The Times: British police are teaching the Saudi Arabian regime to use high-tech detection skills despite accepting that they could “identify individuals who later go on to be tortured”. Senior MPs called last night for the suspension of the programme amid concerns about the human rights record of the Saudi […]
Source: The Atlantic By EMMA GREEN Ben Affleck has become an unlikely spokesman for a view on Islam held by many on the American left. In 2014, the actor made a now-famous stand […]
Source: The New York Times In the days before rapid sea or air travel, it could take months to travel to Mecca. The spiritual heart of Islam lay far from […]
Source: The Daily Beast By DEAN OBEIDALLAH When the champ is buried, millions of Americans will have their first glimpse of the Muslim funeral service—one that looks a lot like Jewish […]
Source: Associated Press BY SHARON COHEN CHICAGO (AP) — As a young boxer, Muhammad Ali searched for a faith to guide him as he confronted the indignities of racial discrimination. […]
Source: Associated Press By BRUCE SCHREINER and CLAIRE GALOFARO Muhammad Ali’s casket is escorted by pallbearers for his Jenazah, a traditional Islamic Muslim… Read more LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — As […]
Source: Huffington Post By Jennifer R. Breedon Human Rights Analyst & Foreign Policy Expert Focused on Religious Extremist Ideology & International Law “We pray for the souls of the Islamic State militants that killed our families. We know they are motivated by evil and pray they can be freed.” I will […]
Source: Time By Lily Rothman Starting Thursday, you’ll need to be 21 to buy cigarettes in California. That age may sound high, but it matches up with laws of the past […]
Source: Time By Mandy Oaklander Far too often, a person’s sex or skin color is connected to how much he or she earns—even in the reputationally well-paying field of medicine, finds […]
Source: Time By Daniel Estrin / AP (JERUSALEM) — Israel on Thursday suspended most special permits for Palestinians to visit Israel during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, and beefed up […]
Source: BBC A human-carrying drone has been given approval for test flights in Nevada, the first of its kind in the United States. The autonomous drone – dubbed 184 – […]
Source: Huffington Post By Emily Peck Executive Editor, Business and Technology, The Huffington Post Hillary Clinton just cracked the glass ceiling, the name we’ve given the invisible barrier that keeps women […]
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Swimwear adhering to hijabi dresscode banned from German pool A two-piece ‘burqini’ covers the hair and arms and has long trousers A person complained at a pool in Regensburg, southeast Germany Mayor didn’t understand why she needed to cover up in front of women By Sara Malm for MailOnline Published: […]
Source: Balkan Insight. A thirty-six year old woman from Sarajevo, who has two children from her first marriage, told BIRN about how she married an Arab, to become his second wife. She says her new husband, who is 51, originally came to Bosnia for business, to open a small company […]
Each false atrocity bleeds into the body of evidence of other, real crimes, contaminating the truth for decades to come Robert Fisk in Beirut @indyvoices We all know the problem. […]
Avigdor Lieberman’s political promises of beheading, a fourth Gaza war and a third Lebanon war – there have in fact been five Israeli-Lebanese wars, but no matter – bode a very unhappy future for both Israel and its Arab neighbours Robert Fisk @indyvoices ‘Mindless’ though the Israelis like to dub […]
AFP | Published — Friday 10 June 2016 RAMALLAH: Israel said Thursday it had suspended entry permits for 83,000 Palestinians during Ramadan following a shooting in Tel Aviv that killed four people. “All permits for Ramadan, especially permits for family visits from Judea and Samaria to Israel, are frozen,” said […]
ARAB NEWS | Published — Friday 10 June 2016 JEDDAH: Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh, who heads the Council of Senior Scholars, has urged Muslims who have undertaken many Umrah trips to refrain for entering Makkah, so that others have a chance to perform the rituals. Al-Asheikh said it […]
Jun 09,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – Jonathan Power George Orwell, the author of “Animal Farm” and “1984”, was the first person to use the phrase “Cold War” in a 1945 newspaper article, written just after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He argued that “the surface of the Earth is being […]