Jeremy Scahill November 15 2016, 7:27 p.m. THE ELECTION OF Donald Trump has sent shockwaves through the souls of compassionate, humane people across the country and the world. Horror that a […]
The White House has denied the accusation – sort of Andrew Buncombe New York @AndrewBuncombe Treasonous, amateurish, boastful or plain hapless? As Washington was sent spinning from the latest Donald […]
Source: http://www.delta-optimist.com/news/ask-islam-campaign-launches-with-ride-from-delta-mosque-1.19981094 | By Ian Jacques / Delta Optimist In celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association has launched a unique nationwide campaign to provide Canadians with an open platform to learn about Islam. The B.C. portion of the campaign launched Saturday at Delta’s Baitur Rahman Mosque where youth participants […]
Source: BBC Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir was on course for a career in professional basketball, until a ban on headgear prevented her from playing and wearing her hijab at the same time.So she chose to fight to change the rule. Please watch the video clip in BBC
Source: CNN Inside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the mood was darker still. “This is on him,” meaning Trump, a top Republican close to the White House said, after speaking with dejected advisers inside the West Wing. Even before news of the Comey memos broke, the West Wing was wallowing in despondency, […]
‘An exclusion without exceptions would violate the cultures and traditions of some communities’ Andrew Buncombe New York @AndrewBuncomb A high profile Republican governor has declined to sign into law, a measure that would have made his state the first to ban child marriage without exception. Chris Christie, the governor of […]
Source: http://www.cochraneeagle.com/article/Four-faiths-on-justice-forgiveness-for-world-out-of-tune-20170511 Four faiths on justice, forgiveness for world out of tune Justice and forgiveness are essential for global harmony, agree the four faiths presenting at World Religions Conference in Cochrane. Graphic by Warren Harbeck For many, justice means little more than getting even, “an eye for an eye.” But as […]
Source: https://www.mykawartha.com/news-story/7315052-lindsay-peace-symposium-set-for-may-21/ Lindsay Peace Symposium set for May 21 Several religious scholars will speak on current issues of global conflict and justice NEWS May 15, 2017 09:32 by Catherine Whitnall Kawartha Lakes This Week LINDSAY – Area residents of all faiths are invited attend a special inter-faith Peace Symposium taking place […]
Source: BBC Ford is planning to cut around 10% of its global workforce in an attempt to boost profits, according to reports. Chief executive officer Mark Fields also wants to […]
Source: CNN Donald Trump’s latest crisis — over his reported disclosure of highly classified information to Russia — is giving voice to a question whispered privately in Washington during weeks of political turmoil: Is the President up to the job? “This isn’t really about the power of the President. He […]
Reuters International MAY 15, 2017 – People protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban outside of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Seattle, Washington, U.S. May 15, 2017. REUTERS/David Ryder […]
By Thomson Reuters Foundation – May 15,2017 – JORDAN TIMES An Iraqi woman sits with children at a camp for internally displaced people in Hammam Al Alil on Sunday, […]
May 15,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby There is no question that in many parts of the world, including the Middle East, vulnerable religious communities are facing threats to their very survival or serious problems of discrimination. In situations such as these, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom […]
Source: TOI NEW YORK: US PresidentDonald Trump is “CEO of the country, he can fire anyone he wants”, America’s envoy to the UN Nikki Haley has said, while defending him for firing former FBI director James Comey. Haley said she believed that the criticism of Trump stems from discomfort with his […]
May 14, 2017 by Muslims Writers Guild of America by Richard Reno We’ve all seen the tragic images of children killed or injured in the Syrian civil war. An estimated 55,000 children have been killed in the fighting. This is among the hundreds of thousands total casualties of civilian deaths. […]
Hani Hazaimeh | Published — Monday 15 May 2017 US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Jeddah: US President Donald Trump is pondering whether moving the US Embassy in Israel from […]
Posted by Bridie Pearson-Jones in news Picture: BRYAN BEDDER / STRINGER / GETTY Atheists are more intelligent than religious people according to dozens of studies. Miron Zuckerman, Jordan Silberman and Judith A. Hall from the University of Rochester and the Northeastern University conducted a meta-analysis (that’s a statistical analysis that […]
By WAJAHAT ALIMAY 13, 2017, NYTimes.com 13/5/2017 American Muslims face a choice: vote Democratic, or vote themselves off the island. That’s how Haroon Moghul, the author of the coming memoir “How to Be a Muslim,” put it to me this month — and how many of my fellow American Muslim […]
By Elizabeth Lesser, who is a bestselling author and the cofounder of Omega Institute, the renowned conference and retreat center located in Rhinebeck, New York. There’s an angry divisive tension […]
Source: RT A Pakistani-American lawyer has made a name for herself by taking down international terrorists in Court. Since 2009, 37-year-old Zainab Ahmad has worked as an Assistant United States Attorney in New York, and so far she has prosecuted 13 people for terrorism, without losing a single case. Zainab who […]