Source: PennLive SALISBURY TOWNSHIP – It’s a story of neighbors helping neighbors, pitching in to repair each other’s homes after they were damaged by a massive storm Wednesday night. And the following […]
Feb 25,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – George S. Hishmeh As expected, the current front runners in the American presidential elections, much as the leaders in the Middle East, are missing the boat as they voice their mediocre views on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that started in 1948 when the British mandate ended. […]
Feb 25,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL US President Barack Obama lauded the strategic alliance between Jordan and the US and praised His Majesty King Abdullah’s and Jordan’s constructive role in various regional files in statements to the media at the White House, following the two leaders’ summit on Wednesday. The […]
By JT – Feb 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES His Majesty King Abdullah meets with representatives of American Jewish organisations in Washington on Wednesday (Photo courtesy of Royal Court) AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Wednesday met with representatives of several leading American Jewish organisations over ways to […]
Ottawa can do a better job of promoting religious freedom — and all human rights — without an Office of Religious Freedom thestar.com Feb. 26, 2016 Blair Gable / Blair Gable Office of Religious Freedom Ambassador Andrew Bennett’s term will expire in March. By: Bruce Ryder and Luka Ryder-Bunting […]
Douglas Ell: how an MIT atheist found God through math There are several Twitter feeds labeled “God,” and they all more or less offer the same material. @TheGoodGodAbove, for instance, […]
(RNS) A first-of-its-kind exhibit is introducing young museum-goers to Muslim cultures around the world. The Children’s Museum of Manhattan opened “America to Zanzibar” earlier this month, a 3,000-square-foot, interactive exhibit that invites kids to explore Muslim cultures across the world. Visitors can design buildings inspired by Islamic architecture, walk through a pretend Muslim-American home furnished with art […]
http://sapelosquare.com/: This photo is the first known group photo of visibly-identifiable Muslim women in the United States. It was originally featured in the January 1923 edition of The Moslem Sunrise, the newsletter of the Ahmadiyya Movement of Islam (AMI) in the United States, a South-Asia based Islamic missionary movement that was […]
In an open letter that Iranian Canadian human rights activist Shabnam Assadollahi sent to Ottawa’s Mayor Jim Watson, Assadollahi expressed her concern that the feminist group City for All Women Initiative in Canada decided to host an Ottawa Hijab Day inside the City Hall building on February 17, 2016. In […]
Source: The Washington Post Georgetown University, a Catholic institution long known for scholarship on the Arab world, is intensifying its study of Jewish civilization with aid from a series of […]
Source: CNN (CNN)If you could have one superpower, what would it be? We were asked that question recently by high school students in Kentucky. Our answers must have sounded pretty lame to fans of superheroes like Supergirl and the Flash — we simply wished for more energy and time to […]
Source: The Daily Nebraskan The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Muslim Student Association will host “Islam 101” this week to educate students and combat Islamophobia in society. MSA began preparing for the […]
By Maryam Qarehgozlou TEHRAN — Imam Abdul Alim Musa (Clarence Reams), the director of Masjid Al-Islam in Washington D.C., believes that the policy that the new rulers in the Saudi kingdom has adopted is “suicidal”. “Saudi Arabia has built a road to its own destruction,” Alim Musa, an African-American Muslim […]
Source: The Washington Post Donald Trump seems to be the unlikeliest Republican candidate for evangelical voters, with his three marriages, his ownership of casinos and beauty pageants, and his belated […]
Source: The New York Times When Senator Bernie Sanders thanked supporters for his landslide victory in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, he wistfully reminisced about his upbringing as “the son […]
Source: Huffington Post By Susie Meister PhD in Religious Studies, Host of The Brain Candy Podcast It was January 20, 2001, and I was at George W. Bush’s inaugural ball. I […]
Reuters International FEB 24, 2016 – 13:18 PARIS (Reuters) – French special forces and intelligence commandos are engaged in covert operations against Islamic State militants in Libya in conjunction with the United States and Britain, the French newspaper Le Monde reported on Wednesday. It said President Francois Hollande had authorised […]
In this April 11, 2007 file photo, Egyptian cleric Osama Hassan Mustafa Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, who was allegedly kidnapped by CIA agents off the streets of an Italiancity and taken to Egypt where he said he was tortured, talks on his mobile phone as he walks in […]
When you look at Muslim scholar Dalia Mogahed, what do you see: a woman of faith? a scholar, a mom, a sister? or an oppressed, brainwashed, potential terrorist? In this […]
Source: Huffington Post By Rua Wani; Writer, producer, MAX media lead Coauthored by Danyal Hameed. The inaugural Muslim Awards for Excellence (MAX) Gala, taking place in Toronto, Canada on March […]