Source: The Local Mayor Elisabeth Herzog-von der Heide of the town Luckenwalde, in Brandeburg, fired an intern after one day because she would not take off her headscarf.“The Islamic headscarf is a means of expressing a religious worldview,” Herzog-von der Heide said on Wednesday.The mayor said that therefore, wearing a […]
Source: The Local Germany’s military is preparing to pull out from a Turkish airbase as a row between the two NATO partners escalates, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Thursday. More:
Source: The Daily Beast Two teenagers have been arrested in New York City for allegedly breaking into the Indonesian consulate and stealing clothing and booze before making off with a diplomatic vehicle. Police say 18-year-old David Rivera and a 16-year-old girl who has not been identified face charges of burglary, […]
Source: AT And one of China’s most secret missile programs is a revolutionary hypersonic strike vehicle that skims the upper atmosphere and can maneuver in a bid to defeat U.S. strategic defenses.China for years has denounced U.S. missile defenses as destabilizing. But for the first time last month, the Chinese […]
Source: Asia Times: The U.S. Strategic Command said it had tracked what it believed to be a KN-11 submarine-launched ballistic missile and confirmed it flew about 300 miles. “I think it was probably successful,” said Jeffrey Lewis of the California-based Middlebury Institute of International Studies. “We don’t know the full […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Associate Religion Editor British YouTuber Dina Torkia had a few choice words about the temporary “Burkini bans” that have swept through several French cities in […]
AUG. 24, 2016 Israeli, Palestinian, and foreign activists march to protest the demolition of the Palestinian village of Susiya in July 2015. (AFP/Hazem Bader, File) By: Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud is an internationally-syndicated columnist, author and the founder of PalestineChronicle.com. His latest book is My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: […]
File photo: C Carlstead Geneva advises teachers on religion in school Published: 24 Aug 2016 12:03 GMT+02:00 As children start the new school year, the secular canton of Geneva has issued guidelines for teachers on how to deal with religious issues in the classroom. Italian ‘ignored’ by Swiss schools in […]
SHEIKH MOKHTAR | Published — Thursday 18 August 2016 This is the concluding part of article on Haj. AS you near the miqat, your heart will tremble and tremor. Is this really happening? Is my heart getting closer and closer to His House? Soon you will enter Allah’s haram. It […]
SHEIKH MUHAMMED SALIH AL-MUNAJJID | Published — Thursday 18 August 2016 PRAISE be to Allah Who has created time and has made some times better than others, some months and days and nights better than others, when rewards are multiplied many times, as a mercy toward His slaves. This encourages […]
ARAB NEWS |Published — Thursday 25 August 2016 Muslim hajj pilgrims perform noon prayers at the Namira mosque near Mount Arafat, in this October 14, 2013 file photo. (AFP) MAKKAH: The weather in Makkah during the Haj season is predicted to be hot during the day and mild at […]
Chinese Haji pedals his way to Makkah ARAB NEWS | Published — Thursday 25 August 2016 Mohammed Bama Chun … journey of faith MAKKAH: Riding his bike for 8,150km, crossing several countries, a Chinese Haji has reached Makkah. Mohammed Bama Chun from Xinjiang took four months to reach Makkah […]
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 […]