The MLK Speech We Need Today Is Not the One We Remember Most
Source: Time By VIET THANH NGUYEN Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. His novel The Sympathizer won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other […]
Two years of Trump’s anti-immigration tactics have put marginalised groups in peril – another couple will create complete devastation
On the anniversary of his inauguration, it’s clear that as long as the current president is in charge, things are going to be scary for brown people, LGBT+ people, religious […]
MLK should be remembered as a revolutionary thinker – not a sanitised figure for conservatives like Mike Pence to exploit
The civil rights leader has been transformed into ‘a weightless effigy’ of sorts, but in the Trump era, America needs his actual teachings more than it realizes Andrew Dix The […]
Patriarch Abraham’s Deism and Monotheism: The Best Paradigm For Interfaith Tolerance
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The Jews and the Christians associate themselves with Isaac, the younger son of Abraham, while the Muslims, […]
Catholicism has experienced a greater net loss due to religious switching than has any other religious tradition in the U.S.
Catholicism has experienced a greater net loss due to religious switching than has any other religious tradition in the U.S. https://t.co/VBRLJn14fK pic.twitter.com/o85kAqF1Wr — Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) January 20, 2019 Suggested Reading for the best understanding of personal religion in the 21st century Americans Trust Clergy Less Than Ever, Gallup Poll Finds […]
Justin Trudeau, Jane Goodall and Others on Their Big Ideas For Changing the 2020s
Epigraph: Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The similitude of His light is as a lustrous niche, wherein is a lamp. The lamp is in a […]
Trump proposes wall-for-DACA in bid to end U.S. government shutdown
This content was published on January 20, 2019 By Steve Holland and Jan Wolfe http://www.swissinfo.ch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump proposed an immigration deal on […]
The Rise of Halal Tourism
Source: The New York Times By Debra Kamin For one of the fastest-growing sectors of the global travel industry, there is no pork on the hotel dinner menus. There are flights with […]
Hotel dishwasher awarded $21 million after boss made her work on Sundays
Source: South Florida Sun Sentinel BY Marcia Heroux Pounds Contact Reporter A jury has awarded a Miami hotel dishwasher $21.5 million, concluding that her employer failed to honor her religious beliefs by […]
Trump Promotes Unfounded Claim That Islamic Prayer Rugs Are Littering The Border
Source: Huffington Post There is no credible evidence that this is the case. By Sara Boboltz With no resolution in sight in his fight for a wall on the southern […]
Justin Trudeau Passionately Defends Refugees After Islamophobic Town Hall Question
POLITICS 01/11/2019 The Canadian prime minister was confronted by a man who claimed Muslims “want to kill us.” By Carol Kuruvilla At a town hall in Saskatchewan on Thursday, […]
Prince Whipple, the African slave who served in the U.S. army
Pince Whipple has been identified by some as the African American figure in the familiar painting of Washington crossing the Delaware River. Pic credit: Now I Know If you have […]
Trump Administration May Have Separated Thousands More Migrant Families Than Initially Thought
Source: Time By COLLEEN LONG AND RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR / AP (WASHINGTON) — Thousands more migrant children may have been split from their families than the Trump administration previously reported, in part […]
Planning Commission votes to deny permit for Islamic retreat site near Warrenton
By James Ivancic and Jill Palermo Times Staff Writers Jan 18, 2019 The Fauquier County Planning Commission on Thursday, Jan. 17 voted to deny a special exception permit for […]
Misrepresentation a ‘constant problem,’ says Muslim-American journalist misidentified by Vogue
Source: CNN “Misrepresentation and misidentification is a constant problem if you are Muslim in America,” she continued. “And as much as I work to fight this, there are moments like this where I feel defeated. Tagouri later told CNN that she wasn’t surprised by the mistake, and that it happens […]
Your questions about the government shutdown, answered (part 2)
at 9:00 a.m. We recently asked readers what they wanted to know about the government shutdown. In a previous installment, we tackled questions about missed work and pay for government […]
Bernie Sanders could be US president in 2020 – and this is what it means for Israel and the Middle East
It’s one thing for a black candidate to go for the black vote in the US, but for an American Jew to go for the American Jewish vote is a […]
Ilhan Omar, the Muslim congresswoman Saudi Arabia tried to smear, secures place on powerful House committee that could stop the US from selling arms to the kingdom
Alexandra Ma Ilhan Omar, a first-year member of Congress, was chosen to sit on the House Foreign Affairs Committee this week. The committee oversees bills and investigations related to […]
Trump’s plan proposes Palestinian state on most of occupied W. Bank, excluding holy sites: Israeli TV
Israeli television said on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan would propose a Palestinian state on as much as 90 percent of the illegally occupied West […]
Artificial intelligence may soon cause unprecedented disruption
Ellen R. Wald January 16, 2019 Workplace automation, including the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, is on the rise. (AFP) A prominent Chinese venture capitalist, Kai-Fu Lee, has […]