Published on 10:51 December 13, 2015 These women are following in the footsteps of Syria’s other main female forces battling Daesh nextprevExpand next Syriac Christian women members of the battalion called the ‘Female Protection Forces of the Land Between the Two Rivers’ fighting the Daesh, take part in a training […]
By JT – Dec 12,2015 – JORDAN TIMES University of Jordan President Ekhleif Tarawneh speaks at a meeting organised by the Jerusalem Endowment Fund in Amman on Friday (Petra photo) AMMAN — Attendees of the Jerusalem Endowment Fund’s meeting held in Amman on Friday called for unifying efforts and […]
By Muath Freij – Dec 12,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Syrian refugees wait in a hall at the UNHCR office in Amman on Friday before they are called to be interviewed (Photo by Muath Freij) AMMAN – Sitting with his family members in an interview room inside the UNHCR offices […]
RENEWABLE ENERGY How to get heat from the bottom of a lake By Luigi Jorio, Geneva OCT 7, 2015 – 11:00 Lake Geneva: a source of heat and cold for several large buildings (Reuters) Switzerland’s biggest lakes have a high potential for creating energy. Their waters can cool structures in […]
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Review of Religions: The actions of extremists contradict The Teachings of Islam “… under no circumstances can murder ever be justified and those who seek to justify their hateful acts in the name of Islam are serving only to defame it in the worst possible way.” (Press Release in the […]
The Independent: The mother of a man killed in a terror attack in France has been booed after she wore a headscarf during a public talk, with one attendee saying the atmosphere was “like being at a meeting of the National Front”. Latifa Ibn Ziaten, whose 30-year-old paratrooper son was […]
Saudi prince slams Trump as ‘a disgrace’ to USA as backlash grows France 24 Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has called Donald Trump a disgrace to the United States following his call for a ban on Muslims entering the country, and demanded the Republican front-runner withdraw from the US […]
Source: Time Negotiators from India came to international climate talks in Paris this month walking a tightrope. On the one hand, officials wanted to show that the world’s fourth-biggest carbon […]
Source: Time The young Iraqi asylum seeker Hind Almahdawi was nine-months pregnant when she arrived in Germany Hind Almahdawi was exhausted. She was about nine months pregnant and had just […]
Manal Omar Become a fanAssociate Vice-President, Middle East and Africa Center at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. As a Muslim, My Heart Freezes with Fear Posted: 12/10/2015 This is a defining moment for America. It can’t get much worse than this. Yet if anything has proven […]
Source: The Washington Post Do you see religious liberty as under threat in America? The debate over GOP candidates’ comments about Islam reveal how bitterly divided Americans are over how to view a basic right. For the last few years, several of the biggest and most influential religious groups have […]
Published December 10th, 2015 – 08:13 GMT via SyndiGate.info A file photo of Blackwater member surveying a city in 2005. (AFP/File) Follow > Blackwater Worldwide The chief of Blackwater mercenaries in Yemen has been killed in clashes with Houthi Ansarullah fighters and allied forces in the country’s southwest, reports say. […]
OVER 40,000 Ahmadi Muslims throughout the country will converge on Bagh-e-Ahmad, the Mission’s agricultural project site at Pomadze, near Winneba junction, in the Central Region on Thursday, January 7th to 20th – to begin their three days annual Jalsa Salana (Convention) The 8th annual national convention, themed “Tolerance and peaceful […]
Leader who quit Commonwealth in 2013 says Muslim-majority state will still respect others citizens’ faiths but he wants to shake off ‘colonial legacy’ President Yahya Jammeh, pictured, is looking to the Arab world for support to replace western aid funding to the Gambia, according to critic Sidi Sanneh. Photograph: Issouf […]
Ahmadi bookstore owner and manager arrested under blasphemy law Pakistani authorities have arrested two Ahmadi Muslim men for alleged Blasphemy. Bookstore owner Abul Shukoor and manager Mazhar Ahmad were arrested Wednesday, Dec. 2 from Ahmadiyya Book Depot in Rabwah. Both men were taken to an unknown location after their arrest. […]
Source: Huffington Post By Lynne Peeples; Environment and Public Health Reporter, The Huffington Post After two weeks of tense talks, word-wrangling and marathon overnight meetings, diplomats in Paris agreed to a global […]
The year was 1915, and the strange new newspaper in Aurora, Mo., had grown so quickly in its first four years that rail officials had to build extra tracks for all the paper and printing materials suddenly rolling into town. The Aurora post office, according to one account, more than […]
Source: Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — On the night of the California shootings, Asifa Quraishi-Landes sat on her couch, her face in her hands, and thought about what was […]
Source: CNN (CNN)Gunshots fired into a mosque in Connecticut. Armed men protesting the “Islamization of America” outside Islamic centers in Texas. Death threats called in to mosques in Florida, Maryland […]