Frazier Glenn Miller: US white supremacist sentenced to death
Source: BBC A judge has sentenced a white supremacist to death for the killing of three people at two Jewish centres. Frazier Glenn Miller Jr, 74, targeted the sites in […]
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Muslim Man Fired From Bed Bath & Beyond Says He Was Called ‘Terrorist’
Source: Huffington Post A Muslim man says former coworkers at Bed Bath & Beyond called him a “terrorist” after he grew out his beard, and alleges the chain later fired […]
European rights court rules against French comic Dieudonne
Source: The Associated Press STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Europe’s top human rights court has rejected an appeal by the controversial French comic Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala, saying the right to free […]
Naureen’s an Aussie
Source: Berwick News By LACHLAN MOORHEAD ASKED if there’s anything else she’d like to say, Naureen Choudhry smiles and answers matter-of-factly. “I love Australia.” After 10 years, the Pakistani mother of two will next week officially become an Australian citizen at a special ceremony at the Casey Council chambers. While […]
A mosque grows slowly amid opposition in New Hampshire
Source: The Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The same financial difficulties that face houses of worship across the country have stalled a 10-year effort by New Hampshire’s small Muslim […]
Colleges see interest fade in Christian groups
Source: Central Florida Future ORLANDO Visiting Pastor Bobby Brooks tells the story of David and Goliath to a congregation of University of Central Florida students. Worshipers quickly flip to the 1 […]
A new Taliban breakaway group claims support for peace and women’s rights
Source: The Washington Post KABUL — A new Taliban splinter faction claimed Sunday that it was ready to engage in peace talks with the government and that it would allow […]
Afghanistan’s first female conductor
Source: BBC For many years, the Taliban banned music and the education of girls in Afghanistan – and although many women still find themselves restricted, one 17-year-old has become the […]
Missouri President Toppled By the Power of the Student Athlete
Source: Time Missouri football just earned one of the biggest wins in sports history. On Monday Timothy Wolfe, president of the University of Missouri,resigned after weeks of student protest regarding […]
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS RULE OUT ISLAM FOR RELIGIOUS STUDIES: MUSLIM LEADERS HIT BACK
Source: Breitbart London The Roman Catholic Church is drawing criticism for ordering its schools to teach Judaism alongside Christianity in GCSE religious studies at the exclusion of Islam or other faiths. Senior […]
Vodou is elusive and endangered, but it remains the soul of Haitian people
Source: The Guardian Haiti, the saying goes, is “70% Catholic, 30% Protestant, and 100% Vodou”. Vodou is everywhere in the Caribbean nation, a spiritual system infusing everything from medicine and […]
Parents to take on government over religious studies GCSE
Source: The Guardian A group of parents and their children are to go to court to challenge the government’s decision to exclude non-religious world views from the new religious studies […]
Polygamy in Muslim personal law misinterpretated, its ‘heinously patriarchal’ says Gujarat HC
Ahmedabad: In a strongly-worded order, the Gujarat High Court said the Quran was being misinterpreted by Muslim men to have more than one wife and the provision of polygamy was […]
Poll: 53% Israelis support extrajudicial killings
Source: AlJazeera Some 53 percent of Israelis have expressed support for the extrajudicial killings of alleged Palestinian attackers on the spot, even after their arrest and when they “no longer […]
Warming set to breach 1C threshold
Source: BBC Global temperatures are set to rise more than one degree above pre-industrial levels according to the UK’s Met Office. Figures from January to September this year are already […]
Women’s rights are human rights, German chancellor says
Source: China Daily UNITED NATIONS — Women’s rights are human rights, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said here Sunday at the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender Equality and Women Empowerment. “Isn’t […]
10 reasons why Chinese tourists like Singapore
Source: China Daily Singapore, also known as the Lion City, is not just a “little red dot” on the map, but also one of the world’s most beautiful and greenest […]
Progress fans flames of militant unrest in changing Bangladesh
Source: The Guardian Thirty miles from the centre of Bangladesh’s chaotic capital, Dhaka, the pace of life is quieter. At the Baroipara checkpoint, near the industrial area of Ashulia, stalls […]
Artificial intelligence: ‘Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods and the rest of us’
Source: The Guardian If you wanted relief from stories about tyre factories and steel plants closing, you could try relaxing with a new 300-page report from Bank of America Merrill […]
God has become a political football in the presidential game Michael Cohen
Source: The Guardian There have been so many memorable moments in the race for the Republican presidential nomination so far, but one really sticks out.Donald Trump, when asked to name […]