Column: Trump’s Chicago rally and freedom of speech
Source: Chicago Tribune Rose Hamid is a middle-aged Muslim who in January went to a Donald Trump rally in Rock Hill, S.C. Wearing a hijab and a T-shirt with the […]
Trump is getting out the Muslim vote
Source: RNS By Aysha Khan (RNS) Salim Jaffer moved to the U.S. when he was 14 years old. His family, along with the rest of the Indian community, had been expelled from […]
The North Face Just Destroyed Trump’s Simplistic Opinion On Jobs
Source: Huffington Post Donald Trump has a lame excuse for outsourcing the production of his clothing brand. The North Face, meanwhile, is proving that it’s possible to keep business local. […]
More than One-Third of US Innovators Are Immigrants
Source: Voice Of America More than one-third of U.S. innovators are foreign born which suggests highly educated immigrants just might be one of America’s most valuable resources. Despite only making […]
Group: Trump should apologize for saying ‘Islam hates us’
Source: Associated Press FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A leading Muslim civil rights group is calling on GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump to apologize for his claim that “Islam hates us.” […]
Muslims Sue Over Denial of Bid to Build Mosque in New Jersey Suburb
Source: The New York Times In a prosperous New Jersey suburb about an hour west of Manhattan, a retired AT&T executive decided with some friends to open a mosque in the […]
The end of American exceptionalism?
Mar 10,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – I have kept the pledge I made many months ago not to waste my time reading any press articles on the American presidential nominating contests, because the 15 or so candidates on the Republican side meant that nothing would become clear until after the first […]
‘Collective punishment’
Mar 10,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – George S. Hishmeh A week ago, my mailbox had a surprising letter addressed to my wife and me by a David Trone, who only provided a post office number and the name of a nearby neighbourhood for his address. The opening line was addressed to “dear […]
Trump says Islam hates us; but, the Holy Quran says …
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times “I think Islam hates us,” Trump told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, deploring the “tremendous hatred” that he said […]
The media loved Marco Rubio’s defense of Islam. GOP voters? Probably not so much.
Source: The Washington Post Marco Rubio has taken a lot of heat in the press for allowing Donald Trump to drag him into the gutter — a mistake even he has said he regrets — so journalists naturally applauded the Florida senator’s tonal reversal in Thursday’s Republican presidential debate […]
US election 2016: Trump and Rubio row over Islam ‘hate’
Source: BBC Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio has attacked Donald Trump for saying that Islam hates America, in a televised debate in Miami. Mr Rubio, who faces a do-or-die contest […]
This Christian Is Fed Up With Islamophobic Rhetoric
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Associate Religion Editor Catherine Orsborn spends a lot of her time thinking about how to put an end to Islamophobia forever. It’s part of her job […]
No, Trump, Islam Doesn’t Hate America
Source: The Daily Beast By Dean Obeidallah (born December 17, 1969), he is an American comedian of Palestinian-Italian descent. The Donald told CNN that Islam hates America. Like the Muslims […]
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on US official visit
Source: BBC US President Barack Obama and Canada’s new liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have lavished praise on each other amid talks at the White House. Mr Trudeau is in […]
How Clinton Shadowboxed Trump at the Democratic Debate
Source: Time Hillary Clinton may have been facing Bernie Sanders at Wednesday’s debate, but in reality she was shadowboxing Donald Trump. The Republican frontrunner, who was the only GOP candidate […]
America’s Divisions and Scalia’s Christian Visions
Source: Religion and Politics As efforts are made to assess the legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia, who died last month, pundits have avoided discussing the one decision that stands as […]
This Is Our Islam: To Be Young, Devout And Muslim In America Today
Source: NPR For Muslim-Americans, there was a world before Sept. 11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and one after. Now, their community faces the dual threats of extremism […]
What would a Hindu justice mean for the Supreme Court?
Source: The Washington Post President Obama has narrowed his list of potential Supreme Court nominees to about six names, our colleagues on The Post politics staff report. One jurist in […]
Catholic Georgetown University’s Elects First-Ever Muslim Student as President
For the first time ever, a Muslim student has been elected by the Georgetown University student body to serve as the Jesuit school’s student association president. As reported by The […]
We May Have To Get Used To The Idea Of President Trump
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