Where’s the Outrage Over Nun Beachwear?
Source: The Daily Beast By Barbie Latza Nadeau While the French are banning Muslims in burqinis, Italian Catholic bishops find it ironic there’s alarm when a woman is “overdressed while […]
Now that he’s in jail, will he continue his work there?
Source: The Daily Beast LONDON — Perhaps the world’s most mainstream pro-ISIS Western media agitator, Anjem Choudary, finally has been convicted of terrorism in the United Kingdom. It took 20 years to bring him to justice, but after jurors at the Old Bailey heard last week that he’d pledged allegiance to […]
Govt advice to stockpile food criticized as ‘scaremongerin
Source: The Local “By bringing out new plans all the time, the government could completely worry people and even lead them to panic buy,” Dietmar Bartsch, co-leader of Die Linke (The Left Party) told the Rheinische Post on Monday. The government shouldn’t be adding to the sense of fear on […]
Why German babies cry differently to Chinese ones
Source: The Local If you’ve ever thought that babies in Germany sound just a bit more German than those crawling around in other countries, you’re not just hearing things. Researchers at the University of Würzburg found in two different studies that even newborns cry differently depending on their mother tongue, the […]
Muslim teen banned from wearing face veil in school
Source: The Local The teenager had taken her school to court after they told her she would not be able to attend classes so long as she continued to wear the conservative Islamic clothing, which leaves the whole body covered except for a slit for the eyes. The young woman […]
Turkey’s hit list of enemies is growing as Erdogan prepares to buddy up with Putin in Syria
Could it be that the Sultan is thinking of renewing his old friendship with the Lion of Damascus? Be sure that he is Robert Fisk @indyvoices Sunday 21 August 2016 It says a lot about post-failed-coup Turkey that you can spot the priority list of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s foreign antagonists […]
One dead, five injured in attack on ARY News Karachi office
Source: Dawn KARACHI: Violent protesters attacked an ARY News office in the Saddar area of the metropolis on Monday evening, which resulted in clash between police and the angry mob — killing one person and injuring several others. Police later confirmed that “MQM workers pelted stones at police officials and […]
China says video of dazed Syrian boy pulled from rubble may be fake
Source:AT China’s state broadcaster has questioned the authenticity of the video of Syrian boy Omran Daqneesh which went viral worldwide, alleging it may have been faked as part of a Western “propaganda war”. A still image taken on August 18, 2016 from a video posted on social media said to […]
Malaysian rapper held over music video said to insult Islam
Source: AT Namewee directed and produced the music video titled “Oh My God!”, in a mixture of Mandarin and Hokkien Chinese dialects, for a Taiwan band. He was detained on Sunday on arrival from Taiwan at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.It is not the first time the Malaysian has courted controversy. […]
The True Story Of How War Broke Out In Syria
by Tyler Durden Aug 15, 2016 Submitted by Steven Sahiounie via American Herald Tribune, The day before September 11, 2001 was like any normal day in New York City. September 10, 2001 was unaware of the earthshaking events which would happen the next day. Similarly, one might think the day […]
North Korea threatens nuclear attacks on Seoul, Washington
Source: Asia Times: The extreme rhetoric from Pyongyang comes at a time of high tension following the defection of a senior North Korean diplomat and a US plan to place a high-tech defence missile system in South Korea. The North’s military said that it will turn Seoul and Washington into “a […]
Jordan: How Close to Danger?
Jordan: How Close to Danger? Joost Hiltermann Muhammad Hamed/Reuters Poor Jordan. A small, economically precarious country, it shares a two-hundred-mile border with Syria. Yet unlike Syria’s other neighbors, Turkey, Iraq, and Lebanon, it rarely gets any attention in the international press. Indeed, while the world focuses on the European Union’s […]
France’s Burkini Bigotry
By THE EDITORIAL BOARDAUG. 18, 2016 A woman wearing a burkini, a swimsuit that leaves only the face, hands and feet exposed, as she swims at Marseille, France. CreditReuters After bans on full-face veils, head scarves in schools and rules about students’ skirt lengths, France’s perennial problem with Muslim women’s […]
Turkey, once the great hope of the Middle East, is left weak and unstable
The destabilisation of Turkey is good news for Isis as Turkish security organisations devote their efforts to hunting down Gulenists Patrick Cockburn @indyworld Friday 29 July 2016 Coup attempt and purge are tearing Turkey apart. The Turkish armed forces, for long the backbone of the state, are in a state of turmoil. […]
The U.S. and NATO Need Turkey
Source: Time By Halil I. Danismaz Danismaz is president of the Turkish Heritage Organization ‘To cast Turkey loose now would forfeit our influence in the region and end a decades-long alliance’ […]
Isis has not radicalised young Muslims, it has infantilised them – and that is why it is so powerful and dangerous
Isis has broken down the precious wall which separates childhood from adulthood, innocence from guilt. This, far more than mass murder, is its final dark achievement Robert Fisk @indyvoices Thursday 11 August 2016 Old Bishop Daly was a hero of mine. In an age when the Catholic Church was betrayed […]
Images that stop the world in its tracks
Source: BBC By Kelly Grovier Every so often, a photo stops the world in its tracks. The image of nine-year old Phan Kim Phúc, running naked down a street in […]
The mysterious ancient origins of the book
Source: BBC The debate about ebooks v paper books is nothing new. Keith Houston explains how a very similar debate raged as the first books came to be in ancient […]
What style of bathing suit should I wear to impress the chic French?
theguardian: by Hadley Freeman — Trust the French to make exposure of female flesh an essential part of their national identity. Come on France, you’re better than these burkini bans A threat to the ‘soul of France’ or just a chic bathing suit? Photograph: nullplus/Getty Images/iStockphoto I’m going on a […]
Extremist Pleads Guilty to Destroying Holy Sites in Timbuktu
PARIS — An Islamic extremist pleaded guilty on Monday at theInternational Criminal Court to destroying shrines and damaging a mosque in the Malian city of Timbuktu, in the court’s first prosecution of the destruction of cultural heritage as a war crime. Prosecutors have said that Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi, a member of a […]