IN CASE OF EMERGENCY By Jo Fahy SEP 1, 2016 – 11:00 The bunker has seven levels underground, staff would have entered through this tunnel (swissinfo.ch) The Swiss city of Lucerne was once home to the biggest civilian bunker in the world. Built to shelter 20,000 people in the case […]
Reuters International SEP 8, 2016 – British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson gives his remarks during a stake-out at United Nations headquarters in New York U.S., July 22, 2016. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz (reuters_tickers) BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that statements by Britain’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson demonstrate London’s […]
ARTISTIC STATEMENT SEP 7, 2016 – Crosses are a familiar sight on Swiss mountain tops(Keystone) An artist has posed the question of why so many mountain peaks are dominated […]
Epigraph: Believers, be the supporters of justice and testify to what you may have witnessed, for the sake of God, even against yourselves, parents, and relatives; whether it be against the […]
BY TAREK FATAH, TORONTO SUN, 2016/09/07 The debate about “Canadian values” — started by Kellie Leitch, one of the candidates for the leadership of the Conservative Party — erupted into the predictable insinuation that she was racist, xenophobic and guilty of the ultimate offence of the times: Islamophobia. Fortunately, for her, it […]
September 7, 20167:48 PM ET, NPR.ORG CARRIE JOHNSON Twitter Lawyer Abid Qureshi could become the first Muslim federal judge. President Obama nominated Qureshi for an open seat on the federal court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Enlarge this image Abid Qureshi, a partner at the law firm Latham & Watkins, […]
Source: The New York Times By BEN HUBBARD BEIRUT, Lebanon — As Muslims from around the world head toward Mecca for the annual hajj pilgrimage, Saudi Arabia and Iran have […]
Source: The Washington Post By Jon Emont JAKARTA, Indonesia — In early August, when leaders of several dozen Muslim countries gathered in Jakarta for an annual economic conference, some of […]
Source: Reuters By Wa Lone and Simon Lewis | SITTWE, MYANMAR A team led by former U.N. chief Kofi Annan began to address the plight of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslims […]
Source: BBC Radical preacher Anjem Choudary has been jailed for five-and-a-half years for inviting support for the so-called Islamic State group. The 49-year-old was convicted at the Old Bailey after […]
Source: NPR BY TOM GJELTEN Fifteen years after the attacks of Sept. 11, Americans have grown aware not only of the danger of terrorism but also of the reality that their […]
Yamaha Equips New Baitul Ikram Mosque UK – Many House of Worship (HoW) audio installations are in existing buildings, adding sound reinforcement for the first time or replacing a life expired system. But occasionally the opportunity arises to design an audio system as an integral part of a new-build. RG […]
MUSLIMS FOR LIFE BLOOD DRIVE AT MASSACHUSETTS STATE HOUSE COMMUNITY Muslims for Life Blood Drive at Massachusetts State House BY INDIA NEW ENGLAND NEWS Follow us BOSTON–The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Boston Chapter will hold its sixth annual blood drive to honor the 9/11 victims. Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA chapters nationwide […]
Source: BBC Microsoft has announced that its first UK cloud computing data centres are up and running. The facilities are located in London, Durham and Cardiff. They should help the […]
Source: Motto By Lindsey Caldwell Feeling overwhelmed or confused on your current path or in your current career? You’re not alone. But we have the choice to live our lives […]
Source: Time BY ARYN BAKER|ABOARD THE MV AQUARIUS | PHOTOGRAPHS BY LYNSEY ADDARIO FOR TIME Like most mothers, Victoria was willing to sacrifice everything for her children. Even if it meant risking their lives. Just before dawn on August 20, 2016, the 42-year-old Nigerian widow grabbed the hands of […]
Source: BBC By Robert Thompson Science writer, BBC News, Swansea Scientists are perfecting new methods to spot a difficult-to-diagnose cancer. Teams from the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and Swansea […]
Source: Huffington Post By Jennifer Bendery WASHINGTON ― President Barack Obama made history on Tuesday by nominating the first Muslim person to the federal judiciary, Abid Qureshi. “I am pleased to […]
Source: The New York Times By Sheila Black When I was pregnant with my first child, my ob-gyn referred me to a genetic counselor “just in case.” I have a condition […]
Source: CNN by Aimee Rawlins It’s no surprise that inequality in the U.S. is on the rise. But what you might not know is that math is partly to blame. In a new book, “Weapons of Math Destruction,” Cathy O’Neil details all the ways that math is essentially being used […]