France’s earliest ‘Muslim burials’ found
Source: BBC Researchers have identified what may be the earliest Muslim burials in France. The three skeletons unearthed at Nimes show indications of Islamic burial rites and are thought to […]
How Lead Poisoning Is Devastating Countries Around the World
Source: Time ‘Think of an entire society that’s impaired’ The crisis in Flint over the contamination of tap water with toxic levels of lead has inspired a national outcry over […]
Zika Crisis May Get Worse Before It Gets Better, WHO Chief Says
Source: Time The mosquito-borne disease has already been reported in 46 countries The Zika virus that has thus far affected close to 50 countries will likely continue to spread and […]
Ireland’s Voters Set to Punish the Establishment
Source: Time Ireland is to hold an election on Friday and, if the opinion polls are to be believed, the result will be a damning verdict on the country’s established […]
You Asked: Am I Addicted to My Phone?
Source: Time You check it in the bathroom. You check it at the movies. You check it when you’re having dinner with your friends. But you wouldn’t say you’re addicted—and […]
Bill and Melinda Gates: What superpower do you wish you had?
Source: CNN (CNN)If you could have one superpower, what would it be? We were asked that question recently by high school students in Kentucky. Our answers must have sounded pretty lame to fans of superheroes like Supergirl and the Flash — we simply wished for more energy and time to […]
Muslim Student Association looks to bring understanding, love to Islam dialogue
Source: The Daily Nebraskan The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Muslim Student Association will host “Islam 101” this week to educate students and combat Islamophobia in society. MSA began preparing for the […]
Migrant crisis: EU meeting seeks to heal growing rifts
Source: BBC Ministers from EU and Balkan nations are meeting in Brussels to try to heal rifts over migrants that have plunged common policy into chaos. Austria, Serbia and Macedonia […]
Religious broadcasters take a peek at Museum of the Bible collection
Source: RNS NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) The nation’s best-known county clerk paused between some cuneiform tablets and a 17th-century triptych of the Virgin and Child to wonder at the biblical antiquities […]
‘Saudi Arabia has built a road to destruction’
By Maryam Qarehgozlou TEHRAN — Imam Abdul Alim Musa (Clarence Reams), the director of Masjid Al-Islam in Washington D.C., believes that the policy that the new rulers in the Saudi kingdom has adopted is “suicidal”. “Saudi Arabia has built a road to its own destruction,” Alim Musa, an African-American Muslim […]
Ahmadiyya Mosque: Leipzig mosque construction site targeted with dead pig
An architect’s model of the mosque planned for the Leipzig plot where the dead piglet was found. Photo: DPA Published: 25 Feb 2016 14:51 GMT+01:00 An empty lot in Leipzig where a local Muslim community plans to build a mosque was the target of an apparent Islamophobic attack on Wednesday, […]
Refugees in Germany ‘crazy with boredom’
Economists have been calling on authorities to speed up the integration process by offering training more swiftly. Photo: DPA Published: 20 Feb 2016 THELOCAL.DE The 24-year-old, who spent months on the road after fleeing the Taliban, told AFP: “I’ll do anything to not go mad.” VIDEO: ‘hate mob’ chants […]
New Iqaluit mosque opens doors
CBC: After years in the making, Iqaluit’s new mosque held its inauguration Friday, officially opening as a place of worship. The building will serve as a prayer space and a […]
What Drives People to Convert to Islam
The nature of religious faith is quite mysterious. As part of their religious faiths, people believe in a variety of deities. There are people who have religious faith in the […]
Did Muslims arrive in France 1300 years ago – DNA clues?
Source: The Daily Mail Three skeletons found facing east in a French burial ground belonged to medieval Islamic soldiers. It started in the Middle East around 1,400 years ago as […]
Jinnah chair to be established at London School of Economics
The Express Tribune: by Abdul Manan A file photo of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. PHOTO: AFP ISLAMABAD: The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is considering establishing a ‘Jinnah Chair’ at the institute in recognition of the achievements of the founder of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. This was informed by LSE Director […]
The E1 test
Feb 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – DAOUD KUTTAB In the battle of wills between Israel and the international community there comes a time and a place where this will is tested. The Israeli occupation and colonisation of Palestine is a creeping endeavour largely built on the attempt to wear out […]
Israeli NGOs allege routine abuse of Palestinian detainees
By AFP – Feb 25,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A Palestinian teacher leads a class of Palestinian bedouin children from the Abu Anwar community near the Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim (background), in the West Bank city of Al Azariya, east of Jerusalem, on Wednesday (AFP photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel’s […]
Syria civil war: On the front line with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards battling outside Aleppo
‘England is helping Isis and an English reporter is here asking for information’ Robert Fisk @indyvoices Tuesday 23 February 2016 28 comments We knew who they were the moment they approached us on the front line outside Aleppo. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards – no longer merely advisers but fighting troops […]
Why Donald Trump’s glitzy style is attracting evangelical voters
Source: The Washington Post Donald Trump seems to be the unlikeliest Republican candidate for evangelical voters, with his three marriages, his ownership of casinos and beauty pageants, and his belated […]