Source: The Jerusalem Post Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein promised at a ceremony opening the Knesset’s renovated synagogue on Monday that it would soon feature a “beautiful women’s section.” At the […]
Source: Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police chief Charlie Beck says President-elect Donald Trump’s vows to deport millions after taking office will not affect his department’s longstanding […]
Source: Associated Press By RACHEL ZOLL BALTIMORE (AP) — The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops on Monday urged President-elect Donald Trump to adopt humane policies toward immigrants and refugees, as church […]
Source: CNN By Azadeh Ansari, CNN (CNN)The latest FBI annual hate crime report shows a sharp spike in the number of hate crimes nationwide, with attacks against Muslims increasing the most sharply. In one year, anti-Muslim hate crimes in the United States rose 67%, from 154 incidents in 2014 to […]
Source: BBC By David Robson 15 November 2016 It was the early 1890s, and Ernest Hankin was studying cholera outbreaks along the banks of the Ganges. As the locals dumped their dead in the holy water, the river should have quickly transformed into a poisonous spring of the disease, with […]
Source: Time By Josh Sanburn New study shows murder rate spike after law was implemented Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law, which gives widespread legal immunity to people who use lethal force in self-defense, may be responsible for an increase in homicides in the state, according to a new studyreleased Monday. Since […]
Source: Time By Aryn Baker / Thessaloniki As winter approaches, blankets and warm clothes are not enough for the 50,000 refugees in Greece awaiting resettlement in Europe Correction appended, Nov. 15 Camp residents heard the screaming before the acrid scent of burning plastic and polyester wafted through the abandoned factory. Once […]
Source: RNS By Lauren Markoe (RNS) The day after President-elect Donald Trump appointed a man accused of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as his chief strategist, two of the nation’s largest Jewish and […]
Source: Time By Kate Samuelson “The organization brings Islamic jihadists together under the pretext of the harmless distribution of the Quran” An Islamist organization that distributes German-language copies of the Quran to passers-by has been banned by the German government who accused it of recruiting would-be jihadists to fight in Syria […]
Source: BBC By Dave Seminara 8 November 2016 For travellers accustomed to picking up at the drop of a hat and jetting off to Rio or Riyadh without a care […]
Source: BBC Russia’s Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev has been accused of taking a bribe to endorse a state takeover. Russia’s main anti-corruption body, the Investigative Committee (SK), said he received a payment of $2m (£1.6m). Mr Ulyukayev is the highest-ranking Russian official held since the 1991 coup attempt in what […]
Source: The New York Times By SALMAN MASOOD ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A powerful bomb blast ripped through a Sufi shrine in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday evening, killing at least 52 people and wounding at least 100 others, officials said. The bombing, believed to have been carried out by a suicide […]
Source: the Washington Post By Sudarsan Raghavan November 13 at 5:39 PM An Egyptian Coptic Christian woman sits in the rubble of a makeshift chapel that was torched a few […]
Source: Detroit Free Press Ann Arbor police are looking for a man who demanded that a University of Michigan student remove her hijab, a headscarf often worn by Muslim women, or be set on fire with a lighter. The woman complied, according to a crime alert from the university’s division of […]
Source: The New York Times By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN MINNEAPOLIS — Emma Blom grew up in the Scandinavian heartland of rural Minnesota, reliably attending her small town’s Lutheran church. She […]
Source: Bloomberg By Susan Decker @sudecker1 President-Elect Donald Trump said the issue of marriage equality in the U.S. is settled Supreme Court law and he’s “fine with that,” yet pledged to support overturning the 1973 high court decision that a woman has a right to choose to have an abortion. Speaking […]
Source: News18 Dhaka: Muslim-majority Bangladesh will drop Islam as the country’s state religion “when the time comes”, a media report on Monday quoted a senior ruling Awami Leage leader as saying. […]
Source: Time By Alice Park Over-the-counter and prescription drugs that control inflammation, like Advil, Aleve and Motrin, are among the most popular drugs people take. Without a prescription, they can relieve short-term pain from backaches and headaches, and at higher doses can reduce the inflammation behind chronic conditions like osteoarthritis or […]
Suggested Reading by the Muslim Times Alcohol: moderate use a gateway to alcoholism Alcohol kills one person every 10 seconds worldwide: WHO The Truth About What Alcohol Does to Your Heart Source: […]
Source: Time By Melissa Locker Bart Simpson made his feelings clear during the show’s opening credits The prognosticators who write for The Simpsons have proven themselves to be uncannily accurate about […]