To tackle jihadis, French activist says, ditch reason Source: Reuters Anthropologist Dounia Bouzar used to try religious arguments to turn young people away from militant Islam – and failed. So the […]
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad says that world’s natural beauty reminds mankind of the greatness of the One God On 17 November 2015, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad visited the Meiji Jingu Memorial in Tokyo on the first day of his current tour of […]
Source: Huffington Post, UK The ex-wife of Paris bomber Ibrahim Abdeslam has told how he spent his days smoking cannabis and drinking alcohol, as reports suggest the terror gang behind […]
Salon.com: (This article was corrected to more accurately and completely reflect Suzanne Nossel’s positions.) The State Department devoted itself to, in its own words, “deferring” U.N. action on Israeli war crimes, “reframing the debate” about the atrocities, and “moving away from the U.N.”, according to numerous emails from former Secretary […]
Nous Sommes Unis ‘United We Stand’ to say Friday congregation at Britain’s Largest Mosque. Photo Opps at Baitul Futuh Mosque, Morden, 1-3 PM Friday 20 November A bus campaign to run in London for two weeks from 23 November 2015 The atrocity in France was a crime against humanity LONDON, […]
QZ.com: Despite what conservative political leaders want you to think, the reason the Muslim world hasn’t done more to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) isn’t because it secretly sympathizes with the terror movement. No, the Muslim world has remained maddeningly ineffective against ISIL because it […]
EXCLUSIVE Did the Pentagon Cook the Books on Its Afghanistan Intel? The military has been accused of fudging the numbers in the fight against the Islamic State. Congress wants to know if it did with the Taliban too. BY DAN DE LUCE NOVEMBER 19, 2015 DAN.DELUCE @DANDELUCE Lawmakers are probing […]
Isis was quick to understand a truth the West must now confront: that the national borders imposed by colonial powers 100 years go are becoming meaningless, says Robert Fisk Robert Fisk @indyvoice 18 comments A Kurdish fighter surveys the border between Turkey and Iraq AFP/Getty Early in 2014, Isis released […]
November 16, 2015 The Paris terror attacks – particularly the methodical shooting of unarmed civilians – have shocked the world and generated new tough talk from policymakers. But the West cannot ignore how some of its violent policy prescriptions over the past 35 years have contributed to the crisis, writes […]
Written by Anonymous President Assad ( who is bad ) is a nasty guy who got so nasty his people rebelled and the Rebels ( who are good ) started […]
Source: Globe and Mail Nahid Neshi often speak eloquently about the pluralistic wonder he considers Canada. But as one of the most high-profile Muslim figures in the country, the Calgary mayor admits he has been “shaken” by the closed-minded, even racist nature of some of the debate over the Syrian […]
‘The bride amongst the cities’ Toronto Star 19 Nov 2015 M. BILAL HASSAN SPECIAL TO THE STAR M. BILAL HASSAN PHOTOS FOR THE TORONTO STARArz O Samawat ( The Heavens and the Earth), on the roof of Frere Hall, was Sadequain’s last project. For most of its history, the city […]
Source: Pew Research Center By Jacob Poushter, who is a senior researcher focusing on global attitudes at Pew Research Center. 42 COMMENTS Recent attacks in Paris, Beirut and Baghdad linked to […]
Source: BBC 17 November 2015 Last updated at 18:05 GMT Russia is not “wedded” to keeping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in power, says US Secretary of State John Kerry. Speaking […]
Senegal Bans Burqa to Stop Terrorists Disguising In Islamic Dress Simon Allison in Johannesburg, 18 November 2015 Senegal has banned women from wearing the burqa, amid rising fears of Islamic extremism in the west African country. The interior minister, Abdoulaye Daouda, said women would no longer be allowed to wear […]
Source: The New York Times By the time the United States withdrew from its long bloody encounter with Iraq in 2011, it thought it had declawed a once fearsome enemy: […]
Source: Huffington Post Thanks to a single tooth, scientists are now sinking their teeth into a human family tree mystery — exactly who were the Denisovans? Our distant cousin the […]
Source: The Guardian is considering banning women from wearing the burqa, amid rising fears of Islamic extremism in the west African country. The interior minister, Abdoulaye Daouda, said women would […]
Source: Reuters Saudi Arabia’s harsh religious tradition is seen by many outsiders – and some Saudi liberals – as a root cause of the international jihadist threat that has inflamed the Middle East for years and struck in Paris last week. However, while Riyadh has cracked down hard on jihadists […]
Source: TheWashington Post The results of the poll by the useful Twitter account @HistOpinion were published in the pages of Fortune magazine in July 1938. Fewer than 5 percent of Americans surveyed […]