Is Ramadan different for American Muslims?
Source: Huffington Post Ramadan Mubarak! Insha’Allah, the first fast day of Ramadan will begin on Saturday, May 27, 2017 in the United States, Canada and the Americas. Is Ramadan different […]
Obama gets rock-star welcome in Berlin, praises Merkel
Source: Associated Press By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and FRANK JORDANS BERLIN (AP) — Barack Obama received a rock-star welcome in Berlin as he appeared at a public debate Thursday with Chancellor Angela Merkel, whom he praised as one of his “favorite partners” during his presidency. Security was tight in front of […]
Ramadan At Trump’s White House Is The Invite No Muslim Wants
Source: BuzzFeed News BY Hannah Allam BuzzFeed News Reporter Pool / Getty Images President Barack Obama during the 2015 iftar dinner celebrating the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Muslims don’t know […]
What signal is Melania sending?
Source:CNN Arriving in Rome, on his way to visit the Holy Father, of all people, President Donald Trump stood at the door of Air Force One and reached for first lady Melania Trump’s hand. She avoided his grasp, reaching up to brush her hair away from her eyes instead. He […]
REMAINING COUNTRIES ON TRUMP’S ITINERARY SAY THEY’D RATHER WAIT A MONTH AND MEET WITH NEXT PRESIDENT
Source:NY Times: BRUSSELS (The Borowitz Report)—Donald J. Trump’s foreign trip hit a snag on Tuesday, when the remaining countries on his itinerary announced that they would rather “wait a month” and meet with the next President instead.“It makes no sense for us to roll out the red carpet for Trump […]
Muslims in America, by the numbers
Fiza Pirani The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 8:00 a.m. Thursday, May 25, 2017 National/World News Share Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world. In fact, if current trends continue, Muslims will surpass Christians as the world’s largest religious group in the second half of this century, according to the Pew Research Center. […]
Live Updates: Trump Is in Brussels, and Disagreement on Russia Emerges
By THE NEW YORK TIMES Photo President Trump and the United States delegation met in Brussels on Thursday with European representatives including Donald Tusk, president of the European Council; and […]
Trump Visits ‘Hellhole’ Brussels and Locals Haven’t Forgiven or Forgotten
by SAPHORA SMITH Protesters carry effigies of President Donald Trump and Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel during a rally in Brussels on Wednesday. Eric Feferberg / AFP – Getty I […]
Pope asks Trump to be peacemaker, gives him environmental letter
Reuters International MAY 24, 2017 – U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania meet Pope Francis during a private audience at the Vatican, May 24, 2017. REUTERS/Evan Vucci/Pool (reuters_tickers) […]
New Jersey Town Used Zoning to Discriminate Against Islam
Source: The New York Times By JIM DWYER A rendering of the proposed mosque in Bernards Township, N.J., which has been entangled in a protracted battle over parking spaces. CreditKarsten […]
N.J. town votes to accept settlements in mosque lawsuits
Source: NJ.com BY DAVE HUTCHINSON NJ Advance Media for NJ.com BERNARDS – The Township Committee voted Tuesday night during a joint meeting to accept proposed settlements in a pair of […]
Muslims, Jews and women in America
Source: The Economist However toxic the climate, some Muslims and Jews try harder to get along As President Donald Trump engages in his own, idiosyncratic kind of religious and cultural […]
Trump Changed His Tone on Islam—Will He Change Strategy?
Source: The Atlantic BY MICHAEL LEITER To say that candidate Donald Trump adopted a sharply critical and un-nuanced tone on Islam would be the grossest of understatements. Campaigner-in-Chief Trump proclaimed the […]
In Israel, Trump urges new Middle East harmony but faces old suspicions
Source: The Washington Post By Karen DeYoung, Philip Rucker and William Booth May 22 JERUSALEM — President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sketched the broad outlines of a […]
Donald Trump is approaching peace between Israelis and Palestinians like a business deal – and it isn’t working
His brash language is toned down, and the rictus grin of the shiny reality TV star replaced with a sort of cock-eyed mask of sympathy. But the tactics he’s using […]
NO GIRLS ALLOWED
Source: The Daily Beast. In Rome, there was that awkward moment Wednesday morning when the first lady stood rather uncomfortably dressed in black with her dark mantilla veil on her head in the grandiose corridor of the Apostolic Palace as her husband met with Pope Francis for 29 minutes behind […]
Astronauts Made Urgent Repairs at the International Space Station
Source: Time By Marcia Dunn / AP (CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.) — Spacewalking astronauts made urgent repairs at the International Space Station on Tuesday, three days after a critical relay box abruptly […]
The 712-page Google doc that proves Muslims do condemn terrorism
Source: The Guardian It happened in history class. Heraa Hashmi, a 19-year-old American Muslim student at the University of Colorado, was supposed to be discussing the Crusades with the man […]
How Pakistani-Americans are entering interfaith and interracial marriages — and making them work
“I rebelled. I said ‘I’m going to marry whomever I want.’” FAHAD NAVEED | HUFSA CHAUDHRY Saks and Suzie’s Pakistani-Palestinian-American-Muslim family Saks Afridi and Suzie Afridi. — Photo courtesy Saks Afridi Fifteen years ago, at a crowded picnic in Redwood City, California, young college student Saks (short of Sakib) Afridi […]
Donald Trump’s speech to the Muslim world was filled with hypocrisy and condescension
Despite claiming he wouldn’t give a lecture, the President did just that, displaying a blatant anti-Iran bias intended to appease the nation with whom he’d just signed a multi-billion dollar […]