Huff Post: by Christopher Mathias — Fifty-five percent of adolescent Muslim students in California say they’ve been targeted for their faith. In a move hailed by civil rights groups, California Gov. […]
A new social media campaign is trying to fight discrimination against American Muslims. 09/27/2016 07:21 pm ET Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – New York City kicked off a social media advertising campaign on Monday to combat negative perceptions of Muslims and counteract increasing instances of threats and […]
The revision comes after claims that schools are proselytizing for the faith. 09/27/2016 Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post In a time of rising Islamophobia and anti-Muslim bias, the Tennessee State Board of Education is poised to approve new social studies standards for middle schoolers that would dramatically […]
Source: BBC By Michelle Roberts Health editor, BBC News online The world’s first baby has been born using a new “three person” fertility technique, New Scientist reveals. The five-month-old boy […]
‘We have to knock the hell out of Isis – and we have to do it fast,’ Trump told the world. Well, sure, but haven’t we all been knocking the hell out of Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, even Lebanon, and achieving the constant rebirth of ever more vicious warriors, of which […]
US Secretary of State defends diplomatic efforts as Aleppo burns under a ferocious Russian-backed attack by the Syrian regime Bethan McKernan Beirut The US has been boxed into a corner in the face of a huge Russian-backed military escalation in the Syrian civil war, several experts have said. US Secretary […]
By RAMZY MARDINISEPT. 27, 2016 Photo Peshmerga forces during an operation to liberate villages under the control of the Islamic State southeast of Mosul, Iraq, in August. CreditAndrea Dicenzo/European Pressphoto Agency ERBIL, Iraq — A military push to recapture Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, and the rest of Nineveh Province […]
Press Release: The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at, the Caliph, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad set to arrive in Canada The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at Canada is excited […]
Reuters International SEP 25, 2016 – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the United Nations General Assembly in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S. September 20, 2016. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz (reuters_tickers) ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey wants to join the United States in a military operation to push Islamic State […]
Sep 24,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL US President Barack Obama delivered his farewell speech before the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, having reached close to the end of his last term in the White House. Obama seemed to blame everybody for the growing malaise in world and regional affairs except himself, as […]
Source: Big Think By Paul Rainer Science and religion are fighting it out in your brain, not just in a metaphorical sense, but in a real, physical altercation. That’s […]
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg; Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post “Oxytocin appears to be part of the way our bodies support spiritual beliefs.” The same hormone that helps mothers […]
Source: http://www.chroniclejournal.com/news/local/islamic-group-looks-to-dispel-myths/article_04f35cac-813b-11e6-ad8f-23a4dc50a210.html Islamic group looks to dispel myths Posted: Friday, September 23, 2016 6:00 am | Updated: 6:01 am, Fri Sep 23, 2016. By Jeff Labine, CJ Staff | 6 comments An imam who is visiting Thunder Bay next week sees a similarity between some U.S. politicians and extremists in the Middle […]
Source: http://euuc.org/congregation/ahmadiyya-muslim-community.php Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Abode of Kindness Mosque invited us for 9/11 The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Monroe invited the Edmonds Unitarian Universalist Congregation to conduct our Sunday morning service within their sacred space on Sept. 11, 2016. Together our two communities have a long relationship of joining efforts for […]
Source: https://www.mkausa.org/2nd-annual-nasir-t20-cricket-tournament-2016/ 21 SEP 2ND ANNUAL NASIR T20 CRICKET TOURNAMENT 2016 Posted at 11:02h in Sehat-e-Jismani by web team The 2nd Annual Nasir T20 Cricket Tournament was held in Collegeville, PA on Sep 3rd and 4th. 4 teams including Headquarters, Southeast, Northeast, and Gulf participated. Headquarters and Northeast met each other […]
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Source: http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/letters/2016/09/24/Let-s-work-together-to-counter-hatred-paranoia-and-extremism/stories/201609240100 Let’s work together to counter hatred, paranoia and extremism September 24, 2016 12:00 AM While I watched the horrid news of bomb explosions in Manhattan and New Jersey, as a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, I feared the worst and prayed for the affected. To my utter dismay, […]
Source: CNN ‘Muslims live in fear that they will be attacked. Americans live in fear that Muslims will attack them.’ Aleena is 17, with a bright smile and dark hair that sweeps across her shoulders. Her mother is Indian-American, her father emigrated from Pakistan. Aleena and her two sisters have […]
Source: TheCitizen A six year old American boy has found himself on the pages of every major newspaper, after a letter that he wrote to United States President Barack Obama went viral. Alex, from New York, wrote the letter after seeing the photograph of Syrian boy Omran Daqneesh who was […]
Source: Time The museum opened on Sept. 24 On Saturday, the doors of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture will open to the public, achieving a […]