Source: Time Negotiators from India came to international climate talks in Paris this month walking a tightrope. On the one hand, officials wanted to show that the world’s fourth-biggest carbon […]
Source: Time The young Iraqi asylum seeker Hind Almahdawi was nine-months pregnant when she arrived in Germany Hind Almahdawi was exhausted. She was about nine months pregnant and had just […]
Manal Omar Become a fanAssociate Vice-President, Middle East and Africa Center at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. As a Muslim, My Heart Freezes with Fear Posted: 12/10/2015 This is a defining moment for America. It can’t get much worse than this. Yet if anything has proven […]
Source: The Washington Post Do you see religious liberty as under threat in America? The debate over GOP candidates’ comments about Islam reveal how bitterly divided Americans are over how to view a basic right. For the last few years, several of the biggest and most influential religious groups have […]
Published December 10th, 2015 – 08:13 GMT via SyndiGate.info A file photo of Blackwater member surveying a city in 2005. (AFP/File) Follow > Blackwater Worldwide The chief of Blackwater mercenaries in Yemen has been killed in clashes with Houthi Ansarullah fighters and allied forces in the country’s southwest, reports say. […]
OVER 40,000 Ahmadi Muslims throughout the country will converge on Bagh-e-Ahmad, the Mission’s agricultural project site at Pomadze, near Winneba junction, in the Central Region on Thursday, January 7th to 20th – to begin their three days annual Jalsa Salana (Convention) The 8th annual national convention, themed “Tolerance and peaceful […]
Leader who quit Commonwealth in 2013 says Muslim-majority state will still respect others citizens’ faiths but he wants to shake off ‘colonial legacy’ President Yahya Jammeh, pictured, is looking to the Arab world for support to replace western aid funding to the Gambia, according to critic Sidi Sanneh. Photograph: Issouf […]
Ahmadi bookstore owner and manager arrested under blasphemy law Pakistani authorities have arrested two Ahmadi Muslim men for alleged Blasphemy. Bookstore owner Abul Shukoor and manager Mazhar Ahmad were arrested Wednesday, Dec. 2 from Ahmadiyya Book Depot in Rabwah. Both men were taken to an unknown location after their arrest. […]
Source: Huffington Post By Lynne Peeples; Environment and Public Health Reporter, The Huffington Post After two weeks of tense talks, word-wrangling and marathon overnight meetings, diplomats in Paris agreed to a global […]
The year was 1915, and the strange new newspaper in Aurora, Mo., had grown so quickly in its first four years that rail officials had to build extra tracks for all the paper and printing materials suddenly rolling into town. The Aurora post office, according to one account, more than […]
Source: Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — On the night of the California shootings, Asifa Quraishi-Landes sat on her couch, her face in her hands, and thought about what was […]
Source: CNN (CNN)Gunshots fired into a mosque in Connecticut. Armed men protesting the “Islamization of America” outside Islamic centers in Texas. Death threats called in to mosques in Florida, Maryland […]
Source: Politico Muslim Republicans fear Donald Trump’s escalating anti-Muslim rhetoric — capped this week by his call to block all Muslims’ entry into the country — could turn Muslims away […]
Source: Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate committee on Thursday rebuked Donald Trump by endorsing a measure that says barring individuals from entering the United States based on religion would be un-American. The Republican presidential front-runner has called for blocking Muslims from entering the country in the aftermath […]
By Shahid Parvez Badruddin, Sec. Dawat-ilallah, Bangalore Alhumdullilah Thumma Alhumdullilah, We had 3 full days of successful interactions with more than 180 intellectuals, academicians and Religious Leaders in Bangalore. To […]
Saudi Arabia, Dec 12: In a historic move in gender equality, Saudi Arabia has opened elections to female voters and candidates on Saturday. In fact, the move has broken the monarchy that curtails women to drive a car, wear anything else than Burqa and not allowing them to vote. Now, […]
Source: Syracuse.com Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s call for banning Muslims from entering the United States is “surprising and disheartening,” according to one Syracuse Muslim leader. “It goes against everything […]
Source: Time (TORONTO) — The first Canadian government plane carrying Syrian refugees arrived in Toronto late Thursday where they were greeted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is pushing forward […]
Source: Huffington Post Following Donald Trump‘s offensive comments toward Muslims, one elderly patient decided to show her Muslim doctor that she stands in solidarity with him. Fahim Rahim, a kidney […]
AP/dpa For years, a sense of disillusionment has been growing on the right. Now, the refugee crisis has magnified that frustration. Increasingly, people from the very center of society are identifying with the movement — even as political debate coarsens and violence increases. By SPIEGEL Staff Martin Bahrmann, a local […]
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