How a London soccer club tries to save kids from the Islamic State
By Rick Noack October 1 LONDON — A 14-year-old girl received a photo on Snapchat that showed a man holding a black placard with the message: “Are you British, […]
US election 2016: Trump ‘a genius’ if he paid no taxes – allies
Source: BBC White House candidate Donald Trump’s allies have said he is a “genius” if a report is true that he paid no federal income taxes for 18 years. The […]
Brexit: Theresa May to trigger Article 50 by end of March
Source: BBC The UK will begin the formal Brexit negotiation process by the end of March 2017, PM Theresa May has said. The timing on triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty means the UK looks set to leave the EU by summer 2019. Mrs May told the Tory Party […]
This Map Shows Who Would Win the Election If It Were Held Today
Source: Time By Chris Wilson See which states Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are expected to win based on the latest polls When it comes to political warfare, the Republican party has the superior ground game—literally. “If land could vote, the Republicans would do a lot better,” says Princeton astrophysicist J. […]
The Weird Thing That Helps Hot Flashes
Source: Time BY Amanda MacMillan / Health.com Most women felt improvement after three to four weeks If you are struggling to deal with hot flashes, here is some good news: A […]
Why These Famous Jews Are Celebrating The New Year With 18 Words
Source: Huffington Post BY Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor According to tradition, Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is the“birthday of the universe,” the day that God finished the great work […]
Video: Why Won’t They Listen? ‘The Righteous Mind,’ by Jonathan Haidt
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion Source: New York Times Book review by William Saletan You’re smart. You’re liberal. You’re well informed. You think […]
The world’s desperate need for a God of morality, love, and peace
Epigraph: You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the Lord your God, a covenant the Lord is making with you this day and sealing with […]
Trump skipped out on taxes for 18 years ?
Source T of Israel “The New York Times, like establishment media in general, is an extension of the Clinton campaign, the Democratic Party and their global special interests,” the campaign said, calling Trump “a highly skilled businessman who has a fiduciary responsibility to his business, his family and his employees […]
The Day of ‘Ashura
Ninaras/Wikimedia Commons/Creative Commons 4.0 By Huda Islam Expert ‘Ashura is a religious observance marked every year by Muslims. The word ‘ashura literally means “10th,” as it is on the 10th day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic year. ‘Ashura is an ancient observance that is now recognized for […]
What’s the Difference Between Shia and Sunni Muslims?
By Huda Islam Expert Question What’s the Difference Between Shia and Sunni Muslims? Answer Both Sunni and Shia Muslims share the most fundamental Islamic beliefs and articles of faith. The differences between these two main sub-groups within Islam initially stemmed not from spiritual differences, but political ones. Over the […]
Removal of the heart: how Islam became a matter of state in Iran
Some academics argue the Safavid Shahs gave Iranian Shiism a rule-fixation and abandonment of spirituality it has never lost An Iranian man sits in front of holy scroll. Photograph: Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters Gareth Smyth for Tehran Bureau Thursday 29 September 2016 The crowning of Ismail as king of Iran in […]
Does This Study Prove the Bible Could Be Accurate?
Source: The Daily Beast Today, remembering things—how to spell words, your partner’s cellphone number, birthdays and anniversaries—is fundamentally unnecessary. Who needs to remember details when all of human knowledge is available to you at the touch of a button? The cause of the recent decline of simply ‘knowing stuff’ is […]
Pentagon Paid for Fake ‘Al Qaeda’ Videos
Source: The Daily Beast The Pentagon gave a controversial UK PR firm over half a billion dollars to run a top secret propaganda program in Iraq, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal. Bell Pottinger’s output included short TV segments made in the style of Arabic news networks and fake insurgent […]
Missing Swiss cat turns up 600km away in Germany
Source: The Local A family’s much-loved cat who went missing from her home in the north-eastern Swiss city of St Gallen more than a year ago has been found 600 kilometres away in Bonn, Germany. More:
Want to go to college? Prove you are virgin:
Source: TOI A member of Egyptian parliament, Elhamy Agina, has reportedly said that universities should performvirginity tests on female students. “Any girl who enters university, we have to check her medical examination to prove that she is a Miss,” Agina told Egypt’s Youm 7 newspapers, according to Egyptian Streets, […]
India: Politics behind border panic in Punjab after cross-LoC strikes
Politics behind border panic in Punjab after cross-LoC strikes Pawan Sharma, Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Updated: Oct 02, 2016 10:30 IST So far, the tussle is confined to 16 assembly segments, from Abohar in Fazilka to Bhoa in Pathankot, in the six districts along Punjab’s 553-km border with Pakistan. (HT […]
Pak ex-nationals want drone attack on terror camps
Source: TOI Former Pakistan nationals who are now Indian citizens are upbeat over theArmy‘s successful strikes on terror camps across the Line of Control (LoC) in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. “Pakistan was my mother country , but it is now infested with terrorist groups and camps. I am happy with the surgical […]
Video: Bart Ehrman interview – Hidden Christianity
In Forged, Ehrman reveals: The Apostle Peter was illiterate, and therefore could not have written two letters (1 & 2 Peter) credited to him in the Bible. Six of the […]
Video: The Forger: If I sleep an hour 30 people will die
Source: New York Times By SAMANTHA STARK, ALEXANDRA GARCIA, PAMELA DRUCKERMAN and MANUAL CINEMA STUDIOS | Oct. 2, 2016 | 16:21 As a teenager, saved thousands of lives by forging […]