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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Source: The Economist A YEAR on from the murderous assault on Charlie Hebdo, an irreverent French weekly, and the vast demonstration on the streets of Paris which followed, is it […]
Source: The New York Times WASHINGTON — When President Obama speaks to the nation in his final State of the Union address on Tuesday night, he will offer a familiar […]
Source: NPR The imam of the oldest mosque in North America, the Mother Mosque of America in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has invited Donald Trump to visit. David Greene talks to […]
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post Nabela Noor is using her platform to educate and inspire. Vlogger Nabela Noor typically fills her popular YouTube channel with makeup tutorials, DIY hacks and fashion tips. But in December, Noor opened up to her nearly 143,000 subscribers about […]
Source: Time We all like sweet things, but we should be eating less sugar. Now a study hints that it may be possible to tone down our taste for sugar […]
Source: Time She’s promised not to raise taxes on people making less than $250,000 a year Hillary Clinton proposed a 4% tax on individuals making more than $5 million a […]
Source: BBC Some say it is culture that makes us human. Others opt for our morality, language, or even our sense of humour. But putting philosophy to one side, what literally makes […]