BY DR. JUERGEN TODENHOEFER Dear friends, according to the US secret service, DIA, the Obama administration has known as early as August 2012 that Al Qaeda /AQI, IS, ISIS) and other extremists were heading the Syrian rebellion. As a result, the “possibility that a Salafist principality in Eastern Syria“ would […]
ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN AFP Photo During the height of the migrant crisis in Europe last fall, Lasse Landt came to a startling realization. Thousands of migrants were pouring into Germany every day, but the 36-year-old startup consultant from Berlin hadn’t met a single one of them. “It was all over […]
Source: The Guardian By Sarah Boseley Health editor Experts are calling for health warnings on all alcoholic drinks after data showed millions of middle-aged men drink above government guidelines and do […]
aga khan award for architecture announces 2016 shortlist (above) royal academy for nature conservation, um al-yanabea (architect: khammash architects) image © AKTC / cemal emden the 19 […]
May 15, 2016 TEHRAN — Three Iranian projects were shortlisted with 16 other works from around the world for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture worth $1 million. The projects are the Manouchehri House in the central Iranian city of Kashan, the Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge and the 40 Knots […]
Jamala, representing Ukraine with the song 1944, performs during the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 final in Stockholm. Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP Photo May 15, 2016 KIEV // “When strangers are coming, they come to your house, they kill you all and say, ‘we’re not guilty, not guilty’.” […]
Refugee Aeham Al Ahmad, also known as “the pianist of Yarmouk” performs during a rehearsal, prior to a concert at Berlin’s Heimathafen concert hall on May 12, 2016. John MacDougall/AFP Pianist of Yarmouk plays to Germans’ hearts May 15, 2016 Updated: May 15, 2016 06:23 PM Berlin // A year […]
theguardian: by Carmen Fishwick — People living outside the UK give their views on Sadiq Khan’s win and whether a Muslim would be elected where they live Sadiq Khan. Across the UK there are hundreds of Muslim councillors, and the House of Commons has 13 Muslim MPs. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA […]
http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2688346365 Listen to Maria Toorpakai interview on CBC with AnnaMaria Trimonti Transcript of the Interview May 11, 2016 Squash champion Maria Toorpakai disguised herself as a boy to play sports in Pakistan Guests: Maria Toorpakai ANNA MARIA TREMONTI: Hello, I’m Anna Maria Tremonti and this is The Current. AMT: That is Canadian squash […]
Huff Post: Before Bono became the world-famous humanitarian and frontman of the Irish rock band U2, he was Paul David Hewson from Dublin. The son of a Roman Catholic dad and a Protestant mother, Bono grew up during a time of sectarian conflict and witnessed the human cost of militant […]
Nadeem Hanif May 15, 2016 DUBAI // Integrating Arabic and Islamic Studies into the wider curriculum will be the focus of a new school that will open this summer. The Next Generation School will open its doors to children for the next academic year and promises to develop both […]
Firemen extinguishing a fire at a former hotel under reconstruction to become a home for asylum seekers in February in Bautzen, Eastern Germany. Photo: AFP Increase in arson at German refugee centres: police Published: 14 May 2016 16:24 GMT+02:00 German authorities on Saturday reported an increase in the number of […]
REDISTRIBUTION PROGRAMME MAY 13, 2016 – 15:32 The group is made up of asylum seekers who reached Italy via the Mediterranean (Keystone) A group of 10 asylum seekers from Italy has arrived in Switzerland under the European Union’s refugee relocation programme. They are part of a pilot group of 30 […]
By AFP – May 14,2016 -JORDAN TIMES Arab Israelis and other supporters wave Palestinian flags as they march during a protest to mark the right of return for refugees who fled their homes during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, at a village near Rahat in southern Israel, on Thursday. The […]
May 14,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Today marks the 68th year of Nakbeh, or Palestinian catastrophe. In 1948, Israel was created on Palestinian land, starting decades of Palestinian suffering, sacrifice, dispossession and displacement. Palestinians, both Muslim and Christian, who were a majority in their homeland before the start of the […]
May 14,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – Mahmoud N. Zidan On May 11 and 12, many Israelis marked the 68th anniversary of their so-called Independence Day, Yom Ha’atzmaut, according to the Hebrew calendar. That day laid the groundwork for implementing the myth of a greater — only in size — Israel, a […]
Voices The Serbian Prime Ministser is saying all the right things to ease his country into the EU. But Vucic, who attended the Srebrenica memorial service last year, once said, “for every Serb killed, we will kill 100 Muslims” Robert Fisk @indyvoices Saturday 14 May 2016 31 comments Ask me […]
In yet another powerful display of British multiculturalism, a Muslim politician elected to Scottish parliament delivered his oath of allegiance in his native language, Urdu. Humza Yousaf, a member of the Scottish National Party(SNP) who won a seat from the city of Glasgow, spoke first in English and then […]
Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community inaugurates Mahmood Mosque in Malmo. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is pleased to announce that on 13 May 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad inaugurated the Mahmood Mosque in Malmo, Sweden. It […]
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad makes remarks during interview with Sweden’s Sveriges Radio. On 11 May 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad was interviewed by Sveriges Radio (Sweden Radio) at the Mahmood Mosque in Malmo, Sweden. Upon […]