Scandal of the hajj pilgrims who are cheated by devious tour operators
Source: The Guardian By Miles Brignall For Tariq Khan* and his family, the pilgrimage to Mecca should have been the trip of a lifetime. But after paying more than £16,000 to […]
Pope Francis names 13 new cardinals, including papal envoy to Syria
Source: The Guardian The papal envoy to Syria has been named as one of a group of new cardinals announced on Sunday by Pope Francis, including 13 who are eligible […]
New Frontiers In Breast Cancer
Source: Time By Alice Park There are paradigm shifts in how breast cancer is screened for and treated—and that’s good news for patients Terrifying as the C word can be, breast cancer today means something very different than it did a decade ago. Doctors know more than ever about what causes […]
How Donald Trump Turned 2016 Into a Referendum on Gender
Source: Time By Charlotte Alter If 2016 was going to be a Battle of the Sexes, everyone thought Hillary Clinton would be the main combatant. She’s the first woman to win […]
Russia implicated in MH17 crash in Ukraine
Source: Gulf News United Nations/Moscow: A Dutch-led investigation has concluded that the powerful surface-to-air missile system that was used to shoot down a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine two years […]
UK woman’s hijab ripped off in hate attack in London
Source: Gulf News London: In a racially-motivated attack, a young woman’s hijab was ripped off on a busy London street in broad daylight, prompting Scotland Yard to launch a probe into the assault. The force is treating the incident in north London as a racially motivated assault on the victim […]
IS ‘loses more than a quarter of its territory’ in Syria and Iraq
Source: BBC So-called Islamic State (IS) has lost more than a quarter of the territory it once controlled, new data shows. Security and defence analysts IHS say the group’s control has shrunk by 28% since its height in January 2015. In the first nine months of this year, IS’ territory […]
Omar Alghabra Faces Racist Messages After Criticizing Tories On Anti-Islamophobia Motion
Source: Huffington Post OTTAWA — A Liberal MP received violent and racist messages on social media this week after he highlighted the refusal of some Conservative MPs to denounce all […]
Resurrection
Source: Times of Israel The Talmud is mystified too: “Cleopatra the queen asked Rebbi Meir, ‘I can understand that dead people can be brought back to life, but will I come back with my clothes on or without them?’” No fashionista like Cleopatra would want to be brought back to […]
“One day we will win the hearts of people” – Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
http://www.thebengalitimes.com/english-times/2016/10/09/20024 Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad interviewed by Canadian media at Jalsa Salana Canada “One day we will win the hearts of people” – Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community অ+অঅ-প্রিন্ট On 7 October 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor […]
Yemen: The ‘forgotten war’ cloaked in the shadow of Syria
By Hakim Almasmari and Angela Dewan, for CNN October 9, 2016 Tune into CNN International on Sunday at 4 p.m. CET for a full report on the Yemen war. Sanaa […]
Mississauga mayor files hate-crime complaint after inflammatory article
By SAN GREWALUrban Affairs Reporter Sun., Oct. 9, 2016 Bonnie Crombie says local web publication says crossed the line with article headlined, ‘Bonnie’s Muslims Are Molesting Teenage Girls in Mississauga Highschools.’ Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie says she has filed a hate-crime complaint with Peel police after a local website published an […]
Tourists refuse to flee erupting volcano in order to take photos
Volcanic material from the eruption of Mount Barujari is seen from Bayan, Lombok Island, Indonesia. The volcano erupted without warning on Tuesday afternoon, delaying flights from airports on the islands of Lombok and Bali. Photo: AP This is the latest in reckless tourist behaviour which has caused several deathsw all […]
Queen Margrethe: Denmark ‘not a multicultural country’, but …
Queen Margrethe’s comment came in a wide-ranging interview with Der Spiegel. Photo: JAN WOITAS/Scanpix Published: 04 Oct 2016 00:57 GMT+02:00 With Denmark once again engaged in a national conversation about what makes one ‘Danish’, Queen Margrethe II told German newspaper Der Spiegel that she represents “all people who are citizens […]
Palestinian assailant wounds six people in Jerusalem, then shot dead – police
Reuters International OCT 9, 2016 – Israeli police secure the area following a shooting incident in what an Israeli police spokesperson described as a terrorist attack, near police headquarters in Jerusalem October 9, 2016. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (reuters_tickers) JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A Palestinian assailant, firing from a car, shot and wounded […]
Another Israeli transgression
Oct 08,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL The recent interception of Zaytouna-Oliva boat by Israeli naval units in international waters off the coast of Gaza is another demonstration of Israel’s blatant disregard for peaceful gestures from Palestinians and their supporters to end the decades-long suffering of the people under occupation […]
Kurdish corridor
Oct 08,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MUSA KEILANI The imminent fall of Aleppo to Russian and Syrian army troops will not put an end to a civil war that has so far cost the lives of over 400,000 civilians and displaced 8 million people, according to UN figures. The 900 […]
On Syria, it is fantasy sports season in the US
Oct 06,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI Two main themes that dominate the public discussions on Syria and Iraq in the United States reflect the poverty and wildly unrealistic nature of this debate. The two themes are gut-wrenching, mind-boggling, heart-shuddering moral anxiety, political frustration and old-fashioned anger at […]
The 70,000 post-coup arrests are now at the heart of the Turkish government’s propaganda war
From high-ranking military officials to university professors, those imprisoned since the attempted coup now total 70,756 – although some have been released Robert Fisk Istanbul @indyvoices In a part of the […]
Tracing the rise and fall of Islam in southern Spain
By Keshie Hernitaningtyas, for The Jakarta Post It took twenty five years to build the city of Madinat al-Zahra, which existed for only sixty-five years and laid forgotten beneath the ground […]