Source. The Daily Beast MOSCOW — That the Russian Federal Security Service, the famous FSB, is out of control is not a surprise to many people here. But the damage it’s doing to Russia’s standing in the world — and to itself — is really quite extraordinary. The most recent […]
Source. The Daily Beast On the first day of the Republican National Convention congressman Steve King suggested that white people had been responsible for humanity’s greatest achievements including, among other things, the spread of Christianity. It came about during an appearance on MSNBC when a panelist commented on the lack […]
Source. The Local “All those who criticise Erdogan are immediately considered supporters of Gülen or the PKK [the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party],” said a leader of the opposition Greens party, […]
Source. The Local The 18-year-old gunman, a German-Iranian named David Ali Sonboly, also used the internet to plan and carry out his crime, in which he killed nine people and wounded 16 others. Nevertheless, the social networks provided a valuable source of information and solidarity for the city’s frightened population […]
Source. ET More than a month has passed since the Orlando shooting revealed an exploitable defect inAmerican gun laws. What it also exposed, was a structural bias against a peaceful community that has existed for a long time. On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen – later identified as a young Muslim […]
Source.ET NOUAKCHOTT: Arab foreign ministers vowed on Saturday to “defeat terrorism”, as they gathered for a regional summit just over a week after a jihadist-claimed truck attack in the French Riviera left 84 people dead. In a statement, they also called for a “definitive solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as Arab […]
Source. ET BERLIN: The head of the Protestant Church in Germany has called for Islam to be taught in state schools across the country as a way to make young Muslims impervious to the ‘temptation of fundamentalists’. Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm told the Heilbronner Stimmenewspaper that teaching Islam in schools nationwide would […]
Source: Religion News Service By Fredrick Nzwili NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) Muslims in Nigeria are celebrating a court ruling that lifted a ban on girls in public school wearing the hijab […]
Source: The Guardian By Richard Luscombe in Miami ‘We thought it’d be great to invite the community at large to visit us,’ the Islamic Center of Boca Raton’s president said. Photograph: […]
Source: The Guardian Tom Phillips in Beijing The Global Times, a Communist party-run tabloid, said Xiaoshan, a district in south-east Hangzhou where the G20 meeting will be held, had outlawed […]
Source: BBC By Eric Weiner Although many countries are saddled with stereotypes, in Switzerland’s case they’re dead on. The alpine nation really is highly efficient. And meticulously punctual. Clean, too. […]
Source: BBC The 18-year-old gunman who killed nine people in Munich was obsessed with mass shootings but had no known links to the Islamic State group, German police say. Written […]
Source. The Daily Beast At least 80 people were killed and another 231 wounded Saturday after an explosion tore through a protest in Kabul by minority Shiite Hazaras, Reuters reported. “Opportunist terrorists” took advantage of the protest to kill and wound “a number of our countrymen, including security and defense […]
Epigraph: Every human life is sacred and precious; killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source. The Local Europe reacted in shock to the third attack on […]
Tribune: Although the Ahmadi community is one of the most persecuted minorities in Pakistan, they enjoy religious freedom and full rights in the United States. Qasim Rashid, a human rights attorney and […]
Source: CNN Washington (CNN)The deeply pessimistic outlook that Donald Trump offered at this week’s Republican National Convention doesn’t match reality, President Barack Obama insisted on Friday. Noting he didn’t watch […]
A man suspected of carrying out a deadly shooting attack in the German city of Munich killed himself, and likely acted alone, police have said. At least 10 people, including the possible suspect, were killed in Friday’s attack on the Olympia shopping centre, a police spokesman said early on Saturday. […]
Source: The Washington Post By Fredrick Kunkle A Muslim civil rights organization is asking the Department of Transportation to investigate the removal of a passenger from an American Airlines flight […]
Source: Associated Press By RADLEY KLAPPER WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and its anti-Islamic State coalition allies said Thursday they’ve reached a key moment in their campaign to defeat the […]
Source: THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER by Justine McDaniel, Staff Writer Bensalem Township has temples, synagogues, and churches, but in 2014 Bucks County’s largest municipality declined to grant a permit for a mosque. That, said the U.S. Justice Department in a suit filed Thursday, constituted religious discrimination. The suit seeks to have […]