Guardian: We are being turned into a nation of vigilante terrorist hunters, says writer Reni Eddo-Lodge. From the government’s prevent strategy to representations of Islam in the media, the message […]
Source: Chronicle By Eboo Patel, who is founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core and author of the forthcoming bookInterfaith Leadership: A Primer, by Beacon Press, August 2016 I recently met […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor For years, Islam has been misunderstood and politicized by American pundits and politicians. The consequences of this climate are evident in the growing number of anti-Muslim incidents that are occurring across the country. Although it’s a ridiculously unfair burden to put on American Muslim […]
Source: Time By Rana Foroohar Foroohar is an assistant managing editor at TIME and the magazine’s economics columnist. She’s the author of Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business. You know something is deeply wrong in our market system when a company likeMicrosoft, which has […]
Source: Time By Alexandra Sifferlin It’s probably ok for some people to do less exercise than recommended Clocking just 15 minutes of exercise a day may be enough for older adults […]
Source: Time By Kim Wall / Shanghai Will Mickey Mouse and friends succeed in winning Chinese hearts and minds? Oscillating between drizzle and downpour, the weather is typical for Shanghai, though […]
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred and killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: Yahoo News Bangladeshi clerics said Monday they have issued a […]
Dawn.com: by Shada Islam — TIM Hunt, an English biochemist who is also a Nobel laureate, told the World Conference of Science Journalists in Seoul that he believed scientists should work in gender-segregated labs. YES, let’s make fun of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s sexist praise of his Bangladeshi counterpart, […]
Source: The Guardian An influential group of Pakistani clerics have issued a fatwa against “honour” killings, with a spokesman calling them “unethical and unjustifiable” following a series of attacks on […]
Source: Time By Alice Park Sleep experts combed through hundreds of studies to determine how much children of different ages should sleep to be at their healthiest It’s no secret that […]
Source: Time By Kevin Kelleher It’s one of the biggest—and riskiest—acquisitions in the history of technology A key to understanding the massive and unexpected $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn by Microsoft […]
By Armando Mombelli JUN 15, 2016 – 11:00 While the eurozone struggles to manage public deficits, Switzerland has presented several plans to save every possible centime (Keystone) Public debt in non-EU Switzerland corresponds to barely 33% of gross domestic product (GDP), while the EU average is more than 85%. Yet […]
Source: Time By Jacob Davidson The U.S. has more firearms than any other country in the world. At least 50 people died and more than 50 were injured after a gunman identified by police as Omar Mateen opened fire in a crowded Orlando nightclub early Sunday morning, the worst mass shooting […]
AFP | Published — Wednesday 15 June 2016 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, of Jordan, addresses his statement during the opening of the 32nd session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday. (AP) GENEVA: […]
By AFP – Jun 15,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A Palestinian protester holds a sign as he chants slogans during a protest against what organisers say is land confiscation by Israel, near Arroub Refugee Camp north of the West Bank city of Hebron, on Sunday (Reuters photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — […]
By Dana Al Emam – Jun 14,2016 – JORDAN TIMES This undated handout image shows archaeologist Christopher A. Tuttle investigating the doorsill of the small building on the newly […]
Jun 14,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – OSAMA AL SHARIF It has been described as the worst mass shooting in America’s history. At least 50 people were killed and 53 were injured when an armed assailant opened fire early Sunday in a crowded nightclub in the Florida city of Orlando. The […]
Source: The Guardian: By Sarah Lyons-Padilla, who is a research scientist at Stanford SPARQ: Social Psychological Answers to Real-world Questions The evidence shows that alienating an entire religious community, as Donald […]
Source: Time By Sam Frizell How the two rival campaigns are finally talking to each other In the bright lights of the political revolution, Bernie Sanders does not sound like a […]
Source: BBC Tahmima Anam tells the Hay Festival audience about the weird and wonderful things that inspire writers. “The great thing about being a writer is that you can take all the quirky things that are interesting to you and put them in books”. Speaking to the BBC’s George Alagiah […]