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Photo Credit: Instagram / Joann Sfar By EDWARD B. COLBY A French cartoonist has responded to the carnage in Paris with a cartoon asking his global friends not to pray for the City of Light — but instead to promote the message #ParisisaboutLife. As news of the terror attacks spread Friday night, former Charlie Hebdo …
PHOTOGRAPH BY ELYXANDRO CEGARRA/ANADOLU AGENCY/GETTY IMAGES BY ROBIN WRIGHT The jihad by Muslim extremists against the West began at 1:05 P.M. on April 18, 1983, when a dark delivery van made a sharp left turn onto the cobblestone drive of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. Instead of parking, the vanâladen with explosivesâaccelerated, and rammed into …
The attacks on Paris are blamed in good part on alienated young Muslims born or raised in France and other European countries.How best can societies in Europe and the rest of the West combat these terrorists and the circumstances that helped produce them? Our favorite answer will win a copy of âAn Appetite for …
By Dario Borghino Practical quantum computers are still years away, but lately the pace of research seems to have picked up. After building the basic blocks of a quantum computer in silicon and storing quantum information for up to 30 seconds, scientists at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have now violated a principle …
IAN MCEWAN, the award-winning British novelist, is the author of The Child in Time (winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, 1987), Amsterdam (winner of the Booker Prize, 1998), Atonement, Sweet Tooth, and The Children Act. He lives in London. ED. NOTE: Ian McEwan, who is living in France this month, sent the …
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Nov 11, 2015 Faisal Saeed Al-Mutar, human rights activist, joins Dave Rubin to talk about opening closed societies and crowdsourcing human rights. This is part of a longer interview with Faisal about human rights, the middle east, Islamophobia and more. ***Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=RubinReport Stay tuned for more clips coming today 11/11, tomorrow 11/12, and the full episode on Friday …
– Richard Dawkins publica âBrief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Scienceâ, el segundo volumen de sus memorias. – Reseña del libro y entrevista con el autor. Por Luis MartĂn âBrief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Scienceâ (Bantam Press, 2015), el Ășltimo libro del eminente etĂłlogo, zoĂłlogo y biĂłlogo evolucionista Richard Dawkins, …
Cheri Spivey holds a photo of her son Nick Ellison, who died from taking drugs shortly after leaving Teen Challenge, a Christian substance abuse program. Credit Mike Belleme for The New York Times By MICHAEL CORKERY and JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG A few months before he took a toxic mix of drugs and died on a strangerâs …
By Rama Lakshmi YADAVNAGAR, India â Dozens of men spread across the moonlit farm, hiding behind trees and wielding long-handled machetes and hockey sticks. They are devout Hindus, ready to fight for their religion. They are lying in wait for smugglersâ trucks carrying cows. âI am a Hindu. It is my duty to protect the …
By NIDA NAJAR and JULFIKAR ALI MANIK NEW DELHI â The Islamic State, in statements attributed to it, claimed responsibility for an attack near the Bangladeshi capital that left one police officer dead and another wounded, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist activity online. The attack took place Wednesday morning at a …
By Tahmima Anam Over the last few weeks, the body count of intolerance has been unbearably high in Bangladesh. It started when an Italian aid worker named Cesare Tavella was shot to death in the capital, Dhaka, at the end of September. Days later, a Japanese man by the name of Konio Hoshi was gunned down …