1. Human rights groups have concluded that coalition airstrikes led by Saudi Arabia fully supported by the U.S. have been indiscriminately bombing Yemen, causing thousands of civilian deaths. There is enough evidence by their conclusion, to charge the coalition members including the United States for war crimes. Saudi Arabia has....................

1. Pakistan’s Human Rights Commission, the country’s independent watch-dog organization for human rights violations, in its latest annual report has said nearly 1,100 women were killed in Pakistan last year by relatives who believed they had dishonored their families while 900 more women suffered sexual violence and nearly 800 more....................

Multi-pronged orders on border security and immigration enforcement including: the authorization of a U.S.-Mexico border wall; the stripping of federal grant money to sanctuary cities; hiring 5,000 more Border Patrol agents; ending “catchand-release” policies for illegal immigrants; and reinstating local and state immigration enforcement partnerships. He signed a notice that....................

Each terrorist attack tests anew the values of openness and tolerance essential to free societies. Stockholm became the scene of another such when a barreling truck was turned, yet again, into a deadly weapon. This time four were killed and 15 were injured. Though details are still being investigated, the....................

Though terrorism is not confined by a particular religion, ethnicity or geographic boundaries, it is a fact, Muslims have generously embraced it as a weapon to fight against their opponents with total disregard for human life. Not so long ago an Uzbek man in Sweden who was denied asylum and....................

Masood N. Khan M.D. There are three very important elements that are deliberately excluded in all the internationally recognized definitions of terrorism. A critical analysis of these definitions unmasks the flaws in how terrorism is defined to the unjust advantage of few. Muslims need to think and have an opinion....................

China and Russia have been pushing for an agreement that would freeze Pyongyang’s nuclear program, in exchange for a suspension of joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea. The United States has rejected the idea. American people have not been made aware by the media, of such....................

The large, anti-government protests in Iran that erupted in 80 cities, over an array of grievances, and gripped the country for more than a week in December and January involved among others a protest against the measures of modesty and dress code for women in society. Twentynine people, most of....................

Last year (2017) the Pew Research Center released a poll in which Americans were asked to rate different religious groups by the warmth of the feelings they inspired. This was a unique survey that used "feelings thermometer" on a scale of 1 to 100 to measure status of a religious....................

The Upshot, an analysis and graphics company that produces state of the art papers on politics, policies and everyday life, has recently published an exhaustive article in the New York Times, December 25, 2018 issue. Drawing your attention to the conclusions, that stress, exhaustion and guilt have marked the modern....................

In 2015, Britain recorded eight times as many hate crimes as the United States, which has five times as many people; that was 31 times the hate crimes reported in France and 88 times the total in Italy.

The Statistics: The Global Terrorism Database and preliminary data for the United States for 2018 has identified nearly 350 white extremist terrorism attacks in Europe, North America and Australia from 2011 to 2017. The database is a project of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorismans Responses to Terrorism....................

Taimur Tareen This is with regard to the Arabic word  ب ل و or بلاء (root) and its derivatives, used in Quran about 38 times. As per Dictionary of Holy Quran (ISBN: 0-9766972-8-2, it has been translated as, “to test, try, put to severe trial, prove, experiment (Is it ‘experience’....................