Huff Post: by Zeena Mubarak — “And when the baby girl buried alive is asked For what sin was she killed” (81:8-9) These verses, which stop me hard every time I get to them and dance uneasily in my stomach, are part of a gorgeous eschatological passage in the 30th […]
EXCLUSIVE Did the Pentagon Cook the Books on Its Afghanistan Intel? The military has been accused of fudging the numbers in the fight against the Islamic State. Congress wants to know if it did with the Taliban too. BY DAN DE LUCE NOVEMBER 19, 2015 DAN.DELUCE @DANDELUCE Lawmakers are probing […]
Source: Globe and Mail Nahid Neshi often speak eloquently about the pluralistic wonder he considers Canada. But as one of the most high-profile Muslim figures in the country, the Calgary mayor admits he has been “shaken” by the closed-minded, even racist nature of some of the debate over the Syrian […]
Hillary Clinton calls for U.S. to ‘intensify and broaden’ efforts to fight ISIS By Eric Bradner and Dan Merica, CNN Updated 11:52 AM ET, Thu November 19, 2015 | Video […]
In a secluded room at an airbase in Nevada, young men hold the power of life and death over people thousands of miles away. Former servicemen tell their story A US air force officer points to a display with which he operates a Predator unmanned aircraft system over Afghanistan, from […]
Source: CNN Washington (CNN)Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress and one of only two members in the Capitol, said Wednesday that in the wake of anti-Muslim rhetoric […]
Source: Time Robin Coste Lewis and Neal Shusterman also took home prizes Journalist and writer Ta-Nehisi Coates won the National Book Award for nonfiction on Wednesday night for Between the […]
Source: RT.com Tensions rose between the Republican lawmakers and US President Barack Obama when the White House threatened to veto a GOP-proposed bill requiring additional background checks for 10,000 Syrian […]
“Killing even one innocent person is like killing all mankind, we should pray for the people of France and specially for the victims”,said Imam Shamshad of Ahamdiyya Muslim comunity of […]
Nov 18,2015 – JORDAN TIMES It would be sad, indeed tragic for some, if, as reported, certain nations, including several European countries, the US and Canada, would have a change of heart regarding receiving Syrian refugees in their countries, after the horrible terrorist attacks in Paris last week, for fear that […]
Bronx Chronicle: UCLA law professor, Mr. Amjad Mahmood Khan decries the popular perception in today’s 24 hours news cycle and social media that associate Islam with acts of terrorism. These acts, he noted, were disproportionately emphasized and singled out a recent New York Times report that suggested that after 2001, […]
We immigrated to Canada fourteen years ago. It was the year that affected world peace in the worst way possible; it was the year 9/11 happened. A bunch of suicide bombers claiming to be “Muslims” hijacked a plane that eventually crashed into the Twin Towers. Hundreds of people lost their […]
After the Paris attacks some Canadian Muslims are being scapegoated for crimes that have nothing to do with this country, and for which they owe no apology. A young Toronto […]
Muslim woman allegedly beaten, called ‘terrorist’ , pulled hijab Male suspects allegedly pulled on hijab aggressively, took cell phone CBC News Posted: Nov 17, 2015 6:45 AM ET Last Updated: Nov 17, […]
Huff Post: by Matthew D. Taylor — In the third Democratic primary debate on Saturday, moderator John Dickerson asked Hillary Clinton a pointed foreign policy question about the apparent ISIS attacks in Paris: …you gave a speech at Georgetown University in which you said, that it was important to show, […]
Did Prophet Muhammad Warn Us of ISIS? Posted: 07/01/2015 BY KASHIF CHAUDHRY In separate attacks last week, ISIS terrorists killed 39 tourists at a beach resort in Tunisia, and close to 30 worshipers at a Shia Mosque in Kuwait. The onslaught came shortly after the group called on its militant […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Kashif N. Chaudhry, Physician, writer and human rights activist I was born in a Muslim household to parents who laid great emphasis on spirituality and science. […]
Former DIA Chief Michael Flynn Says Rise of Islamic State was “a willful decision” and Defends Accuracy of 2012 Memo August 6, 2015 by Brad Hoff 18 Comments Lengthy discussion of the DIA memo begins at the 8:50 mark. In Al Jazeera’s latest Head to Head episode, former director of the […]
Putin Tells Everyone Exactly Who Created ISIS Here’s something you probably never saw or heard about in the west. This is Putin answering questions regarding ISIS from a US journalist […]
Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas by Sylviane A. Diouf New York: New York University Press, 1998. 254 pp. $55 (paper $18.50) Reviewed by Daniel Pipes Middle East Quarterly December 2000 Slowly, out of the surprisingly full records of slavery, an important fact is coming to light: […]