Who needs sex to make babies? Pretty soon, humans won’t
Source: The Guardian By Henry Greely Within decades, technology will give would-be parents choices that sound like the stuff of science fiction. What ‘easy PGD’ won’t give you though, is a […]
Polish prime minister favours total ban on abortion
Source: The Gaurdian By Alex Duval Smith The Polish prime minister, Beata Szydło, said she backs moves towards a total ban on abortion, in a sign the nationalist government may be […]
Widening reach of blasphemy law, Egypt targets poet for Facebook post on sheep
Source: The Washington Post By Sudarsan Raghavan CAIRO — At a literary gathering in Cairo, the poem Fatma Naoot chose to read could not have been more relevant. It was […]
Turkish Cultural Center to open in Lanham amid tensions over Islam
Source: The Washington Post By Hamil R. Harris There were about 15 of them there at the beginning. Turkish American engineers who in the early 1990s worked at NASA’s Goddard […]
Army will let Sikh officer keep turban, beard on active duty
Source: RNS By Cathy Lynn Grossman A is senior national reporter for RNS (RNS) A decorated veteran Sikh officer is the first to win an approval from the U.S. Army to […]
Meet the Iraqi Refugees Who Are Going Back to Iraq
Source: Time ByRebecca Collard/Erbil, Iraq For the Doski family, the arrival to northern Iraq’s Erbil International Airport last week was bittersweet. Fayez Al Doski waited with his wife and two children as immigration officers went over the one-way travel documents issued to them by the Iraqi embassy in Germany. Like […]
Step away from the car, feeble human
Source: BBC By Matthew Phenix The driverless race car is coming. That’s a car that drives around a track. Very fast. Without a driver. Competing against other fast cars. Also […]
A Terror Attack, Then Far Right Moves In
Source: The New York Times By BEN C. SOLOMON, TAIGE JENSEN, STEFANIA ROUSSELLE and LESLYE DAVIS MARSEILLE, France — In the United States and Europe, mainstream political parties find themselves besieged. Two-party systems that were once stable are under new pressure, fracturing and creating openings for populists on the extremes, […]
UK: Luton delivery driver guilty of planning terror attack on US troops in Britain
Junead Khan (left) and his uncle Shazib Khan. Photograph: CPS/PA theguardian.com/newsuk/2016/04/01 A British Islamic extremist is facing a life sentence after being found guilty of planning a terrorist attack on American military personnel in Britain. Delivery driver Junead Khan, 25, used his job with a pharmaceutical firm as cover to […]
Vice-premier: China encourages companies to invest in Palestine
Source: China Daily China is willing to encourage enterprises with due capacity to invest in Palestine, Vice-Premier Liu Yandong said in a meeting with Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah. Also, […]
Was Mother Teresa Really ‘Saintly’?
Source. The daily Beast. “I don’t know whether there are any moral saints,” wrote the philosopher Susan Wolf, in her famous 1982 article “Moral Saints.” “But if there are, I am glad that neither I nor those about whom I care most are among them.” As Wolf saw it, there […]
Islamic State Hijacks Mosul University Chemistry Lab for Making Bombs
Source. WSJ By MARGARET COKER in London and BEN KESLING in Baghdad Updated April 1, 2016 10:08 a.m. ET Islamic State has been using a well-stocked university chemistry lab in Mosul, Iraq, for the past year to concoct a new generation of explosive devices and train militants to make them, […]
Ahmadiyya Mission denies inviting Pakistanis to Ghana
Source.Ghanaweb.com The Ahmadiyya Mission in Ghana has denied knowledge of the presence of some Pakistanis who have been arrested amidst terror fears at Assin Fosu in the Central Region. The 13 Pakistanis who claim to be Missionaries of the Ahmadiyya Sect are said to have arrived in the country six […]
Toronto: MAX Gala Recognizes Contributions of Muslim Canadians
National MAX Gala Recognizes Contributions of Muslim Canadians MAX Gala Founder Aazar Zafar with Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and MAX Gala lead organizer Asma Bala Courtesy of MAX Gala MAX […]
Conflicts Between Science & Spirituality Are Rooted In Our Brain
Source: Huffington Post By Carolyn Gregoire; Senior Writer, The Huffington Post “They are different kinds of insight, so there is really no reason for so much conflict to arise.” The […]
ISIS Turns Saudis Against the Kingdom, and Families Against Their Own
Source: The New York Times By BEN HUBBARD BURAIDA, Saudi Arabia — The men were not hardened militants. One was a pharmacist, another a heating and cooling technician. One was […]
A Syrian Refugee’s Message to the European Union
Source: The New York Times By LAILA Laila is a licensed hairdresser. She asked that her surname be withheld because she fears telling her story could endanger her family in […]
Prior to Lahore bombing, Pakistanis were critical of Taliban and other extremist groups
Source: Pew Research Center BY JACOB POUSHTER A senior researcher focusing on global attitudes at Pew Research Center. The bombing that took place on Easter Sunday in Lahore, Pakistan, was a devastating reminder that the scourge of terrorism is not confined to the recent headlines from the Middle East and […]
How ISIS Built the Machinery of Terror Under Europe’s Gaze
Source: The New York Times By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI Reporting was contributed by David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt from Washington, Laure Fourquet and Aurelien Breeden from Paris, Katrin Bennhold from […]
China official says Dalai Lama ‘making a fool’ of Buddhism
Source: Reuters Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is “making a fool” of Tibetan Buddhism with suggestions he may not reincarnate, or reincarnate as something inappropriate, and the faithful […]