Moshe Ya’alon’s office refuses to elaborate after alluding to contact with terror group BY JUDAH ARI GROSS April 24, 2017, Former Israeli defense minister Moshe ‘Bogie’ Ya’alon speaks at the Hebrew University, on January 18, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90) WRITERS Judah Ari GrossJudah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel’s military […]
By AFP – Apr 24,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Twenty-three-year old Islam Maytat from Morocco poses for a photo with her children Maria (left) and Abdullah in the Kurdish-majority city […]
Roy Greenslade And why it’s also wrong to refer to ‘Muslims’ as if they are a single entity Tuesday 24 November 2015 There is an insistent call for Muslims to condemn Isis. (I’ll come back to that groupist description in a moment). The Sun’s leading article a week ago (17 […]
Gary Younge Gun deaths – intentional, accidental and self-inflicted – dwarf those related to terror. The talk is of secure borders but within the US many live in a state of fear ‘An American is at least twice as likely to be shot dead by a toddler than killed by […]
FACT CHECK By Geraldine Wong Sak Hoi FEB 2, 2017 Some campaigners claim that Islamist extremists could obtain the Swiss passport under a proposed facilitated naturalisation procedure, as this poster from the youth wing of the Swiss People’s Party in canton Schwyz shows. (jsvp-sz.ch) Misinformation has been a recurring feature […]
The Local news.austria@thelocal.com 13 January 2017 An undercover reporter who visited 35 asylum centres throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland says security is so bad that they risk fomenting terrorism as radicals can easily infiltrate them and convert vulnerable people to their cause. Investigative reporter and terrorism expert Shams Ul-Haq, 41, […]
Reuters International JAN 10, 2017 – Immigrants are escorted by German police to a registration centre, after crossing the Austrian-German border in Wegscheid near Passau, Germany, October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Michael Dalder (reuters_tickers) BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s interior and justice ministers, representing the two blocs in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling […]
Brian Levin, Director, Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, from California State University San Bernardino, speaks to those gathered Friday afternoon December 23, 2016 during the 31st Annual West Coast Jalsa Salana held at the Islam Ahmadiyya Movement Inc. in Chino. The convention, which was attended by many […]
By AFP – Dec 22,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Libyan men guard the amphitheatre in the ancient Roman city of Leptis Magna in Al Khoms, 130 km east of the Libyan capital Tripoli, on Sunday (AFP photo) LEPTIS MAGNA, Libya — Ali Hribish stands by the Arch of Septimius […]
Suspect fired shots at worshippers at Zurich Islamic centre before fleeing scene, leaving victims seriously wounded. Switzerland, a country of some eight million people, reportedly has around 450,000 Muslims [EPA] A man burst into a Muslim prayer hall in the Swiss city of Zurich on Monday and started shooting, injuring […]
AFP/DPA/The Local news@thelocal.de 19 December 2016 Photo: DPA At least nine people have died and more than 50 were injured after a truck drove into a Christmas market in Berlin on Monday night. We are shutting down the live updates for the evening. Here’s what we know so far: A […]
All civilians trapped in old castle freed — Momani By Rana Husseini – Dec 18,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Ambulances are seen in front of the Italian Hospital in Karak, where some of the injured in a terror attack were evacuated on Sunday (Reuters photo) AMMAN — Four terrorists […]
There was a period in 2011 and 2012 when there were genuinely independent opposition activists operating inside Syria, but as the jihadis took over these brave people were forced to flee abroad, fell silent or were dead Patrick Cockburn @indyworld It has just become more dangerous to be a foreign […]
There’s nothing of their city left to go home to – but even if there was, those who fled the conflict still have reason to fear for their lives in Syria Isabel Hunter 8 hours ago 4 comments 16 The fight for Aleppo is all but over, and already voices are […]
By Rula Samain – Dec 01,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Peacemaking should be at the heart of the mindset working to counter the spread of violence in the Middle East and the world, participants said at a conference that concluded on Thursday. Unless peace becomes a mindset and […]
By Zoya Anwer November 29, 2016 After a crackdown on terrorists was launched in Karachi in September 2013, it has been difficult to spot graffiti or posters instigating hatred against religious minorities or sects. While most organisations are clever about it, some still openly run a hate campaign against […]
By AFP – Nov 22,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Iraqis, who were separated by the ongoing fighting, cry and hug their relatives as they meet after a long time, at the Khazir refugee camp near the Kurdish checkpoint of Aski Kalak, 40km west of Erbil, the capital of the autonomous […]
Source: Aljazeera By Christa Blackmon A media analyst and digital anthropologist. “ISIS is not Islam!” declared many Muslims on social media after the attack on the mosque holding the final resting place of the Prophet Muhammad in Medina during the holy month of Ramadan. Popular social justice figure and New York […]
Reuters International NOV 22, 2016 By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Nicola Benyahia’s teenage son slipped away one day to join the Islamic State in Syria, the frantic mother anguished over his disappearance for months while keeping it secret from her friends and most of […]
Reuters International NOV 14, 2016 – Members of the Taliban gather at the site of the execution of three men accused of murdering a couple during a robbery in Ghazni province, Afghanistan April 18, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo (reuters_tickers) By Ahmad Sultan and Omar Fahmy KABUL/CAIRO (Reuters) – From Afghanistan […]