Washington Post: The promise of the “global war on terror” was that “it was better to fight them there than here.” That promise brought mass violence to Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Palestine, Yemen and Somalia — in the name of peace in the West. That formula has clearly failed. Tuesday’s bombings in […]
Aljazeera: A year on from the start of the Saudi-led coalition’s air strikes in Yemen and five years since the beginning of the Syrian civil war, what is Saudi Arabia’s endgame? In this week’s UpFront, Mehdi Hasan sits down with Abdallah al-Mouallimi, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United Nations, to […]
Economist: THE LIFE of Jesus Christ has always been of interest to film-makers. The first feature-length film was released in 1906; by the time of Cecil B. DeMille’s 1927 blockbuster “The King of Kings” at least 39 movies had already taken on the subject. Many treat Jesus specifically as Christ, […]
By Sophia Saifi, CNN Updated 6:51 PM ET, Sun March 27, 2016 | Video Source: CNN (CNN)A splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on Easter Sunday, saying it intentionally targeted Christians. The suicide blast in the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore killed at least 67 […]
Intelligence Squared Debate The Catholic Church Is A Force For Good In The World Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was an author, essayist, orator, religious and […]
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred. Killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) By Sophia Saifi (CNN) A splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban has […]
By Mrs. Raheel Raza, Toronto Raheel Raza tackles Islamist extremists and what needs to be done in this feisty, no-holds-barred, post-Brussels analysis. clarionproject.com Following the Brussels attacks, I’ve been glued to mainstream media listening very attentively to political pundits, intelligence agencies, experts and analysts. Something in what they are saying […]
Source: RNS HOUSTON (RNS) For the last 12 years I have worked as an election clerk in my precinct, which has about 4,300 registered voters. I greet voters, confirm their registration status and send them to the booth. My precinct is about 4 square miles in size, so the […]
Source: RNS (Reuters) Governor Mike Pence signed a bill into law making Indiana only the second state to prohibit abortions based on a prenatal diagnosis of disabilities such as Down syndrome. The bill, which was approved by the state Republican-led legislature, bans any disability-related abortion along with terminations of pregnancy […]
Source: RNS The Qur’an opens not with the story of creation, but with the opening. The beginning of the Qur’an is not: “In the beginning Allah created the heavens and […]
Source: Toronto Sun By Luqman Ahmed An imam with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Canada. He currently works with the Muslim Community in Quebec. We woke up Tuesday morning to yet another horrific terrorist attack at the hands of ISIS radicals — this time the target was the airport and a […]
Source: Time An understanding of true Islam can help stop terrorist acts ISIS extremists and anti-Islam activists fundamentally ignore and misrepresent the Qur’an. It should come as no surprise that after suffering beatings for nearly a year as a ISIS hostage, freed French journalist Didier Francois reported: There was never […]
Source: Time TIME columnist Abdul-Jabbar is a six-time NBA champion and league Most Valuable Player. He is also a celebrated author, filmmaker and education ambassador whose life and career are […]
By SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE FOR THE DAILY MAIL PUBLISHED: 23:51 GMT, 24 March 2016 She is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a beacon of saintly integrity in the West who remained under house arrest for 15 years in her native Burma. However, there is another side to Burmese politician Aung […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Latest on the bombing of a park in the Pakistani city of Lahore (all times local): 10.00 p.m. A spokesman for the Punjab government says that a bomb attack on a park in the Pakistani city of Lahore has killed 60 people and injured 300. Zaeem […]
Source. Mirror Detectives probing the murder of a popular shopkeeper believe his killer may have travelled from 200 miles away to launch a premeditated attack. They are investigating the theory the attacker became enraged over faith-related posts 40-year-old Asad Shah had made on social media. Asad was a member of […]
Morgan Freeman visits the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the old city of Jerusalem where the tomb of Jesus is believed to be located. The Muslim Times has the […]
By Reuters Published: March 27, 2016 MEXICO CITY: Mexicans celebrating an Easter ritual late on Saturday burnt effigies of U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump, whose anti-immigrant views have sparked outrage south of the American border. Craftsman Felipe Linares puts the final touch to an effigy depicting Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald […]
Murdered by fellow Muslims, Asad Shah was a shopkeeper in Glasgow PHOTO: BBC A British-Pakistani shopkeeper in Glasgow succumbed to his wounds after being stabbed by a fellow Muslim on Thursday for posting social media messages wishing his customers a Happy Easter. Asad Shah, 40, was stabbed 30 times by […]
Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of Muslim, Christian and Hindu refugees on Thursday and declared them all children of the same God Pope Washes Feet of Muslim Migrants, Says ‘We Are Brothers’ Castelnuovo Di Porto Mar 24, 2016) Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of Muslim, Orthodox, […]