June, 2016

• 2 June

  First seed library sprouts in Palestine

  

  Project aims to preserve seeds of crops that once grew across historic Palestine, and to safeguard waning biodiversity. By Dalia Hatuqa Ramallah, occupied West Bank – A search for rare seeds may seem like something out of a fairytale, but for Vivien Sansour it is a quest to bring back what years of Israeli occupation practices and climate change have …

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• 1 June

  God’s love in the Quran – By AGA Barrie

  

  God’s love in the Quran My wife related an interesting incident she couldn’t help observing whilst travelling in the subway. An apparently Muslim lady wearinga hijab was standing  next to her seat holding on to the vertical steel support with one hand and reading sotto voce from a little book she held in the other.It did not take long for …

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• 1 June

  RCC – Relief Coordinating Center

  

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May, 2016

• 31 May

  Sweden stirs debate with women-only swimming, in nod to Muslims

  

  MODELS OF THOUGHT As Muslims become a larger part of Swedish society, some municipal pools are offering women-only swimming to accommodate the new arrivals. But while well intended, the new policy is bumping up against Swedish ideals of equality. By Elisabeth Braw, Correspondent MALMÖ, SWEDEN — On the face of it, the decision to offer special women's swimming hours at the …

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• 31 May

  The year the Democrats turned against Israel

  

  By Post Editorial Board Mark this as the year the Democratic Party turned decisively anti-Israel. The party’s ever-more-dominant liberal base has turned increasingly against the Jewish state — while Bernie Sanders is using his movement to push for Israel-bashing language in the platform. And Israel’s remaining Democratic friends are afraid to speak up. A new Pew Research Poll discloses that, …

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• 30 May

  How $100m Muslim centre is building bridges in the US amid Islamophobic climate

  

  By Samanth Subramanian PHILADELPHIA // Even as Republican presidential candidates create acrimony towards Muslims, a new US$100 million Islamic community centre – the largest in the United States – is trying to build stronger ties between people of different faiths. The Diyanet Centre of America, which was funded by Turkey’s religious directorate, will be inaugurated on Saturday by Turkish president Recep …

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• 30 May

  German bishop calls for Islam to be taught in all state schools

  

  By Rachael Pells Seven out of Germany's 16 federal states already include Islam in their reglious teaching The head of the German Protestant Church has called for Islam to be taught in all state schools in order to prevent young Muslims from being drawn into radicalisation.  Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, who leads the Evangelical Lutheran Church, said teaching “extensive” Islam classes …

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