Black Lives Matter Is Not a Hate Group
Source: Time By J. Richard Cohen @splcenter J. Richard Cohen is president of the Southern Poverty Law Center Barbara Davidson—LA Times via Getty ImagesAll Lives Matter protesters come together for a […]
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Earth Just Experienced The Hottest June Ever Recorded
Source: Huffington Post Dominique Mosbergen Reporter, The Huffington Post The heat wave continues. Last month was the hottest June ever recorded, according to both NASA and the National Oceanic and […]
Pakistan To Pass Law Against Honor Killings In Weeks: PM’s Daughter
Source: Huffington Post ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s ruling party plans to pass long-delayed legislation against “honor killings” within weeks in the wake of the high-profile murder of an outspoken social […]
Turkish Authorities Closing Over 600 Private Schools After Failed Coup
Source: Time (ANKARA, Turkey) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says authorities are closing 626 private schools and other establishments following a failed coup attempt, blamed on followers of a U.S.-based Muslim cleric. Anadolu Agency says the decision was made Wednesday by the Education Ministry and that the schools were under […]
Why Some People Handle Stress Better Than Others
Source: Time By Mandy Oaklander @mandyoaklander Getty Images This part of the brain shows greater flexibility in people who cope better with stress A quick scan of any recent headline would […]
Fatwa No. 21,758: Saudi clerics ban Pokemon Go
Source: USA Today By Doug Stanglin, USATODAY Top clerics in Saudi Arabia have issued a fatwa banning the playing of Pokemon Go as a form of gambling. The decree was issued […]
Attack in Nice Turns Spotlight on City’s Religious Divisions
Source: The New York Times By ALISSA J. RUBIN NICE, France — There is the Nice of popular imagination, the old-world resort dotted with palm trees and cafes that look […]
Acts of Faith ‘God break racism!’ Evangelicals on D.C. Mall pray for hope and reconciliation
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer, Kirkland An and Michelle Boorstein Rappers and pastors, spoken word poets and authors appealed Saturday to thousands of evangelicals gathered around the Washington […]
US-based Turkish cleric denies involvement in coup plot
Source: Associated Press By CHRIS POST and MICHAEL RUBINKAM SAYLORSBURG, Pa. (AP) — An exiled Muslim cleric whom Turkey’s president has accused of orchestrating a failed coup denied any responsibility […]
Scholars Argue Prosecutions Against Muslim Liberals Don’t Follow Islamic Teachings
Source: NPR By Tom Gjelten Free-thinking bloggers in some Muslim countries face criminal prosecution and even death for expressing their ideas. There are Islamic scholars who say this is a distortion of what Islam teaches. LYNN NEARY, HOST: Some of the most deadly terrorist attacks have been Muslims killing Muslims. […]
Haitians trek to sacred waterfalls in Voodoo festival
Source: Associated Press SAUT D’EAU, Haiti (AP) — Some carrying candles or calabash bowls with offerings of goat meat, thousands of Haitians made a Saturday pilgrimage to bathe in sacred […]
‘This is what I’m meant to be doing’: the vicar welcoming Muslims to church
Source: The Guardian By Nazia Parveen The congregation of St Mark’s church in Stoke-on-Trent are in tears. The old walls are amplifying a booming version of the traditional Christian hymn […]
Donald Trump’s 6 Most Revealing Quotes From TIME’s New Cover Story
Source: Time By Katie Reilly “I’m the exact opposite of a fast trigger” In a new interview featured in TIME’s latest issue, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump discussed his oft-criticized […]
India outrage after gang rape victim assaulted again ‘by same men’
Source: BBC There has been outrage in India after a student was allegedly gang-raped by five men who had also raped her three years ago. Police are yet to make […]
Baton Rouge shootings: Gunman’s videos show anger at police
Source: BBC The man identified as the killer of three US police officers in Baton Rouge had posted videos complaining at police treatment of African Americans and urging them to […]
Nice attack: The struggle to stop radicalisation
Source: BBC France is still struggling to understand what motivated the man who carried out Thurday’s lorry attack in Nice – which left more than 80 people dead. The […]
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Logic Does Not Explain Nice Attack—Or Jihad
Source: Time BY Bernard-Henri Lévy Lévy is a French author and philosopher Terrorist or psychopath? As if we had to choose one or the other. As if all terrorists were not (and have not always been) psychopaths. As if the Nazi henchmen of the 1920s and ‘30s, the Hitlerian paramilitary squads […]
After Failed Coup a Vengeful Recep Tayyip Erdogan Has Turkey’s Future in His Hands
Source: Time By Jared Malsin/Istanbul ‘The ball is in the court of the government’ Over the last several years, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has survived massive protests, tumult within his […]
All 300,000 Bangladesh mosques urged to give sermon against extremism
Source: BBC All 300,000 mosques in Bangladesh have been asked give a sermon against terrorism and extremism in their Friday prayers this week. The sermon, written by the state-run Islamic […]
Turkey coup arrests hit 6,000 as Erdogan roots out ‘virus’
Source: BBC Turkey has arrested 6,000 people after a failed coup, with President Erdogan vowing to purge state bodies of the “virus” that caused the revolt. Mr Erdogan’s top military […]