Source: Los Angeles Times By Sonali Kohli The Japanese American children who spent years in World War II internment camps were hopeful. Some thought racial discrimination would end after the […]
The shame of Abu Ghraib prison is part of a long tradition that goes back to the Crusades Robert Fisk @indyvoices Thursday 19 May 2016 2 comments Iraq, 7 May 2004 […]
Source: Pro Publica The paper published by Columbia University is signed by a coalition of 15 prominent legal scholars across the country. by Sarah Smith ProPublica, May 10, 2016, 8 a.m. The Obama administration has roundly criticized states such as North Carolina and Mississippi for passing laws that allow discrimination […]
Source: The New York Times By LAURIE GOODSTEIN With an increasing number of Americans leaving religion behind, theUniversity of Miami has received a donation in late April from a wealthy […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor Muslim fashion bloggers and designers have been making an impact in the online fashion world for years. Now, one exclusively online modest fashion company is taking a big leap of faith by opening a brick-and-mortar store in Florida. Verona Collection, a company that designs […]
Source: Time By Daniel White Hillary Clinton said Thursday that presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump’s “divisive and dangerous”behavior is a telltale sign that he’s not qualified to be president. Speaking with CNN on Thursday, the Democratic front-runner went on the offensive against Trump, who has gone after her — and her […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer A Christian pastor in the nation’s third-most-populous county tried to stop a Muslim man from serving in the local Republican Party because of his religion. The massive jurisdiction of Harris County, Tex. — with 4 million residents in the city of Houston and its surroundings […]
Source: The Daily Beast By Tim Mak Bob Bennett spent his last days letting Muslims know how sorry he was that an Islamophobe had become his party’s all-but-certain nominee. Former […]
Nation: The peace negotiations between the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad and the insurgents seeking to topple him and his one-party Baath state were headed on the rebel side by Mohammad Alloush, leader of the Saudi-backed Army of Islam (Jaysh al-Islam, or JI). Russia and the Syrian government objected to […]
Source: The Express Tribune OTTAWA: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a formal apology today for an incident in which a shipload of Indians were refused entry into Canada more than […]
Source: Time By Mark Thompson Many are booted out with ‘bad paper’ and can’t get upgrades The scariest part of Emily Vorland’s relatively uneventful 2009 deployment to Iraq was that the […]
Source: The Washington Post By Robert Kagan May 18 at 7:09 PM Robert Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing columnist for The Post. […]
Source: CNN By Steve Almasy and Bijan Hosseini, CNN The outgoing Iranian Parliament is demanding unspecified compensation from the United States for its involvement in “spiritual and material damage” for the past 63 years, Iranian state news reported Tuesday. During its Tuesday morning session, the Parliament cited examples such as […]
Source: Reuters CHARLESTON, SC | BY HARRIET MCLEOD The South Carolina legislature on Tuesday passed a bill banning most abortions after 19 weeks of pregnancy unless the mother’s life was […]
Source: The Daily Beast By DEAN OBEIDALLAH A California high-school girl opened her yearbook to find that her first name had been changed to ‘Isis.’ She was told it was […]
by Bethan McKernan New Yorkers Are We Famous Yet made waves last month with a video in which they got two people to dress in traditional Jewish and Muslim clothing and walk down the street together. Now filmmaker Karim Metwaly and friends Al and Moe are back with the ‘Muslim/Jewish Marriage […]
Source: The Guardian By Adam Gabbatt in Islamberg, New York American Bikers United Against Jihad spent months calling for people to join the event in Islamberg, but in the end […]
Source: RNS By Emily McFarlan Miller Emily McFarlan Miller is a national reporter for RNS based in Chicago. She covers evangelical and mainline Protestant Christianity. and Lauren Markoe Lauren Markoe […]
Source: NPR By DINA TEMPLE-RASTON All eyes were on 20-year-old Abdullahi Yusuf when he stepped on the stand in federal court last week in Minneapolis to testify for the prosecution in […]
Source: Time If she gets elected president next November Hillary Clinton says she has found a role for her husband, former president Bill Clinton, in her future administration, should she be […]