ANTI-JIHADI STRATEGY Steering Swiss youngsters away from radicalisation By Simon Bradley NOV 17, 2015 – 17:00 Three teams of Islamic State gunmen and suicide bombers carried out attacks last Friday […]
Nov 18,2015 – JORDAN TIMES It would be sad, indeed tragic for some, if, as reported, certain nations, including several European countries, the US and Canada, would have a change of heart regarding receiving Syrian refugees in their countries, after the horrible terrorist attacks in Paris last week, for fear that […]
By AFP – Nov 16,2015 – Palestinians carry the bodies of Ahmed Al Ayeh, 28, and Laith Manasra, 21, during their funeral in the Qalandia refugee camp on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah, on Monday (AP photo) QALANDIYA, Palestinian Territories — Israeli forces shot dead […]
By JT – Nov 19,2015 -JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The war on terror is a global war that “we should fight together as one”, according to His Majesty King […]
Nov 18,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – DAOUD KUTTAB In fighting the scourge of radicalism and religious fundamentalism, one of the strategies is to use religion. Proponents of this approach vary from those who insist that Daesh and its ideology is simply built on a warped understanding of religion to those who […]
Islam Press: Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad travels to inaugurate first Ahmadiyya Mosque in Japan On 17 November 2015, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad arrived in Tokyo, Japan for his third visit to the country. His Holiness arrived […]
Bronx Chronicle: UCLA law professor, Mr. Amjad Mahmood Khan decries the popular perception in today’s 24 hours news cycle and social media that associate Islam with acts of terrorism. These acts, he noted, were disproportionately emphasized and singled out a recent New York Times report that suggested that after 2001, […]
We immigrated to Canada fourteen years ago. It was the year that affected world peace in the worst way possible; it was the year 9/11 happened. A bunch of suicide bombers claiming to be “Muslims” hijacked a plane that eventually crashed into the Twin Towers. Hundreds of people lost their […]
The Toronto Star: A Montreal man will spend the next few days in jail after being charged in connection with a YouTube video in which someone wearing a Joker mask […]
After the Paris attacks some Canadian Muslims are being scapegoated for crimes that have nothing to do with this country, and for which they owe no apology. A young Toronto […]
The Huffington Post: Today if we were asked: “What is your understanding of Islam,” many of us may look at Friday’s attacks in Paris, for which the self-declared Islamic State […]
Source: New York Times By WALTER ISAACSON; who is the C.E.O. of the Aspen Institute, is the author of “The Innovators” and biographies of Einstein, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin and Henry […]
Source: BBC The UK’s remaining coal-fired power stations will be shut by 2025 with their use restricted by 2023, Energy Secretary Amber Rudd has proposed. Ms Rudd wants more gas-fired […]
Source: BBC We are hopeful, here, about green transportation breakthroughs, setting our cynicism aside for any planet-pleasing press release. But — perhaps because we are suffering from a particularly nasty […]
Source: BBC Over the course of November 1915, the German physicist Albert Einstein gave a series of lectures in which he presented his theory of general relativity to the world […]
Source: 5 Pillars By Lauren Booth Journalist Lauren Booth questions whether the West can really hold the moral high ground in the aftermath of the deadly Paris terrorist attacks. “The […]
Source: Huffington Post MANILA, Philippines (AP) — President Barack Obama is accusing Republicans who oppose allowing Syrian refugees into the U.S. of being scared of widows and orphans. He says […]
Nov 17,2015 – RAMZI BAROUD – JORDAN TIMES Writing in the New York Times in the article titled “Myanmar generals set the state for their own exit”, Thomas Fuller expressed his and the media’s failure to recognise the total fraud that is Burmese democracy. “The official results are still […]
Voices France’s unresolved Algerian war sheds light on the Paris attack The French-Algerian identity of one of the attackers demonstrates how France’s savage 1956-62 war in Algeria continues to infect today’s atrocities. Robert Fisk @indyvoices Monday 16 November 2015 60 comments 2K People weep as they gather to observe a […]
Source: Yahoo News One of the nuances often lost in the discussion of student loan debt is the plight of students who borrow for college and don’t graduate, leaving them […]