Egypt: Sinai bombing kills six policemen
BBC News: Six Egyptian policemen have been killed by a roadside bomb in the Sinai peninsula, the Egyptian interior ministry says. READ MORE…
Obama ‘to pledge troops for Ebola’
BBC News: US President Barack Obama is to announce plans on Tuesday to send 3,000 troops to Liberia to help fight the Ebola virus, US officials say. It is understood the US military will oversee building new treatment centres and help train medical staff. READ MORE…
Obama 'to pledge troops for Ebola'
BBC News: US President Barack Obama is to announce plans on Tuesday to send 3,000 troops to Liberia to help fight the Ebola virus, US officials say. It is understood the US military will oversee building new treatment centres and help train medical staff. READ MORE…
UK: The England That Is Forever Pakistan
Multiculturalism and Rape in Rotherham By SARFRAZ MANZOORSEPT. 15, 2014 NYtimes.com 2014/09/16 This story is included with an NYT Opinion subscription. Learn more » LONDON — A man recently came to visit the member of Parliament for Rotherham, Yorkshire, and he had a question. Now in his late 50s, he […]
Scotland and England are historical enemies
Source: Stratfor: Scotland and England are historical enemies. Their sense of competing nationhoods stretches back centuries, and their occupation of the same island has caused them to fight many wars. Historically they have distrusted each other, and each has given the other good reason for the distrust. The national question […]
‘War Is Madness’: Pope Francis Warns Against Third World War
Source: huffingtonpost.com REDIPUGLIA, Italy (AP) — Pope Francis urged the world Saturday to shed its apathy in the face of what he characterizes as a third world war, intoning “war is […]
'War Is Madness': Pope Francis Warns Against Third World War
Source: huffingtonpost.com REDIPUGLIA, Italy (AP) — Pope Francis urged the world Saturday to shed its apathy in the face of what he characterizes as a third world war, intoning “war is […]
Ghana: Muslims Urged To Put Their Faith Above Any Other Thing
Source: spyghana.com Let us desire to show our devotion to Allah first, for our time on this earth is short and let us feel the urgency to win Allah’s pleasures by […]
PIA suspends staff over flight delay after Rehman Malik video goes viral
Source: ET KARACHI: Two Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) employees were suspended on Tuesday after videos of former interior minister Rehman Malik and a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) lawmaker being offloaded by fuming passengers went viral on social media. In the videos recorded via mobile phones, the lawmakers appeared to be the reason […]
Swiss universities top in mainland Europe
Switzerland’s federal technology institutes ETH Zurich and EPFL rank in the top 20 universities worldwide with the ETHZ coming in top in mainland Europe, according to the latest edition of the QS World University Rankings. Overall, the Swiss technology institutes’ rankings (12th for ETH Zurich and 17th for EPFL) put […]
ISIS Draws a Steady Stream of Recruits From Turkey
By CEYLAN YEGINSU SEPT. 15, 2014 THE NEW YORK TIMES ANKARA, Turkey — Having spent most of his youth as a drug addict in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Turkey’s capital, Can did not think he had much to lose when he was smuggled into Syria with 10 of […]
Another war to rearrange the ME
RAMZY BAROUD ARABNEWS.COM Published — Tuesday 16 September 2014 A few months ago, not many Americans, in fact Europeans as well, knew that a Yezidi community in fact existed in northwest Iraq. Even in the Middle East itself, the Yezidis and their way of life have been an enigma, shrouded […]
The Invention of the Land of Israel by Shlomo Sand – review In this second volume of his trilogy of Jewish studies, Sand explores how the ‘Land of Israel’ was invented, and debunks popular nationalist mythology
In 2009, Shlomo Sand published The Invention of the Jewish People, in which he claimed that Jews have little in common with each other. They had no common “ethnic” lineage […]
The Invention of the Land of Israel by Shlomo Sand – review In this second volume of his trilogy of Jewish studies, Sand explores how the 'Land of Israel' was invented, and debunks popular nationalist mythology
In 2009, Shlomo Sand published The Invention of the Jewish People, in which he claimed that Jews have little in common with each other. They had no common “ethnic” lineage […]
How historian Shlomo Sand “stopped being a Jew”
Rod Such – The Electronic Intifada 15 September 2014 “Is not the very fact of defining oneself as a Jew within the State of Israel an act of affiliation to […]
How historian Shlomo Sand "stopped being a Jew"
Rod Such – The Electronic Intifada 15 September 2014 “Is not the very fact of defining oneself as a Jew within the State of Israel an act of affiliation to […]
Son Of Hamas’ Founder Fed Information To Israel For 10 Years
Huff Post: For nearly 10 years, Israel had a top informant in one of the most unlikely places — the family of one of the co-founders of the Palestinian organization Hamas. Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, worked with agents from Israel’s intelligence agency Shin […]
Son Of Hamas' Founder Fed Information To Israel For 10 Years
Huff Post: For nearly 10 years, Israel had a top informant in one of the most unlikely places — the family of one of the co-founders of the Palestinian organization Hamas. Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, worked with agents from Israel’s intelligence agency Shin […]
Pope Francis’ new clothes: Why his progressive image is white smoke and mirrors
THE IMAGE OF Pope Francis is that he is a breath of fresh air, more progressive on social issues than his predecessor and a kinder, gentler pope. But when the facts are […]
The Key to Defeating ISIS: Ahmadiyya Islam
The Muslim Times’ has changed the title slightly and added pictures. Source: The Huffington Post By Qasim Rashid Esq. While President Obama reveals his plan to obliterate ISIS with force, […]