BLOCKED By Gerhard Lob in Como and Chiasso AUG 5, 2016 – 16:29 Not all migrants are allowed to cross the Swiss-Italian border (Keystone) More and more migrants who want to travel via Switzerland to northern Europe are becoming stranded in Como, Italy, just a few kilometres from the Swiss […]
The Syrian Democratic Forces have been fighting towards Manbij for two months Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden Rebel forces backed by the US-led coalition are reported to be in “almost complete control” of a Syrian city after driving Isismilitants out of their former stronghold. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance has been […]
ORDER FROM CHAOS How we all reinforce a narrative of Islam versus the West Madiha Afzal Thursday, August 4, 2016 “Our way of life is under threat by Radical Islam and Hillary Clinton cannot even bring herself to say the words,” tweeted Donald Trump after Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National […]
Tribune: A recent report by the Hudson Institute paints a damning portrait of Pakistan as a country where its Ahmadi community is arrested for propagating their faith, has its places of worship destroyed over allegations of blasphemy, has its businesses and products boycotted, and its deceased’s’ graves desecrated with impunity. […]
parhlo.com: by Farwa — When you learn to survive without anyone, you can survive anything. This statement applies a 100% on the 18-year old Yusra Mardini- a Syrian Refugee who is going to compete in Rio Olympics 2016, an achievement that was unthinkable less than a year ago when she was neck-deep in […]
theguardian: by Lizzie Sharp — Fathers seem to be blissfully immune to the constant low-level anxiety that besets mothers ‘For my children, one still a teenager, 3am counts as an early night these days.’ Composite: Getty I am the mother of two young people, one still a teenager, who work […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer Dozens of Black Lives Matter organizations jointly released a wide-ranging platform Monday spelling out standpoints on dozens of issues. On almost all of the issues — including education, food insecurity, criminal sentencing and policing — progressive Jewish groups heartily agree. But the new platform’s […]
Source: The Washington Post GINA KOLATAAUG. 4, 2016 The National Institutes of Health announced on Thursday that it was planning to lift its ban on funding some research that injects human stem cells into animal embryos. The N.I.H. announced its proposal in a blog post by Carrie Wolinetz, the associate […]
Source: The Washington Post By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. Jail officials in Cumberland County, Maine, have a special protocol for taking booking photos of Muslim women who wear hijabs. They’re photographed twice — once while wearing a hijab, and once without. The scarfless photos are never supposed to be seen beyond the walls […]
Source: NPR By HANSI LO WANG Even if fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad doesn’t medal at the Rio Olympics, she is set to make the history books. Once she hits the fencing strip […]
Source: CNN By Tom LoBianco, CNN Washington (CNN)The Republican challenging House Speaker Paul Ryan said this week that the US should debate deporting all Muslims from the country. “I’m suggesting we have a discussion about it. That’s for sure,” Paul Nehlen said on 560 AM’s “Morning Answer” in Chicago, when […]
Source: Time By Will Drabold A new poll shows Hillary Clinton jumping to a 15-point lead against Donald Trump in the presidential race. The poll, which comes after both political party conventions, shows Clinton beating Trump 48% to 33% across the country. The McClatchy-Marist poll shows Clinton with one of her […]
Source: Time By Daniel White President Obama rebuffed Donald Trump’s suggestion that the general election in November would somehow be rigged, joking that he’d never heard of anyone complaining about cheating before the game was even over. “Of course the election will not be rigged. What does that mean?” Obama said […]
A former deputy of the far-right extreme party in Germany, Werner Klauner is now known as Ibrahim and spends his time and earnings helping refugees World Bulletin / News Desk Werner Klauner, a deputy for the far right-wing extremist extreme right-wing National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) has reverted to Islam. […]
nder cover of darkness, they beached their small, lateen-rigged sailing vessel on the rocky shore and began the slow, silent climb to the manor house on the hill. Storm clouds shrouded the moon, darkening the coastal Mediterranean landscape; sporadic rain and gusting winds concealed the sailors’ approach. They were 20 […]
Steve Sailer • May 1, 2016 Thilo Sarrazin, author of the 2010 megaselling book Germany Abolishes Itself, has a new #1 bestseller in Germany, Wishful Thinking. Like all of Sarrazin’s books, it probably will never be translated into English. This article from DW.com suggests that Establishment response to Sarrazin has shifted […]
By Zubair K Khan According to the Indian Media reports, members of the Ahmadiyya community living in India will now be listed as Muslims in the census. They have been recognized as a sect of Islam, a religion whose orthodoxy has gone to great lengths to keep the community out […]
‘We don’t want any area that is only Muslim or any area where there are no Muslims’ Samuel Osborne @SamuelOsborne93 A halal supermarket in Paris has been ordered by local […]
Donald Trump has many positions on many, many things. Except windmills. He hates them. Bigly. It’s impossible to discern what Donald Trump actually believes, if anything at all, but there is one policy position on which he has never wavered: wind turbines. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/05/donald-trump-hates-windmills-more-than-hillary-clinton.html?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon He fucking hates them, though in true Trump fashion […]
Those we trust to represent us will not take up the battle against injustice these days because they are now too involved in the infliction of this injustice, albeit by proxy Robert […]