Source: The Daily Beast Let’s step back and take a calm look at President Donald Trump’s executive order banning travel to America by residents of seven predominantly Muslim countries and giving preference to religious minorities in those countries, specifically Christians. As the libertarian Cato Institute has pointed out, since 1975 […]
Source: The Daily Beast President Donald Trump will not go to a Harley-Davidson factory in Milwaukee for a previously scheduled visit on Thursday after the company said it was concerned about planned protests. Trump was expected to tour the facility and sign an executive order. According to an administration official […]
DAWN.COM — UPDATED Jan 26, 2017# The following is an excerpt from a declassified document released online by America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as part of a searchable database on its website Reading Room. Declassified documents were previously only available to the public at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland. […]
Source: The Guardian The murder of at least six people in a mosque in Québec city is a brutal reminder that Muslims are by any measure the people who suffer […]
Source: CNN President Donald Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates Monday night for “refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States,” the White House said. “(Yates) has betrayed the Department of Justice,” the White House statement said. Dana Boente, US attorney for […]
Reuters International JAN 30, 2017 – Demonstrators shut down the traffic loops at LAX International Airport and yell slogans during a protest against the travel ban imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order, at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 29, 2017. REUTERS/Ted Soqui […]
Source: PBS hour TORONTO – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has a message for refugees rejected by U.S. President Donald Trump: Canada will take you. Trudeau reacted to Trump’s ban […]
Source: NYT But Mr. Trump has had dreadful weeks before — and here we are. Several months ago, many people thought that he would badly lose the presidential race and build a television network, Trump TV. Instead, he has won both: a presidency that seeks to broadcast a separate media […]
Source: ThinkProgress.org “When, in writing for the majority of the Court, I adopt a general rule, and say, ‘This is the basis of our decision,’” the late Justice Antonin Scalia once warned, “I not only constrain lower courts, I constrain myself as well.” For, “if the next case should have […]
Source: ThinProgress.org On Friday evening, Hameed Khalid Darweesh was among the many refugees and immigrants whose travel plans were abruptly interrupted when President Donald Trump signed his executive order on immigration. The order blocks the entry of Syrian refugees into the United States indefinitely; blocks entry for all refugees for […]
Source:Thinkprogress.org A federal judge has sided with the ACLU, preventing individuals from majority Muslim countries who arrive at U.S. airports from being deported as a result of Donald Trump’s executive order. Trump’s order banned all citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from entering the country. The […]
Source: Thinkprogress.org A Texas mosque was set on fire just hours after Trump signed an executive order restricting migration from Muslim-majority countries. The Islamic Center of Victoria was set on fire around 2 a.m. on Saturday, according to local reports. Victoria Fire Marshal Tom Legler told the Victoria Advocate he […]
Source: BBC President Donald Trump has banned the entry of Syrian refugees into the US until further notice. He has also halted the issuing of visas to the nationals of six other mainly Muslim countries, including Iran, Iraq, Yemen and Libya, for three months. Mr Trump said the measures were […]
Source: CNN Four days before showtime, “The Big Brown Comedy Hour” had sold out. “That never happens,” organizer Dean Obeidallah told the crowd at Comic Strip Live, a venerable club in Manhattan. “We’re pretty sure Homeland Security bought a block of tickets.” Like many of the night’s quips, rants, impressions […]
Source: The Local The mayor of Germany’s long-divided capital Berlin, Michael Mueller, on Friday offered some advice to US President Donald Trump: “Don’t build this wall!” The billionaire-president, holding true to his campaign promise, this week ordered US officials to begin to design and construct a wall along the 2,000-mile […]
Source: Time By Ioan Grillo / Mexico City The digital image shows a clenched fist bathed in the red, white and green of Mexico’s flag and decorated with the nation’s emblematic […]
BY ISMAILIMAIL POSTED ON JANUARY 27, 2017 The Global Centre for Pluralism (GCP) is governed by an international Board of Directors chaired by His Highness the Aga Khan. The Global Centre for Pluralism is an independent, not-for-profit international research and education centre located in Ottawa, Canada. Inspired by the example […]
CNN’s Van Jones hosts “The Messy Truth” and discusses what is currently going on in the US. Suggested Reading The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Islam!
By Reza Aslan, who is the author of “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” and the host of CNN’s new original series “Believer With Reza Aslan,” which […]
Source: Dawn No matter how much he tries to portray himself as a champion of the white working class, US President Donald Trump is pitting himself against his country’s heritage with his latest executive orders against immigrants. Given his way, which is now a foregone conclusion that he will get, […]