Aug 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN Last week China declared its intention to become directly involved militarily in the Syrian conflict by dispatching advisers to aid the Syrian army. Beijing dispatched Rear Admiral Guan Youfei, head of China’s office for international military cooperation, to Damascus where he met […]
Aug 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – DAOUD KUTTAB Colourful posters of smiling candidates are not new among election-related paraphernalia. But a certain orange-colour poster caught people’s attention because of the slogans it contained. One slogan read: “No to the exploitation of religion.” Another affirmed support “for a civilian state”. A […]
Source: Newsmax By Daniel Pipes, who has taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, the U.S. Naval War College, and Pepperdine University. Pipes is the author of 12 books […]
The Mounties have adopted a new uniform policy to allow female Muslim officers to wear the hijab. Scott Bardsley, spokesman for Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, confirmed that RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson recently approved an addition to the uniform policy to allow women officers to wear the head scarf “if they so choose.” “The […]
Source: The Guardian A sign at Ponchettes beach in Nice shows the law forbidding the wearing of clothing such as the burkini. Photograph: Jean Christophe Magnenet/AFP/Getty By Angelique Chrisafis in Paris […]
Source: BBC Police Scotland has announced women from Muslim communities may now wear the hijab as part of their uniform. It is part of an attempt to encourage Muslim women […]
Source: Time By Susan Fraser and Philip Issa ANKARA, Turkey —After a pre-dawn barrage of heavy artillery and airstrikes, Turkey sent tanks and special forces into Syria on Wednesday to help […]
Source: Time By Matt Peckham A decade after its launch in November 2006, Sony’s PlayStation 3 is coming to Windows. Sony says a PC-compatible version of its PlayStation Now cloud gaming […]
Source: BBC At least 120 people have been killed and 368 injured in an earthquake that hit a mountainous area of central Italy, PM Matteo Renzi has said. The magnitude-6.2 […]
Source: BBC By Melissa Hogenboom Frodo ruled with an iron fist. He incited fear among his fellow group members. His “demonic streak”, as it was later called, started early. From […]
Source: Associated Press By KATHLEEN FOODY ATLANTA (AP) — A proposal to build a mosque and Muslim cemetery has so angered some residents of Newton County outside Atlanta that their commissioners have temporarily banned all building permit approvals for religious institutions. The moratorium prompted the Council on American-Islamic Relations and […]
Source: Associated Press By TOM HAYS NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department chronically skirted rules intended to protect political groups from unwarranted government surveillance while investigating Muslims, the city’s independent police monitor said in a report released Tuesday. The audit, conducted by Inspector General Philip Eure, found […]
Anderson Cooper got together quite the panel to talk about Donald Trump‘s appeals to black voters this week. Trump supporter Kayleigh McEnany was on hand to back up her candidate’s […]
Source: The Hill By Rafael Bernal Steve Bannon, Donald Trump‘s new campaign CEO, previously accused Catholics of supporting Hispanic immigration to prop up the church’s numbers on his radio program […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer It took petitions from everyone from schoolchildren to members of Congress, and 12 years of waiting. Soon, a long-hoped-for goal will be a […]
By AFP – Aug 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza — A team of foreign veterinarians began taking measures on Tuesday to evacuate the last surviving animals from a zoo in the Gaza Strip that has been dubbed “the world’s worst”. In front of each cage of the zoo […]
Source: Los Angeles Time What do you do when you find yourself in an unhappy marriage but live in a country where there is no divorce? You go on Facebook […]
Aug 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – GLADA LAHN The Syria crisis, which has displaced some 11.3 million people, has exposed the cracks in the conventional humanitarian relief system. And for neighbouring countries like Jordan that host the majority of refugees, it is widening pre-existing cracks in public service systems and […]
It seems that oppression is only when brown men tell you how to dress; when white men do it it’s called liberation. But even French feminism has its roots in […]
After Nice, the Cannes Mayor has also passed legislation that no Muslim Burqini ladies should be seen at the Mediterranean beaches. In the meantime the ban has spread to a third coastal city. The Pakistani DAWN reports: Woman forced to remove clothing on France beach after burkini ban DAWN.COM — […]