Driven: Volvo’s one two punch
Source: BBC By Jim Resnick 15 June 2016 THE GLOBAL ECONOMY WAS IN DIRE STRAITS in 2009 — and few companies were harder hit than Volvo. The Swedish carmaker faced […]
Jo Cox death: Tributes paid in memory of killed Labour MP
Source: BBC Tributes have been paid around the world to Labour MP Jo Cox, who died after being shot and stabbed. The 41-year-old was attacked before holding a constituency surgery […]
Muslim Hip-Hop Dancers Break Down Stereotypes While Breaking It Down In Niqab
The hip-hop group “We’re Muslim, Don’t Panic“ was conceived of by dancer Amirah Sackett in 2011, a moment Sackett referred to as “a really tumultuous time in history as far as Islam is concerned.” Just seven years earlier, France banned students from wearing hijab to school, the headscarves that in Islamic […]
WATCH: 8th-Grader Nails Impersonations Of Trump, Clinton, Obama, Sanders
Source: NPR Maybe we’re all just taking politics too seriously these days. Eighth-grader Jack Aiello used his 8-minute graduation speech to impersonate Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, President Obama, Hillary Clinton […]
Gujarat riots: India court jails 11 for life over Gulbarg massacre
Source: BBC A court in India has sentenced 11 people to life in prison for their roles in a notorious massacre during the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat. Of the […]
Jo Cox MP dead after shooting attack
Source: BBC An MP has died after she was shot and stabbed in a “horrific” assault in her constituency, police have said. Jo Cox, Labour MP for Batley and Spen, […]
How to make ‘thoughts and prayers’ meaningful again
Source: The Washington Post By Alyssa Rosenberg The massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, where 49 people were murdered this past weekend, has prompted outrage at the impossibility of gun control in the United States, memorials at and for gay bars, and sharp debates about whether the shooting was primarily […]
Republicans Prefer Blunt Talk About Islamic Extremism, Democrats Favor Caution
Source: Pew Research Center Most Americans say religion doesn’t cause violence, but rather that violent people use religion to justify their actions Half of Americans say the next president should be careful not to criticize Islam as a whole when speaking about Islamic extremists, while four-in-ten want the next president […]
Pemra bans Hamza Ali Abbasi from hosting Ramazan show
Source: Dawn ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has barred actor Hamza Ali Abbasi and TV show host Shabbir Abu Talib from hosting their Ramazan shows on Aaj TV […]
Repeal Islam’s Scarlet-Letter Sex Laws
By Asra Q. Nomani June 15, 2016 The massacre of partygoers at Pulse, a gay club in Orlando, took me back to the late summer of 2005, when an African American woman, wearing a tight headscarf over her staff uniform, stormed out of the kitchen and into a conference room […]
Islam stands above German law for half Turkish Germans – survey
Source: RT.com Published time: 17 Jun, 2016 Almost half the ethnic Turks living in Germany consider following Islamic teaching more important than abiding by the law, a new survey claims. […]
Turkish vote on stronger presidency may come late this year
Reuters International JUN 17, 2016 – 16:00 Mustafa Sentop, head of constitution commission of the Turkish Parliament, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Ankara, Turkey, June 15, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (reuters_tickers) By Orhan Coskun and Nick Tattersall ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey will not hold a referendum on the powerful […]
Swiss parliament honours murdered British politician
JO COX Swiss parliament honours murdered British politician By swissinfo.ch and agencies JUN 17, 2016 – 10:54 Floral tributes left in memory of Jo Cox in Parliament Square, London (Keystone) The presidents of the Senate and the House of Representatives have expressed their condolences on behalf of the Swiss parliament […]
NGO blasts Swiss policy on detaining migrant children
MINORS NGO blasts Swiss policy on detaining migrant children JUN 16, 2016 – 16:58 The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child defines a child as every human being below the age of eighteen, unless the law applicable to the child states otherwise. The age of majority in Switzerland […]
The improbable reformers
Jun 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Nina L. Khrushcheva Over the last few years, Pope Francis has reinvigorated the Catholic Church’s core message with passionate criticism of unbridled capitalism and a new, more progressive worldview. In the United States primaries, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign is doing much the same […]
Jordan: Christians, Muslims share harmony of Ramadan in church iftar
By Rula Samain – Jun 15,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Muslims and Christians share an iftar meal at the Assembly of God Church in Salt on Friday (Photo courtesy of Fakhri Rihani) SALT — Gathered in a Bedouin tent in a churchyard, around 40 people waited for the mosque to […]
Why our nuclear deal with Iran is turning to dust
Many of Europe’s largest banks won’t do business with Iran for fear of breaching other US sanctions, which have nothing to do with the nuclear agreement – but a lot […]
Invasion of the Muslim body snatchers?
Religion News Service: Whenever Muslims are involved in a terror attack, my Facebook page and email inbox explodes with people who live to say (and love to say): “See, I told you so.” The latest was from one of my long-time correspondents who sent me a list of every member […]
Solving Islam’s Extremist Problem Starts With Solving its Homophobia Problem
FP: Though it was nearly 3,000 miles away, it was with great sadness and growing concern that I read the news about last weekend’s shootingby an American Muslim citizen at a gay bar in Orlando, Florida, that left 49 people dead and 53 others injured, with some still clinging to […]
How Science Is Resurrecting the Religious Imagination
Huff Post: As far as we know, there is no cure for death, no ingenious algorithm that can program the mysterious breath which at first gives life its form and then corrodes and withers it. It is in this breathing space between womb and tomb that we love, long and […]