Interview Conducted by Maximilian Popp AFP A bombed out building in Diyarbakir, a Kurdish city in southeastern Turkey. Kurdish opposition leader Selahattin Demirtas, 43, says that his HDP party wants a cease-fire in the ongoing battle between Turkish troops and Kurds in southeastern Turkey. But, he says, Turkish President Erdogan […]
BY MICHAEL LIPKA AND ANGELINA E. THEODOROU What you wear can say a lot about who you are and what you believe. In Israel, for instance, the type of kippa – or lack thereof – worn by an Israeli Jewish man often is strongly correlated with his religious identity as […]
APR 20, 2016 – swissinfo.ch The Yemeni civil war has been raging since early 2015 (Keystone) Swiss arms exports will resume to the Middle East, excluding weapons that could either be used in the Yemen conflict or by states to repress their own citizens. Wednesday’s cabinet decision partially lifts […]
COURTESY: SCIENCEANDQURAN.COM Published — Friday 15 April 2016 Allah Almighty says: “And the Moon is eclipsed, and the Sun and the Moon are fused together, on that Day man will ask: “Where can I run?” No indeed! There will be no safe place. That Day, the only resting place will […]
MARK LEONARD ARABNEWS.COM Published — Thursday 21 April 2016 We have entered the age of migration. If all the people who live outside the country of their birth united to form their own — a republic of the rootless — it would be the fifth-largest country in the world, […]
By Reuters – Apr 19,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Cars drive on a road where workers construct a section of the Israel’s separation barrier in the West Bank city of Beit Jala, near Bethlehem, on Monday (Reuters photo) WASHINGTON — US Vice President Joe Biden on Monday acknowledged “overwhelming frustration” […]
Apr 20,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN The world cannot afford to waste time over ending the war in Syria. When US President Barack Obama leaves the White House in January, peacemaking could come to an abrupt halt. His successor, motivated by the desire to curb Russian and Iranian […]
Dean Obeidallah, NY http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/14/are-all-terrorists-muslims-it-s-not-even-close.html Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.” How many times have you heard that one? Sure, we heard Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade say it, but to me, that was simply part of the Fox News plan to make their viewers dumber, as we saw […]
Durham regional police are investigating after an Ajax mosque received two threatening phone calls in one week. Waqqas Syed, president of the Islamic Society of Ajax, said the first call came in on April 8 and the second on April 16. “When we heard the first message we thought it […]
Moral Matrix: Islam, Religious Freedom and Europe Today | Clarion Project Source: Clarion Project BY ELLIOT FRIEDLAND AND MEIRA SVIRSKY Three separate cases in different parts of the world illustrate […]
Harry Farley Junior Staff Writer – 19 April 2016 Recent analysis of pottery fragments by researchers at Tel Aviv University caused a spate of headlines along the lines of “The Bible is much older than we thought.” The researchers claim the discovery that inscriptions, dated to around 600 BCE, were […]
Source: The New York Times By RICHARD MARTYN-HEMPHILL ZAUBE, Latvia — With her niqab, a face-covering Islamic veil that reveals just the wearer’s eyes, Liga Legzdina stands out amid pine […]
Rouhani clashes with Iranian police over undercover hijab agents Source: Reuters Iran’s president criticized the use of thousands of undercover morality police in Tehran to report on young women who […]
Source: ABC News By LARRY NEUMEISTER, ASSOCIATED PRESS Members of the Muslim community asked Tuesday for more time to digest an agreement aimed at preventing illegal surveillance by the New York Police Department, saying they want to use the Ramadan season starting in early June to spread word among people […]
Source: BBC By Tessa Wong & Saira Asher A school in northern Malaysia has had to shut temporarily to handle what local media have called a case of “mass hysteria”. […]
Source: BBC By Lyse Doucet Chief international correspondent To survive any such place of profound pain is the greatest of gifts, a triumph of the human spirit. In our time, […]
Source: Time By Hannah Beech / Shanghai Any less, and you’ll get away with a lengthy jail sentence. Any more, and you could be dead How much is an errant Chinese […]
Hamilton to stay on $10, Jackson getting replaced by Tubman Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Wednesday will announce plans to both keep Alexander Hamilton on the front of the $10 […]
Yasri Khan. Photo: Marc Femenia/SCANPIX Published: 20 Apr 2016 A Swedish Green Party politician, who ignited a storm of controversy after refusing to shake hands with a female reporter on grounds that it violated his Muslim faith, announced on Wednesday that he was quitting politics. Yasri Khan is the second […]
Since 2013 Swiss women can legally keep their surname after marriage. Photo: Gary Minnaert Tradition still sways married Swiss women Published: 04 Apr 2016 12:20 GMT+02:00 Only one in five women married in Switzerland since 2013 chose to keep her maiden name after marriage since the law changed to allow […]