Sony Is About to Turn PCs Into PlayStations
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 […]
Italy earthquake: Death toll rises to at least 120
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 […]
Why bullying is such a successful evolutionary strategy
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 […]
Civil rights groups defend mosque, cemetery outside Atlanta
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 […]
Inspector general: NYPD skirted rules for surveillance
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 […]
Black Panelists Beat Down Trump Supporter’s Claim That He’s ‘On the Cutting Edge of Civil Rights’
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 […]
Trump aide accused Catholics of backing immigration to boost church
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 […]
We have Christmas, Hanukkah and Eid stamps. Now the U.S. gets its first Hindu stamp.
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 […]
Gaza: Not fit for animals: Last animals set to leave ‘world’s worst zoo’ in Gaza
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 […]
There’s just one country other than the Vatican where divorce is illegal — and some want to change that
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 […]
How Jordan’s crisis resilience model is reshaping humanitarian response
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 […]
Dear white people of France: being forced to undress wasn’t exactly the liberation I was longing for
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 […]
Breaking News: France requesting to Saudi Arabia’s ‘Morality Police’ for training their police force!
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 — […]
The predictions have come to pass: Turkey is now in Syria and this is what it means for the Middle East
The Turks don’t want a Kurdish mini-state on their frontier any more than the Syrians want to lose territory to the Kurds Robert Fisk @indyvoices How the West would love […]
Canadian High Commission shuts down anti-Ahmadiyya Twitter troll
August 24, 2016 | by Rabwah Times | 1 The High Commission of Canada to Pakistan fired back after receiving a message calling Ahmadis “non-Muslims” on social media. On 23rd August 2016 the twitter account of the Canadian High Commission shared a picture and wrote: “Acting High Commissioner Stuart Savage […]
Ghana: Attorney-General & Minister for Justice Opong addresses the 37th Annual National Convention of Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Association
Mrs Appiah-Opong was addressing the 37th Annual National Convention of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Association in Kumasi. The three-day convention was under the theme ‘Peaceful Co-existence in Our Contemporary Society, A Concern for All’. Mrs Appiah-Opong, who was representing the First Lady, Mrs Lordina Mahama, as the Special Guest of […]
USA: Ahmadiyya’s True Islam Educating Muslims & Non-Muslims
By Kaysey Price Today at 10:33 a.m. Syed Sajid Ahmad spoke at Tuesday’s Kiwanis meeting about True Islam and the misunderstandings that come with not excepting religion diversity. “The people who don’t know Muslims, they are afraid of them,” said Syed Sajid Ahmad, a researcher at NDSU, while presenting a […]
Q&A | Does Islam prescribe any punishment for Blasphemy?
Source: youtube.com/TrueIslam Question: Does Islam prescribe any punishment for Blasphemy? MUST READ – Mistakes & Misunderstandings of Muslims: Qur’an says: Apostasy is Not Punishable In Islam A video made by Abdul shafi Bharwana, Missionary in Sierra Leone; Editor African Crescent, Sierra Leone; Lecturer in Jamia Ahmadiyya, Sierra Leone; Secretary History Committee, Sierra […]
PV Sindu: Olympic medalist showered with awards and cash prizes
Source: One India New Delhi, Aug 24: Its raining rewards for PV Sindhu after she won India’s first silver medal in Badminton at Rio Olympics 2016. The 21-year-old shuttler from […]
France’s much vaunted secularism is not the neutral space it claims to be
Source: The Guardian By Dr Giles Fraser, who is priest-in-charge at St Mary’s Newington in south London and the former canon chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral. He writes the Loose […]