Kidnapped to kill: How Boko Haram is turning girls into weapons
Source: CNN By Brent Swails and David McKenzie, CNN Minawao refugee camp, Cameroon (CNN)The question was always the same, she says. So, too, was the answer. “They came to us […]
IMF says Britain leaving the EU is a significant risk
Source: The Guardian By Katie Allen and Anushka Asthana A British vote to leave the EU risks causing severe economic and political damage to Europe and will spill over into to weaken […]
Not A Morning Person? Blame Your DNA.
Source: Huffington Post By Carolyn Gregoire Senior Writer, The Huffington Post If you just can’t ever seem to get up early for that morning workout, don’t be too hard on yourself. New research suggests that being an early riser is in some people’s DNA — and not in others’. The study, which […]
‘They hacked his head with a machete’: Another atheist activist murdered in Bangladesh
Source: Rawstory A Bangladeshi law student who posted against Islamism on his Facebook page has been murdered, police said Thursday, the latest in a series of killings of secular activists […]
Fundamentalist preacher faces terrorism charges
source> The Local Sven Lau (centre) is seen being bundled into a police car after his arrested in December 2015. Photo: DPA A fundamentalist Muslim preacher who started a “sharia police” force in western Germany has now been charged with aiding a terrorist group in Syria, prosecutors announced on Tuesday. […]
German should be language of mosques’: conservatives
Source. The Local National Girls waving German flags in Hanau, Hesse, at the opening of a mosque there. Photo: DPA. A leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s sister party is pushing for a so-called “Islam law” that would make German the official language of mosques and impose harsh consequences for Muslims […]
Muslim sect called ‘less than animals’
LINK An interesting video by Nasim Malik of Sweden
Today is the Birthday of Thomas Jefferson: The Main Architect of Secularism for Our Global Village
Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Thomas Jefferson (April 13 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who was principal author of the […]
Trevor Phillips’ research on British Muslims is dangerous and wrong. No wonder Islamophobia is on the rise
Averting mistrust between religious communities is one of the key objectives of our time, but this study plays into the hands of those who seek to spread hatred Maha Akeel Trevor Phillips is fronting a Channel 4 documentary about British Muslims, based on new research about their attitudes Charlie Forgham-Bailey […]
Jordan shuts down Muslim Brotherhood headquarters
SOURCE: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36035089?ocid=socialflow_twitter Police in Jordan have shut the headquarters of the main opposition movement, the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood (MB), group officials say. The building in the capital Amman was cleared and sealed on city governor’s orders, an MB leader told Reuters. No reason was given for the closure, the […]
Syrian Refugees Face Crippling Isolation Months After Moving To America
The Darbi family, resettled in New Jersey last July, has found that forced socialization often contributes to intense feelings of alienation. 04/12/2016 Willa Frej Reporter, The Huffington Post Rowaida Abdelaziz World Social Media Editor, The Huffington Post Damon Dahlen/The Huffington Post The Darbis — Nabiha, Amira, Mohamed, Hajar and Shaker, […]
We are close to solving Syria conflict: Iran
April 13, 2016 TEHRAN – “We are happy that we are getting close to a political solution of the [Syrian] crisis,” Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Tuesday. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of his meeting with UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura in Tehran, […]
Not worth keeping
Seeing something glittering in the gutter, Mulla Nasrudin ran to pick it up. It was a metal mirror. Looking at it closely, he saw his face reflected in it. ‘No wonder it was thrown away – nothing as ugly as this could possibly appeal to anyone. The fault is in […]
No place for racism in Islam
Deana Nassar Published — Friday 1 April 2016 Islam with its universal concept of brotherhood rejects all artificial and man-made marks of distinction. When listening to the radio, reading newspapers, surfing the Net or watching television, we are confronted daily with the same sad news: Violence, crime, wars and disasters. […]
Why Qur’an is a divine book
AMAZING QUR’AN: Afghan calligrapher Mohammed Sabeer Hussaini, center, and apprentices work on a page for the world’s largest Qur’an at the Hakim Nasir-e-Khusraw Balkhi Cultural Center in Kabul. Dr. Gary Miller Published — Friday 8 April 2016 IF one assumes that the Qur’an is the product of a man’s […]
Saudi Arabia, Turkey cementing new political alliance
STRONG ALLIANCE: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan receives Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman at the Presidential Palace in Ankara on Tuesday. (ARAB NEWS Published — Wednesday 13 April 2016 JEDDAH: Once chilly ties between Turkey and Saudi Arabia have improved rapidly over the past year, with […]
The emancipation gap in Arab education
Apr 12,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Ishac Diwan Discussion of education in the Arab world has focused only rarely on the role of schooling in changing social and political mores. This is unfortunate, because educated citizens of Arab countries tend to be much less emancipated politically and socially, on average, […]
‘Gut-wrenching display’
Apr 12,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL US Secretary of State John Kerry, along with fellow G-7 foreign ministers, on Monday toured the memorial to the victims of Hiroshima, paying tribute to the 140,000 people killed on August 6, 1945, when the US dropped a nuclear bomb on the city. Kerry […]
Canadian Sikhs: where have all the girls gone
By: Jonathan Forani Staff Reporter, Published on Mon Apr 11 2016 thestar.com 138 boys for 100 girls? Baldev Mutta (centre), CEO of Brampton’s Punjabi Community Health Services, is surrounded by his grand daughter Talon Mutta, 9 (left) and daughter Rakhi Mutta. Mutta is involved in initiatives to celebrate girls born to Indian parents. […]
How Germany Has Resisted the Influence of ISIS
Source: Time By Simon Shuster / Düsseldorf, Germany Programs to integrate Muslim communities may have helped Germany so far avoid the Islamist violence in neighboring France and Belgium During his lunch […]