Analysis MARCH 6, 2016 Jamal Pasha, the Ottoman governor of Syria, passes through Damascus on July 17, 1917. Under Ottoman rule, Syria existed as a collection of culturally diverse provinces. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Analysis By Toba Hellerstein The quagmire that is contemporary Syria is as infinitely complex as it was […]
King of Saudi Arabia orders food, medical aid for devastated Syrian regions Mar 7, 2016 RIYADH — Saudi Arabia will provide food and medical aid to the most devastated regions in Syria in cooperation with the International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) and Red Crescent Societies. An agreement to this […]
Mar 12, 2016 Abdulaziz Al-Thekair The headwaiter of a fancy European restaurant rebuked members of a Saudi family for sitting at a big table and making their two housemaids sit at a smaller separate table. The Saudi family did not violate the local laws but did violate the social norms […]
Brazil http://tribune.com.pk/story/1063224/this-penguin-swims-8000km-every-year-to-visit-man-who-saved-his-life/ By News Desk Published: March 10, 2016 A penguin has struck an unlikely friendship with a Brazilian pensioner and swims 8,000 kilometres every year to visit him since he saved his life four years ago. The South American Magellanic penguin named Dindim was found covered in oil and close […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor Islamophobia has become frighteningly commonplace in the U.S. There’s a lot of hatred, misinformation and misplaced fear being directed at Muslims […]
ASYLUM DECISION Bunkers to be commandeered for asylum needs MAR 11, 2016 – 16:08 Civilian bunkers, like this one in canton St Gallen, have already been used for asylum seekers in Switzerland (Keystone) Federal and cantonal authorities will soon be able to force local communities to open their civilian bunkers […]
Source: Associated Press FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A leading Muslim civil rights group is calling on GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump to apologize for his claim that “Islam hates us.” […]
Photo: DPA No space for Allah as German unis close prayer rooms Published: 11 Mar 2016 16:35 GMT+01:00 Updated: 11 Mar 2016 16:35 GMT+01:00 Three leading German universities have closed down pray rooms used by Muslims, sparking accusations they are singling Muslims out for unfair treatment. German unis offer ‘best […]
Source: NPR The religion of Islam was founded by Muhammad, the 7th century prophet whom Muslims call “the messenger of God.” They don’t consider him divine, but they follow his […]
Source: The New York Times In a prosperous New Jersey suburb about an hour west of Manhattan, a retired AT&T executive decided with some friends to open a mosque in the […]
ROOTS OF EXTREMISM MAR 11, 2016 – 15:41 Homegrown jihadism “is coming” to Switzerland, argues a former Islamic extremist – unless new ideologies are presented to young Muslims. Young people in the country have vanished from their homes and gone to join jihadi movements. And a Winterthur mosque has been […]
Mar 10,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – I have kept the pledge I made many months ago not to waste my time reading any press articles on the American presidential nominating contests, because the 15 or so candidates on the Republican side meant that nothing would become clear until after the first […]
Mar 10,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – George S. Hishmeh A week ago, my mailbox had a surprising letter addressed to my wife and me by a David Trone, who only provided a post office number and the name of a nearby neighbourhood for his address. The opening line was addressed to “dear […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times “I think Islam hates us,” Trump told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, deploring the “tremendous hatred” that he said […]
Source: The Washington Post Marco Rubio has taken a lot of heat in the press for allowing Donald Trump to drag him into the gutter — a mistake even he has said he regrets — so journalists naturally applauded the Florida senator’s tonal reversal in Thursday’s Republican presidential debate […]
Source: Haartez Haredi men are being forced into a labor market with little work for people without a higher education. A new study shows how seriously deficient the community is. In 2011, a suit filed in the High Court of Justice asserted that the rights of young ultra-Orthodox Jews were […]
Source: BBC Most animals hate the cold. When winter comes around many species burrow underground to hibernate or migrate to lower latitudes where conditions are warmer. But a few strange […]
Source: BBC Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio has attacked Donald Trump for saying that Islam hates America, in a televised debate in Miami. Mr Rubio, who faces a do-or-die contest […]
Source: Huffington Post When Afghanistan’s national women’s soccer team takes the field in the near future, the players will be decked in a uniform that marks both their country’s deep-seated […]
By: Geoffrey Vendeville Staff Reporter, Published on Thu Mar 10 2016 We put two Oxford-bound high school debaters to the test We asked two Oxford-bound high school debaters to argue that Donald Trump should be U.S. president. Kiara Hassan and Dasha Metropolitansky have talked their way to Oxford University. The students from White […]