Why Islam is a feminist issue: Most Muslims lead decent lives.
Source: Daily Mail By SARAH VINE FOR THE DAILY MAIL The mass migration into Europe of people from North Africa and the Middle East is one of the most significant […]
Bernie Sanders Spars Over Reparations at Race Forum
Source: Time Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was pressed to answer questions about reparations during a forum on race and economic opportunity in Minneapolis on Friday, a month after he said […]
Donald Trump Might Be Able to Sue Ted Cruz, Legal Experts Say
Source: Time But they’re divided on how a court would handle it Donald Trump continued to push the contentious issue of Ted Cruz’s presidential eligibility on Friday, threatening that he […]
Traveling Teaches Students in a Way Schools Can’t American education is largely limited to lessons about the West.
AMANDA MACHADO DEC 1, 2014 EDUCATION When I turned 15, my parents sent me alone on a one-month trip to Ecuador, the country where my father was born. This was tradition in our family—for my parents to send their first-generation American kids to the country of their heritage, where we […]
Palestine overwhelmed by Illegal American Immigrants
By Juan Cole | Aug. 30, 2015 | 27 Retweet905Share1605Google +114129 By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – If there were a Palestinian Donald Trump, he’d be fulminating against illegal immigrants swamping the Palestinian West Bank. And he’d be complaining that fully 1 in 6 of these undocumented […]
Liberation of Women in Islam
From the community: Posted by Samrah Ahmad, Community Contributor Community Contributor Samrah Ahmad On this occasion when we are celebrating Women’s History Month, I, a mother of four children, a medical and a master’s student want to let the world know that it is Islam which liberated women 1500 years […]
Libya during the time of Ghaddafi
Mjomo Guyness to ;*Dr. JoHn`HeNrIk`CLaRKe`SpEaKs*; 9 February · THIS IS WHY GADDAFI IS DEAD! His gold dinar would have shut down the fake economies around the world and give the power back to the people…… Libya & QADDAFI …FACTS THAT CANT BE DENIED (now all in past tense): 1. There is […]
Children of the PKK: The Growing Intensity of Turkey’s Civil War
By Katrin Kuntz, Onur Burçak Belli and Emin Oezmen (photos) Emin Ozmen/ DER SPIEGEL The civil war is escalating in southeastern Turkey, with the government pledging to stamp out militant Kurds. Young Kurds, who used to hurl stones and Molotov cocktails, are now fighting on the front lines in several […]
Turkish-German Pact: EU Split by Merkel’s Refugee Plan
By Horand Knaup, Peter Müller, René Pfister and Christoph Schult AP Angela Merkel has held six meetings with the Turkish government in the hopes of forging a solution to the refugee crisis. But with most of the leverage in Ankara, progress has been slow. Worse yet, Berlin’s plan has split […]
Third Palestinian killed by IOF since Morning
National News Related Articles Two 15-year-old Palestinians killed by IOF near Jenin, West Bank PNN/ Bethlehem/ Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Sunday afternoon have shot a third Palestinian east of Bethlehem, following two children who were killed near Jenin, northern West Bank. Na’im Safi (17) from Al-Obeidiya town north of […]
Merkel isolated as allies slam door on refugees
German chancellor Angela Merkel will struggle to pull the deal she wants from her European partners. Photo. Roland Weihrauch/dpa Published: 14 Feb 2016 08:43 GMT+01:00 Abandoned by France, defied by eastern Europe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel cuts a lonely figure in her struggle for EU “solidarity” on the refugee crisis […]
IRAN AND SAUDI ARABIA : Switzerland confirms protecting power mandate
FEB 14, 2016 – 18:38 Burkhalter (left) previously attended bilaterial meetings with Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January. (Keystone) The foreign ministry announced Sunday that Switzerland will represent the interests of Saudi Arabia in Iran, and those of Iran in Saudi […]
Switzerland to handle Saudi consular affairs in Iran
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman receives Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter and his delegation at the Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh on Sunday. (SPA) ARAB NEWS Published — Sunday 14 February 2016 RIYADH: Switzerland has agreed to handle Saudi Arabia’s consular affairs in Iran, Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir […]
Russia warns of new Cold War as east Ukraine violence surges
By Reuters – Feb 13,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A man walks past the debris of a passenger minibus after it hit a mine near Marinka on Wednesday (AFP photo) MUNICH — Violence in eastern Ukraine is intensifying and Russian-backed rebels have moved heavy weaponry back to the front line, […]
Aleppo’s frightening reminder of wider threats and older glories
Feb 11,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI Aleppo today is frightening almost beyond description and comprehension. One of the world’s ancient centres of civilisation is bombed and sieged, its inhabitants tortured and starved to death, and hundreds of thousands of fleeing refugees do not know if they will […]
Immigrants with no second language? That’s true Britishness
The British attitude towards language is one of the reasons we’d be hopeless at terrorism Mark Steel @mrmarksteel Thursday 21 January 2016 167 comments When the Spanish come over here, they speak English with a slight Spanish accent. Is it any wonder we get annoyed with Europe? Getty At last […]
Isis and the Taliban are brutally carving up modern ‘Mafiastan’
Voices I have long nursed the suspicion that Taliban units, Isis and government militias are not fighting about religion or government at all, more about mafia power Robert Fisk @indyvoices 5 comments An Afghan militia man stands guard in the Achin district of Nangarhar province east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015. AP […]
Nike refuses to customise sneakers with ‘Muslim’ and ‘Islam’
Source: Tribune A Muslim man, while browsing the online NikeiD store, found out on Thursday that the retail athletics giant does not allow the words ‘Islam’ and ‘Muslims’ to be […]
Scientists just set the record for the fastest data transmission rate EVER
Source: Science Alert A new record for the fastest ever data transmission rate between a single transmitter and receiver has been set by researchers in the UK, who achieved a […]
VATICAN DECLARES BISHOPS DO NOT HAVE TO REPORT CHILD ABUSE
Source: World Religion News Newly appointed bishops are being instructed by the Catholic Church that they are not obligated to report any accusation related to clerical child abuse. The latest notification […]