The people who ate elephant heads
Source: BBC By Matt Walker Ancient humans dined out by eating the massive heads of now extinct elephants. According to new research, people living in Palaeolithic times, commonly known as […]
US Senate rejects terror list gun sale restrictions
Source: BBC The US Senate has rejected plans to tighten gun controls, including the restriction of weapons sales to people on terrorism watch lists. Four proposals were brought before the […]
Israel approves additional funding for settlements in West Bank
Source: The New York Times By ISABEL KERSHNER JERUSALEM — The Israeli government on Sunday approved about $20 million in additional financing for Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, […]
Orlando, Islam and the West
Source: ET A deranged, 29-year-old American man born in New York, to Afghan parents, killed 49 young men and women at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida. During the killing spree, Omar Saddique Mateen calmly called 911, the emergency line, to declare that he had acted in support of the Islamic […]
Pakistani man charged with blasphemy over shoes with Hindu symbol
Source: Reuters ISLAMABAD | BY ASAD HASHIM Pakistani police arrested a man under the majority-Muslim country’s strict blasphemy laws on Monday for selling shoes with a sacred Hindu symbol, police and Hindu leaders said. The shopkeeper, Jahanzaib Khaskhili, was arrested in the southern town of Tando Adam and the shoes, […]
Church of England aims to agree to disagree over homosexuality
Source: The Guardian By Andrew Brown The General Synod in London in February. Photograph: Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images At next month’s General Synod, the Church of England will try a new […]
World Orthodox leaders meet despite Russia’s absence
Source: Associated Press By DEREK GATOPOULOS and DEMETRIS NELLAS ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The leaders of the world’s Orthodox Christian churches have gathered on the Greek island of Crete […]
Iran ‘foils plot by Sunni militants to bomb Tehran’
Source: BBC The authorities in Iran have thwarted a plot by Sunni militants to bomb targets in the capital Tehran and other cities, the intelligence ministry says. The ministry said […]
An elite club of suicide bombers
Source: Dawn.Com It is always baffling, isn’t it, to see the yawning difference in our responses in South Asia to a gathering communal threat, for instance, as opposed to the catastrophic prospect of nuclear annihilation? Only recently, Pakistan toggled between public outcry and terrified whispers when teeming mourners showed up […]
Kidnapping of SHC CJ’s son bargaining chip for militants
Source: Dawn.Com KARACHI: Police sources suspect that Advocate Awais Ali Shah, kidnapped son of Sindh High Court’s chief justice, will be used as a ‘bargaining chip’ to ensure release of some captured militants. “So far it is kidnapping, and my professional assessment is that it is not for ransom,” Sindh […]
Canada: Pig’s head left outside Quebec City mosque with ‘bon appétit’ note
Quebec city, Quebec Islamic cultural centre of Quebec City was also target of xenophobic messages, vandalism in 2014 CBC News Posted: Jun 19, 2016 10:30 PM ET Last Updated: Jun 19, 2016 10:31 PM ET In the middle of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a regular at a Quebec City mosque finished […]
Ivanka to Dad: It’s Me or Lewandowski
Source. The Daily Beast Carlo Allegri/Reuters Ivanka Trump told her father he had to get rid of campaign manager Corey Lewandowski or else she would no longer help his campaign, CNN’s Dana Bash reports. Lewandowski was fired after a Monday morning meeting with Donald Trump, his children, and several staffers. […]
Another Shahadat/ Ahmadi killed in Pakistan
Source. Watsapp. In Karachi Ch Khaleeq Ahmad age 50 embraced Shahadat today. Innahlillahe Wainnah elehe rajeoon. Details awaited.
Man who shot a Meriden mosque gets 6 months in federal prison
By Anna Bisaro, New Haven Register POSTED: 06/17/16 Defendant Ted Hakey Jr., accused of shooting into a mosque next door to his Meriden home, is seen for a court appearance in New Haven in January.John Woike — Hartford Courant via AP HARTFORD >> A man who fired rifle shots towards […]
Swiss Jews oppose punishing students who refuse to shake teachers’ hands
June 8, 2016 (JTA) — Swiss Jews spoke out against a regulation that makes it illegal for schoolchildren to refuse to shake hands with their teachers because of religious reasons. A regional school board last month ruled that schools in Basel Country can fine parents up to $5,000 if their […]
How Ahmadiyya propagates Peace
By Zubair Khan On 14.06.2016, in the premises of library Savica, part of greater city Zagreb Croatia, it was Ms Tina Hrubi who delivered the lecture on Media and Peace. The event sponsored by Ahmadiyya attracted 22 participants along with City Zagreb TV Jabuka. Ms Tina who just completed her […]
The worst I’ve seen – trauma expert lifts lid on ‘atrocity’ of Australia’s detention regime
Exclusive: In his 43-year career, Paul Stevenson has worked in the aftermath of the Bali bombings and the Boxing Day tsunami but says nothing he witnessed was as bad as the treatment of asylum seekers on Nauru and Manus by Ben Doherty and David Marr In my entire career of […]
Jo Cox was working on report on anti-Muslim attacks before her death
Islamophobia watchdog says it cooperated with Labour MP on a report expected to conclude that violence against Muslims rose by 80% in 2015 Jo Cox was working with the watchdog Tell Mama. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images Kevin Rawlinson Monday 20 June 201609.45 BST Jo Cox, the MP who was killed […]
Donald Trump Says U.S. Should ‘Start Thinking About’ Using Racial Profiling
Source: Time BY Melissa Chan Donald Trump on Sunday said the U.S. will have to consider the use of racial profiling in the wake of the Orlando nightclub massacre, defending […]