Socialist Party to help expats become Swiss
File photo: Martin Abegglen Published: 02 Aug 2016 Members of Switzerland’s Socialist Party (SP) are volunteering to be “naturalization advisers” under a new campaign to help foreigners in the country […]
Frank Luntz: The Myth of the Undecided Voter
Source: Time By Frank Luntz A news analyst and contributor to CBS News and the Fox News Channel America’s most coveted voting bloc: the infamous “undecided” voter. If you listen carefully to […]
American Muslims Demand an Apology From Donald Trump
Source: Time By Roula Allouch Allouch is the national board chair of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Joe Raedle—Getty ImagesKhizr Khan, father of deceased U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, delivers remarks as he is joined by his wife Ghazala Khan at the Democratic National Convention on July 28, 2016. Republican presidential […]
US election: Donald Trump warns vote could be ‘rigged’
Source: BBC Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has suggested that the November election could be “rigged”. He told a rally in Columbus, Ohio, that he had heard “more and more” that the contest would be unfair. He offered no immediate evidence. At another event he called Democratic rival Hillary Clinton […]
Our weird lack of hair may be the key to our success
Source: BBC By Melissa Hogenboom Look closely at your friends, family and even strangers. Spot anything strange? Ignore any large noses or unusually-shaped brows. Instead, look at their hair – […]
Donald Trump’s Confrontation With Muslim Soldier’s Parents Emerges as Unexpected Flash Point
Source: The New York Times By ALEXANDER BURNS, MAGGIE HABERMAN and ASHLEY PARKER Donald J. Trump reeled on Sunday amid a sustained campaign of criticism by the parents of a […]
Muslim Community Takes A Page From African-American Churches To Get Out The Vote
Source: NPR By CHAS SISK After an election year filled with criticisms of the Muslim community, some mosques are urging their worshippers to vote. To do so, they’re borrowing a strategy used by African-American churches. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This campaign season has found Muslim-Americans caught in a harsh spotlight, but there’s […]
Kaine Highlights His Catholic Faith On The Trail — But Will It Sway Catholic Voters?
9h8 Source: NPR By SCOTT DETROW Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine has put his Jesuit upbringing front and center in the campaign, raising the question: What role will Catholic voters […]
Khizr Khan, and the moment American Muslims have been waiting for
Source: CNN By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor (CNN)The 2016 presidential campaign has not been easy on American Muslims. Donald Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, has proposed banning immigrants from […]
The Democratic convention’s most surprising argument: Christianity is a liberal religion
Source: Vox Updated by Todd VanDerWerff A lot of what seems inexplicable about Hillary Clinton often makes more sense when you realize her formative years in the public eye were […]
Permissible to have sex slaves in Islam: UK imam
Source: ET Ali Hammuda PHOTO: DAILY MAIL In a rather shocking claim, a British Muslim cleric has said it is ‘permissible’ under Islam to have sex slaves. Ali Hammuda, an imam at a Cardiff mosque, explained a series ofHadiths (sayings of Prophet Muhammad PBUH) saying one of them could be interpreted […]
Muslim women take on Donald Trump
Source: ET PHOTO: Reuters Refusing to stay silent, hundreds of Muslim women came forward on Monday in response to Donald Trump’s attacks on Ghazala Khan, the Gold Star mother of a Muslim-American soldier who died in Iraq. Trump remarked about Khan’s silence during her husband’s speech at the Democratic National Convention, […]
“Doesn’t he know that everything in China is fake?”
Source: ET “We had advanced our romantic relationship but later he seemed a little callous towards me,” Zhang told Hunan TV. “One day he sent me a photo of air tickets abruptly and I thought it was a joke. He didn’t contact me later.” Zhang went on to add that she was […]
Aid workers accused of trying to convert Muslim refugees at Greek camp
theguardian.com Greece: Christians working in Greece’s most notorious asylum detention centre have tried to convert some of the Muslim detainees, who have been held under the terms of the EU-Turkey migration deal. On at least two occasions in recent months, aid workers have distributed conversion forms inside copies of Arabic […]
Olympics: the Canadian women will run the world
Women are better represented among the country’s medal contenders – but even a man could be our darling It’s an even more tricky business trying to guess who will be the person who sticks in people’s minds. Prior to the 2014 Winter Games, it’s doubtful that more than a handful […]
Interfaith outreach
Source: Dawn IN times of tumult such as these, it takes sagacity and courage to rise above the clamour and appeal to people’s common humanity. In Europe, where the past few weeks have witnessed horrific violence, much of it perpetrated in the name of Islam, it was heartening to see […]
Democracy in Islam
Source: Dawn BOTH Islamists and Islamophobes find Islam and democracy incongruent. Some cite a verse that deprecates majority views. To call Islam anti-democracy by citing a brief verse non-contextually is odd. Even in democracy, small ruling groups usually make decisions. Majority only decides who rules. The mode of this decision […]
US Constitution sales soar after Trump challenge
Source.Dawn NEW YORK: Sales of pocket versions of the US Constitution have soared since the Pakistan-origin father of a fallen American soldier brandished a copy to denounce Donald Trump, igniting a major backlash against the Republican nominee. Khizr Khan, a Harvard-educated lawyer whose son died in a 2004 suicide bombing […]
9 ways the German language can’t let go of Judaism
Source: The Local For hundreds of years, Yiddish, a mix of medieval German and other languages, was the main language of the Ashkenazi Jews who lived on the Rhine River, before spreading across Europe.The Holocaust and the assimilation of Jews into wider Western cultures have had a devastating effect on the language. But […]
Jordan: where history meets adventure
Source: The Local Jordan has always captured the attention of adventurers. The ancient kingdom has been inhabited since before the Bronze Age, and helped shape the stories of Roman emperors, Lawrence of Arabia, and Moses just to name a few. More: