Beyond Belief: Why Australians don’t go to church, but call upon God in times of crisis
Source: ABC News By Chloe Brant Most Australians claim they believe in God or some kind of “higher power” and yet fewer than one in 10 of us attend church […]
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Zika Cases In U.S. Pregnant Women Near 300
Source: Time By Alexandra Sifferlin New numbers from federal officials reveals high numbers of pregnant women with Zika There are 279 pregnant women in the United States and in U.S. territories who have Zika, health officials announced on Friday. There are 157 women pregnant women with the virus in the continental […]
If a Bomb Brought Down EgyptAir 804, the War on Terror Is About to Change
Source: Time By Karl Vick While the cause of the crash is still unknown, the possibility of terrorism looms large First, the caveats: No hard evidence of a bomb has […]
Almost half of all heart attacks are ‘silent’
Source: CNN By Nadia Kounang, CNN (CNN)Every 43 seconds, an American has a heart attack. Most people immediately recognize chest pain as a symptom of heart attack, but only 27% […]
Meet Jewish America’s first ambassador to Muslims
Source: RNS By Lauren Markoe (RNS) Bob Silverman, a Jew who spent most of his diplomatic career in Muslim-majority nations, will now reach out to Muslims in his own country. […]
Watch Muslim kids read letters from Japanese internment camp survivors
Source: Los Angeles Times By Sonali Kohli The Japanese American children who spent years in World War II internment camps were hopeful. Some thought racial discrimination would end after the […]
Study Calls On Obama to Withdraw Legal Memo That Allows Faith-based Charities to Discriminate
Source: Pro Publica The paper published by Columbia University is signed by a coalition of 15 prominent legal scholars across the country. by Sarah Smith ProPublica, May 10, 2016, 8 a.m. The Obama administration has roundly criticized states such as North Carolina and Mississippi for passing laws that allow discrimination […]
University of Miami Establishes Chair for Study of Atheism
Source: The New York Times By LAURIE GOODSTEIN With an increasing number of Americans leaving religion behind, theUniversity of Miami has received a donation in late April from a wealthy […]
Modest Muslim Clothing Store Hopes To Cater To People Of All Faiths
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor Muslim fashion bloggers and designers have been making an impact in the online fashion world for years. Now, one exclusively online modest fashion company is taking a big leap of faith by opening a brick-and-mortar store in Florida. Verona Collection, a company that designs […]
India records its hottest day ever
Source: BBC A city in India’s Rajasthan state has broken the country’s temperature records after registering 51C, the highest since records began, the weather office says. The new record in […]
Egyptian Army Says It Has Found Debris From Missing Flight MS 804
Source: Time BY Simon Lewis The Egyptian army says it has discovered debris it believes is from EgyptAir Flight MS 804, whichwent missingfrom radar screens in the early hours Thursday. The […]
What Science Says About the Bathroom Debate
Source: Time By Jeffrey Kluger Your genes don’t care who you share a bathroom with, but your politicians do Want to see a living experiment in what happens when traditional gender […]
Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump Is Not Qualified to Be President
Source: Time By Daniel White Hillary Clinton said Thursday that presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump’s “divisive and dangerous”behavior is a telltale sign that he’s not qualified to be president. Speaking with CNN on Thursday, the Democratic front-runner went on the offensive against Trump, who has gone after her — and her […]
Waleed Aly and Sadiq Khan: Role Models of Integration
Source Australasian Muslim Times by Zia Ahmad Zia Ahmad is the Managing Editor of the Australasian Muslim Times AMUST and is based in Sydney. Waleed Aly, the recipient […]
WHAT CAN THE U.S. LEARN FROM RADICALIZATION IN THE FRENCH-SPEAKING WORLD?
Source: The New Yorker By Benjamin Wallace-Wells Benjamin Wallace-Wells began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007, and joined the magazine as a staff writer in 2015. He writes mainly […]
Headstones smashed in ‘sickening antisemitic act’ at Jewish cemetery
Source: The Guardian By Josh Halliday North of England correspondent Vandals have destroyed 14 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in Manchester, in what police called a sickening act of antisemitism. The […]
A Week of Terror Attacks in Baghdad That Killed Hundreds
Source: The New York Times By SARAH ALMUKHTAR Terrorists killed more than 200 people in a surge of bombings across Baghdad over the past week. The attacks, many of […]
‘His beliefs are total opposite’: Republican tries to block nominee from office because he is a Muslim
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer A Christian pastor in the nation’s third-most-populous county tried to stop a Muslim man from serving in the local Republican Party because of his religion. The massive jurisdiction of Harris County, Tex. — with 4 million residents in the city of Houston and its surroundings […]
Dying GOP Senator Apologizes to Muslims for Donald Trump
Source: The Daily Beast By Tim Mak Bob Bennett spent his last days letting Muslims know how sorry he was that an Islamophobe had become his party’s all-but-certain nominee. Former […]