Ahmadis in West Java Fear They’re Next

The Ahmadiyah community in Cianjur, West Java, is airing fears of violence and retaliation after a court in Banten recently jailed 12 men for an attack there that left three members of the minority Muslim sect dead………. Firdaus Mubarik, a spokesman for the Indonesian Ahmadiyah Congregation (JAI), said that Ahmadi […]

Hazards Lurk Between TV and Sofa

Source: The New York Times PARIS — Once, while watching a late-night rerun of “Big Brother 17,” or maybe it was “Big Brother 7,” a nearly finished pint of Häagen-Dazs on my lap, I wondered: Is this shortening my life? Now, thanks to a study by researchers in Australia, I […]