Meet Jewish America’s first ambassador to Muslims
Source: RNS By Lauren Markoe (RNS) Bob Silverman, a Jew who spent most of his diplomatic career in Muslim-majority nations, will now reach out to Muslims in his own country. […]
Watch Muslim kids read letters from Japanese internment camp survivors
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 destruction of morality
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 […]
Study Calls On Obama to Withdraw Legal Memo That Allows Faith-based Charities to Discriminate
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 […]
University of Miami Establishes Chair for Study of Atheism
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 […]
Modest Muslim Clothing Store Hopes To Cater To People Of All Faiths
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 […]
Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump Is Not Qualified to Be President
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 […]
‘His beliefs are total opposite’: Republican tries to block nominee from office because he is a Muslim
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 […]
Dying GOP Senator Apologizes to Muslims for Donald Trump
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 […]
Why Is Washington Supporting Fundamentalist Jihadis in Syria?
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 […]
Canada apologizes for century old snub of Sikh migrants
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 […]
Military Sexual Assault Victims Discharged After Filing Complaints
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 […]
This is how fascism comes to America
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. […]
Iran wants U.S. to pay for 63 years of ‘spiritual and material damage’
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 […]
South Carolina bans abortion after 19 weeks
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 […]
Anti-Muslim School Bullying: Sometimes, It’s Even the Teachers Doing It
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 […]
Here’s what happens when a Muslim-Jewish couple walks down the street
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 […]
Five anti-Muslim protesters and 400 peace supporters meet at New York rally
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 […]
Methodist supporters of Israel-related divestment regroup after setback
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 […]
He Was Caught Trying To Join ISIS, Now He’s In Jihadi Rehab
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 […]