religions live in peace
From the section Africa Image copyrightAFPImage caption The Archbishop of Ouagadougou wishes a traditional chief a happy Eid The Pope has invited Burkina Faso’s president to the Vatican later this month to see what can be learnt from the West African nation’s example of religious tolerance. BBC Africa’s Lamine Konkobo is […]
Donald Trump threatens to sue New York Times over sexual harassment report
Epigraph: “And I give them respite; for My plan is strong.” (Al Quran 68:46) For commentary of the verse please see the comment section. Source: CNN Money By Dylan Byers […]
If Russia can’t be trusted in Syria, why does Boris Johnson think Saudi Arabia can police itself in Yemen?
Last Saturday saw devastating air strikes on a funeral in Sanaa, Yemen, which killed at least 155 people and wounded 500 more. Johnson’s first public response was to issue a tweet ANDREW SMITH Medics and rescue workers carry a body on a stretcher at the site of reported airstrikes by […]
US Navy targeted again by Houthis; KSA urges UN to contain militias
HANI HAZAIMEH | ARAB NEWS STAFF | Published — Thursday 13 October 2016 A file image released by the US Navy shows a guided-missile destroyer USS Mason (DDG 87) conducting formation exercises with the Cyclone-class patrol crafts USS Tempest (PC 2) and USS Squall (PC 7) on September 10, 2016. […]
Leading Mideast into the future (actually: Leading the World into the future)
KLAUS SCHWAB | Published — Thursday 13 October 2016 Klaus Schwab New technologies are emerging so rapidly that societies in the Middle East are now having trouble coping with their impact. Around the globe, entire industries are being redefined and created from scratch, owing to ground-breaking developments in artificial intelligence, […]
‘Punishing civilians, undermining aid work’
Oct 12,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN US and EU sanctions on Syria are punishing civilians and undermining aid work, states a 40-page UN report, “Humanitarian impact of Syria-related unilateral restrictive measures”, prepared for the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia. Calling the conflict in Syria, the […]
Palestinian leadership decision long overdue
Oct 12,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – DAOUD KUTTAB The United States is not the only place that will be witnessing a leadership change. Elections for top institutions and the overall leadership will be taking place within the two leading Palestinian political movements. Fateh is expected to hold its seventh congress […]
With baby Waleed, Gaza population reaches 2 million
Enclave could be ‘unliveable’ by 2020 — UN By AFP – Oct 12,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Three-day old new-born Waleed lies wrapped in blankets at his family’s home in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on Wednesday (AFP photo) GAZA, Palestine — The two millionth person has […]
This is what it feels like to be an ordinary Kurd caught in the tragedy of Turkey’s turmoil
This man’s story, told with the usual anonymity for this tragic place, must melt a heart of stone and so I tell it in his own words Robert Fisk in Diyabarkir @indyvoices Home again: Turkish Kurds returning to Diyarbakir in the spring after a curfew on the city is lifted […]
Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi set to open in 2017
Source: MSN By Neha Bhatia A Hindu temple currently under construction in Abu Dhabi will be completed in 2017, its development team has announced. B R Shetty, vice chairman and […]
The Guardian view on blasphemy in Pakistan: a dark moment for religious freedom approaches
theguardian — The killing and jailing of people on accusations of insulting Islam is shameful. Pakistan’s supreme court should spare the life of Asia Bibi and curb future convictions Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who was convicted of blasphemy by a Pakistani court. ‘Her freedom would send a powerful […]
The Corleones of Kabul : The U.S.–Afghan Divorce and the Karzai Family
By Jonah Blank In This Review A Kingdom of Their Own: The Family Karzai and the Afghan Disaster Joshua Partlow Foreign observers of Afghanistan tend to think of former President Hamid Karzai’s government as a clan of corrupt thugs, led by a feckless, petulant whiner. In this narrative, Karzai was […]
UK:We dressed visibly as Muslims for a month – here’s what it taught us about UK Islamophobia
Many bystanders saw us being threatened and harassed but did not intervene. By Imran Awan , Irene Zempi October 12, 2016 13:53 BST , Updated 7 hr ago Britain is a nation of real diversity, tolerance and multicultural vibrancy. But for those who have suffered hate crime, it can be an alienating and terrifying place. […]