By Samuel Jaberg in Davos JAN 21, 2015 – 11:00 The plug is being pulled on a naming and shaming award for companies allegedly guilty of irresponsible business practices. The last Public Eye awards will be handed out for the last time on Friday on the fringes of the WEF […]
Here we reproduce the last third of President Obama’s State of the Union Speech of 2015, delivered on 1/20/2015: There’s one last pillar to our leadership — and that’s the example of […]
Source: theguardian.com The mayor of Paris plans to sue Fox News for its reporting on the city in the wake of the attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. “When we’re insulted, and when we’ve had an image, then I think we’ll have to sue, I think we’ll have to […]
Source: independent.co.uk George Galloway boldly declared “Je ne suis pas Charlie Hebdo” during a damning address at a freedom of speech rally in Bradford on Saturday. The Respect MP told a crowd of protestors gathered outside Bradford City Hall that the French government should be ashamed of themselves for standing […]
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) — President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address slighted foreign policy in favor of touting domestic progress and proposing new domestic initiatives. But there were some foreign policy highlights worth underlining. 1. Obama pushed back hard against hawks like Senator John McCain, who […]
Source: Arab News BERLIN: Germany’s top human rights official has urged Israel to cooperate with the International Criminal Court probe into possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories. After the […]
On hearing any expression of hope, however muted, my mother’s reflex is to rebuke the optimist with a hissed, “Don’t beshroi”. If a horse she’s backed jumps the last 25 lengths clear, and someone says, “I think you’re safe with this one,” she will suck in her cheeks and mutter […]
World View: An Iranian general and six Hezbollah officers have been wiped out by helicopters near the Syrian city of Quneitra. But what were they doing there, asks Robert Fisk Very occasionally, the Israelis go for the jugular. Their helicopter attack on “terrorists” near the Syrian city of Quneitra at […]
By Shehzad Ghias Shaikh Jan 18, 2015 · 08:00 pm ‘Nothing could make all the victims of terrorist attacks all over the world happier than watching every single Muslim in the world say sorry.’ After the tragic Charlie Hebdo shootings there has been a call by some people to make all Muslims […]
The Koran Does Not Forbid Images of the Prophet. (SAW) By Christiane Gruber 1/9/15 at 4:43 PM NEWSWEEK.COM http://www.newsweek.com/koran-does-not-forbid-images-prophet-298298 The Charlie Hebdo killers were operating under a misapprehension. Topkapı Palace Library Filed Under: Opinion, Islam, Religion, freedom of speech In the wake of the massacre that took place in the […]
By Gregory Wallace and Brian Stelter @CNNMoney January 20, 2015 Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo told CNN Tuesday she intends to sue Fox News in the wake of the channel’s […]
Epigraph: Have We not opened for thee (Muhammad) thy bosom, and removed from thee thy burden, Which had well nigh broken thy back, and We exalted thy name? (Al Quran 94:2-5) Courtesy: […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is siding with a Muslim prison inmate in Arkansas who sued for the right to grow a short beard for religious reasons. Read further […]
Source:CNN I Report via Bushra Mahmood Je ne suis pas Charlie. I am Muslim, and I am hurt. Dear terrorists, jihadists, extremists, Assalamo Alaikum (Peace be upon you) I greet you with the traditional Islamic greeting because the Prophet Muhammad (may the peace and blessings of God be upon him) […]
By Anees Ahmad Nadeem, National President Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Japan The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Japan condemns the barbaric acts of ISIS and hostage of 2 Japanese citizens Ahmadiyya at Japan are […]
Source:LBC via Bushra Mahmood The leader of the world’s largest organised Muslim community believes we should arm all police in Britain to stop Islamic extremists. More:
Editor’s note: Please locate a 5 minute, very recent video in CNN, about this issue. Does Christianity cause children to die, like Islam promotes terrorism? It is a rhetorical question; […]
By Dean Obeidallah. Source: The Daily Beast What percentage of terror attacks in the United States and Europe are committed by Muslims? Guess. Nope. Guess again. And again… “Not all Muslims […]
edition.cnn.com: Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His most recent book is “Masters of Mankind.” His web site iswww.chomsky.info. The views expressed in this commentary are solely his. (CNN)After the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo, which killed 12 […]