What’s next for the Muslims of Belgium?
Source: Tribune Tuesday’s attacks at the airport and a rail station in Brussels claimed 34 lives and left dozens injured. So far, six arrests have been confirmed as operation cleanup […]
Anti-Muslim spat: Myanmar’s leader Suu Kyi loses cool with BBC’s Mishal Husain
Source: Tribune Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Myanmar politician Aung San Suu Kyi recently lost her cool during an interview with BBC’s Mishal Husain. After getting grilled by the BBC presenter, […]
The surprising origin of humanity’s most deadly disease
Source: BBC Malaria is one of several deadly diseases that has jumped the species barriers from animals into humans. It kills almost half a million people per year, and can […]
Why are people so incredibly gullible?
Source: BBC If you ever need proof of human gullibility, cast your mind back to the attack of the flesh-eating bananas. In January 2000, a series of chain emails began reporting that imported bananas were infecting people with “necrotizing fasciitis” – a rare disease in which the skin erupts into […]
Europe was once home to a wild ape unlike all others
Source: BBC About seven million years ago, human evolution was just getting started in east Africa. But thousands of kilometres to the north, another ape empire was in its death […]
JK Rowling shares Robert Galbraith rejection letters
Source: BBC JK Rowling has shared two rejection letters she received for her first novel writing as Robert Galbraith. The author was trying to find a publisher for The Cuckoo’s […]
LETTER: Ahmadi Muslims around the world condemn Belgium terrorist attacks
Source: Finger Lakes Times To the Editor: The tragic news of the Belgium incident has gripped the peace-loving citizens of the world. We, the Ahmadi Muslims all over the world, are at the forefront of condemning such incidents. We show this by our words, by actions and by our writings. All […]
The true Islamic response to the Brussels attacks
Source: RNS (RNS) Daesh (the preferred Arabic name for the group that calls itself the Islamic State) has attacked Turkey five times since October, leaving nearly 200 dead and hundreds […]
Learning — And Unlearning — To Be An ‘Ambassador’ For Islam
Source: NPR By Beenish Ahmed Beenish Ahmed is a reporter and writer. She covers international affairs forThinkProgress and is the founder of THE ALIGNIST, a new media platform that connects […]
Thomas Piketty: Social Investment Can Stop Jihad
Source: Time Part of the response to terrorism must be security-based. A strike against Daesh is needed; those who belong to it must be stopped. But we also have to […]
How Your Emotions Can Guide You to Good Decisions
Source: Motto The decisions you make as you’re in the early phases of adulthood can affect your path. You probably know this. But what you may not know is the […]
University of California softens anti-Semitism statement
Source: Religion News Service SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) The University of California’s regents declared on they would not tolerate anti-Semitism on campus but rejected a proposal to equate anti-Zionism with religious […]
Muslim shopkeeper murdered in suspected ‘religiously prejudiced’ attack after posting on Facebook of love for Christians
Detectives arrest 32-year-old man after Pakistani-born Asad Shah, 40, repeatedly stabbed in savage attack Asad Shah (inset) was stabbed to death in Glasgow Photo: SWNS By Tom Morgan 7:23PM GMT 25 Mar 2016 A popular shopkeeper was stabbed to death in a “religiously prejudiced” attack hours after posting an Easter message […]
The Hidden Religion and Science Conflict
Source: Huffington Post By Michael S. Evans Neukom Fellow at Dartmouth College, author of Seeking Good Debate: Religion, Science, and Conflict in American Public Life. More than 150 years have passed since Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, and we’re still arguing about science and religion. Outrageous public statements from religious […]
Nigeria mosque bombers kill 22
Two suspected female attackers blow themselves up inside and outside a busy mosque in northeastern Maiduguri city. 16 Mar 2016 10:28 GMT | Nigeria, Boko Haram, Africa People walk in front of a mosque after a bomb attack in Maiduguri in 2012 [File: Olatunji Omirin/Reuters] Two female bombers killed at […]
Pope Francis washes and kisses feet of Muslim, Hindu and Christian refugees
Pope Francis: ‘We have different cultures and religions, but we are brothers and we want to live in peace’ Hardeep Matharu @Hardeep_Matharu The Pontiff washed and kissed the feet of […]
87 million kids at risk of brain damage in conflict zones: UNICEF
Thu Mar 24, 2016 A child cries as Palestinians salvage items from their home after it was demolished by Israeli bulldozers south of Hebron (al-Khalil) on Feb. 2, 2016. (AFP photo) The UN children’s agency, UNICEF, says some 87 million children under the age of seven are growing up in conflict zones across […]
Jihadists Don’t Understand the Qur’an
Qasim Rashid @MuslimIQ – March 24, 2016 Qasim Rashid is an attorney, author of Extremist, and national spokesperson for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA. An understanding of true Islam can help stop terrorist acts This week’s Brussels attacks—like those in Ankara over the weekend, Paris in November and Kenya […]
Asad Shah had head stamped on and was left in pool of blood in brutal attack.
Source. Daily Record.Co.UK A SHOPKEEPER was stabbed to death in a savage street attack in Glasgow last night. Forty-year-old Asad Shah, owner of Shah’s Newsagents, was subjected to a brutal assault and had his head stamped on. The alarm was raised at 9.10pm in Minard Road in the Shawlands area […]
Clare Hollingworth: 104-year-old on being first UK correspondent to report on Germany’s invasion of Poland
When she called the British embassy in Warsaw, a diplomat refused to believe her story Robert Fisk @indyvoices Saturday 19 March 2016 14 comments When Suzanne and Helen opened the […]