EYAD ABU SHAKRA Published — Friday 25 March 2016 A few hours separated two events last week: The Arab League picked Ahmed Aboul-Gheit as new secretary-general and its foreign ministers labelled Hezbollah of Lebanon a terrorist organization. There is nothing untoward about Aboul-Gheit’s appointment as he is a veteran diplomat […]
White Helmets, a non-sectarian group of ordinary people, was officially formed in 2014 and now has 3,000 volunteers Women volunteers of the White Helmets, which is a group of unarmed men and women set up in 2014 to fill the voImage Credit: Whitehelmets.org White Helmets volunteers rescue children from a […]
Why Muslims Should Never Have To Apologize for Terrorism Source: Huffington Post By Omar Alnatour; Palestinian-American Muslim. Student. Humanitarian. Picture this: You wake up in the morning to hear your […]
On March 24, 2016, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA National Spokesperson, Harris Zafar, joined Wolf Blitzer on CNN to address both the Brussels attacks and the responses from people like Senator […]
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950104000049 TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraqi popular forces, known as Hashd al-Shaabi, condemned the Tuesday terrorist attacks in Brussels, and said the only way to stop similar attacks from happening again is to stand up to Saudi Arabia and its deadly ideology of Wahhabism. In a statement on Wednesday, the resistance movement […]
HALAL PRODUCTS Swiss firms look to profit from halal market By Abdelhafidh Abdeleli MAR 25, 2016 – 08:00 A Bern-based company operating for more than two decades has provided halal certificates to over 200 companies around the world (Keystone) Swiss and European food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic firms must tread carefully […]
By AP – Mar 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES UNITED NATIONS — The UN’s top Mideast envoy warned on Thursday that a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “is slipping through our fingers” as a result of Israel’s settlement building and confiscation of Palestinian land, and the lack of Palestinian unity. Nickolay […]
By Muath Freij – Mar 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Nadia Salem drives her taxi in Amman on Thursday (Photo by Muath Freij) AMMAN – As Nadia Salem drives her taxi on the streets of the capital, many drivers find it a strange sight. The looks of surprise from other […]
Mar 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI The complex situation across all of Syria has become ever more challenging with the recent announcement by major Kurdish parties that they are moving ahead with a plan to unite several disconnected areas across all of northern Syria into a semi-autonomous […]
Mar 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – JONATHAN POWER If there is one man in Africa who combines kindness, authoritarianism of right and rationed proportions with, nevertheless, a deep commitment to democracy, business proficiency learnt on his now large-scale farms, political nous that outsmarts all competitors, a demanding Christian belief honed […]
Mar 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL While the Syrian government delegation to the peace talks in Geneva rejects any discussion of the future of President Bashar Assad, opposition leaders insist he must go if a transition government is to be instated in the country, taking talks back to a […]
Source: CBS News Hillary Clinton cautioned Thursday against “hot rhetoric” when it comes to the Muslim community, telling a roundtable in Los Angeles that it is “not in keeping […]
Source: The Huffignton Post Picture this: You wake up in the morning to hear your wife screaming at you because it’s pouring rain outside. She hates the rain and […]
BY PHILLIP CONNOR The number of illegal entries into Europe by migrants hit a high point last year, and as their numbers increased, a picture emerged of the land and sea routes many migrants are taking to get there. In 2015, more than 1.8 million people crossed the European Union’s […]
Women are generally more religious than men, particularly among Christians Standard lists of history’s most influential religious leaders – among them Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) – tend to be predominantly, if not exclusively, male. Many religious groups, including Roman Catholics and Orthodox Jews, allow only men […]
Source: The Age Whether or not you are a practising Christian, Easter is a time to think about religious traditions. The ongoing proceedings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child […]
Source: Quartz The alarming exploitation of the Brussels attacks for political purposes shows how urgent it is to take back the discourse around Islam and Muslims from racists and extremist populists like Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen. Instead of leaving the field wide open for the big-mouthed bigots and […]
Source: BBC Tuesday’s devastating attacks in Brussels, in which more than 30 people died and scores were injured, are the latest phase of the war on Europe declared by the […]
Source: BBC If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Words of wisdom heralded throughout our upbringing, to be sure. But is there any scientific proof that successive failure […]
Source: Motto By Tara Mohr The creator of the Playing Big leadership program for women and author of Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead. ‘Good work is almost never met exclusively with praise’ In my late 20s, I worked for a large […]