By Mohammad Ghazal – Oct 02,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Iraqi troops are seen during a training session at the Jordan-based KASOTC facility on Wednesday (Photo courtesy of NATO) AMMAN — As the Iraqi army gears up to liberate Mosul from the terrorist group Daesh, First Lieutenant Samir Mansour hopes […]
After writing her objections to Islamic headgear for women, the Bosnian woman journalist has been threatened with rape and death. A Bosnian woman journalist who criticized Islamic headscarves, veils and burqas in graphic language has been forced into hiding due to threats of rape and death, reported the UK’s Express. In an […]
Source: The Daily Beast A controversial foreign PR firm known for representing unsavory characters was paid millions by the Pentagon to create fake terrorist videos. THE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM […]
Source: Pew Research Center Two-thirds say employers should provide birth control in insurance plans, but public is split over same-sex wedding services and use of public bathrooms by transgender people The U.S. public expresses a clear consensus on the contentious question of whether employers who have religious objections to contraception […]
Source: Pew Research Center Major factor in candidate support: Disliking the opponent Voters who support Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump offer a variety of reasons why they do so, ranging from the candidates’ issue positions to their personal backgrounds. But a major factor for both groups, beyond their candidate’s […]
Source: Pew Research Center Americans fall along a spectrum of preparedness when it comes to using tech tools to pursue learning online, and many are not eager or ready to take the plunge BY JOHN B. HORRIGAN For many years concerns about “digital divides” centered primarily on whether people hadaccess […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]