Up to 70,000 migrants ‘may soon be stranded in Greece’
Source: The Guardian Up to 70,000 migrants and refugees could soon be stranded in Greece, the government has said, as it considers enlisting the help of the army to deal […]
Donald Trump blames India again for taking US jobs
Source: India Today Donald Trump, the controversial Republican presidential frontrunner, today again blamed India for taking away jobs from Americans, pledging to bring them back if elected president even as […]
How our ancestors drilled rotten teeth
Source: BBC Imagine a world without toothbrushes, mouthwash and dental floss. That’s an easy one, right? There would be rotten teeth in every mouth, and rich dentists in every town. […]
Iran elections: Reformists make gains in Assembly of Experts
Source: BBC Moderates and reformists have dealt another blow to Iran’s hardliners, winning all but one of the seats for Tehran in the Assembly of Experts. President Hassan Rouhani and […]
Migrant crisis: Greece needs EU help to avoid chaos, says Merkel
Source: BBC Europe cannot allow Greece to fall into “chaos”, German Chancellor Angela Merkel says, amid sharp divisions among members over the migrant crisis. Austria and several Balkan countries have […]
Coalition of 400 companies fight Georgia’s proposed ‘religious liberty’ bill
Source: The Guardian A coalition of more than 400 companies is openly opposing a Georgia “religious liberty” bill that is rapidly heading toward passage, with at least one major company […]
The Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community addresses the Female Muslim Youth event (Waqfe-Nau Ijtema) in London
On 27 February 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad addressed the concluding session of the Annual Ijtema (gathering) of the National Waqf-e-Nau Girls Department of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the UK. The event took place at the […]
Oscars: The white people choice awards, chris rock
In an underdog win for a movie about an underdog profession, the newspaper drama ‘Spotlight’ took best picture at an Academy Awards driven by protest and outrage, and electrified by an unflinching Chris Rock. Tom McCarthy’s film about the Boston Globe’s investigative reporting on sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests […]
Pakistan hangs Mumtaz Qadri the murderer of Governor Salman Taseer
Epigraph: And there is life for you in the law of retaliation, O men of understanding, that you may enjoy security. (Al Quran 2:179/180) Source: BBC Pakistan has hanged the […]
Movie Spotlight: Wins best picture Oscar and covers child abuse in Catholic Church
The biggest award of Oscars evening 2016 went to “Spotlight,” which pulled out a win for best picture in a very split year. The Tom McCarthy-directed film won one trophy […]
“Good” Muslim, “Evil” Islam Dichotomy
Huff Post: by Sana Tayyen — Befriending Muslims while attacking Islam is no way to make friends with Muslims. The attitude that “Muslims are good people, but that which makes them Muslim is evil” is averse to creating bonds of community between Muslims and non-Muslims in a multi-religious America. The […]
Keep Religion Out of Israel’s Courts
Haaretz: The chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, Habayit Hayehudi’s Nissan Slomiansky, is promoting a bill to increase the influence of Jewish law, halakha, in court decisions. The bill would set up an institute to advise judges and call on them to be assisted by the principles […]
Hijab & Passive Terrorism?
personalmusingsblog.wordpress.com: In recent days there has been a lot of talk about a suggestion published in a document about counter terrorism that the hijab contributes to passive terrorism. The document is a US Air Force White Paper entitled “Countering Violent Extremism, Scientific Methods and Strategies” with contributions by several academics; it was originally […]
CNN Videos: Donald Trump stumbles on David Duke, KKK
By Eric Bradner, CNN Washington (CNN) Donald Trump stumbled into a racially charged controversy Sunday, saying in an interview on CNN that he didn’t know enough to disavow former Ku Klux […]
Migrants protest at Greece-Macedonia border as bottleneck builds
Louisa GOULIAMAKIKaterina Nikolopoulou| Agence France Presse Idomeni, Greece: Stranded migrants lay with their children on rail tracks at Greece’s northern border Sunday, demanding to be allowed to continue their journey, as Athens warned the number of people “trapped” on its soil could more than triple next month. Tensions between European […]
The agony of Hillary Clinton
Feb 27,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – ELIZABETH DREW Being Hillary Clinton, one of the most celebrated women in the world, holder of some of the highest offices in American politics and possibly the next president of the United States, has had more than its share of agony. Widely regarded a […]
Obama signs law opposing BDS campaign
Feb 27,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MUSA KEILANI US President Barack Obama signed this week a law that opposes boycotting Israel. During the signing ceremony, he referred to the illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, but named them as “Israeli-controlled territories”. The Israeli government has exerted relentless efforts […]
Syria truce takes hold despite limited violations
By AFP – Feb 27,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A woman carries goods she allegedly looted in Shadadi town, Hasaka countryside, Syria, on Friday (Reuters photo by Rodi Said) DAMASCUS — Fighting subsided across much of Syria on Saturday as the first major ceasefire of the devastating, five-year war […]
Balkanisation of Syria?
Feb 27,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Walid M. Sadi The regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad is not shedding any tears over the exodus of millions of Syrians to neighbouring countries and beyond out of fear for their lives because of the five-year-old civil war in the country. No less than […]
Returning to the scene of a war crime: amid the vile slums of Sabra and Shatila, hope glows
As a witness to the massacre of 1982, I went back often to this place of memories and ghosts, to talk to the survivors Robert Fisk @indyvoices 3 comments Sabra and Shatila were the scene of war crimes. In September of 1982, Israel’s Lebanese Christian allies – watched by Israeli […]