Source: The Daily Beast Saudi Arabia is the world’s newest drone power. And that could be a problem, since the Saudis are in the midst of a rather nasty war. Riyadh has signed a contract with Chinese firm Chengdu for an unspecified number of Pterodactyl drones, Saudi media reported in […]
Source: The Daily Beast: Inside Russia Today’s American headquarters in Washington, across from the receptionist’s desk stamped by a lime green “RT” banner, an ad starring Ed Schultz and Larry King plays on a large screen TV. Schultz and King, whom he dwarfs, stand opposite one another, marveling at the […]
Source: RT The prospect of Donald Trump becoming the 45th President of the United States has become very real. A year ago, everybody thought that Trump was a joke but now, less than 8 weeks before election day, some very serious people are openly admitting that Trump could be our […]
The Muslim Times’ Collection on Islam’s Condemnation of Terrorismhttp://t.co/NFrzgQsZHe pic.twitter.com/Yv7kV04kZF — The Muslim Times (@The_MuslimTimes) September 17, 2014 Source: One India By: Vicky Nanjappa Published: Thursday, September 15, 2016, 11:51 […]
Source: The Local In the town of Bautzen in the former East German state of Saxony violence between locals and refugees has broken out again. Police reported on Thursday that around 80 men and women associated with the far-right scene descended on a square in the town on Wednesday evening. […]
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NYTimes.com OTTAWA — The crowd was enthusiastic, and Justin Trudeau was working it. He seemed to leave no hand unshaken in the crush of the convention hall as light perspiration gathered on his forehead. Even on what could have been hostile turf, the ebullience was palpable. That’s how it goes […]
Source:RT According to Police, a spokesperson for Germany’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community was attacked on Tuesday evening. The attacker who is thought to be a 40 to 45-year-old man shouted xenophobic slogans and praised the rightwing AFD party. 33-year-old Suleman Malik who is of Pakistani origin was racially abused and attacked […]
Source: The New York Times BY MOHAMMAD JAVAD ZARIF, FOREIGN MINISTER OF IRAN Tehran — Public relations firms with no qualms about taking tainted petrodollars are experiencing a bonanza. Their latest […]
Source: BBC Indonesia’s highest Islamic authority has said it is a sin for people to deliberately burn forests to clear the land for growing crops. Illegal slash-and-burn farming has devastated […]
Source: The Guardian By Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Rome Pope Francis has issued a remarkable endorsement of major changes in the way priests approach Catholics who are divorced and remarried, in a […]
Source: RNS By Kirkland An (RNS) In the midst of a bitter presidential campaign, a group of 13 evangelical leaders has founded an organization advocating a Christian and civil approach […]
Source: myAJC By Meris Lutz – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A protest by a small but strident group of about a dozen militia members, some armed, ended quietly Tuesday, after several […]
Source: The Washington Post By Abigail Hauslohner It was late afternoon on Monday when the Great Falls family of five piled into their minivan and headed for the Virginia countryside […]
Just as the Great War led to the Second, so the world war against al-Qaeda led, via Iraq, to the war against the apocalyptic Isis Robert Fisk @indyvoices 9/11 terror attack in New York Getty Sometimes, I suspect, the ability of human beings to fool themselves with their own words over the Middle East […]
Mosques are being urged to provide citizenship lessons for the thousands of youngsters they see daily. About 100,000 UK youngsters attend Islamic religious schools attached to mosques – madrasas – every day. Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6665317.stm
An Austrian cardinal who is one of the favourites to become the next Pope has warned that Europe faces its biggest threat from Islam since the 17th century. In an astonishing speech the Roman Catholic Cardinal of Vienna, Christoph Schönborn, warned that many Muslims wanted to eradicate Christianity and conquer […]
Pope Francis on Wednesday denounced killing in God’s name as “satanic” as he held a mass in Rome to honour Jacques Hamel, the French priest whose throat was slit by jihadists in July. Read more: http://www.thelocal.it/20160914/pope-says-religious-killing-is-satanichttp://www.thelocal.it/20160914/pope-says-religious-killing-is-satanic
Ambassador has served in several Arab countries Published: 16:14 September 13, 2016 Habib Toumi, Bureau Chief Manama: Simon Collis has become the first British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia to perform […]
File photo: Martin Abegglen Published: 08 Sep 2016 Some people in Switzerland can be left ‘stateless’ when the authorities withdraw their Swiss passport on suspicion of a sham marriage, the Tages Anzeiger has reported. Under Swiss rules, a foreign national who obtained Swiss citizenship through marriage to a Swiss can […]