What Donald Trump Can Teach You About the Narcissists in Your Life
Source: Time The GOP front-runner may or may not be a walking case of narcissism, but there’s a lot we can learn from him either way It’s a pretty safe […]
Sanders wrongly assumes town hall questioner is Muslim
Source: Politico During an MSNBC town hall event in Columbus, Ohio, Bernie Sanders falsely assumed an audience member who asked a question about violence against religious and ethnic minorities was […]
Joel Osteen denies Twitter rumors of Trump endorsement
Source: USA Today HOUSTON — A Texas megapastor is under fire for \comments he made about Donald Trump during a book tour six months ago. On Twitter, some people have said Joel Osteen, the pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, has endorsed the Republican presidential candidate. Church officials say it’s simply […]
Donald Trump has a Mormon problem
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune It’s not just Mitt Romney who has a problem with Donald Trump. Polls and election results from Idaho and Wyoming show that Mormons generally don’t […]
Pro-Trump pastor: Bernie Sanders ‘gotta get saved’
Source: CNN (CNN)A pastor backing Donald Trump said at a rally in North Carolina Monday that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders “doesn’t believe in God” and needs to be “saved.” “Listen, Bernie gotta get saved, he gotta meet Jesus,” the South Carolina televangelist Mark Burns told audience members at Lenoir-Rhyne […]
The U.S. House just voted unanimously that the Islamic State commits ‘genocide.’ Now what?
Source: The Washington Post The U.S. House of Representative voted 393 to 0 Monday night that the Islamic State’s assaults on religious minorities in Iraq and Syria constitute genocide, a rare designation […]
SKIING IN KASHMIR: Going off-piste in a conflict zone
By Anand Chandrasekhar with input from Surbhi Kaul, Verbier MAR 15, 2016 – 11:00 It is estimated that between 300,000 to 500,000 military and paramilitary soldiers are deployed in Kashmir, mainly along the border with Pakistan (Keystone) Lured by virgin snow, adventurous skiers are ignoring travel advisories to stay away […]
Jordan to attempt artificial rainmaking this spring
By Hana Namrouqa – Mar 13,2016 – JORDAN TIMES MCT illustration AMMAN — Jordan’s first experiment in artificial rainmaking is scheduled to take place during spring in the Jordan Valley over the catchment area of King Talal Dam, a government official said on Sunday. The first experiment will be […]
Palestinian teacher wins $1 million Global Teacher Prize
By AP – Mar 13,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinian primary school teacher Hanan Al Hroub reacts after she won the second annual Global Teacher Prize in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Sunday (AP photo) DUBAI — A Palestinian primary school teacher who grew up in a refugee camp won […]
There is huge room for more collaboration between Jordan, Indonesia — Marsudi
By Mohammad Ghazal – Mar 14,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Muslims can and need to do more to empower the moderate and counter the narrative of terrorists and radical groups, Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said in an exclusive interview with The Jordan Times during her visit to […]
Syrian civil war: West failed to factor in Bashar al-Assad’s Iranian backers as the conflict developed
Five years ago, we were high on Arab revolutions, and journalists were growing used to ‘liberating’ Arab capitals Robert Fisk @indyvoices Sunday 13 March 2016 Just before I left Syria last month, a tall and eloquent Franco-Lebanese man walked up to me in a Damascus coffee shop and introduced himself […]
One of the Best Documentaries, on Religion and Science: The Cosmos
This is a three episode documentary by Documentary channel. Science versus God, the first episode is titled: The Cosmos. If it is not available in Youtube, you can find it […]
Toronto: Two Canadian Armed Forces members stabbed at recruiting centre
A man accused of stabbing two members of Canada’s military at a recruiting centre in Toronto Monday shouted “Allah told me to do this, Allah told me to come here and kill people,” according to Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders. Police have laid charges, including one of attempted murder, against Ayanie Hassan Ali, […]
Pakistan: My Father’s Killer’s Funeral
MARCH 11, 2016 Aatish Taseer By AATISH TASEER ON Feb. 29 — a bad day for anniversaries — Pakistan executed my father’s killer. My father was the governor of Punjab Province from 2008 until his death in 2011. At that time, he was defending a Christian woman who had fallen […]
John Kasich Banks On Contested Convention To Win GOP Nomination
Source: Huffington Post The Ohio governor, who has cast himself as a Washington outsider, looks to the establishment for muscle. Republican John Kasich promised the crowd inside a high-tech Ohio […]
Muhammad(sa) – The Liberator of Women
Review of Religions: Mirza Bashir-Ud-Din Mahmud Ahmadra (1889–1965) was the second Successor of the Promised Messiahas and he was the Second Worldwide Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. He became the Khalifah of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community at the young age of 25 and steered and nourished it to its […]
US election 2016: What does ‘Islam’ think of America?
BBC: “Islam hates us,” Republican frontrunner Donald Trump said in a CNN interview on Friday. Mr Trump later stood by his claim in a televised debate in Miami, saying: “There is tremendous hatred, and I will stick with exactly what I said.” It led to an outcry, with Senator Marco […]
IS RELIGION TO BLAME FOR EXTREMISM?
http://theviewpoint.co: Muslims claim their religion teaches peace, harmony, love and goodness while the actions of some so-called adherents to the faith prove contrary. How can it be that on the one hand, their religion teaches good while some of its believers commit evil? Some suggest the reason being an inherent […]
National Geographics Video: How People Around The World Answer The Question: ‘Who Is God?’
National Geographic Channel went to 22 countries around the world to find out who people think God is. THE STORY OF GOD WITH MORGAN FREEMAN PREMIERES SUNDAY APRIL 3 at […]
Freedom of religion, civic rights were important components of a ‘Muslim nation’
Source: Phys.org Prophet Muhammad believed that freedom of religion and civic rights were important components of a ‘Muslim nation,’ according to a Rice University analysis of the prophet’s covenants with Christians. The researcher argues that the covenants can be used to develop a stronger democratic partnership between Muslims and Christians […]