Source: The Washington Post By Joe Davidson | Columnist Jumping into the fray over civil liberties vs. religious freedom, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission issued a report Wednesday that is sure to anger conservatives with this central finding: “Religious exemptions to the protections of civil rights based upon classifications such […]
Source: Daily News World-renowned Turkish pianist Fazıl Say was acquitted of blasphemy charges on Sept. 7, four years after being sentenced to a suspended jail term after sharing a post […]
Source: Reuters By Dmitry Solovyov | OSH, KYRGYZSTAN Whoever takes over the Central Asian state of Uzbekistan after its president’s death faces a challenge to keep a lid on Islamist […]
Source: Boston Globe By Jennette Barnes One in a series of occasional articles about Muslims in our suburbs. Mary Lahaj was a high school cheerleader in 1964 when the first […]
Source: The Washington Post By Michael Alison Chandler The U.S. Education Department announced it will begin collecting data this year about allegations of discrimination or bullying of students based on […]
Source: RNS By Emily McFarlan Miller (RNS) Talking about one’s faith doesn’t come naturally to a “Midwestern Methodist,” Hillary Clinton admitted. Then the Democratic presidential nominee spent a half-hour doing […]
Source: Time By Kate Samuelson The plotline on BBC’s The Archers is cited as the reason for a 17% annual increase in calls to Britain’s national domestic violence helpline A controversial […]
Source: Time By Ian Bremmer Angela Merkel and her center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) were trounced in regional elections this past weekend. It’s going to be that type of year for Merkel. Here are the 5 biggest risks that Merkel, the most important voice in any conversation about Europe’s future, faces […]
June 6, 2016 by Qasim Rashid 2 Comments by Labeeb Ahmed An incredible amount of controversy and interest has been generated regarding the refusal of two Muslim students in Therwil, Switzerland to shake hands with their female teacher, and the subsequent threat of a 5,000 dollar fine by Swiss […]
Source: Time By Justin Worland Self-driving vehicles promised to revolutionize the transportation industry. Automated cars could reshape every industry that relies on the automobile, from car manufacturing, to taxis, limousines and trucking. By taking human beings—who aren’t the drivers they think they are—out from behind the wheel, self-driving cars could also […]
Each bracelet carries a bar code readable by smartphone. It indicates the pilgrim’s identity, nationality, place of lodging in Mecca, as well as other information, the vice secretary of the ministry of hajj and umrah, Issa Rawas, told AFP. Close to two million pilgrims have converged on western Saudi Arabia […]
Reuters International SEP 9, 2016 – Muslim pilgrims pray during Friday prayers at the Grand mosque in Mecca September 9, 2016. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah (reuters_tickers) By Dahlia Nehme MECCA (Reuters) – Construction projects to expand capacity at Mecca’s Grand Mosque and other Islamic holy sites will be completed in about […]
Sep 08,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI Moments of sudden clarity in political developments can strike anywhere and at any time, as I experienced in relation to the Palestine-Israel conflict while riding the F-train subway from Brooklyn to Manhattan Tuesday morning. Three separate stories I read in the […]
Reuters International SEP 9, 2016 – Riot police detain a demonstrator during a protest against the suspension of teachers from classrooms over alleged links with Kurdish militants, in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Turkey, September 9, 2016. REUTERS/Sertac Kayar (reuters_tickers) By Umit Ozdal DIYARBAKIR (Reuters) – Turkish police detained dozens […]
Child refugees in Greece have missed 18 months of their education on average, with one in five never having been to school. But on one island, a Swiss organisation has […]
In Saudi Arabia itself, the government seems unable to cope with the crisis. The ‘Arab News’ says that 31,000 Saudi and other foreign workers have lodged complaints with the government’s labour […]
Source: Washington Post By Fareed Zakaria On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I was driving on the Long Island Expressway, heading out to a friend’s house to spend a […]
Source:pressahmadiyya.com The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is pleased to announce that on 6 September 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza […]
Huff Post: by Jennifer Bendery — Abid Qureshi would fill a seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. President Barack Obama WASHINGTON ― President Barack Obama made history on Tuesday by nominating the first Muslim person to the federal judiciary, Abid Qureshi. “I am pleased to […]
theguardian: by Niala Mohammad — A humiliating experience opened my eyes to discrimination that has become common in post-9/11 America under the pretext of safety and security My friend and I were removed from an American Airlines flight for requesting water and asking why we were still aboard an idling […]
The Muslim Times 