Source. Media Library As our anchors and TV channels commit national and logical suicide by referring to Ahmadi Mosques as “marakaz” and “Ibadgahs”, we must remind ourselves of the views of Quaid-e-Azam Mahomed Ali Jinnah who relied heavily on the Jamaat Ahmadiyya and its brilliant son Ch. Zafrulla Khan (whose […]
Source.Mediamatters.org MEGYN KELLY (HOST): I don’t know if it’s Sharia, but Islamism is considered problematic by many Americans because if you are an Islamist, you approach Islam very different from modern, more reformed Muslims. BRIGITTE GABRIEL: Exactly. You are correct. Islamists are very different than the imams that we are […]
Source. BBC.Com As reported earlier that 2,745 judges have been fired in Turkey on Saturday for alleged links to Fetullah Gulen – now both the Hurriyet newspaper and Anadolu Agency are reporting that 140 arrest warrants have been issued against members of the Supreme Court. More.
Source. ATimes The outcome of tonight’s apparent coup attempt in Turkey remains unclear, but the motivation for regime change in Turkey has been building under the surface for years. Turkey faces a perfect storm of economic, political and foreign policy problems. First, Turkey’s much-heralded economic growth spurt of the 2000’s […]
Source. ET ANKARA: A Turkish army faction backed by tanks and fighter jets was waging a coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday. Here is what we know so far: Offiicials were insisting the attempted coup was falling apart. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan returned to Istanbul airport during the […]
Source: Time By Simon Lewis At least 84 people were killed Thursday night when a truck careened through crowds of people celebrating Bastille Day in the southern French city of […]
Source: Time By Dan Stewart Nice was the third major attack in France in 18 months Senior politicians in France have begun questioning the country’s anti terror strategy, hours after a man driving a truck killed 84 people in France’s third major terrorist attack in 18 months. Alain Juppé, a […]
Source: Time By John R. Bowen Jihad seems to hit France harder than other countries, with more than 1,000 young people leaving to fight on the side of ISIS or […]
Source: BBC By Dave Lee North America technology reporter The US government cannot force Microsoft to give authorities access to the firm’s servers located in other countries, a court has ruled. […]
Source: BBC By BBC’s Travel Show Natural caves exist throughout Hungary, but a cave system in the small town of Tapolca has an especially memorable method of exploration. The around […]
Source. A Times. A prejudice against Turks as being self-serving and untrustworthy – although exotic – is deeply embedded in the European psyche. In William Shakespeare’s play, Othello used the word “Turk” in that sense.A recent poll found that only 9% of Germans consider that Turkey can be a “trustworthy […]
Source: Huriyat Daily News Turkey has strongly condemned the terrorist attack that killed at least 84 people in Nice during the French National Day celebrations, offering solidarity with France and […]
Source: Asia Times. Yet another criminal known to security services has perpetrated a mass killing, the Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel. Why did the French police allow a foreign national with a criminal record of violence reside in France? Apart from utter incompetence, the explanation is that he was a snitch for the […]
Source: The Daily Beast We were sitting on the cliffs as darkness fell, obscuring our view of the niches across from us where the giant Buddhas had for centuries smiled upon the fertile valley. It had only been a few years before that they were blasted away by the Taliban. The […]
Source: The Daily Beast. Boris Johnson, whose thirst for spectacularly offensive jokes has already led to multiple apology tours, has now been chosen as the international face of Britain.Britain’s least diplomatic man is the country’s new head of diplomacy.In a decision that installs the court jester as the international face […]
Source: The Daily Beast The Russian military claims it’s making progress on a space plane similar to the U.S. Air Force’s secretive X-37B robotic mini-shuttle. That in itself isn’t terribly surprising or even, for the United States, particularly worrisome. Lots of governments and even private companies are working on space planesthat […]
Source: Dawn.Com WASHINGTON: A US congressional panel has demanded cutting off all US assistance to Pakistan to persuade Islamabad to act against the Afghan Taliban groups allegedly using its territory to launch operations into Afghanistan, a move that Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz says is motivated by “baseless concerns” of […]
Source: Dawn DHAKA: Bangladesh on Friday moved to regulate weekly sermons in hundreds of thousands of mosques as part of a stepped-up campaign to combat extremism, officials said.The move comes […]
Source: ET Indian preacher Dr Zakir Naik has come under a lot of scrutiny after it emerged that the terrorists who carried out the terrorist attack in Dhaka on July 1st may have been radicalisedby his preaching. Zakir Naik’s Peace TV Bangla has been banned by the Bangladeshi government as […]
Scroll.in: It is a well-known fact that 1.6 billion Muslims contribute a disproportionately smaller share to the world’s knowledge. This global community – forming the majority population of 57 countries and spanning virtually every single country of the world – has had only three Nobel laureates in science in the […]