Source:CNN CNN)Japanese officials want to talk to ISIS. But can they get in touch with the militant group? And if they do, can they do anything to save the lives of two Japanese men being held hostage? Time is running out: ISIS put out a video Tuesday giving the Japanese […]
Source: Arab News: ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE: Pope Francis is firmly upholding church teaching banning contraception, but said Monday that Catholics don’t have to breed “like rabbits” and should instead practice “responsible parenting.” Speaking to reporters en route home from the Philippines, Francis said there are plenty of church-approved ways […]
Source NY Times: Key Democrats have reached agreement on a set of policies known as “inclusive capitalism”: a forceful market-oriented economic agenda intended to counter inequality, restrain the accrual of vast wealth at the top and provide the working and middle classes with improved economic opportunities. More:
Source:ABC News Shiite rebels in control of Yemen’s capital now hold the country’s president “captive” at his home, his aides said Wednesday, putting in question who actually rules the Arab world’s most-impoverished nation. Embattled Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi — a top U.S. ally in the war against al-Qaida in Yemen […]
Source: BBC Israeli police say they have shot a Palestinian man from the West Bank who stabbed at least 10 people in an attack on a bus in central Tel Aviv. More:
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) […]