Source: Huffington Post and Youtube By Sam Stein; Senior Politics Editor, The Huffington Post A spokesperson for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has blamed PresidentBarack Obama for invading Afghanistan ― a foreign […]
Source: BBC An imam and his assistant were shot dead as they walked along a street in the New York borough of Queens. The men were approached from behind by […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY ALEKSANDRA SANDSTROM All states prosecute parents whose children come to severe harm through neglect. But in 34 states (as well as the District of Columbia, Guam and […]
Source: Huffington Post By Roy Speckhardt; who is executive director of the American Humanist Association. Religious freedom isn’t an excuse to be a bigot, it isn’t a free license to discriminate, […]
Source: BBC By Shannon Wianecki 12 August 2016 Paul Banko has an enviable commute: he rides his bike through cooled lava flows and dense fern forests to reach his office […]
Source: Time By Elizabeth Dias Donald Trump’s campaign is preparing to announce an Hispanic advisory board of evangelical pastors to help mobilize support for the GOP nominee. Several evangelical Hispanic pastors […]
By Saeed Qureshi Donald Trump the Republican Party nominee for the 2016 presidential elections should not be the president because he doesn’t speak for the whole American nation but for […]
Source: newsoptimist.ca MobileMuslims campaign goes through Battlefords JOHN CAIRNS , STAFF REPORTER / BATTLEFORDS NEWS-OPTIMIST AUGUST 14, 2016 03:23 PM Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community brought their #MobileMuslims to the Battlefords briefly, stopping to meet with the News-Optimist Friday morning. Photo by John Cairns A group of Ahmadiyya Muslims were […]
Source: phillytrib.com No specific date has been announced for the opening of a new 21,000-square-foot mosque currently being constructed in North Philadelphia. — TRIBUNE PHOTO BY SAMARIA BAILEY Even as they face a nation that has nominated presidential candidate prejudiced against Muslims, and a community that has mixed emotions about its […]
Source: the Dallas Morning News By Caleb Downs Follow @calebjdowns cdowns@dallasnews.com Breaking News reporter A woman is suing Dallas County after she says her job offer with the sheriff’s office […]
Adrian Hedden, The Republic | azcentral.com At 36 years old, it was as if life was just beginning for Amanjeet Singh “Sonny” Toor. His wife, Kamaldeep Kaur, had finally made the move four months ago to Phoenix from India, six years after his own immigration journey. Toor was friendly, happy and hard-working. Even his […]
Source: Chicago Tribune By Marion Renault A woman filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Thursday against the city of Chicago and six of its police officers after she said the officers profiled her based on her religious garb and assaulted her outside a CTA train station last year. On July […]
Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein In perhaps the most extensive religious speech of the campaign season, which doubled as a plea to black voters, Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Tim Kaine on Thursday described his faith identity and values as shaped largely by his experiences living and worshiping among Latino […]
Source: Detroit Free Press Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan and the Department of Justice are investigating whether a proposed mosque was […]
Source: BBC More than 70 Republicans have signed a letter to the party’s National Committee head urging him to stop helping Donald Trump’s campaign. They said Mr Trump’s “divisiveness” and […]
Source: BBC Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan has expressed his disappointment at being “detained” by US authorities at Los Angeles International Airport. It is not clear why Khan was detained, […]
Source: CNN By Euan McKirdy, CNN (CNN)Donald Trump on Wednesday and Thursday repeatedly called President Barack Obama the “founder” of ISIS and labeled Hillary Clinton the “co-founder” — after which Clinton used his comments to say they show he is not fit to be president. At a rally in Fort […]
Source: Buzz Feed News By McKay Coppins BuzzFeed News Reporter Hillary Clinton will pitch her candidacy to Mormon voters in Utah with an op-ed Wednesday in the church-owned Deseret News. “I’ve […]
Source: The Washington Post By Derek Hawkins American security contractors Lloyd Fields and James Creach were working at a police training facility in Amman, Jordan, in November 2015 when a trainee shot and […]
Source: The Sacramento Bee BY ANSHU SIRIPURAPU asiripurapu@sacbee.com After intense opposition from the state’s religious schools, the author of a controversial bill that would have exposed private religious colleges in California to anti-discrimination lawsuits has agreed to remove a key provision. Pushed by gay rights organizations, Senate Bill 1146 would […]