Summary Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s suggestion that our region needs a joint Arab military force to deal with escalating threats from armed factions in lands such as Libya is one of the most ridiculous ideas to emerge in the Arab world for years. The most important is that the resort […]
Summary It was only a matter of time before an American official would use the ISIS stick against the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Whether Snowden had leaked on U.S. surveillance capacities or not, ISIS would certainly have assumed that such capacities existed, and adapted accordingly. What Rogers […]
NY Times Op Ed: To call this movement, whose most potent recent manifestation is the Islamic State, a “dark ideology” is like calling Nazism a reaction to German humiliation in World War I: true but wholly inadequate. There is little point in Western politicians rehearsing lines about there being no […]
HRW: “Islam is evil” is just one of many anti-Muslim slurs uttered by retired Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin, executive vice-president of the Washington-based Family Research Council (FRC) and former undersecretary of defense for intelligence under US President George W. Bush. So one might assume that Malaysia, a predominantly Muslim […]
LONDON — Glance at any newsstand or catch any rolling news channel, and you will be confronted by a seemingly unrelenting tide of horror. Limp bodies pulled from rubble, shells and barrel bombs pounding once leafy neighborhoods. Refugees huddled for warmth or risking life and limb for survival. Mass abductions […]
WSJ: Once on edge of bankruptcy, satirical newspaper sold millions of copies after terror attack By Sam Schechner Sam Schechner The Wall Street Journal Feb. 24, 2015 12:05 p.m. ET PARIS—Less than two weeks after the terror attack that devastated their newsroom, Charlie Hebdo’s surviving staff members gathered in a […]
WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Wednesday peppered Janet L. Yellen, the Federal Reserve chairwoman, with pointed questions about the central bank’s stimulus campaign and its responsibilities as a financial regulator. Republicans, who control Congress but not the agencies that interpret and execute legislation, appear frustrated with the course of economic […]
Heinz-Peter Bader / Reuters The Austrian parliament has passed a controversial bill that bans foreign funding for the religion in Austria, as well as foreign imams, many of whom are paid by neighboring Turkey. While Muslim activists have claimed the law is discriminatory to the 600,000 Muslims living in Austria […]
Continue reading the main story in BBC Related Stories Row over Austria’s Islam law The Islamic veil across Europe Austria celebrates ‘model’ law on Islam The Austrian parliament has passed […]
Source BBC A majority of US Supreme Court justices appear to be supportive of an argument that Abercrombie & Fitch discriminated against a Muslim teenager. Samantha Elauf argued she was […]
Epigraph: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech.” — First Amendment to the United States […]
Finland: National radio to read Koran ‘cover to cover’ 24 February 2015 Share Finland’s public broadcaster describes the series as an “unprecedented” project The Koran will be read from cover to cover on Finnish public radio as part of a new series, it’s been announced. The country’s public broadcaster, Yle, […]
Kamprad, 88, moved back to his home country of Sweden last year after living in Switzerland for almost four decades. The house in Epalinges, a bedroom suburb north of […]
RT.Com: The majority of British Muslims oppose violence against people who publish images depicting the Prophet Muhammad, a poll for the BBC suggests. The majority of British Muslims are not in favor of violent retribution for those who publish images of the Prophet Mohammed, nor do they sympathize with fighters […]
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Source: The Telegraph By Saffron Alexander 11:30AM GMT 24 Feb 2015 15 Comments New findings show a link between a lower IQ and and alcohol consumption amongst young men People with low IQs are more likely to consume higher amounts of alcohol than those with higher IQs, a new study has […]
theguardian: by Humaira Patel — Speaking to teenage girls from east London showed me that too many are left feeling that no one is listening to them An EDL protest in Tower Hamlets in 2011. ‘We live in the East End, where the EDL and Britain First take great […]
AFP | Feb 24, 2015 | Jordan Times In this November 2, 2011 file photo, a worker stands by construction material to unload at a new housing unit in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Har Homa (AP photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — The number of new settler housing units under […]
ARMED CONFLICT Global response to atrocities by states and armed groups ‘shameful and ineffective’ 25 February 2015, 15:54 UTC • Amnesty International releases Annual Report along with forecast of human rights trends for the coming year • Says governments must ‘stop pretending the protection of civilians is beyond their […]
The British woman previously travelled to Syria to marry an Isis fighter JON STONE Sunday 22 February 2015 The family of a British woman living with Isis fighters in Syriahas branded her a “disgrace” after it emerged she may have enticed three missing young UK girls to join her. Police […]