DNA ‘tape recorder’ to trace cell history
Source: BBC By Roland Pease BBC Radio Science Unit Researchers have invented a DNA “tape recorder” that can trace the family history of every cell in an organism. The technique […]
Zika crisis: Rio Olympics ‘should be moved or postponed’
Source: BBC More than 100 leading scientists say the Rio Olympics should be moved or postponed over the Zika outbreak. The group says new findings about the virus make it […]
‘Lightly beating’ wife permissible, says CII’s proposed women protection bill
Source: Dawn By RAZA KHAN ISLAMABAD: The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) is deliberating on its proposed ‘model’ women’s protection bill, which allows a husband to ‘lightly’ beat his wife ‘if […]
Obama exploring how to prosecute Islamic State for genocide
Source: Politico By NAHAL TOOSI The Obama administration, having declared two months ago that the Islamic State is committing genocide, is now grappling with how to actually prosecute the terrorist […]
5 facts about how Americans view the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Source: Pew Research Center BY SAMANTHA SMITH AND CARROLL DOHERTY5 COMMENTS Far more Americans continue to sympathize more with Israel (54%) than with the Palestinians (19%) in the Middle East dispute, according to our recent foreign policy survey. And half of Americans (50%) think a way can be found for […]
Israeli Jews, Arabs have different perspectives on discrimination in their society
Source: Pew Research Center BY MICHAEL LIPKA Israel has been a Jewish-majority country since its founding in 1948, and its treatment of religious and ethnic minorities – including some groups within the Jewish community – has persisted as a hotly debated topic throughout the nation’s history. That debate continues today. For […]
Discussion aims at peace
Source: Airdrieecho By Dawn Smith The room was packed for the seventh annual World Religions Conference at Airdrie’s Town and Country Centre, May 18. Hosted by the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, the event brought four speakers from diverse religions. together. The topic of the evening was Building Bridges of Mutual Respect […]
Satire against Islamic extremism Taking the web by storm
Satire Against Extremism is Taking the Web By Storm Satire Against Extremism is Taking the Web By Storm A wide range of Muslim comedians are mocking Islamist beliefs online, and a growing liberal Muslim audience is loving it. By Elliot Friedland, Wed, May 25, 2016 Muslims tired of the influence of […]
100 Years Of Hijab Styles Video Brings A Century Of Fashion And Politics To Life
Huff Post: by Carol Kuruvilla — A video from MuslimGirl.com highlights women’s participation in political movements. https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmuslimgirlarmy%2Fvideos%2Fvb.117231523398%2F10154183065558399%2F%3Ftype%3D3&show_text=0&width=560 Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, founder and editor-in-chief of MuslimGirl, told The Huffington Post that her team dreamed up the video after realizing that the hijab was being “commodified” by the Western fashion industry during […]
5 Important Issues That Matter to Women in the 2016 Presidential Election
TeenVogue: by Polly Mosendz — With the presidential election just eight months away, politicians are battling it out for the hearts and minds of voters across America. To win any election, candidates need women on their side: According to the Center for American Women and Politics, women have cast more […]
UK: Documentary inside Britian’s largest mosque
Channel 5: Inside Britain’s Biggest Mosque and the Ahmadiyya Muslims who run it May 27, 2016 | by Rabwah Times | 2 https://player.vimeo.com/video/168283564?color=7aa74a&title=0&byline=0&portrait=0 Meera Syal narrates a documentary going behind the scenes at the Baitul Futuh mosque in Morden, south London, home to Britain’s 30,000-strong Ahmadiyya Muslim community. The film […]
Muslim boys must shake female teachers’ hands despite religious beliefs, Swiss school board rules
Source: Telegraph UK A school board in northern Switzerland said on Wednesday that two Muslim boys who have refused to shake hands with their female teachers for religious reasons can […]
Channel 5: Inside Britain’s Biggest Mosque and the Ahmadiyya Muslims who run it
Rabwah.net: Meera Syal narrates a documentary going behind the scenes at the Baitul Futuh mosque in Morden, south London, home to Britain’s 30,000-strong Ahmadiyya Muslim community. The film reveals the defining moments of life at the mosque, from finding love to committing to faith as well as looking at international […]
The power of Jewish-Muslim dialogue
Tribune: When the 9/11 attacks occurred in the US, I had just begun teaching at the American University in Washington, DC as the new Chair of Islamic studies. As the scale of what had happened became apparent, I knew how important fostering dialogue and communication between Islam and other religions […]
The world is getting more religious, because the poor go for God
By Giles Fraser, South London priest. Guardian columnist and Editorial Board. Visiting Professor at the LSE. Guardian: The so-called “masters of suspicion”, Nietzsche, Marx and Freud, all thought that religion would […]
The path to better days
May 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI Two years or so since Daesh declared itself and its caliphate in parts of northern Syria and Iraq, we are now finally approaching the moment when decisive, coordinated, pervasive and sustained military force will be used against it to destroy its […]
The US is dropping calls for Assad to go because the Syrian regime is a better bet than Isis
In Syria and Lebanon there are no plans for a future, but the Syrian army is going to have a role in any New Syria Robert Fisk @indyvoic Troops loyal to Bashar al-Assad […]
What to do about Daesh
May 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – JONATHAN POWER “ISIS [Daesh] is not an existential threat to the United States,” President Barack Obama told Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic magazine recently. What becomes clear in that long article, much of it Obama’s own words, is that Obama shies away from the […]
Pakistan Ideology Council says: Husbands can beat their wives lightly
Pakistani husbands can ‘lightly beat’ their wives, Islamic council says – The Washington Post Pakistani husbands can ‘lightly beat’ their wives, Islamic council says – The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/05/26/pakistani-husbands-can-lightly-beat-their-wives-islamic-council-says/<!– <!– When Pakistan’s most populated province approved a law this year that gives women protection – and a potential escape – from […]
Seeing radical Muslims everywhere you look? Try ‘Islamophobin’!
Source: RNS By David Gibson (RNS) The nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization has been earnestly educating Americans for years about Islam while denouncing the growing tide of […]