International Affairs

NAZARETH // A local authority in Israel has announced that it is establishing a special team of youth counsellors and psychologists whose job it will be to identify young Jewish women who are dating Arab men and “rescue” them. The move by the municipality of Petah Tikva, a city close to Tel Aviv, is the latest in a series of …

President Barack Obama who promised peace but prosecuting wars ??was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize almost nine months into the office and hardly any achievement to speak of. The Oslo based Nobel Committee chairman, Thorbjoern Jagland said that ?only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world?s attention and given its people hope for …

Mick Napier, Chair of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign 21 March 2008 A Palestinian killed eight Israeli students in a settler movement training centre, in retaliation for Israel’s massacre of over a hundred Gazans, mostly civilians. Hundreds of the seminary students later chanted “Death to the Arabs” at the gates of their seat of learning.[1] This was somehow missed by …

The last surviving member of Turkey’s Othman dynasty, Ertuğrul Osman Osmanoğlu, died at the age of 97 at a private hospital in Istanbul on Wednesday 23 September. He was laid to rest on Friday September 25 in the Istanbul garden of the tomb of his grand father Sultan Mahmud II. The emotional religious ceremony was attended by hundreds of thousands …

As Muslims in the United States and around the world complete the month of Ramadan and celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr, Michelle and I would like to extend our personal greetings on this joyous occasion. Eid is a time to celebrate the completion of 30 days and nights of devotion. But even on this festive occasion, Muslims remember those less fortunate, including those …

An Arab organization is to be put on trial in the Netherlands over its publication of a cartoon deemed offensive to Jews, prosecutors say. The cartoon, published by the Arab European League (AEL) on its website, questions the Holocaust. It said the decision to prosecute illustrated bias against Muslims. It said the same standards were not applied to the Dutch …