Geopolitical Weekly AUGUST 4, 2015 | 11:11 GMT By Reva Bhalla Editor’s Note: With the war in Syria showing no signs of abating, we republish our Jan. 21, 2014, weekly explaining the complex geopolitics of the conflict. International diplomats will gather Jan. 22 in the Swiss town of Montreux to […]
Aug 04,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – HASAN ABU NIMA The latest settler crime against a Palestinian family in the village of Duma near Nablus, is neither quantitatively nor qualitatively rare. Jewish settler extremists have been routinely committing crimes against the Palestinians, indiscriminately and with similar callousness and brutality. Over […]
By Khetam Malkawi – Aug 04,2015 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Despite regional turmoil and uncertainty, Jordan has consistently maintained a prudent foreign policy that guaranteed the Kingdom a “prominent place on the table, becoming centre for strategic decision making”, a senior official has said. “We have proved to be the […]
Epigraph: All praise belongs to Allah, Lord and Sustainer of all the worlds. (Al Quran 1:2) Did Jesus Die for the Sins of the Aliens As Well? But, They […]
Source: Yahoo News Jerusalem (AFP) – Police have opened an investigation into online threats against Israel’s president following his condemnation of “Jewish terrorism” after a firebombing killed a Palestinian child, […]
UNACCOMPANIED MINORS Settling into Switzerland as a teenage refugee http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/inline?urn=urn:swi:video:41582888 AUG 4, 2015 – 11:00 A programme has been set up in one Swiss canton to teach unaccompanied minors practical skills. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) In the last two years, the number of children seeking asylum in Switzerland without their parents has […]
Epigraph: All praise belongs to Allah, Lord and Sustainer of all the worlds. (Al Quran 1:2) Vatican Scientist Thinks Aliens May Exist — But Not An Alien Jesus Source: Huffington […]
King Abdullah’s message on what it means to be a Muslim Aug 03,2015 – JORDAN TIMES His Majesty King Abdullah’s speech to the European Parliament earlier this year was a historical statement that should not go unnoticed, either by European and Western audiences or education planners and leaders in […]
By AFP – Aug 03,2015 – Last updated at Aug 03,2015 0 0 googleplus0 0 0 A file picture taken on August 13, 2014, shows displaced Iraqi families from the Yazidi community crossing the Iraqi-Syrian border at the Fishkhabur crossing, in northern Iraq. One year since the brutal onslaught of […]
Dawn: In the aftermath of war or exodus, when one community leaves their religious or secular buildings behind them, there is always another community which occupies these buildings. The same occurred after the India-Pakistan Partition. A majority of the buildings which once belonged to the Sikhs and Hindus were given […]
Source: The Guardian By Cory Massimino Bernie Sanders has come out against open borders, claiming they are a “right-wing proposal” that “would make everyone in America poorer.” He argues that, while […]
Epigraph: We prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land — it […]
Source: Religion News Service JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s security cabinet approved on Sunday the detention of citizens suspected of waging violence against Palestinians without trial in a crackdown aimed at […]
By Nick Tattersall KARKAMIS, Turkey (Reuters) – Packets of cigarettes and tea gathering dust in his one-room store, Mustafa Karatas doubts a joint U.S.-Turkish plan to flush Islamic State militants from the Syrian border will make much difference to his business any time soon. This main commercial street in Karkamis, […]
Tunisian firms prepare to issue Islamic bonds BY BERNARDO VIZCAINO Aug 3 Tunisian firms are preparing to issue Islamic bonds as the government finalises rules covering the sector, creating a new funding option for companies in an economy buffeted by labour unrest and militant attacks. Islamic finance – which bars […]
546. Commandment – And make ready for them whatever you can of armed force and of mounted pickets at the frontier, whereby you may frighten the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you know not, but Allah knows them. And whatever you spend in the way of Allah, it […]
The National Union of Teachers is accused of ‘spreading political propaganda’ in classrooms to children as young as three Telegraph: An “extremist agenda” is being taught to children […]
Foreign Policy: There’s a popular narrative that, as the centuries roll on, many ancient human evils, if not wholly eradicated, are at least in decline. Human sacrifice, slavery, ritual and genital mutilation, witchcraft accusations, torture — these things, the story goes, have become so stigmatized that they may never resurge […]
French and Malaysian officials will meet as authorities confirm metallic debris found by locals did not come from an aircraft. Telegraph Reports Five days after the discovery of a Boeing 777 wing fragment on La Reunion island, French and Malaysian aviation experts will meet together with police and magistrates in […]
British students are less motivated to study hard if they know they will get government handouts, the teachers said. Telegraph Reports Britain’s generous welfare system is behind pupils’ lack of ambition and ill-discipline, a group of Chinese teachers has said after spending four weeks in a comprehensive school in Hampshire. […]