The destruction of morality
The shame of Abu Ghraib prison is part of a long tradition that goes back to the Crusades Robert Fisk @indyvoices Thursday 19 May 2016 2 comments Iraq, 7 May 2004 […]
The Syrians had no chance…
Meeting an injured soldier in the Syrian army before a heavy night of shelling Robert Fisk @indyvoices Thursday 19 May 2016 Lebanon, 21 July 1989 Private Yahia Saloum of the Syrian army sat on the stairs of my apartment block, his head in his hands, a large bandage strapped to his […]
Toronto: why Islamcists told Muslims to lie on their census form
BY TAREK FATAH, TORONTO SUN FIRST POSTED: TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2016 06:38 PM EDT | UPDATED: TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2016 07:10 PM EDT torontosun.com Who would have guessed Canada’s 2016 census would provide us with an insight into the darker side of Canada’s multiculturalism? In an attempt to enhance the presence of one linguistic group […]
Study Calls On Obama to Withdraw Legal Memo That Allows Faith-based Charities to Discriminate
Source: Pro Publica The paper published by Columbia University is signed by a coalition of 15 prominent legal scholars across the country. by Sarah Smith ProPublica, May 10, 2016, 8 a.m. The Obama administration has roundly criticized states such as North Carolina and Mississippi for passing laws that allow discrimination […]
University of Miami Establishes Chair for Study of Atheism
Source: The New York Times By LAURIE GOODSTEIN With an increasing number of Americans leaving religion behind, theUniversity of Miami has received a donation in late April from a wealthy […]
Modest Muslim Clothing Store Hopes To Cater To People Of All Faiths
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor Muslim fashion bloggers and designers have been making an impact in the online fashion world for years. Now, one exclusively online modest fashion company is taking a big leap of faith by opening a brick-and-mortar store in Florida. Verona Collection, a company that designs […]
India records its hottest day ever
Source: BBC A city in India’s Rajasthan state has broken the country’s temperature records after registering 51C, the highest since records began, the weather office says. The new record in […]
Egyptian Army Says It Has Found Debris From Missing Flight MS 804
Source: Time BY Simon Lewis The Egyptian army says it has discovered debris it believes is from EgyptAir Flight MS 804, whichwent missingfrom radar screens in the early hours Thursday. The […]
What Science Says About the Bathroom Debate
Source: Time By Jeffrey Kluger Your genes don’t care who you share a bathroom with, but your politicians do Want to see a living experiment in what happens when traditional gender […]
Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump Is Not Qualified to Be President
Source: Time By Daniel White Hillary Clinton said Thursday that presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump’s “divisive and dangerous”behavior is a telltale sign that he’s not qualified to be president. Speaking with CNN on Thursday, the Democratic front-runner went on the offensive against Trump, who has gone after her — and her […]
Waleed Aly and Sadiq Khan: Role Models of Integration
Source Australasian Muslim Times by Zia Ahmad Zia Ahmad is the Managing Editor of the Australasian Muslim Times AMUST and is based in Sydney. Waleed Aly, the recipient […]
WHAT CAN THE U.S. LEARN FROM RADICALIZATION IN THE FRENCH-SPEAKING WORLD?
Source: The New Yorker By Benjamin Wallace-Wells Benjamin Wallace-Wells began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007, and joined the magazine as a staff writer in 2015. He writes mainly […]
Headstones smashed in ‘sickening antisemitic act’ at Jewish cemetery
Source: The Guardian By Josh Halliday North of England correspondent Vandals have destroyed 14 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in Manchester, in what police called a sickening act of antisemitism. The […]
A Week of Terror Attacks in Baghdad That Killed Hundreds
Source: The New York Times By SARAH ALMUKHTAR Terrorists killed more than 200 people in a surge of bombings across Baghdad over the past week. The attacks, many of […]
‘His beliefs are total opposite’: Republican tries to block nominee from office because he is a Muslim
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer A Christian pastor in the nation’s third-most-populous county tried to stop a Muslim man from serving in the local Republican Party because of his religion. The massive jurisdiction of Harris County, Tex. — with 4 million residents in the city of Houston and its surroundings […]
Dying GOP Senator Apologizes to Muslims for Donald Trump
Source: The Daily Beast By Tim Mak Bob Bennett spent his last days letting Muslims know how sorry he was that an Islamophobe had become his party’s all-but-certain nominee. Former […]
Rabwah dreams of the green cap
Source. Bilal Aslam of Germany via The Cricket Monthly. Faisal bin Mubashir thought he could make it. On January 4, 2014, he thought he could pull through to a double-century. “The season was going very well, but I had [been getting out in] the nervous 90s,” he recalls as we […]
The Real Source of Terror in Bangladesh and Our Solution
National Monument of Bangladesh The Real Source of Terror in Bangladesh Source: NY Times By William B. Milam, who is a senior policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington […]
From ‘Fire’ to ‘Darkness’: The Story of a Pakistani Christian Journalist
Francis George Gill, commonly known as Dr. Sodagar Gill, is a renowned Christian Pakistani journalist who fled to Thailand with his family after he was charged in a false blasphemy case. Gill was working for Community Advance Program, a faith-based Christian organization of Lahore. Christian Monitor, a weekly newspaper, was one […]
57 Islamic countries block LGBT groups from UN conference
https://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/57-muslim-states-block-lgbt-groups-aids-conferenceIn Iran, gay people are routinely hanged from cranes. (Photo: © Reuters) Groups advocating for gay and transgender rights have been banned from an upcoming meeting at the UN following the intervention of acoalition of Muslim states. The conference will take place from June 8 to June 10 and aims […]