A medieval castle-that floats
Source: BBC By Amanda Ruggeri St Michael’s Mount, located half a mile south off the Cornish coast, can be accessed on foot – but only at low tide. Fraternal forts […]
If Catholic Women Could Be Deacons
Source: The New York Times NTRODUCTION Pope Francis at a meeting of female Catholic leaders.L’Osservatore Romano At an assembly of leaders of women’s religious orders, Pope Francis said he would […]
Tunisian Islamic Party Re-elects Moderate Leader
Source: The New York Times By CARLOTTA GALL TUNIS — The leader of Tunisia’s main Islamic political party was re-elected on Monday, winning endorsement for his effort to move the […]
Frequent flyer ‘Mansour’ used Pakistan airports
SALEEM SHAHID QUETTA: Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour, believed to have been killed in a US air strike in Balochistan on Saturday, was a frequent traveller and over the past nine years used at least two Pakistani airports for his visits abroad. Mansour was coming to Quetta from Taftan […]
Canadian Muslims very happy to be in the country, survey finds
by TOM ROSS Posted Apr 27, 2016 A new survey is showing that Canadian Muslims love the country, and feel a great sense of belonging here. The study, commissioned by the Environics Institute, finds that 83% of Muslims feel very proud to be Canadian, and 84% believe they are […]
Virginity testing in Indonesia
Source. The Economist. WHEN Sri Rumiati joined the police, she had to take a virginity test. It was uncomfortable and humiliating, she recalls. Not to mention unscientific and irrelevant to police work. Ms Rumiati, who is now a commissioner, has campaigned to have such tests for female recruits abolished. Officially […]
Do Science and Religion Conflict? Yes – And It Matters
Source: Huffington Post By Connor Wood; Scholar, writer, blogger, musician, theorist Is there a conflict between religion and science? Some say yes. Others say no. Regardless of their answer, nearly everyone thinks that the relationship between faith and science has to do with competing knowledge and truth claims, where science says one thing […]
Video: The Story of God With Morgan Freeman – Who Is God?
The Story of God with Morgan Freeman S01E03 | Who is God God of Islam: God of Nature and the Creator of our Universe Epigraph: Allah has created the heavens […]
Mikhail Gorbachev: Putin Is an Obstacle to Progress
Source: Time By Mikhail Gorbachev was the president of the Soviet Union and is the author of The New Russia. The rift between government and people can no longer be tolerated’ The present Russian regime need have no delusions that conservatism is a panacea for our problems, lulling themselves with […]
US did’t warn Pakistan of Mansour hit
WASHINGTON — Early on Saturday, a middle-aged Pashtun man used forged documents to cross from Iran into Pakistan. A few hours later, on a lonely stretch of highway, he was incinerated by an American drone.U.S. Didn’t Warn Pakistan of Mansour Hit – The Daily Beast http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/us/politics/afghanistan-pakistan-taliban-leader.html?_r=0 It is not exactly […]
Why Britain’s Ahmadis are worried
Source: Economist THE murder of a shopkeeper in Glasgow on March 24th has drawn attention to Britain’s relatively small and unknown community of Muslims called the Ahmadiyya. Asad Shah, who ran a flourishing newsagent’s in Scotland’s second city, was one of about 30,000 Ahmadis in Britain. He was killed by […]
We can destroy Israel ‘in under 8 minutes’
Source. Times of Israel Khamenei has repeatedly threatened to annihilate the Jewish state, and in September 2015 suggested Israel would not be around in 25 years. In a quote posted to Twitter by Khamenei’s official account on September 9, 2015, Khamenei addressed Israel, saying, “You will not see next 25 […]
Canada prevents anti-Semitic comedian from entering country
Source. Times of Israel. Dieudonne confirmed he had to depart Canada, “but I will return,” he said on his Facebook page. “I will be in Montreal tomorrow ‘in peace,’” he wrote, using the name of his planned show. That comment led some news reports to speculate that he might try […]
Obama’s $6 meal with Anthony Bourdain stuns Vietnam street shop owner
Source: ET Obama and Anthony Bourdain meet up in Hanoi for some beer and bun cha. PHOTO: Instagram/AnthonyBourdain HANOI: She has ladled out countless bowls of her pork noodle soup, but the owner of a Hanoi streetside restaurant says she was stunned when Barack Obama strolled in, pulled up a plastic […]
Here’s Proof George Washington Would Be Ashamed Of Donald Trump
Source: Huffington Post By Tyler Kingkade, who is a national reporter based in New York. You can contact him attyler.kingkade@huffingtonpost.com, or find him on Twitter: @tylerkingkade. Our nation’s first president […]
Refugees and Scholars: Colleges Offer War-Torn a Route to US
By COLLIN BINKLEY, ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON — May 24, 2016 Colleges in the U.S. are opening their doors — and their financial aid — to Syrian refugees. Over the past year, at least a dozen schools have promised to cover full or partial tuition for Syrian refugees who are accepted […]
Libya migrant crisis: Coastguard intercepts boats carrying 850 migrants
(File photo) As weather conditions improve, Libya has become a major hub for migrants and refugees hoping to cross the Mediterranean sea CREDIT: LOUISE GEORGE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES James Rothwell 23 MAY 2016 • 12:34PM The Libyan coastguard says it has intercepted migrant boats carrying more than 850 people across the Mediterranean. A […]
Interfaith Iftars Aim To Bring Communities Together This Ramadan
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg; Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post With Ramadan quickly approaching, when Muslims around the world will fast from sunrise to sunset, Rev. Cynthia Bronson Sweigert […]
DR. HARMESH KUMAR ADDRESSES AHMDIYYA MUSLIM BAY POINT: PAKISTAN POST
AHMADIYYA MUSLIM COMMUNITY BAY POINT, CA NASARULLAH JALSA 2016 BAY POINT, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA-( Saturday May 22, 2016) More than 50 delegates of Ansarullah Ahmadiyya ( 40 plus Ahmadi Muslims) of West Coast attended the annual Ijtema and took part in Quran Recital, impromptu speech and nazm competition in the morning […]
Swiss foreign minister says the country should do more
HUMANITARIAN AID MAY 23, 2016 – 14:12 Currently a record 125 million people worldwide need help to survive, according to UN figures. (Keystone) Switzerland is not doing enough to combat suffering in the world, says Swiss foreign minister Didier Burkhalter. The country would have liked to host the UN’s first World […]