What is earwax for?
Source: BBC By Jason G Goldman 3 May 2016 Whales never clean out their ears. Year after year their earwax builds up, leaving behind something of a life history told […]
Labour has secretly suspended 50 members for anti-Semitic and racist comments
Source: Telegraph By Kate McCann, senior political correspondent Labour has secretly suspended 50 of its members over anti-Semitic and racist comments as officials struggle to cope with the crisis engulfing the party. […]
Britain won’t leave Europe, but watch it collapse from a distance:
Source: AT OXFORD–As it has for over 500 years, the Magdalene College Choir sang the Hymnus Eucharisticus from a tower high above this university town on the first day of May, followed incongruously by a dirty Elizabethan ditty about nymphs in Spring. An Anglican vicar blessed the bedraggled revellers crowding the surrounding streets. Most […]
How Moqtada al-Sadr Could Take Down Iraq’s Government
Source: The Daily Beast BAGHDAD, IRAQ — Hussain Jassim refused to leave the Green Zone, once considered the impenetrable citadel at the heart of Baghdad, until his leader Muqtada al-Sadrordered him to do so. “We have entered parliament and we have broken it’s prestige in front of people because they […]
Muslim’s Labour Party Candidacy Shapes London Mayoral Race
Source: The New York Times By STEPHEN CASTLE LONDON — The son of a London bus driver, Sadiq Khan has had a remarkable rise into the upper echelons of British […]
Will France Stop Muslim Soccer Players From Praying?
Source. The Daily Beast NICE, France — Wearing Muslim head scarves in schools has been banned all over the country since 2004. But will the mayor of Nice get away with telling Muslim football players they can’t pray on the field? Many in Nice question why Mayor Christian Estrosi is […]
Police in Bangladesh Detain 3 in Killing of Hindu Tailor
Source: The New York Times By JULFIKAR ALI MANIK and GEETA ANAND DHAKA, Bangladesh — The police detained three men early Sunday in connection with the killing of a Hindu tailor, the latest in a series of hacking deaths in the country. Islamist militants are believed to be responsible for […]
On his own …Mu
The King had allowed a pet elephant loose near Nasrudin’s village, and it was destroying crops. The people decided to go in a body to Tamerlane to protest. Nasrudin, because he had been known to amuse the King at times, was appointed leader of the delegation. So overawed were they […]
Europe’s First Islamic Constitution? What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Source: The Daily Beast Calls by a top member of the ruling party of Turkey for an Islamic constitution to replace the secular basic law in place in the country, a NATO member and crucial U.S. ally, have been rejected by politicians from all stripes, including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, himself […]
Daniel J. Berrigan, Defiant Priest Who Preached Pacifism, Dies at 94Daniel J. Berrigan, Defiant Priest Who Preached Pacifism, Dies at 94
Source: The New York Times By DANIEL LEWIS APRIL 30, 2016 The Rev. Daniel J. Berrigan, a Jesuit priest and poet whose defiant protests helped shape the tactics of opposition […]
Life After Sexual Slavery Inside ISIS
Source: The Daily Beast When Elham Salah first began her training to be a psychological counselor, she thought that she would be helping local women cope with the effects of domestic and other gender-based violence. However, after almost three years of working at the Jiyan Foundation—a small group in Iraqi […]
Religious freedom deteriorating around the world
Source: Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Religious freedom remains under “serious and sustained assault” around the globe, according to a new annual report from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. “At best, in most of the countries we cover, religious freedom conditions have failed to improve,” commission chairman Robert […]
What’s That You’re Wearing? A Guide to Muslim Veils
WHAT IN THE WORLD What’s That You’re Wearing? A Guide to Muslim Veils What in the World By RUSSELL GOLDMAN MAY 3, 2016 Photo CreditIllustration by Antonio de Luca They are banned in France, mandated in Saudi Arabia and a fashion statement in Indonesia. Veils for Muslim women come in […]
Quiet changes in Iran
Source: ET Iranian President Hassan Rowhani. PHOTO: AFP The run-off elections in Iran have served a sotto-voce notice on the hardliners in and out of parliament that their day whilst not yet over, is not indefinite. The moderates and reformists have gained a working majority in the Iranian parliament for […]
UK government running ‘covert’ propaganda campaign to stop Muslims joining Isis
Unit uses local community groups to spread its anti-extremism message – without revealing its government links Caroline Mortimer @cjmortimer The Home Office has defended the existence of Ricu saying they are only to ‘stop people becoming suicide bombers’ Getty Images The UK government has launched a secret propaganda campaign […]
20 names of places that could break Pervez Rasheed’s wuzu
Source: ET Perhaps in an earnest attempt to set the Guinness World Record for longest simultaneous face palm across a single country a few days ago, politician Pervez Rasheed attacked rival Imran Khan at a press conference by saying that he couldn’t name the locality where Khan’s boys studied, for it […]
With five-year delay, CIA ‘live-tweets’ Bin Laden raid
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE | Published — Tuesday 3 May 2016 WASHINGTON: The CIA has marked the anniversary of the killing of Osama Bin Laden by live-tweeting — with a five-year delay — the raid by US special forces on the Al-Qaeda founder’s compound in Pakistan. Using the hashtag #UBLRaid, […]
Saudi Arabia: Binladin ‘lost billions’ since Makkah crane crash; 77,000 expats given final exit visas, say reports
Arab News | Published — Tuesday 3 May 2016 RIYADH: Saudi Binladin Group has lost billions since the government refused to grant it additional contracts after last year’s crane crash in Makkah that killed 107 people, for which the firm was found partially responsible, according to a local media report […]
‘From Cairo to Goldberg’
May 02,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby Earlier this month, “The Atlantic” magazine featured a cover story, “The Obama Doctrine”, written by Jeffery Goldberg. Based on the author’s many hours of interviews with President Barack Obama, the story represents an attempt to find a coherent framework with which […]
Plea for Syria
May 02,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Following his Friday briefing to the UN Security Council, UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura called on the US and Russian leaders to help salvage the “barely alive” ceasefire in Syria “from a total collapse”. Since the cessation of hostilities is “hanging […]