Source: CNN The term white nationalism originated as a euphemism for white supremacy, the belief that white people are superior to all other races and should therefore dominate society, according to Oren Segal, director of the Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism. People who hold these beliefs sometimes go by other […]
Source: BBC US President Donald Trump has again blamed both sides for the violent unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia, which left one protester dead and others injured.In a statement on Monday, he had condemned white supremacists.But in New York on Tuesday he also blamed left-wing supporters for charging at the “alt-right”.His […]
Source: BBC News North Korean leader Kim Jong-un reviewed plans to fire missiles towards the US Pacific territory of Guam but will hold off, state media said. Although prepared for […]
Source: BBC News A monument to pro-slavery forces is destroyed, in the wake of clashes in Charlottesville. No arrests have been reported in connection with the incident in Durham, North […]
Source: Associated Press By KRISTIN J. BENDER FREMONT, Calif. (AP) — When Moina Shaiq realized even her friends were scared to ask her about her religion for fear of offending […]
Source: The New York Times By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Brittany Caine-Conley, a minister in training at Sojourners United Church of Christ, arrived in downtown Charlottesville on Saturday morning […]
Source: JTA (JTA) — An Orthodox Jewish group filed a federal lawsuit against a New Jersey town for ordering it to remove an eruv, or religious boundary, from utility poles […]
Source: The Washington Post By Peggy McGlone The entrance to the Museum of the Bible, under construction and set to open Nov. 17 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Michael S. Williamson/The […]
Source: Associated Press By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER HONOLULU (AP) — The Syrian grandmother at the center of Hawaii’s lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s travel ban on people from six mostly […]
Source: The Local German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday slammed as “disgusting” the role of white supremacists in a violent protest in Virginia and an “evil attack” against counter-demonstrators that left one woman dead, her spokesman said. In sharply worded remarks, Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert expressed shock at the weekend rally […]
Source: The Guardian By Jonathan Freedland The notion that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is considering a run for president in 2020 seemed fanciful until the final days of last year, when he posted […]
Source: Huffington Post She isn’t allowed to talk to me.” By Cavan Sieczkowski Leah Remini is continuing her crusade against the Church of Scientology and its alleged abuses, and has some […]
White supremacist protesters clutching Nazi flags and screaming the Nazi-linked chant ‘blood and soil’ have stormed the city of Charlottesville, Virginia today. Violence broke out at the ‘Unite the Right’ […]
Trump’s bigoted rhetoric has been gearing up to this point for years, and even now he refuses to condemn the violence of neo-nazis Skylar Baker-Jordan @skylarjordan If you’re surprised by what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend, you shouldn’t be. On Friday neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, and other “alt-right” […]
Source: Huffington Post BY David J. Dunn, PhD, Contributor Theological troublemaker. Orthodox Christian. Let any who doubt the lamentable state of theological education among Christians in America consider this fact: Right […]
Source: Huffington Post By Ed Mazza A right-wing pastor who serves on Donald Trump’s evangelical advisory board claims God has given the president “full power” to launch an attack on North Korea. Robert […]
By Imam Shamshad A.Nasir, Chicago I have been living in this beautiful and great country since 1987 enjoying complete freedom of faith and conscious and above all free to practice all my tenets of my faith, Islam, here in the USA. I stand witness that my fellow Americans are great […]
Source: Time By Jonathan Lemire / AP Aug 12, 2017 (BEDMINSTER, N.J.) — President Donald Trump has signed an emergency spending bill that will pump more than $2 billion into […]
Aug 12,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – The US is in the midst of a political meltdown, unable to manage a domestic economic agenda or a coherent foreign policy. The White House is in turmoil; Congress is paralysed; and the world is looking on in astonishment and dread. If we are […]
Source: CNN President Donald Trump, a man known for his bluntness, was anything but on Saturday, failing to name the white supremacists or alt-right groups at the center of violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia. Instead, the man whose vicious attacks against Hillary Clinton, John McCain, federal judges, fellow Republican leaders […]