Chinese Biotech Giant Rules Out Cloning Humans… For Now
Source: Time BEIJING — The head of a Chinese firm that is building the world’s biggest animal cloning factory has vowed not to use the technology on people — for […]
‘We Won’t Make Frankensteins,’ Cloning Giant Boyalife’s CEO Says
Source: NBC News By DAVID LOM and ERIC BACULINAO “WE REALLY DON’T WANT THE ENTIRE SOCIETY TO BECOME ONE BILLION EINSTEINS” BEIJING — The head of a Chinese firm that […]
A Brilliant Way To Teach Children Which Friends To Trust
Source: Huffington Post A true friendship is a bond built on trust, and when that trust is broken, the friendship often shatters. Brené Brown has spent decades researching trust and vulnerability, […]
A Muslim’s Christmas Message
Source: Huffington Post By Kashif N. Chaudhry Physician, writer and human rights activist Christmas is one of the most important days in the Christian calendar. Granted it has largely been turned […]
If Islam Is Un-American, so Are Christianity and Judaism
Source: Huffington Post By Warren J. Blumenfeld Independent Writer “[I am] calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our representatives can figure out what’s […]
ISIS, Fear, and the Freedom of Speech
Source: Huffington Post By Geoffrey R. Stone Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago In recent weeks, two of the legal scholars I most admire — Cass Sunstein and Eric Posner — have independently called for possible limitations on the scope of First Amendment protection in […]
Why Theists Need Atheists; An Atheist’s Perspective
Source: Huffington Post By Mette Ivie Harrison; Mormon in progress, former atheist, mother of 5, author of ‘The Bishop’s Wife,’ Princeton PhD I spent about five years as an atheist. I […]
We are All Muslim by Michael Moore
Dear Donald Trump: You may remember (you do, after all, have a “perfect memory!”), that we met back in November of 1998 in the green room of a talk show […]
The Religious Right Is Right to Be Scared: Christianity Is Dying in America
Source: The Daily Beast By Jay Michaelson Why try to understand complicated things like demographics for the decline of your faith when you can blame gays and liberals for waging a […]
A Religious Forecast For 2050: Atheism Is Down, Islam Is Rising
Source: NPR By the end of the century, Muslims could outnumber Christians for the first time in history, according to a report released by the Pew Research Center. “Another way of […]
Flooding ‘worst in 50 years’, as 150,000 flee in Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay
Source: BBC Vast areas in Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil are being hit by the worst flooding in 50 years, forcing the evacuation of more than 150,000 people. Days of […]
Destinations that are so magical, they hardly seem real
Source: BBC Where to go to escape the stresses of life, the bustle of the workweek and the noise of traffic? To find out, we turned to question-and-answer site Quora, […]
Texas tornadoes: ‘Eight killed’ in Dallas suburbs
Source: BBC Eight people are reported to have been killed in Texas in new tornadoes, raising the death toll to 26 in a week of storms in several US states. […]
On Muslims, Democrats Turn To An Unlikely Ally: George W. Bush
Source: Huffington Post WASHINGTON (AP) — Taunted by Republicans to declare war on “radical Islamic terrorism,” Democrats are turning to an unlikely ally: George W. Bush. President Barack Obama, under […]
An Open Letter to Fellow Educators & Leaders Regarding Religious Literacy in Schools
Source: Huffington Post By Anisha Ismail Patel Founder & CEdO of InnovusED . Global Educator. Social Entrepreneur . Promotes Women & Youth Service Leadership As 2015 rolls to a close, […]
International Criminal Court Files Request to Question Gaddafi: Report
December, 26, 2015 – TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The International Criminal Court reportedly filed a request to Lebanese authorities to question the son of deposed Libyan leader Muammer Gaddafi, the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat said Saturday. General Prosecutor Judge Samir Hammoud is studying a request by ICC to question Hannibal Gaddafi over […]
Sudden impacts
NADEEM F. PARACHA — DAWN.COM 18 COMMENTS Travelling on a plane to London in 2011, I spent most of my time studying a detailed research paper authored by Mathew J. Nelson, a distinguished lecturer of Political Science at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in the UK. I […]
Churches offer refuge for Central Americans facing U.S. deportation
Reuters International DEC 26, 2015 – 00:24 By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Leaders of the church-based Sanctuary Movement vowed on Friday to offer their places of worship as refuge for immigrants facing deportation under an Obama administration crackdown on Central American families who entered the United States illegally. […]
Protesters ransack Muslim prayer hall on French island
AFP — DAWN.COM 43 COMMENTS A picture taken on December 25, 2015 shows a devastated Muslim prayer hall in Ajaccio, after protesters vandalised it and tried to set fire to copies of the Holy Quran.—AFP AJACCIO: Demonstrators ransacked a Muslim prayer hall and attempted to burn copies of the […]
Countering militants’ ideology
I.A. REHMAN — UPDATED DEC 24, 2015 DAWN.COM 11 COMMENTS Throughout the past fortnight or so, people have been plied with reports, surveys and much rhetoric about the progress of the National Action Plan (NAP) but little has been offered to enable them to share the mood of complacency evident […]