Source: Huffington Post The men asked to switch their meal time so that they could participate in a Ramadan tradition. By Carol Kuruvilla Sixteen Muslim workers are planning to sue […]
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg The rate at which Americans are choosing to be cremated rather than buried after their death has been rising for many years. In 2016, that rate […]
Source: Time BY Andrew DeMillo / AP Jul 29, 2017 (LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) — A federal judge has blocked Arkansas from enforcing four new abortion restrictions, including a ban on […]
Source: BBC News He slumps wild-eyed across the desk from detectives, with a mess of badly dyed red hair, his clothes hanging off him. James Holmes looks every inch the […]
Source: BBC News By Chris Baraniuk Technology of Business reporter Image copyrightSEAImage captionKings Transport in Melbourne now has an all-electric fleet The clock may be ticking for petrol and diesel-powered […]
Source: BBC News By Kate Raworth 28 July 2017 ‘Buy land – they aren’t making it any more,’ quipped Mark Twain. It’s a maxim that would certainly serve you well […]
Source: THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC By Joanna Allhands Can science and faith coexist? Not if you ask most people. Roughly six in 10 Americans said science and religion often conflict, according to a 2015 […]
Source: KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL BY Jamie Satterfield,Travis Dorman and Tyler Whetstone, Knoxville “If God be for us, then who can be against us?” Generations of Knoxville Police Department officers have passed by a […]
Source: BBC News By Ronald Alsop 26 July 2017 More people are smoking weed these days, sparking a haze of complications and confusion in the workplace. A growing number of […]
Source: Huffington Post “The shards that cut me the deepest were the ones that intended to cut.” By Rebecca Shapiro Michelle Obama has opened up in front of a crowd of about 8,500 at the Women’s Foundation of Colorado’s 30th anniversary event in Denver about her experience as America’s first black first lady. […]
Source: Huffington Post Roy Moore said Islam isn’t compatible with U.S. law. Now a Muslim group has invited him to visit a mosque. By Christopher Mathias A U.S. Senate candidate […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Marilyn Katz, Contributor activist, strategist and president of MK Communications Democratic legislators have been busy lately fighting efforts by President Trump and Republican legislators to bulldoze millions of […]
Source: http://wnpr.org/post/terrorism-shared-prayer-story-reconciliation-and-religion By PATRICK SKAHILL A Connecticut man convicted of a hate crime is now working to combat stereotypes about Islam. His story, which made headlines around the world, sprang out of an attack on a mosque in Meriden in 2015. After a night of drinking, Ted Hakey, Jr., a former marine, […]
Source: http://www.mid-day.com/articles/mumbai-diary-thursday-dossier-mumbai-news-mumbai/18458165 A recent survey by the US-based Pew Research Center found that 75 per cent Muslims feel there is still a lot of discrimination. Yet, many of them identified as proud Americans. Thus, it was heartening to come across a Twitter handle, The Muslim Marine, whose goal is simple – […]
Source: Huffington Post By Abdul Malik Mujahid, Contributor President, Sound Vision; Chair, Burma Task Force USA; Chair Emeritus of the Parliament of the World’s Religions I met an American six-grader […]
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg A new report by Pew Research Center shows that U.S. Muslims feel unsure of their place in society, face increasing discrimination and are dissatisfied with the […]
Source: The New York Times By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and HELENE COOPERJULY 26, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Trump abruptly announced a ban on transgender people serving in the military on Wednesday, blindsiding his […]
Source: Pew Research Center Findings from Pew Research Center’s 2017 survey of U.S. Muslims (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) The early days of Donald Trump’s presidency have been an anxious […]
Source: Associated Press By RACHEL ZOLL NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Muslims say they have experienced widespread suspicion about their faith in the first months of Donald Trump’s presidency, but […]
Source: The Atlantic By EMMA GREEN Whatever Muslims may be in Trump’s America, they’re not invisible. Everyone—the president, pundits, pollsters—keeps talking about the religious minority group, which makes up roughly 1 […]