WASHINGTON — President Obama is facing opposition from fellow Democrats to one of his top priorities: winning the power to negotiate international trade agreements and speed them through Congress. As Mr. Obama’s team works privately to line up support for the so-called trade promotion authority, a coalition of Democratic lawmakers […]
The pope was not present at the screening but Jolie, who is a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and two of her children met him briefly afterwards, a spokesman said. Her husband Brad Pitt was not present. The pope was not present at the […]
Press tv 1/9/2015 1:15:32 PM Edited by Rasha Mohamed: Speaking to Press TV, Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar al-Ja’afari said the Western support for terrorism in Syria has […]
A Postcard From Paris By Jason Stanley January 8, 2015 9:45 am January 8, 2015 9:45 am NYTimes.com Photo ParisCredit Ian Langsdon/European Pressphoto Agency The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless. I arrived in Paris yesterday, scheduled to give a […]
almost fearless: by Cristine Gilbert — I posted about the attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo on Facebook and offered my condolences to the victims and their families. I spent the next 24 hours moderating comments, at first arguing with people who were quoting the Qur’an, then wholesale deleting […]
Source: Times of India By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | Oct 2, 2012, 12.00 AM IST In Islam, blasphemy is a subject of intellectual discussion rather than a subject of physical […]
Published: 09 Jan 2015 11:44 GMT+01:00 The politician behind the successful campaign to ban the construction of new minarets in Switzerland is now calling for a ban on certain […]
Los Angeles Times: by Geoffrey Mohan — At the push of a button, the gurney holding Auriel Peterson slides slowly into the pale blue glow of a magnetic resonance imaging machine. Soon, all that’s visible are the shins of her black track pants and the chartreuse-and-white soles of her running […]
Constanze Letsch in Istanbul, Reyhanli and Kilis The Guardian, Thursday 25 December 2014 18.00 GMT Jump to comments (440) Refugees from Kobani watch the Syrian town during fighting between Isis and peshmerga forces. Photograph: Yannis Behrakis/Reuters Muhammad no longer recognises his country. The 35-year-old former teacher from Idlib province says […]
NEW DELHI: Cow urine may soon be used to clean the floors of India’s government offices in a country where bovines are sacred and their bodily waste considered therapeutic and […]
Members of the French technical and scientific police work at the site near a mosque in the Sablons neighborhood of Le Mans, western France, on Thursday, after shots were fired and three blank grenades were thrown at the mosque shortly after midnight, leaving no casualties. (AFP PHOTO / JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER) […]
Michael Young| The Daily Star Earlier this week, Khaled Khoja, the new head of the Syria opposition in exile, rejected a Russian proposal to attend talks in Moscow to end the Syrian conflict. Khoja was right to doubt Russian intentions, but officials in Moscow are probably thinking in very different […]
ANKARA — The world is losing its ability to prevent conflicts and the lack of “effective leadership” has led to the worst displacement situation since World War II, the UN refugee chief warned Tuesday. Antonio Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said in Ankara that the twin crises in […]
Charlie Hebdo manhunt latest: What we do and do not know Posted 10 hours ago by Dina Rickman and Evan Bartlett in news Police search for the Charlie Hebdo attack suspects in the Aisne region of France on Thursday Latest updates Both AFP and Reuters have cited police sources as saying gunfire heard […]
Washington Post: As they went on their rampage, the men who killed 12 people in Paris this week yelled that they had “avenged the prophet.” They follow in the path […]
Dawn: ISLAMABAD: A video message by students of Jamia Hafsa, in which they invited Islamic State (IS) chief Abu Bakar al-Baghdadi to ‘avenge’ the 2007 military raid on Lal Masjid, has been termed as “waging war” against the state. A report by the Islamabad police, sent to the interior ministry, […]
Source: The Guardian By Ed Husain Today’s fanatics are blind to the compassion and care in the prophet’s life. Their ignorance must be tackled head on. The killing of journalists in […]
Source: New York Times By Ross Douthat In the wake of the vicious murders at the offices of the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo today, let me offer three tentative premises about blasphemy in a free society. 1) The right to blaspheme (and otherwise give offense) is essential to the […]
Nicholas Kristof JAN. 7, 2015, NYTimes The French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo skewers people of all faiths and backgrounds. One cartoon showed rolls of toilet paper marked “Bible,” “Torah” and “Quran,” and the explanation: “In the toilet, all religions.” Yet when masked gunmen stormed Charlie Hebdo’s offices in Paris on […]