HELPING THE NEEDY: The Kingdom has been in the forefront of distributing aid to Syrian refugees. ARAB NEWS Published — Monday 5 October 2015 JEDDAH: Faisal bin Hassan Trad, the permanent representative of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations Office in Geneva, said the Kingdom has been the most generous […]
By AP – Oct 04,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the UAE prime minister and the ruler of Dubai, announces the launch of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives project at the Emirates Towers, in Dubai, on Sunday (AP photo) DUBAI — The […]
Oct 04,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh The US and Russia seem to have finally agreed that fighting terrorism in Syria is a priority. This poses a new challenge to many countries, which will need to shift their position vis-à-vis the Syrian crisis, including to Syria’s neighbouring countries such as […]
Epigraph: Anyone who saves a life, it would be as if he or she has saved the whole of mankind. (Al Quran 5:33) Source: Twitter.com/mkapakistan/ His Holiness Hazrat Mirza Masroor […]
History never repeats itself, but it sure does rhyme, it has been said. Now an internationally respected historian is warning that today’s world bears a number of striking similarities with the build-up to the First World War. The newly mechanised armies of the early 20th century produced unprecedented slaughter on […]
Global Post: White Americans are the biggest terror threat in the United States, according to a study by the New America Foundation. The Washington-based research organization did a review of “terror” attacks on US soil since Sept. 11, 2001 and found that most of themwere carried out by radical anti-government […]
Faith & Hope – Parable of a Pregnant Deer In a forest, a pregnant deer is about to give birth. She finds a remote grass field near a strong-flowing river. This seems […]
The Canadian police have criticised the glamorisation of local gang lifestyle in Indo-Canadian director Deepa Mehta’s new movie Beeba Boys, a media report said. gulfnews.com/lifestyle Sergeant Lindsey Houghton from the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of British Columbia and Abbotsford Police spokesperson constable Ian MacDonald were invited to a special screening […]
theguardian: by Nick Cohen — The most vocal attacks on a group fighting Islamophobic attacks are not racist yobs but friends of the Islamist right Tell MAMA is the only pressure group that undertakes the hard but necessary work of encouraging Muslims to report religious assaults. MAMA stands for Measuring Anti-Muslim […]
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Punjab News Express/ Maqbool Ahmad QUADIAN: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat organized a press meet here in Qadian today at Sarae Wasim Qadian. On this occasion Shiraz Ahmad President Press Committee presided […]
Guardian: The UN special rapporteur on torture has accused David Cameron of a “cold-hearted ” approach to the migration crisis, warning that plans to scrap the Human Rights Act risk subverting international obligations designed to protect people fleeing persecution. Juan Méndez said the UK’s intention to replace the act with a […]
Republican tactics working for Harper: Siddiqui Stephen Harper has successfully used ugly GOP methods to shore up the support of the 30 per cent of Canadians that make up his base. By: Haroon Siddiqui Columnist, Published on Sun Oct 04 2015 Donald Trump says he does not want Syrian refugees in the United States. […]
Source: Reuters OCT 4, 2015 By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan makes a long-awaited trip to Brussels on Sunday, officially a two-day state visit to Belgium, […]
American Muslims Zainab Nasir, left, Shahidah Sharif, Jamila Rashid, second left, and an unidentified friend walk outside the Grand Mosque, Makkah. (AP) AYA BATRAWY | AP Published — Friday […]
Oct 03,2015 – JORDAN TIMES MAHMOUD ZIDAN “If it looks like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it acts like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it’s a terrorist.” Thus spoke Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a UN General Assembly press conference. Several […]
Oct 03,2015 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL A contact group on the Syrian crisis is expected to convene in Moscow this month upon the invitation of the Russian government. The Russian deputy foreign minister told Russian news agency RIA Novosti on Monday that Iran, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Turkey and Egypt are expected to […]
Europe Refugee crisis: Belgium dismantles camp as citizens agree to give homes to refugees – but riots continue in Germany There were 5,600 asylum applications in Belgium in August, but the weekly flow of asylum applicants into Brussels has now reached 1,900 Leo Cendrowicz, tony paterson Brussels, Berlin Thursday 1 […]
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and of infinite value. Killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Derived from Al Quran 5:33) By Hamid Shalizi and Andrew MacAskill Our Source: […]