Prayer Room Delights Toronto Muslims

Prayer Room Delights Toronto Muslims OnIslam & Newspapers Monday, 11 February 2013 00:00 Toronto, Muslim, students, prayer A new prayer room was opened at Emmanuel College in Toronto last month to help Muslim students perform their prayers CAIRO – Enjoying a welcoming atmosphere, Muslim students at a Canadian university are […]

Syria rebels free 21 Filipino UN peacekeepers abducted in Golan Heights

Source: globalpost, by Allison Jackson. Twenty-one UN peacekeepers held hostage by Syrian rebels for four days have been freed. The Filipino peacekeepers arrived in Jordan from neighboring Syria on Saturday, Agence France-Presse reported,citing a Jordanian government spokesman and the Philippines ambassador in Amman. Rebels fighting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad abducted […]

On questioning the Jewish State

By JOSEPH LEVINE THE NEW YORK TIMES I was raised in a religious Jewish environment, and though we were not strongly Zionist, I always took it to be self-evident that “Israel has a right to exist.” Now anyone who has debated the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will have encountered this phrase often. […]