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Sharia Law Comes To Walmart, According To Allen West
Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks) | – “”Fox News contributor Allen West went to Walmart and thought he was the victim of “Sharia law” […]
As ISIL takes Ramadi: America’s Hydra Problem in the Middle East
By Inge Fryklund | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | — In the Greek myth, Heracles battles the Hydra — a multi-headed reptilian monster that was […]
Illegal Israeli Squatters uproot hundreds of Palestinian olive trees near Hebron
HEBRON (Ma’an) – Israeli settlers destroyed and uprooted hundreds of olive saplings in the Palestinian town of al-Shuyoukh northeast of Hebron in the southern West […]
Death Sentence for Morsi: Egypt’s Junta takes another step toward being N. Korea
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – That the only freely elected president Egypt has ever known has been sentenced to death is only […]
Floating Graveyard: 6000 Migrants, incl. Rohingya Muslims, Marooned in SE Asia Seas
By Kanya D’Almeida | — UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – On Thursday, May 14, a group of journalists rented a boat from Ko Lipe, a small […]
A Journalist Journeys to the Heart of the Quran (Muslim Scripture)
By JOSEPH RICHARD PREVILLE and JULIE POUCHER HARBIN for ISLAMiCommentary : Carla Power Great journalists invite us to be companions with them on their journeys […]
Palestinian Christians, under Pressure, Honored by Pres. Abbas as they welcome New Saints
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — In the run up to Pope Francis’ canonization of two Palestinian nuns, President Mahmoud Abbas praises Palestinian Christians for the “distinctive dimension” […]
Syria: Roman Palmyra Monuments in danger as ISIL Fighters Near
BBC News | Video | – “Islamic State militants move to within a few miles of one of the world’s oldest and most important archaeological […]
Cole: Iraq’s Ramadi falls to ISIL as Shiite Gov’t refuses to Arm Sunni Tribes
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) The Times of Baghdad (al-Zaman) reports that fighters of the Daesh (ISIL, ISIS) terrorist group raised their black flags […]