Source: Patheos By Saideh Jamshidi To cover or not to cover, that’s the problem, but to whom? When Yves Saint Laurent co-founder Pierre Bergé recently advised fellow designers to have […]
Source: The Denver Post By Kirk Mitchell A federal jury trial began Monday in which JetStream Ground Services was accused of not allowing female Muslim employees to wear clothing required […]
Source: Time By Sam Frizell / Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Bernie Sanders doesn’t want to talk about the middle class right now. He wants to talk about the poor. The Vermont Senator on […]
Source: Time By Olivia B. Waxman Reasons range from “atheism” and “condones public displays of affection” The American Library Association (ALA) released its 2015 list of the 10 “most challenged” books on Monday. The ranking is based on 275 challenges, meaning “a formal, written complaint filed with a library or […]
Source: CNN By Brent Swails and David McKenzie, CNN Minawao refugee camp, Cameroon (CNN)The question was always the same, she says. So, too, was the answer. “They came to us […]
Source: The Guardian By Katie Allen and Anushka Asthana A British vote to leave the EU risks causing severe economic and political damage to Europe and will spill over into to weaken […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carolyn Gregoire Senior Writer, The Huffington Post If you just can’t ever seem to get up early for that morning workout, don’t be too hard on yourself. New research suggests that being an early riser is in some people’s DNA — and not in others’. The study, which […]
Source: Rawstory A Bangladeshi law student who posted against Islamism on his Facebook page has been murdered, police said Thursday, the latest in a series of killings of secular activists […]
Source: Time By Simon Shuster / Düsseldorf, Germany Programs to integrate Muslim communities may have helped Germany so far avoid the Islamist violence in neighboring France and Belgium During his lunch […]
Source: BBC Boko Haram’s use of child bombers has increased over the last year with one in five suicide attacks now done by children, the UN’s child agency says. Girls, […]
Khan took aim at Zac Goldsmith in Huff Post UK interview Source: Huffington Post By Owen Bennett Political Reporter Labour’s mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan has warned that his Tory rival’s negative […]
Source: Huffington Post By Umar Nasser Writer and medic The recent tragic murder of Ahmadi Muslim Asad Shah in Glasgow by another Muslim has brought much of the anti-Ahmadi prejudice latent […]
Source: BBC By Philip Ball The idea of parallel universes, once consigned to science fiction, is now becoming respectable among scientists – at least, among physicists, who have a tendency […]
Source: RNS By Lauren Markoe (RNS) The largest gathering of Muslim leaders in the world kicks off a five-day conference that will call for a new peace process to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Other weighty issues at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation summit include combatting extremism within Muslim nations, countering Islamophobia in the rest […]
Source: The Guardian By Roy Greenslade Ireland is the only country in the developed western world to have introduced a blasphemy law in the 21st century. The disgraceful law, passed in […]
Source: BBC By James Gallagher Health editor, BBC News website Some people appear to be born with ‘superhero DNA’ that cancels out genetic diseases like cystic fibrosis, say researchers. The […]
Source: Scientific American By Annick de Witt Over the last decade or so, the media have slowly but steadily fed the public information about the staggering impact of our meat-eating habits […]
Source: USA Today By Gregory Korte WASHINGTON — Public health officials said Monday they’ve learned a lot more about Zika since the White House asked Congress for $1.9 billion to combat the mosquito-borne […]
Source: The Guardian By Patrick Kingsley Fewer than 0.1% of Syrians in Turkey currently stand to gain the right to work under much-vaunted Turkish labour laws, undermining EU claims that the […]
Source: BBC By Vivien Cumming If climate change continues, we can expect a large rise in sea level this century, and it will only get worse in the centuries to […]