SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT- Early last month Fiji Government made an official launch of FIJI AIRWAYS non-stop direct flight from SFO International Airport. Travelers can book their flights by visiting the FIJI AIRWAYS website. Our press team was there to capture the highlights of the event. Fiji was recently ravaged […]
Source: Huffingtonpost.com The media owes all of us the truth and nothing else. In other words they have a journalistic duty to portray the facts as they are. But sadly they have become disingenuous in carrying out their duty when it comes to viewing the truth about Islam. According to […]
Source: Pew Research Center Fifty years ago this month, Time magazine published one of its most famous and controversial covers. Splashed in bold red print across a black background was […]
Source: Bereitbart.com The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has released a statement condemning attacks on Ahmadi Muslims, but also announcing that, in its view, Ahmadis are kuffar (non-believers) who the […]
Source: Times By Sohaib Sultan is the Imam and Muslim Life Coordinator in the Office of Religious Life at Princeton University. For a Muslim, asking “Is God Dead?” begs […]
Source: On Faith Does the Bible actually endorse violence on a dramatic scale? By John Dickson, who is an Honorary Fellow of the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University, […]
Source: The New York Times By HANNAH FAIRFIELD and TIM WALLACE Republican leaders have blocked the closing of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, because they say they do not […]
Source: Reuters The Tennessee House passed a bill on Wednesday allowing mental health counselors to refuse service to patients on religious grounds, the latest in a list of U.S. state […]
Source: The Washington Post By Colby Itkowitz Ted Hakey, a former Marine, knelt in prayer, his forehead on the floor, beside his Muslim neighbors inside their Connecticut mosque last Saturday. […]
Source: The New York Times By Gail Collins Amid all the truly awful things state legislatures do, one of the rare bright spots has been the naming of official symbols. Who was ever made unhappy by the designation of a state rock? Tennessee, alas, is screwing up the record. The governor […]
Source: Religion News Service By Tom Heneghan (Tom Heneghan is a correspondent based in Paris) PARIS (RNS) Burkinis aren’t showing up at the beaches on either side of the English […]
Epigraph: One of the 114 chapters of the Quran is named divorce; it is number 65. Pope Francis Pushes Church to be More Open to the Divorced Source: Time By […]
Source: Daily News BY DAVID MASCI, BESHEER MOHAMED Mohamed is a senior researcher and Masci is a senior editor and senior researcher at Pew Research Center. The recent attacks in […]
Source: CNN By Jethro Mullen CNN’s Saeed Ahmed and Sugam Pokharel contributed to this report. (CNN)Islamic extremists in Bangladesh appear to be taking their war on secular writers and bloggers beyond the South Asian country’s borders. A hit list purporting to be from the militant group Ansarullah Bangla Team […]
Source: CNN by Matt Egan General Electric boss Jeff Immelt has fired back at Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders with an impassioned defense of his company. “GE has been in business […]
ibtimes.co.uk A pop star in Indonesia has died after being bitten by a cobra during a stage performance. Irma Bule, 29, was singing at a gig in a village in Karawang, West Java on 3 April when the incident occurred. The popular singer was known for her unique genre of […]
Academic and author Tariq Ramadan talks to MEE about terrorism, political Islam and what is going on in the Middle East and France Tariq Ramadan during at a conference earlier this year in Bordeaux,France (AFP) Hassina Mechaï Saturday 2 April 2016 Sometimes seen as an Islamic scholar, a theologian […]
#Islamophobia Murder of a Glasgow Ahmadi Muslim raises fears over sectarian incitement in UK Alex MacDonald Wednesday 6 April 2016 The murder of Asad Shah, a 32-year old Glasgow shopkeeper, in late March shocked Scotland and the local community who had long known him as a friendly face. But […]
Apr 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – George S. Hishmeh There is no doubt that the eight-column headline in the sports page of The Washington Post last Sunday was remarkable and unprecedented: “Palestine Marathon sparks a growing push for movement over politics.” Never before have the American media, certainly not the country’s […]
Apr 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI The New York Times is not only considered the leading newspaper in the United States, it is also something of a bellwether of intellectual and political trends in the country. So it was noteworthy that the newspaper’s Monday opinion page feature […]