Apr 13,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen The two sides involved in the intra-Syrian peace talks resuming in Geneva this week are taking seriously the dictum “you don’t win at the peace table what you don’t win on the battlefield”. Between this round and the last, the Syrian regular army, backed […]
Apr 13,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Daoud Kuttab It has been proven true over the years that victors write the history. Nowhere is this fact more obvious than in Jerusalem, where Israelis are trying unsuccessfully to rewrite centuries-old history. By changing facts on the ground the Israelis are desperately trying to […]
An ancient and valuable fragile Chinese vase had been found by the villagers. There was an argument in the teahouse as to its exact capacity. During the wrangling, Mulla Nasrudin entered. The people appealed to him for a ruling. ‘Simple’, said Nasrudin. ‘Bring the vase here, together with some sand.’ […]
Source. IB Times Saudi policemen keep watch along a main street in RiyadhFahad Shadeed/Reuters The ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia has reined in its religious police, stripping their arresting powers and ordering them to be “gentle and humane” while imposing the Islamic code. The much-feared morality police’s powers were clipped […]
Source: International Business Times By Tom Porter A spokesman for the Khatme Nubawwat Academy in East London, which has been accused of spreading anti-Ahmadiyya hate speech, has said the organisation […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor The top 10 most challenged books for 2015 includes an entry that may seem unlikely for the United States, which is home […]
Some of Samia Sultan’s neighbours don’t greet her any more, and sometimes it’s hard for her to understand why. Sultan, a dentist, lives in Glasgow, in an area of the city that is – like most Muslim populations in the UK – majority Sunni. But Sultan isn’t Sunni: she is […]
Source: The Independent Will Worley @willrworley The world is going to become more religious, with the number of people who identify as non-religious shrinking as a percentage of the world’s population, […]
The Muslim Times has the most extensive collection about the Holy Prophet Muhammad Source: Craigconsidinetcd.com By Dr. Craig Considine Although they are typically seen to represent overwhelming opposites, the Prophet Muhammad […]
Huff Post: Thomas Jefferson was a staunch supporter of religious liberty, but his quest to make sure church and state stayed separate in American politics earned him plenty of enemies. The mudslinging came to a head during the bitter presidential campaign of 1800. Jefferson’s Federalist opponents accused him of being […]
Source: Patheos By Saideh Jamshidi To cover or not to cover, that’s the problem, but to whom? When Yves Saint Laurent co-founder Pierre Bergé recently advised fellow designers to have […]
Source: The Denver Post By Kirk Mitchell A federal jury trial began Monday in which JetStream Ground Services was accused of not allowing female Muslim employees to wear clothing required […]
Source: Time By Sam Frizell / Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Bernie Sanders doesn’t want to talk about the middle class right now. He wants to talk about the poor. The Vermont Senator on […]
Source: Time By Olivia B. Waxman Reasons range from “atheism” and “condones public displays of affection” The American Library Association (ALA) released its 2015 list of the 10 “most challenged” books on Monday. The ranking is based on 275 challenges, meaning “a formal, written complaint filed with a library or […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]