Summary Rami G. Khouri, The Daily Star, Lebanon It is exasperating to listen to American officials pontificate about events in the Middle East and offer what sounds like reasonable proposals to resolve the area’s problems, when those same officials and the entire political power structure they represent refuse to acknowledge […]
Summary Iraq’s central government in Baghdad must give up much of its authority to local power centers — and potentially permit the creation of an autonomous Sunni Muslim region — […]
The US Senate Intelligence Committee has published its highly anticipated and divisive report into the CIA’s detention and interrogation programme employed after the September 11 attacks. Only the executive summary of the 6,700-page classified report has been published, including its 20 findings. The 20 conclusions are presented below, including particularly […]
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Another police killing of an unarmed man of color. Another grand jury deciding not to indict: Not for murder. Not for manslaughter. Not for assault. Not even for reckless endangerment. We live in a land of impunity. At least, for those in power. This […]
A 60-year-old Muslim woman was seriously injured after being attacked at a bank in Vienna, in an incident which appears to have been motivated by Islamophobia. Pensioner Selver S. was waiting in a queue to collect her pension at a Bawag bank branch in Schönbrunner Strasse (Meidling) when a man […]
316. Commandment – Eat and drink of what Allah has provided [2:61] And remember the time when Moses prayed for water for his people, and We said: ‘Strike the rock with thy rod,’ and there gushed forth from it twelve springs, so that every tribe knew their drinking place. ‘Eat […]
Ryan Dagur, Jakarta Indonesia December 8, 2014 Human rights activists said Monday they will be pushing President Joko Widodo to find a solution to the Ahmadiyya refugee situation during a […]
Epigraph: Now, when you meet in war those who are bent on denying the truth, smite their necks until you overcome them fully, and then tighten their bonds; but thereafter […]
http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/us/2014/12/09/ath-feinstein-senate-floor-cia-torture-report.cnn Washington (CNN) — The CIA’s harsh interrogations of terrorist detainees during the Bush era didn’t work, were more brutal than previously revealed and delivered no “ticking time bomb” information that […]
By Markus Feldenkirchen and Holger Stark SPIEGEL.DE On the evening after the city burned, a man in a black leather jacket and white clerical collar is standing on the streets […]
By Hasnain Kazim spiegel.de On the day Hanif Masih is to be freed after spending half of his life as a slave, the 28 year old rubs olive oil into […]
Source: NY Times: The long-delayed report, which took five years to produce and is based on more than six million internal agency documents, is a sweeping indictment of the C.I.A.’s operation and oversight of a program carried out by agency officials and contractors in secret prisons around the world in […]
De-Radicalising the Muslim Diaspora in the West By Taj Hashmi December 07, 2014 SEVERAL Bangladeshi-British youths have recently been indicted in Britain for their alleged links with the ISIS. Twenty-year-old Mahdi Hassan — whose parents had migrated from Bangladesh — was one of the six former students of […]
Both houses of parliament have voted to ban the al-Qaeda and Islamic State terror groups in Switzerland. The House of Representatives followed the Senate’s lead on Monday and voted 184 to 0 in favour of the ban. It prohibits participating in or supplying the banned organisations as well as distributing […]
Epigraph: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of […]
Source: Daily Times: One cannot resist speculating whether the US-Saudi oil alliance is intentional or a convenience of interests. If it is explicit, then clearly this alliance is trying to instill an economic collapse upon Moscow and Tehran, almost similar to what the US and Saudis did to the leaders […]
Source: The Daily Beast: Question 5: Is it permissible to have intercourse with a female captive immediately after taking possession [of her]? If she is a virgin, he [her master] can have intercourse with her immediately after taking possession of her. However, is she isn’t, her uterus must be purified […]
Source. UCA News It might be a little, but not too late, to finally see some prominent Malays speak up against the national discourse on race and religion that has been going pear-shaped recently. Twenty-five of them, retired top civil servants and personalities that helped Malaysia to punch above its […]
Source: UCA News.Com While some activists feel that the best regulation of religion is the least regulation of religion, this is not the policy of most states. Most states, including most democracies, are heavily involved in the management of religion. These democracies manage to synthesize their commitments to individual human […]
Disgruntled customer throws snake at Tim Hortons employee who refuses to dice his onions Postmedia News | December 8, 2014 2:40 PM ET More from Postmedia News Charles Hamilton / Postmedia NewsAfter a dispute over diced onions on a breakfast sandwich, two men threw a garter snake over a counter towards […]