Taxes What Taxes What your 2015 income tax dollars paid for
Source: CNN By Jeanne Sahadi So, you’ve probably just finished settling up your 2015 income tax bill with the IRS. (Or at least you should have, what with the due […]
Greens back rise in refugee intake to 50,000, new ‘skilled’ visa
Source: The Age By Michael Gordon Political editor, The Age Australia’s refugee intake would increase to 50,000 a year, including 10,000 via a new “skilled refugee” category, under a policy to […]
Justin Trudeau Seeks to Legalize Assisted Suicide in Canada
OTTAWA — The government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced legislation on Thursday to legalize physician-assisted suicide for Canadians with a “serious and incurable illness,” which has brought them “enduring […]
Archbishop: Why the assisted dying bill will hurt Canada and is morally wrong
Source: Ottawa Sun It was a sad day in Canadian history when the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the Criminal Code provisions against assisted suicide in the February 2015 […]
A dilemma for atheists: Most Americans pray for healing
Provided by: Baylor University Most Americans pray for healing; more than one-fourth have practiced ‘laying on of hands’ Nearly nine of 10 Americans have relied upon healing prayer at some […]
Brazil crisis: Rousseff loses lower house impeachment vote
Source: BBC Parliament in Brazil has voted to start impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff over charges of manipulating government accounts. The “yes” camp comfortably won the required two-thirds majority in the vote in the lower house in Brasilia. The motion will now go to the upper house, the Senate, […]
Ahmadiyya Muslims launch peace campaign in Glasgow
Source: BBC Scotland’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community has launched a campaign promoting “peace, love and unity” following the death of Glasgow shop keeper Asad Shah. The message “united against extremism” will be carried on posters on 50 buses. Mr Shah was an Ahmadiyya, a group known for its peaceful interfaith concerns. He died after […]
CA: Student removed from airline for speaking Arabic
Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, a University of California-Berkeley student and Iraqi refugee, says he was escorted out of Southwest flight after a passenger heard him speaking Arabic and reported him as a possible safety threat. http://gulfnews.com/news/americas/usa/california-student-says-airline-removed-him-for-speaking-in-arabic-1.1714951 LOS ANGELES: A University of California, Berkeley student who came to the US as an Iraqi […]
Confessions of a former US Air Force drone technician
Soruce: Al Jazeerah Ex-serviceman who built communications infrastructure for US drone programme in Afghanistan speaks out against it. Norma Costello | 13 Apr 2016 07:39 GMT A US Air Force pilot […]
Meeting of minds
Apr 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Pope Francis’ brief meeting with US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders Saturday at the Vatican may have been short in time but was long in symbolism and meaning. Sanders was at the Vatican to attend a conference at the Pontifical Academy of Social Justice, […]
Top expert on Islamist radicalisation is investigated by university for saying slain Muslim shopkeeper was ‘not a real Muslim’
Researcher Shiraz Maher wrote he does not ‘regard Ahmadis as Muslims’ Came days after man admitted killing Asad Shah for ‘disrespecting’ Islam Glasgow shopkeeper Mr Shah was part of the the Ahmadiyya community Maher has apologised for remarks which are being investigated by King’s College London By JULIAN ROBINSON FOR […]
Men Are Creepier Than Women, According To Science And Daily Life
Huff Post: by Taylor Pittman — According to a new study, men are more likely to be creepy than women Good news, ladies. A new study has confirmed what you’ve probably thought all along: some men can be pretty creepy. For a study titled “On the nature of creepiness,” Knox […]
Iraqi Kurdistan’s Economy Is a Worse Threat Than ISIS
If the semi-autonomous government goes bankrupt, the war against the caliphate could go belly-up. Iraqi Kurdistan’s fight against ISIS has for many Kurds been an existential battle central to their survival and that of their autonomous region in Iraq. However, with ISIS prevented from embarking upon Kurdistan’s major towns and […]
Inside Isis Inc: The journey of a barrel of oil
FINANCIAL TIMES: Inside Isis Inc: The journey of a barrel of oil Isis controls most of Syria’s oil fields and crude is the militant group’s biggest single source of revenue. Here we follow the progress of a barrel of oil from extraction to end user to see how the […]
Breaking News: Restrictions on Women’s Religious Attire
Source: Pew Research Center More countries restrict women’s ability to wear religious symbols or attire than require women to dress a certain way In many countries around the world, women’s […]
Eggs
A group of youths took eggs to a Turkish bath where Nasrudin was expected. When he came into the steam-room where they were sitting, they said: ‘Let us imagine that we are fowls, and see whether we can lay eggs. The one who fails shall pay the bath fee for […]
Murdered Italian student Giulio Regeni paid the ultimate price for his investigation into Al-Sisi’s Egypt
The Cambridge student had spotted that trade unionism is the greatest threat to dictatorship Robert Fisk @indyvoices Saturday 16 April 2016 We’ve all grown so used to the “Muslim terror” […]
Many Americans don’t argue about religion – or even talk about it
BY ALAN COOPERMAN According to Miss Manners, polite people do not bring up religion in social conversations. Of course, if Americans stayed away from allthe topics the etiquette columnist deems taboo in polite company – including politics, money, sex, illness and what people are wearing – a lot of dinners […]
Goldsmith denies anti-Muslim strategy as London mayor contest turns sour
Source: The Guardian By Dave Hill Dave Hill has been writing for the Guardian since 1984 and its award-winning London commentator since 2008 We’re at that seductive stage in many election […]
Super-gonorrhoea’s spread ‘causing huge concern’
Source: BBC By James Gallagher Health editor, BBC News website Doctors have expressed “huge concern” that super-gonorrhoea has spread widely across England and to gay men. The new superbug prompted […]