‘Everyone Needs Someone Else’
Source: Time BY JEFFREY KLUGER There’s not a lot to do in Syracuse, N.Y. when you’re living alone and a winter storm system dumps 3 feet of snow on […]
Fairfax teacher suspended after complaint that a student’s hijab was yanked off
Source: The Washington Post By Susan Svrluga November 16 A Fairfax County Public Schools teacher was placed on leave this week while the district investigates a complaint that he pulled the hijab […]
Farrakhan rekindles controversies about race, Jews, 9/11 in speech at Watergate Hotel
Source: Religion News Service By Adelle M. Banks | November 16, 2017 WASHINGTON (RNS) — Before a crowded ballroom at the Watergate Hotel, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan called on President Trump to repent for what Farrakhan called America’s mistreatment of black people over the centuries. “America is a great nation but […]
For some evangelicals, a choice between Moore and morality
Source: The Washington Post By Marc Fisher November 16 Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore speaks during a campaign event at the Walker Springs Road Baptist Church on Nov. 14 in Jackson, […]
“Celebrating Thanksgiving – An Islamic Perspective”, By Imam Shamshad Nasir, Missionary Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Fast approaching is a very important American tradition and holiday – “Thanksgiving”. Without going into much of its historical background and details, I must say that we always need to be thankful and grateful for the bounties that God, the Almighty has Graciously bestowed on us. We must also be […]
US Holocaust Museum says evidence of genocide against Rohingya in Myanmar
Source: The Guardian BY Poppy McPhersonin Yangon Year-long report into atrocities accuses security forces of ‘unprecedented and systematic’ campaign of violence against Muslim population Rohingya Muslim children wait to receive food […]
Congregation, Tennessee Baptist Convention split over church’s first female pastor
Source: THE TENNESSEAN By Holly Meyer After a more than 140-year relationship, First Baptist Church of Jefferson City and the Tennessee Baptist Convention are breaking up over the church’s decision to hire […]
U.S. Catholic Leaders Signal Resistance to Pope’s Agenda
Source: The Wall Street Journal By Ian Lovett and Francis X. Rocca Updated Nov. 14, 2017 5:59 p.m. ET BALTIMORE—The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops chose a conservative archbishop for a key post Tuesday, […]
View from Turkey: Saudi Arabia plays with fire by counting on US
HILAL KAPLAN @hilal_kaplan Saudi Arabia’s King Salman (C, in brown and white) welcomes President Trump with a military honor cordon after they arrived the King Khalid International Airport in […]
US denial of involvement in YPG-Daesh Raqqa deal contradicts field realities, Erdoğan says
SERDAR KARAGÖZ @serdarkaragoz DOHA President Erdoğan (L) said U.S. forces have been involved in the fight against Daesh on the ground alongside YPG forces in Raqqa. The U.S. denying […]
Assaults against Muslims in U.S. surpass 2001 level
Source: Pew Research Center BY KATAYOUN KISHI The number of assaults against Muslims in the United States rose significantly between 2015 and 2016, easily surpassing the modern peak reached in 2001, […]
Medical first: Doctors attempt to gene-edit a living patient’s DNA
Source: CNN By Susan Scutti (CNN)A man may soon be forever free of the previously incurable disease he was born with 44 years ago. On Monday, in a medical first, […]
Asgardia, the world’s first ‘space nation’, takes flight
Source: CNN On November 12, Asgardia cemented its presence in outer space by launching the Asgardia-1 satellite. The “nanosat” — it is roughly the size of a loaf of bread — undertook a two-day journey from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, the United States, to the International Space Station […]
Barbie Gets a Hijab
Source: The New Yorker By Christina Binkley November 13, 2017 Mattel’s Barbie modelled on the American fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad has muscular legs and wears a hijab. Photograph courtesy Mattel In 1959, the […]
Barbie’s first hijab: Meet the new Ibtihaj Muhammad doll
Source: CNN By Julia Horowitz For the first time ever, Barbie will wear a hijab. Mattel (MAT), which makes Barbie, announced Monday that the latest doll in its “Shero” collection will be […]
Senate Republicans repudiate Roy Moore’s candidacy and urge him to leave the race
Source: The Washington Post By Sean Sullivan, Robert Costa and Jenna Johnson November 13 Senate Republican leaders on Monday waged an urgent campaign to pressure GOP nominee Roy Moore to withdraw from the Alabama Senate […]
Who is a Muslim; Time to Learn from the Christians?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, the Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I bet you that even the most informed Muslims, including the majority of the Muslim […]
Appeals court allows partial enforcement of Trump travel ban
Source: Associated Press By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and GENE JOHNSON SEATTLE (AP) — On the same day a federal appeals court allowed part of President Donald Trump’s travel ban to […]
Hate Crimes Up In 2016, FBI Statistics Show
Source: NPR By RYAN LUCAS Twitter The seal of the F.B.I. hangs in the Flag Room at the bureau’s headquarters. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The number of hate crimes reported last […]
The Future of Truth and Misinformation Online
Experts are evenly split on whether the coming decade will see a reduction in false and misleading narratives online. Those forecasting improvement place their hopes in technological fixes and in societal solutions. Others think the dark side of human nature is aided more than stifled by technology. By Janna Anderson […]