Will India open its temples and mosques to menstruating women?
Source: The Guardian As a girl, Noorjehan Niaz remembers visiting the famous Muslim shrine of Haji Ali and walking down the long causeway off the coastline in south Mumbai, pushing […]
The airliner flight sims that look like real life
Source: BBC Shortly after takeoff, a red light above my head starts flashing in time to an insistent chiming. My heart starts pounding as I look around the cockpit of […]
On one colourful flower, a pitched battle is raging
Source: BBC Female monkey beetles will only mate on a flower, so if a male wants to secure a mate, he must first secure a blossom of his own Sometimes […]
Mein Kampf: The world’s most dangerous book?
Source: BBC “They wanted to replace the Bible.” Whispering in a hushed room of the Bavarian State Library, rare books expert Stephan Kellner describes how the Nazis turned a rambling, […]
Powerball lottery – and the Islamic view
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Islam needs objective media
ISLAM NEEDS AN OBJECTIVE MEDIA http://www.kashmirmonitor.in/news-islam-needs-an-objective-media-94201.aspx2 FRIDAY, 27 NOVEMBER 2015, By MOIN QAZI 326 VIEWS ISLAM NEEDS AN OBJECTIVE MEDIA The sudden wave of interest in Islam across the world seemed to commence just after September 11, 2001. The Western media, television as well as print, devoted reams of paper […]
Gov Nikki Haley jabs at Donald Trump in State of the Union response
By Gregory Krieg CNN: The Republican Party tapped South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to deliver its response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night, but her most memorable jabs landed squarely on the GOP’s own Donald Trump. That’s a something that didn’t escape — or please — […]
Understanding and Responding to Islamophobia in Ireland Conference
This full day conference is aimed at strengthening understandings of anti-Muslim racism in Ireland and identifying community based responses for practitioners and communities. The conference brings together community workers, youth […]
Muslim journalists no longer as rare in US newsrooms
Source: Religion News Service By Lauren Markoe (RNS) Rummana Hussain was one of those children whose Muslim parents envisioned her in a white coat with a stethoscope around her neck. Instead, […]
Religious voices respond to State of the Union
Source: Religion News Service (RNS) In his last State of the Union address, President Obama made an impassioned case against religious bigotry and cast other key issues in moral terms. He rejected “any […]
Mosque versus state
Source: Dawn.com By Pervez Hoodbhoy THE mosque in Pakistan is now no longer just a religious institution. Instead it has morphed into a deeply political one that seeks to radically […]
What Quality Education Should Teach You, According to a Harvard Scientist
http://time.com: Harvard’s great biologist/psychologist Steven Pinker is one of my favorites, even though I’m just starting to get into his work. What makes him great is not just his rational […]
Perilous pursuit: Interest in Ahmadiyya tenets makes citizen fear for life
Tribune: LAHORE: A citizen was compelled on Tuesday to move the district and sessions court after being cautioned against perusing Ahmadiyya literature. Petitioner Bilal Munawar told the court that some individuals had threatened to kill him after learning that he was reading Ahmadiyya texts. Munawar said he was a faithful, law […]
Israel’s ‘spring’?
Jan 06,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Hasan Abu Nimah Since its creation, Israel had been boasting that it is the only stable democracy in the Middle East. The recent descent of many countries in the region into internal strife and state-structure decline must have further strengthened Israel’s confidence that it is […]
Was the Arab Spring a bad idea?
Jan. 13, 2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Hasan Abu Nimah I cannot recall when and by whom the term “Arab Spring” was first coined as a brand name for the series of uprisings that hit many Arab countries about five years ago. Suddenly, at the beginning of the year 2011, many […]
Shameful and unconscionable
Jan 13,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL The Syrian towns of Madaya, Fou’a and Kefraya, whose residents are facing starvation, got a reprieve Monday after a UN-brokered arrangement with Damascus was reached to end their ordeal, at least temporarily. The three towns, whose plight came to light after photos of starving […]
A better year for migrants?
Jan 13,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Peter D. Sutherland The Mediterranean migration crisis has delivered two critical lessons. First, Europe and the international community have grossly inadequate systems for protecting vulnerable migrants. Second, in the absence of such systems, populist leaders will prey on fear to gain political support, undermining the […]
Video: Obama: When politicians insult Muslims, when a mosque is vandalized, or a kid bullied, that doesn’t make us safe
Obama: (This is around minute 44:30 of video) We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s […]
Power Play in the Garb of Religion – Saudi Arabia vs Iran
By Munir Varraich, Sweden It was assumed that the season for making forecasts for the year 2016 had ended on 31st December 2015. No, it continues. While all eyes were focused on the Presidential Election campaign in the US, Saudi Arabia managed to add fuel to the volatile situation in the Middle […]
New development could lead to more effective lightbulbs
Source: BBC US researchers say they have developed a technique that can significantly improve the efficiency of the traditional incandescent lightbulb. These older bulbs have been phased out in many […]