Published on Jul 20, 2014 Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit takes you inside the shadowy world of FBI informants and counterterrorism sting operations. Following the 9/11 attacks, the FBI set about to recruit a network of more than 15,000 informants. Al Jazeera’s investigative film tells the stories of three paid FBI […]
Fox News: Megyn Kelly tonight took on Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA spokesperson Harris Zafar over the conflict between Israel and Hamas. “The contention that the victims have themselves to blame for their indiscriminate targeted murder, is not only insensitive, it’s dangerous and myopic,” Zafar said about Hamas using civilians to […]
Fox News: Megyn Kelly tonight took on Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA spokesperson Harris Zafar over the conflict between Israel and Hamas. “The contention that the victims have themselves to blame for their indiscriminate targeted murder, is not only insensitive, it’s dangerous and myopic,” Zafar said about Hamas using civilians to […]
Former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden has asked a Swiss lawyer to explore the possibility of the United States fugitive coming to Switzerland. Snowden is currently holed up […]
Summary Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal Wednesday stuck firmly to Palestinian demands to end a blockade on Gaza in exchange for a truce, as international efforts to halt the violence made only slow progress. Meshaal said Hamas would accept a temporary truce to allow humanitarian relief into the battered coastal territory […]
Summary by Michael Young, Daily Star, Lebanon The war in Gaza continues while the outcome remains uncertain. The Israelis have portrayed the war as an effort to weaken Hamas, but everything they have done has strengthened the movement, after a period in which its popularity had dived domestically and its […]
WASHINGTON — More than 50 former Israeli soldiers have refused to serve in the nation’s reserve force, citing regret over their part in a military they said plays a central role in oppressing Palestinians, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. “We found that troops who operate in the occupied territories […]
by Khetam Malkawi | Agencies | Jul 23, 2014 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Wednesday called for an immediate ceasefire of the Israeli aggression in […]
The son of a poor wood seller is set to become president of the world’s third-largest democracy. Indonesia’s Election Commission on July 22 declared victory for Jokowi Widodo over rival Prabowo Subianto following a nationwide vote on July 9. “This victory is a victory for all the people of Indonesia,” […]
The son of a poor wood seller is set to become president of the world’s third-largest democracy. Indonesia’s Election Commission on July 22 declared victory for Jokowi Widodo over rival Prabowo Subianto following a nationwide vote on July 9. “This victory is a victory for all the people of Indonesia,” […]
Along with the “Trojan Horse” controversy about the imposition of a strict Islamic ethos on a number of Birmingham schools, the disclosure that several hundred Britons have been to Syria […]
By Qasim Rashid, Lawyer, Speaker, Best-Selling Author of “EXTREMIST The terrorist organization ISI S has set a new low standard of barbarity and inhumanity. Their most recent act of terrorism […]
By Qasim Rashid, Lawyer, Speaker, Best-Selling Author of “EXTREMIST The terrorist organization ISI S has set a new low standard of barbarity and inhumanity. Their most recent act of terrorism […]
UCA News: By Brian Regal is a fellow of the Kean University (N.J.) Center for History, Politics and Policy. A historian recalls that earlier scapegoats were Catholics Historians have a […]
Epigraph: He who follows the right way follows it only for the good of his own soul: and he who goes astray, goes astray only to his own loss. And […]
Jayalalithaa lays stress on Islam’s virtues Chief Minister and AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa at an Iftar party in Chennai on Monday. Photo: K.Pichumani The Hindu Chief Minister and AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa at an Iftar party in Chennai on Monday. Photo: K.Pichumani TOPICS India Tamil Nadu religion and belief islam […]
A new way of thinking about Islam TwoCircles.net By Usama Khalidi, A new Islam is rising in America largely under the media’s radar, which is routinely and profitably focused on the more competitively conservative, and violent, Islam of the Boko Haram of Nigeria, the Taliban of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and […]
Telegraph: It is a fact of American life that even though far fewer than half the adult population attend church on a weekly basis, atheism remains an outright taboo in many corners of the country. As we discovered on a reporting trip to Virginia earlier, non-belief is something that many Americans […]
Russia Today: The 30,000 residents of Yumen in China have been cut off from the rest of the country to prevent the potential spread of bubonic plague. Lockdown was declared in the city after a man died of the disease and 151 people have been put in quarantine. The city […]
Russia Today: Israel maybe committing war crimes in Gaza, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says. Speaking in Geneva, Navi Pillay said house demolitions and the killing of children […]