Source: LA times An arson attack that took place over the weekend at a Central Valley mosque is being investigated as a possible hate crime, a law enforcement official said Sunday. Debris from what appeared to be a Molotov cocktail was found outside the Tracy Islamic Center on Saturday morning, said […]
Source: The Fresno Bee A Sikh man was attacked Saturday morning west of Highway 99 in what Fresno police are investigating as a hate crime – the latest such attack […]
Source: Reuters Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday that Muslims must improve the image of their religion, which has been tarnished by the violence of hardline groups such as […]
Source: Quartz By Haroon Moghul Senior Correspondent, Religion Dispatches We have failed you. While jihadist movements continue to expand their reach, anti-Muslim bigotry is becoming more and more mainstream. Both narratives […]
Source: The Washington Post By By Rana Elmir The deputy director of the ACLU of Michigan and lectures on issues related to Islamophobia, free speech and the intersection of race, faith […]
Source: The Telegraph Schools must teach pupils that Britain is a Christian country and are entitled to prioritise the views of established religions over atheism, the Education Secretary has said. […]
Source: Time Expecting the move, Ursula Gauthier, a longtime journalist for the French news magazine L’Obs, said late Friday night that she was prepared to leave China. Once she departs […]
Source: Time BEIJING — The head of a Chinese firm that is building the world’s biggest animal cloning factory has vowed not to use the technology on people — for […]
Source: Huffington Post A true friendship is a bond built on trust, and when that trust is broken, the friendship often shatters. Brené Brown has spent decades researching trust and vulnerability, […]
Source: Huffington Post By Kashif N. Chaudhry Physician, writer and human rights activist Christmas is one of the most important days in the Christian calendar. Granted it has largely been turned […]
Source: Huffington Post By Warren J. Blumenfeld Independent Writer “[I am] calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our representatives can figure out what’s […]
Source: Huffington Post By Geoffrey R. Stone Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago In recent weeks, two of the legal scholars I most admire — Cass Sunstein and Eric Posner — have independently called for possible limitations on the scope of First Amendment protection in […]
Source: The Daily Beast By Jay Michaelson Why try to understand complicated things like demographics for the decline of your faith when you can blame gays and liberals for waging a […]
Source: NPR By the end of the century, Muslims could outnumber Christians for the first time in history, according to a report released by the Pew Research Center. “Another way of […]
Source: BBC Vast areas in Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil are being hit by the worst flooding in 50 years, forcing the evacuation of more than 150,000 people. Days of […]
Source: BBC Where to go to escape the stresses of life, the bustle of the workweek and the noise of traffic? To find out, we turned to question-and-answer site Quora, […]
Source: BBC Eight people are reported to have been killed in Texas in new tornadoes, raising the death toll to 26 in a week of storms in several US states. […]
Source: Huffington Post WASHINGTON (AP) — Taunted by Republicans to declare war on “radical Islamic terrorism,” Democrats are turning to an unlikely ally: George W. Bush. President Barack Obama, under […]
Source: Huffington Post By Anisha Ismail Patel Founder & CEdO of InnovusED . Global Educator. Social Entrepreneur . Promotes Women & Youth Service Leadership As 2015 rolls to a close, […]
Source: The Guardian By Hicham Yezza It’s the stuff of farce. A Muslim postgraduate student of counter-terrorism, spotted reading a textbook entitled Terrorism Studies in the library, isaccused by his own […]