Debunking the myth that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitic
Source: The Forward By Peter Beinart It’s a bewildering and alarming time to be a Jew, both because anti-Semitism is rising and because so many politicians are responding to it […]
What the Hajj Pilgrimage Is Like, According to a Muslim American
Abu Zafar Yesterday 1:00pm Gizmodo Media Group is teaming up with Smartypants Pictures to premiere the second season of The Secret Life of Muslims—a video series with a view on modern Islam you’re not getting on cable news. Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam. All Muslims are […]
Award-Winning Film on Controversial Pakistani Physicist to Screen March 7
March 01, 2019 Photo provided by Anand Kamalakar FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Anand Kamalakar, a Brooklyn-based documentary editor, will present his film Salam at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 7, in the Graduate Education […]
Spain logs hundreds of shipwrecks that tell story of maritime past
Weather rather than pirates caused majority of sinkings, says culture ministry team Sam Jones in Madrid @swajones Fri 1 Mar 2019 Columbus’s ship the Santa María runs aground off […]
The anesthesia of familiarity: There should be a Creator of Our Universe
Below are all our tweets about this article, applauding different aspects of our nature pictorially, click on any of them to read the article: The anesthesia of familiarity: There should […]
‘Sometimes you have to walk’: Trump leaves Hanoi with no deal
Source: CNN Hanoi, Vietnam (CNN)President Donald Trump’s Hanoi summit with Kim Jong Un, meant to demonstrate his diplomatic gamble with North Korea is working, instead ended with no joint agreement after Kim insisted all US sanctions be lifted on his country. That was a bridge too far for the US […]
12-year-old charged with drawing anti-Semitic graffiti on school playground
By Augusta Anthony, CNN New York (CNN) A 12-year-old boy was arrested and charged with aggravated harassment on Wednesday after anti-Semitic graffiti was found drawn on a schoolyard in Queens […]
The Essential Black Muslim Reading List
Black Muslims are not lost in history, even if their history has been disregarded. By Vanessa Taylor February 26, 2019 In 2018, the Council on American-Islamic Relations reported that anti-Muslim […]
Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib show Muslim women don’t need saving
The two US congresswomen are shattering all kinds of damaging stereotypes about Muslim women. by Sahar Aziz 26 Feb 2019 US congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib were sworn into […]
Address root causes of refugee problem
Feb 27,2019 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL The Warsaw meeting on the refugee crisis in the Middle East and, indeed, elsewhere in the world ended on a positive note, calling for […]
Revealing Dreams of Scientists
Source: The Longest Running Muslim publication of North America Since 1920s. By Dr. Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, Radiation Oncologist Imagine a world in which medicine lacks the sophistication of advanced chemical structures, […]
United Methodist Church Splinters Over Some Members’ Refusal To Accept LGBTQ Christians
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla UMC delegates at a special meeting voted to affirm the church’s doctrine prohibiting same-sex marriage — a move that will likely trigger a schism. […]
If Catholic Church Allows Women Priests and Marriage, It Could Decrease, if Not Cure Child Abuse
Epigraph: Then We caused Our Messengers to follow in their footsteps; and We caused Jesus, son of Mary, to follow them, and We gave him the Gospel. And We placed in the hearts of those who accepted him compassion and mercy. But monasticism which they invented for themselves — We […]
Mahershala Ali, The First Muslim Actor To Win Two Oscars, Paid Tribute To Jinnah While Accepting His Award
Source: Mango Baaz By Arslan Athar In 2017, Mahershala Ali made history by being the first African American man to win an Oscar, on top of which he was the […]
What should be done in the Middle East? Ask the Romans
The more you travel, the more you realise the obvious, says Robert Fisk: globalisation is nothing new. To fix today’s crises, we must look at the fall of the world’s […]
Polygamist family tries to cast practice in a more normal light
February 25, 2019 RAPID CITY, SD (KOTA/Gray News) – Polygamy is illegal in all 50 states, but for three people in South Dakota, the law is not standing in […]
Video: Laughter is the best cure for psychics
Four in 10 Americans (42 percent) believe spiritual powers rest in physical objects like mountains, trees, and crystals, according to a new study of American religion from Pew Research. A similar number […]
If Women Can be Rocket Scientists, They Should be Priests As Well!
Why the Priesthood Needs Women Source: New York Times By Alice McDermott, who is a novelist and essayist. Far more than celibacy or sexual repression, barring one gender from the […]
Bernie Sanders Hires First-Ever Muslim Presidential Campaign Manager
Source: Forward.com By Aiden Pink Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign manager will be American Civil Liberties Union national political director Faiz Shakir, the Daily Beast reported Tuesday. The move means that Sanders, who […]