Beto O’Rourke slams Trump in wake of El Paso shooting
WASHINGTON – 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, who is from El Paso, Texas — the location of a mass shooting where more than 20 people were killed in an apparent racist […]
Trump often blames mass shootings on mental health. When the perpetrator is Muslim, he blames Islam.
Source: The Washington Times By Aaron Blake President Trump invoked “racism, bigotry and white supremacism” in his speech Monday about the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio. That’s […]
Religion Could Help Solve America’s Loneliness Problem, if Only People Would Pay Attention
The numbers tell a powerful story, one in which religious adherents of all sorts are, in fact, far more connected and generous than their non-religious counterparts. Source: mosaicmagazine.com For over […]
Dying the Christian Science way: the horror of my father’s last days
The anti-medical dogma of Christian Science led my father to an agonising death. Now the church itself is in decline – and it can’t happen fast enough. By Caroline Fraser […]
Quebec announces $20M in funds to preserve province’s religious heritage
Source: CBC Money will go towards restoration, preservation and repurposing churches for other use The Quebec government is investing $20 million to preserve and restore buildings and art with religious […]
We Have a White Nationalist Terrorist Problem
Source: The New York Times By The Editorial Board –The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher. It is separate from the newsroom and […]
Trump Blames Everything But Guns And Himself For El Paso And Dayton Mass Shootings
Source: Huffington Post The president commented on the two shootings over the weekend in Texas and Ohio. By Marina Fang and Dominique Mosbergen President Donald Trump spoke Monday in response […]
What to expect from the peace deal?
Aug 04,2019 -JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh In his latest tour to the Middle East, US President Donald Trump’s adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner is working on moving to […]
Hashtag campaign against Pakistani religious minority group during PM Khan’s US visit
Posted 4 August 2019 Pakistan’s minority Ahmadiyya community has been subject to persecution since the 1953 Anti-Ahmadiyya Riots in Lahore when religiopolitical parties, including Jamaat-i-Isami, Majlis-i-Ahrarul Islam, Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan, agitated […]
A deadly day in America
Epigraph: Every human life is sacred and precious and killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) 9 dead, 16 injured in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio By […]
What comes next after demise of ‘deal of the century?’
Aug 03,2019 – JORAN TIMES – Walid M. Sadi There is a unanimity in the Arab world, especially among the Palestinians, to reject the so-called “deal of the century” that […]
US to deploy missiles in Asia soon, Defense Secretary Mark Esper says
ANADOLU AGENCY ANKARA Published 03.08.2019 The U.S. wants to deploy an intermediate-range conventional missile in the Pacific region within months, it announced only a day after quitting a major arms […]
US-Iran brinkmanship: The view from Iraq
OP-ED Daily Sabah > GIORGIO CAFIERO Published 02.08.2019 As a neighbor of Iran, Iraq is the country most threatened by a possible Iran-U.S. war in the Gulf. With close ties […]
First human-monkey chimera raises concern among scientists – and what the Qur’an says about it
Researchers reprogrammed human cells before injecting them in the monkey embryo Nicola Davis @NicolaKSDavis Sat 3 Aug 2019 The human-monkey chimeras have reportedly only been allowed to develop for a […]
Trump, Kushner and Netanyahu are hellbent on destroying the two-state solution – the EU must not let them
In typical Trump style, Kushner is pushing a $50bn Middle East ‘deal of the century’ to solve the Israel-Palestinian question. It won’t work and so the European Union should step […]
Amish upset by Pa. township plan to require buggy registration, horse diapers and rubber horseshoes
Source: Pennlive By John Beauge | Special to PennLive ELIMSPORT – “Blatant discrimination” is what an attorney for Old Order Amish says about proposed ordinances in a rural Lycoming County township […]
National Cathedral leaders: Trump’s racial comments ‘give cover to white supremacists’
Source: CNN By Caroline Kelly, CNN (CNN)Leaders of the Washington National Cathedral slammed President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on minority lawmakers and the city of Baltimore as a “dangerous” rallying cry […]
Muslim Virginia lawmaker heckles Trump at Jamestown speech
Source: Associated Press By SARAH RANKIN and DENISE LAVOIE JAMESTOWN, Va. (AP) — A heckler who interrupted a speech by President Donald Trump during Tuesday’s commemoration of 400 years of […]
No, American Religious Liberty Is Not in Peril
Source: Wall Street Journal By Marci Hamilton The First Amendment doesn’t exempt believers from general laws for the public good, especially when their conduct harms others I was clerking for […]
Yes, American Religious Liberty Is in Peril
Source: The Wall Street Journal By David French As the 2020 presidential contest begins, it’s worth reflecting on one of the issues that made Donald Trump president—religious liberty. And it’s worth […]