Source: Religion News Service By Kimberly Winston (RNS) Something you won’t see in sun-worshipping, skin-baring Rio de Janeiro as the 2016 Olympics continue: women covering their heads on the basketball […]
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Source: ahmadiyya.ca Press Release Date: August 8, 2016 For Immediate Release: August 08, 2016 Spokesperson: Safwan Choudhry – 647 248 0191 mediarelations@ahmadiyya.ca @AMJCanadaPress Canadian Muslim Community Condemns Hospital Attack in Quetta, Pakistan Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at mourns the loss of innocent lives in Quetta The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at Canada denounces the senseless attack […]
CANADA August 9, 2016 7:39 pm | Updated: August 9, 2016 7:41 pm Mobile Muslim exhibit seeks to dispel misconceptions about Islam By Christa DaoReporter Global News Mobile Muslim campaign makes a stop in Regina, wants to promote peace and positivity about Islam. [Sean Lerat-Stetner / Global News] A nationwide campaign […]
Obama Founded ISIS Source: The Daily Beast Speaking to a crowd in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida on Wednesday night, Republican nominee Donald Trump accused President Barack Obama of founding the Islamic […]
Source: midweeknews.com Local Muslims reach out to neighbors By KATRINA J.E. MILTON kmilton @shawmedia.com Emad Malick of DeKalb is Muslim. You might be able to guess that by the traditional clothing he wears, his beard or the way he talks. But he would prefer if his actions spoke louder than stereotypes […]
Source: TOI The pizza ATM, which opens for public on August 10, has a temperature-controlled refrigeration system that allows the pizza to stay fresh and a convection oven that enables it to be served nice and hot in just three minutes. Once users decide what type they want, the ATM then […]
Source: The Daily Beast Despite breathless, reverential, tender, loving coverage for his opponent from a few corners of the right-wing media world, Paul Ryan isn’t going anywhere. He handily bested his primary challenger, businessman Paul Nehlen, by upwards of 80 points at press time. There was no reason to expect […]
Source: Dawn WASHINGTON: White House hopeful Donald Trump, already deserted by some fellow Republicans, came under sharp scrutiny Tuesday over controversial comments that some people interpreted as a threat of […]
Source: Reuters Reporting by Anthony Boadle; Editing by Paul Simao A Brazilian priest mentioned in the Catholic clergy sex abuse film “Spotlight” was found dead in a prison cell after he was arrested again for suspected pedophilia, authorities said on Monday. Father Bonifacio Buzzi, 57, hanged himself with a sheet […]
Source: Time By Sean Gregory / Rio de Janeiro Were you hoping Donald Trump was watching? “Who?” Ibtihaj Muhammad, the American fencer who had just lost to Cecilia Berder, of France, in the round of 16 at the women’s individual saber event in Rio, coyly replied with a smile. Her dream […]
Mobile exhibition in Regina on Tuesday, then on to Moose Jaw and Saskatoon Source: cbc.ca This van and trailer departed from Halifax on July 10 and arrives in Regina on Tuesday. (Antoni Nerestant/CBC) A mobile exhibition that aims to stop Islamophobia has arrived in Saskatchewan. The travelling display is a campaign […]
Source: Asia Times: Gen. Hayden was perhaps the most prominent signator of a letter from fifty former national security officials who served in Republican administrations, declaring that Donald Trump “lacks the character, values and experience” required of a president and, if elected, “would put at risk our country’s national security and […]
Source: myrecordjournal.com Meriden’s annual Puerto Rican festival recognizes and celebrates the community August 8, 2016 12:21PM | By John Pettit Special to the Record-Journal MERIDEN — The city’s 49th annual Puerto Rican Festival was not only a celebration of food, music and culture, but a day of recognition. Platt’s state championship girls […]
Source: cbc.ca Exhibition travelling coast-to-coast to answer questions about Islam CBC News Posted: Aug 06, 2016 6:06 PM CT Last Updated: Aug 06, 2016 7:27 PM CT The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at Canada has launched a nationwide campaign called #MobileMuslims where the exhibition on wheels stops in more than 25 towns and […]
Source: Asia Times. Although a change in name of the terrorist group Jabbat al Nusra to Jabbat Fatah al Sham signifies nothing, Beltway pundits are pushing for arming and legitimizing various al-Qaeda groups under such nicknames to overthrow the Syrian government. Since 2015, Idlib and parts of Aleppo have become the base of anti-Chinese Turkistan Islamic […]
Source: Newindian Express: Every time I hear about atrocities on Dalits, I feel ashamed. In spite of hundreds of years of social reforms, the Hindu society continues to be plagued by this scourge. I am also disgusted by the sheer hypocrisy on the part of the US when it pontificates […]
Source. TOI Sasha Obama, daughter of President Barack Obama, works the register at Nancy’s Restaurant. BOSTON: US President Barack Obama’s younger daughter Sasha, who has lived a luxurious life in the confines of the White House, has taken up a summer job serving food at a seafood restaurant. Sasha, 15, […]
Source. BBC America’s Ginny Thrasher won the first gold medal of the Rio Olympic Games with a surprise victory in the women’s 10m air rifle. The 19-year-old secured her first major international victory, scoring 208.0 to leave China’s 2006 world champion Du Li with silver. Du’s compatriot Yi Siling, the defending champion, […]