Source: Pew Research Center BY SAMANTHA SMITH AND CARROLL DOHERTY5 COMMENTS Far more Americans continue to sympathize more with Israel (54%) than with the Palestinians (19%) in the Middle East dispute, according to our recent foreign policy survey. And half of Americans (50%) think a way can be found for […]
Tribune: When the 9/11 attacks occurred in the US, I had just begun teaching at the American University in Washington, DC as the new Chair of Islamic studies. As the scale of what had happened became apparent, I knew how important fostering dialogue and communication between Islam and other religions […]
In Syria and Lebanon there are no plans for a future, but the Syrian army is going to have a role in any New Syria Robert Fisk @indyvoic Troops loyal to Bashar al-Assad […]
May 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – JONATHAN POWER “ISIS [Daesh] is not an existential threat to the United States,” President Barack Obama told Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic magazine recently. What becomes clear in that long article, much of it Obama’s own words, is that Obama shies away from the […]
Source: RNS By David Gibson (RNS) The nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization has been earnestly educating Americans for years about Islam while denouncing the growing tide of […]
Source: The New York Times By JASON HOROWITZ and MAGGIE HABERMAN A bitter divide over the Middle East could threaten Democratic Party unity as representatives of Senator Bernie Sanders of […]
Source: The Guardian Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor One of the leading counter-terror chiefs in the US warned against the blanket political denigration of Muslims, saying the integration of American Muslims […]
Source: CNN By James Griffiths, CNN Want to launch a nuclear missile? You’ll need a floppy disk. That’s according to a new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), […]
Source: BBC US President Barack Obama has said that international leaders “have good reason to be rattled” by pronouncements made by the Republican White House contender, Donald Trump. Speaking on […]
Source.CNN Donald Trump has the delegates to clinch the GOP presidential nomination, according to a CNN delegate count Thursday. More.
Source: Time By Sen. Rand Paul Paul is the junior U.S. Senator for Kentucky. ‘One generation cannot bind another generation to perpetual war’ This president has now been at war longer […]
Source: Forward By Seth Kaplan and Naftuli Moster The New York State Legislature is currently considering two bills, one introduced by Assembly woman Ellen Jaffee in early May , the other by Sen. David Carlucci and Assembly man Kenneth Zebrowski in January , to strengthen existing legislation requiring nonpublic schools to […]
Source: RNS By Julie Poucher Harbin Julie Poucher Harbin is a correspondent based in Cary, N.C. (RNS) As part of his “Islam in Film” class at the University of Nebraska, religious studies […]
Source: The New York Times By LAURIE GOODSTEIN Former President Jimmy Carter, who has long put religion and racial reconciliation at the center of his life, is on a mission […]
Source: Huffington Post By Maddie Crum Culture Writer, The Huffington Post Stephen King and Michael Chabon are among the writers who signed an open letter to the American people, addressing their […]
Source: IBT Times BY JEFF STONE The U.S. Department of Defense is working with the intelligence community to develop a plan in the event of a Chinese or Russian attack […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Hasheemah Afaneh ‘Born in one place, raised in two’ kind of writer. “Once I go back to America, I’m going to officially change my last name. Just imagine […]
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post With Ramadan quickly approaching, when Muslims around the world will fast from sunrise to sunset, Rev. Cynthia Bronson Sweigert has […]
by TOM ROSS Posted Apr 27, 2016 A new survey is showing that Canadian Muslims love the country, and feel a great sense of belonging here. The study, commissioned by the Environics Institute, finds that 83% of Muslims feel very proud to be Canadian, and 84% believe they are […]
Source: ET Obama and Anthony Bourdain meet up in Hanoi for some beer and bun cha. PHOTO: Instagram/AnthonyBourdain HANOI: She has ladled out countless bowls of her pork noodle soup, but the owner of a Hanoi streetside restaurant says she was stunned when Barack Obama strolled in, pulled up a plastic […]