USA: Ted Hakey, Meriden mayor attend Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s national convention Source: myrecordjournal.com By August 5, 2016 01:25AM | By Mike Savino Record-Journal staff Ted Hakey, at left, sits next to Meriden Mayor Kevin Scarpati at Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA’s 68th annual convention last weekend in Pennsylvania. Also pictured is Zahir Mannan, at […]
ORDER FROM CHAOS How we all reinforce a narrative of Islam versus the West Madiha Afzal Thursday, August 4, 2016 “Our way of life is under threat by Radical Islam and Hillary Clinton cannot even bring herself to say the words,” tweeted Donald Trump after Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer Dozens of Black Lives Matter organizations jointly released a wide-ranging platform Monday spelling out standpoints on dozens of issues. On almost all of the issues — including education, food insecurity, criminal sentencing and policing — progressive Jewish groups heartily agree. But the new platform’s […]
Source: The Washington Post GINA KOLATAAUG. 4, 2016 The National Institutes of Health announced on Thursday that it was planning to lift its ban on funding some research that injects human stem cells into animal embryos. The N.I.H. announced its proposal in a blog post by Carrie Wolinetz, the associate […]
Source: The Washington Post By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. Jail officials in Cumberland County, Maine, have a special protocol for taking booking photos of Muslim women who wear hijabs. They’re photographed twice — once while wearing a hijab, and once without. The scarfless photos are never supposed to be seen beyond the walls […]
Source: NPR By HANSI LO WANG Even if fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad doesn’t medal at the Rio Olympics, she is set to make the history books. Once she hits the fencing strip […]
Source: CNN By Tom LoBianco, CNN Washington (CNN)The Republican challenging House Speaker Paul Ryan said this week that the US should debate deporting all Muslims from the country. “I’m suggesting we have a discussion about it. That’s for sure,” Paul Nehlen said on 560 AM’s “Morning Answer” in Chicago, when […]
Source: Time By Will Drabold A new poll shows Hillary Clinton jumping to a 15-point lead against Donald Trump in the presidential race. The poll, which comes after both political party conventions, shows Clinton beating Trump 48% to 33% across the country. The McClatchy-Marist poll shows Clinton with one of her […]
Source: Time By Daniel White President Obama rebuffed Donald Trump’s suggestion that the general election in November would somehow be rigged, joking that he’d never heard of anyone complaining about cheating before the game was even over. “Of course the election will not be rigged. What does that mean?” Obama said […]
Ted A. Hakey Jr. was invited to speak at Ahmadiyya Muslim convention in Harrisburg. Source: baltimoresun.com Prophet Muhammad continuously taught that one should forgive the sins of others, which is exactly what the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community demonstrated at their annual convention in Harrisburg, Pa., last week. In November of 2015, […]
Source: CNN It was the latest in a string of recent presidential rebukes to the GOP nominee. Obama hit out at Trump just two days after branding him unfit to be commander in chief from the podium in the White House’s East Room. His intervention underscored the unusually prominent role […]
Source: The Daily Beast. The unhinged conservative looking to unseat Paul Ryan wants to go even further than Trump in monitoring Muslims-Americans. Kick them all out of America, he said this week. The Republican businessman hoping to take down House Speaker Paul Ryan thinks the United States should consider deporting […]
The two friends were escorted off the plane after one of them questioned why they had not been given water for hours on the tarmac, and were greeted by armed police officers Rachael Revesz New York @RachaelRevesz Two American Muslim women were asked to leave an American Airlines plane […]
Source: Vox People of faith aren’t exempt from facing each generation’s political and ideological battles. Updated by Victoria M. Massie When Michelle Obama addressed the significance of the first black […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer In 1876, a particular verse from the Bible started turning up over and over in newspapers across the United States. 1 Samuel 3:4. “That the Lord called Samuel, and he answered, ‘Here I am.’” Why? At first, Lincoln Mullen was baffled. Mullen built a tool […]
Source: The New York Times By DAVE PHILIPPS When Donald J. Trump said last fall that he would consider making Muslims in the United States carry special identification cards, Tayyib […]
Source: NPR By CHAS SISK In an election year filled with anti-Muslim vitriol, some mosques are urging their worshipers to vote in an attempt to make their voices heard. To do […]
Source: USA Today By Natalie DiBlasio The Twitterverse is trying to teach Donald Trump’s spokeswoman Katrina Pierson a sassy history lesson. In an interview with CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, Pierson blamed President Obama and Hillary Clinton for the 2004 death of Army Capt. Humayun Khan. However, Khan died while George W. Bush was president — four […]
Source: USA Today By Doug Stanglin The Obama administration secretly airlifted $400 million in cash to Iran in January to settle a decades-old legal dispute just as the Iranians were releasing four Americans detained byTehran, The Wall Street […]