Belgium raised the alert status for its capital Brussels to the highest level on Saturday, shutting the metro and warning the public to avoid crowds because of a “serious and imminent” threat of an attack by Muslim radicals. The advice for the European population is to avoid places where a lot of people come together […]
Rescuers believe they have found the plane on the sea floor off Borneo, after sonar detected a large, dark object beneath waters near where debris and bodies were found on the surface. Ships and planes had been scouring the Java Sea for Flight QZ8501 since Sunday, when it lost contact during bad weather about 40 […]
Indonesia air traffic control lost contact with AirAsia flight QZ8501 bound for Singapore from the Indonesian city of Surabaya on Sunday morning. Search and rescue operations have begun, AirAsia Indonesia said in its Facebook page. Passengers on board the Airbus A380-200 include 130 adults, 24 children and one infant, according to Indonesia media reports. “At […]
by Elad Benari Following last week’s midterm elections in the United States in which his Democratic party lost its majority in the House of Representatives, President Barack Obama seems to be once again reaching out to the Muslim community. In a speech he gave on Wednesday during his official visit to Indonesia, Obama emphasized that […]
Michelle Obama managed to show respect to her Muslim hosts when she visited a mosque on her tour of Indonesia wearing Islamic head dress. The First Lady covered her hair with a beige animal-print scarf as she toured Jakarta’s Istiqlal Mosque, the largest in southeast Asia. Along the way, the mosque’s imam showed them a […]
Poll held before Ground Zero mosque furore finds 18% of people believe US president is Muslim, not Christian
