Flanagan says God told him to kill Parker and Ward as payback for Charleston
Epigraph: Whoever kills an innocent person, it would be as if he or she has triggered a genocide. (Al Quran 5:33) By Kellan Howell – The Washington Times – Wednesday, […]
Who is the Creator? (Answer Using Logical Reasoning)
Can It Be Matter? A very popular question among atheists is, ‘Granted that the existence of temporal things necessitates the existence of an eternal cause, why should that cause […]
Bible Prophecies of Muhammad
Source: OnIslam By Kamil Mufti The Bible is the sacred scripture of Judaism and Christianity. The Christian Bible consists of the Old Testament and the New Testament, with the Roman […]
Virginia TV reporter, photographer killed in shooting during live interview
By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN Updated 11:15 AM ET, Wed August 26, 2015 | Video Source: CNN Vester L. Flanagan — the man authorities say they’re seeking in connection with Wednesday’s fatal shooting of two journalists — worked at WDBJ as a reporter for about a year using the on-air […]
Show your support in sports for Pakistani women
Source: The Nation Why has the field of sports always been seen as male-dominated in our country? Why only Imran Khan, Shahid Afridi, Aisam-ul-Haq – why not Sana Mir, Naseem […]
Five million adults in England ‘at risk of diabetes’
Source: BBC By Dominic Hughes; Health correspondent, BBC News Up to five million people in England are at risk of developing type-2 diabetes, according to new data from Public Health England. […]
Kansas Public School Takes Down Portrait Of Jesus After Complaint
Source: Huffington Post By Ed Mazza; Overnight Editor, The Huffington Post The display was called “an egregious violation of the First Amendment.” A Kansas school has taken down a portrait of Jesus […]
Jain Sect’s Death Ritual Clashes With Indian Law
Source: New York Times PUNE, India — All week, people streamed in and out of the handsome bungalow where the Lodha family lives, eager to witness for themselves the amazing […]
Switzerland: Asylum requests expected to rise in 2016
LOOKING AHEAD Asylum requests expected to rise in 2016 AUG 23, 2015 – (Keystone) The State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) has announced that requests for asylum in Switzerland will likely increase in 2016. In a letter to cantonal officials last week, SEM Director Mario Gattiker explained that around 30,000 applications […]
Today’s dark Lords of Finance?
Aug 24,2015 – JORDAN TIMES In his Pulitzer-Prize-winning book, Lords of Finance, the economist Liaquat Ahamed tells the story of how four central bankers, driven by staunch adherence to the gold standard, “broke the world” and triggered the Great Depression. Today’s central bankers largely share a new conventional wisdom — […]
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Is Not About Religion
Haaretz Extremists call it a ‘holy war,’ but this conflict has always been about the very secular issues of territory, injustice and identity. Is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a religious one? […]
UK petition to arrest Netanyahu for Gaza war crimes reaches over 80,000 signature
RT: A petition calling on the UK government to arrest Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes in Gaza when he arrives in London has garnered more than 80,000 signatures. […]
Top Shiite cleric plays major role in Iraq reform drive
By AFP – Aug 24,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Protesters chant in support for the Shiite spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani, in the poster, during a demonstration in Basra, 550 kilometres southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, on Friday (AP photo) BAGHDAD — As Iraq attempts to curb rampant corruption […]
Why Scott Walker Owes The World’s 1.6 Billion Muslims An Apology
Wisconsin governor and GOP candidate Scott Walker is facing harsh criticism from American Islamic organizations after claiming that only a “handful” of the world’s Muslims are “reasonable” or “moderate.” When […]
How to stop further radicalization – 10 suggestions
Preventing Further Radicalisation Is the Challenge Muslims Must Undertake: Some Concrete Suggestions By Sultan Shahin, Editor, New Age Islam 27 April 2015 [This article is a slightly updated version of a presentation made by the author in an international conference on counter-terrorism in Jaipur (India) 19–21 March, 2015] A Brief […]
Spain and Morocco make ‘Islamic State’ arrests
Source: BBC Spain and Morocco have arrested 14 people in a joint operation targeting suspected recruiters for the so-called Islamic State (IS) group. The arrests were made in suburbs of […]
Herzog: Netanyahu’s first 100 days of nothing
“The Iran deal will pass, the world is running to Iran to do business and open embassies, and no one is listening to Israel.” Source: The Jerusalem Post Prime Minister […]
Palestinian Christians scuffle with Israeli forces over divisive wall
By AFP – Aug 19,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinian Christian worshippers and priests arrive for an open-air mass to protest against the building of Israel’s controversial barrier in the Cremisan Valley, which lies between the sprawling settlement of Gilo in occupied East Jerusalem, and the West Bank settlement of Har […]
Germany vows to fight xenophobia after attacks on refugee home
By Reuters – Aug 23,2015 – JORDAN TIMES A migrant tries to pass a fence near the town of Idomeni, on the border between former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Greece, on Saturday (AFP photo) BERLIN — Germany’s interior minister led calls on Sunday for a crackdown on right-wing militants and […]