5 faith facts about Sen. Bernie Sanders: Unabashedly irreligious
Source: RNS (RNS) Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — a political independent, a socialist and possibly the most liberal member of Congress — may be a cultural Jew but he’s campaigned […]
UK scientists win permission to genetically modify human embryos for the first time
Scientists get ‘gene editing’ go-ahead Source: BBC By James Gallagher, Health editor UK scientists have been given the go-ahead by the fertility regulator to genetically modify human embryos. The research will […]
Young Muslims tell MPs ‘unhealthy focus’ on extremism is stigmatising them
Guardian: Young Muslims have told politicians at a meeting in Bradford to discuss radicalisation that they feel increasingly demonised and isolated. MPs and around 70 young people aged between 16 and 25, representing Muslim communities in Bradford, Leeds and Dewsbury, met in a hotel for the two hour Big Conversation […]
The Real Reason Women Still Make Less Than Men
Huff Post: by Emily Peck — It’s pretty obvious, but weirdly unacknowledged. President Barack Obama is proposing a cool solution to help close the gender pay gap, but it doesn’t hit at perhaps the biggest problem keeping women from earning what men make. That problem? Life. Women’s responsibilities outside of […]
Are US businesses doing enough to support religious diversity in the workplace?
theguardian: by Alison Moodie — Religious discrimination claims in the US have doubled since 2001. Should businesses take more steps to ensure every employee feels valued? Samanth Elauf stands with her mother outside the US Supreme Court in Washington in February 2015. Elauf was denied a sales job at an […]
Why Some Muslims Are Optimistic In The Face Of Islamophobia
Huff Post: by Antonia Blumberg — This poignant video offers a glimpse into what it’s like to be Muslim. http://dk79lclgtez2i.cloudfront.net/fYJyVd?app=1
‘Alliance of Virtue (or Get Your Bags Together)’
Huff Post — As we settle down into the grip of another New Year, the past slips further away into obscurity and I am soberly having to grapple with the fact that many youngsters’ ears have never even heard the Beatles song, “Yesterday.” It’s an ominous sign of age creeping […]
Morality and Scriptures: Sam Harris vs Reza Aslan?
Suggested Reading Violence in the Bible and Jihad in the Quran Video: Here’s What Happens When People Think Bible Passages Are From The Quran A Sexual Offender from ISIS: Is the Quran […]
Netanyahu thinks mild Ban Ki-moon incites terror
Source: Independent Doesn’t Netanyahu realise how enraged Europeans are at his government’s treatment of the Palestinians? Robert Fisk @indyvoices 3 hours ago 10 comments I suspect that it was Ban’s […]
MALI HOSTAGE Twice-kidnapped Swiss woman splits opinion
MALI HOSTAGE Twice-kidnapped Swiss woman splits opinion By swissinfo.ch and agencies JAN 31, 2016 – 14:21 Stöckli in 2012 after having been kidnapped for nine days (Keystone) Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter is clear: freeing the Basel missionary Beatrice Stöckli, who was kidnapped in Mali earlier this month, is a […]
Death a bitter fact, a reminder
MARIAM ANWER Published — Friday 29 January 2016 Death is always a bitter realization, a huge reminder and a recurring scary thought: ‘How long before I am the one lying lifeless being washed, shrouded and buried by others?’ Allah says in His Glorious Book: “Every soul will taste death, and […]
2.18 million Umrah visas issued
In this Jan. 13, 2016 photo, a Muslim boy watches pilgrims as they circle the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia during the minor pilgrimage, known as Umrah. (AP) ARAB NEWS Published — Sunday 31 January 2016 JEDDAH: The […]
Falling on deaf ears
Jan 30,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon used strong words against Israel’s latest plan to build yet 153 more housing units in the West Bank during a recent UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East. The UN head criticised Israel’s settlement activities, calling them “provocative […]
UN’s Ban in new swipe at Israel over ‘stifling’ occupation
By AFP – Jan 28,2016 – JORDAN TIMES United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon briefs the Security Council during the meeting on the situation in the Middle East and Palestine on Tuesday at the UN in New York (AFP photo) UNITED NATIONS — Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday renewed his […]
Opposition arrives for peace talks as more Syrians starve
By AFP – Jan 30,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Abu Mahmoud, a 52-year-old rebel fighter, speaks with a fellow fighter next to gas masks inside a tunnel, used as a base, in the rebel-controlled area of Arbeen, on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus, on Friday (AFP photo) […]
Religious leaders call for safeguarding environment
By Rula Samain – Jan 30,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Religious leaders and environmentalists on Saturday stressed the importance of safeguarding nature and protecting the environment. At a one day event organised by the Catholic Centre for Studies and Media in cooperation with Konard Adenauer Stiftung, Christian and […]
What does it take to put an end to the mayhem in Syria?
Jan 30,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MUSA KEILANI Geneva III negotiations were launched this week in the hope of putting an end to the civil war in Syria, which, after five years, killed more than quarter of a million citizens and forced 8 million to become refugees, according to the […]
JORDAN: Population stands at around 9.5 million, including 2.9 million guests
By Mohammad Ghazal – Jan 30,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Syrians constitute 46 per cent of non-Jordanians living in the Kingdom and 13.2 per cent of the overall population, preliminary results of the national census conducted in late November showed on Saturday. Of Jordan’s total population of 9.5 million, […]
ISLAM’S LEGACY OF PLURALISM
. ISLAM’S LEGACY OF PLURALISM By Moin Qazi, India Jalaluddin Rumi, in his epic Masnavi 4: 415-18: states I speak of plural souls in name alone – One soul becomes one hundred in their frames; Just as God’s single sun in heaven Shines on earth and lights a hundred walls […]
Tumours reveal novel genetic disruption in DNA
Source: Gulf News Scientists who scoured the DNA of brain tumours, searching gene by gene for bad actors, were puzzled. The cancers had none of the mutations in growth-causing genes […]