ALICIA BULLER | Published — Saturday 21 October 2017 SVETI STEFAN: Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne wants Saudis to visit and invest in his hurricane-battered country. He is considering bringing halal standards to the islands for the first time in a bid to attract more Arabs visitors. In […]
Source: Associated Press By CURT ANDERSON MIAMI (AP) — Prosecutors secured a relatively rare federal hate crime conviction punishable by a tough sentence on Thursday as a Florida man pleaded guilty to leaving a voicemail that threatened to shoot people at a mosque. Legal experts and Islamic advocates said it […]
Source: Star Tribune By By Miguel Otárola Star Tribune Leaders of an Islamic center in Bloomington remain concerned about their safety and desperate for justice, more than two months after an explosion destroyed […]
Source: The New York Times By JONAH ENGEL BROMWICH OCT. 19, 2017 Photo An alkaline hydrolysis unit at a funeral home in Windom, Minn. This week, California became the 15th state to outline commercial regulations for the disposal of human remains using the method. CreditJoe Wilson What do you want done with your […]
Source: Huffington Post By Deedra Abboud, who is an attorney and expert on the art and science of finding solutions, not fault – at work, at home, and in the […]
Source: BBC News Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush have voiced concern about the current political climate in the US, in comments seen as a veiled rebuke of […]
Source: The Washington Post By Ann E. Marimow October 18 A federal appeals court on Wednesday declared unconstitutional a towering cross-shaped monument that has marked a major intersection in Prince George’s County […]
Source: BBC News The United States says the militant Islamist movement Hamas must lay down its weapons if it is to play a part in a new Palestinian government. Hamas, […]
Source: Huffington Post Raheel Siddiqui died during boot camp after allegedly being hazed. By Antonia Blumberg The family of a Muslim Marine recruit who died during boot camp at Parris Island last […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Shayan Modarres, Contributor Legal Counsel at the National Iranian American Council We just blocked Muslim Ban 3.0! Overnight, Judge Theodore D. Chuang, the federal judge who issued […]
Source: Pew Research Center Break with past responses to global refugee surges BY PHILLIP CONNOR Mohammad Mobin smiles on Feb. 1 after greeting his sister’s family, who had arrived as refugees […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY GREGORY A. SMITH Most U.S. adults now say it is not necessary to believe in God to be moral and have good values (56%), up from about half […]
Source: ABC2 News BY Jeff Hager JOPPATOWNE, Md – The heavy equipment now sits idle on the Ansar housing development in Joppatowne, but Muslim leaders are now trying to build […]
Civilians in the US don’t seem to understand that we are fighting what we’ve termed the Forever War Peter Lucier Thursday 19 October 2017 We call it the “Forever War”. Waged for 16 years, from Afghanistan and Pakistan, to Iraq, Syria, Yemen, North Africa and beyond, it’s been going on […]
By Kosh Sadat and Stan McChrystal The cigarette glowed red as he took a drag, and the smoke rose rapidly as he exhaled. It had been a long afternoon. It had been a long war. It was February 2010, and after months establishing a relationship, Pakistan’s chief of army staff, […]
By AFP – Oct 18,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces, backed by US special forces, celebrate at the frontline in the Daesh group’s crumbling stronghold of Raqqa on Monday (AFP photo) BEIRUT — The Daesh terror group has lost its Syrian stronghold Raqqa, but the fate […]
Source: The Washington Post By Matt Zapotosky October 18 at 8:01 AM A federal judge in Maryland early Wednesday issued a second halt on the latest version of President Trump’s travel ban, […]
Source: The Washington Post By Justin Jouvenal October 16 Fairfax County prosecutors will pursue the death penalty against the man accused in the high-profile killing of a 17-year-old Muslim girl, who was […]
Source: The Washington Post By Lynh Bui and Matt Zapotosky October 16 A federal judge on Monday launched skeptical questions at both government lawyers and those challenging the latest iteration of President Trump’s travel ban — probing at what government officials’ intent was in barring various types of people from eight countries from coming […]
Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein, Julie Zauzmer and Sarah Pulliam Bailey October 16 Senior software developer Donnie Richardson does testing in the area where visitors to the Museum of the Bible can write […]